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my favorite mech of all time, the leader of my mech merc group drives one.
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Holy Balls! Well, Punakettu, it seems I have crossed paths with your art before. I loved it then and I still do.
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Oh wow. The rice cooker from space! Always liked 'em, and the little voice saying "core meltdown imminent" too.
Nice to see I'm not the only one in Finland hooked on BT too.
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There's more of us than you think.
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A couple practical notes -- use bounced lighting to help it feel more like a real outdoor environment as opposed to being indoors under a spotlight. This can be as simple as placing a very weak point light (0.3 intensity or so) under the entire scene to simulate the light that will bounce up from the ground. Additionally, a number of weak spotlights in the top hemisphere will help to simulate the bounced lighting of the sky.
You use Max, right? I'd recommend that you have your primary "sun" light set to use Area Shadows with a pretty large area setting. That will soften them to avoid that nasty clean-line shadow. Also, consider using some faint fog to help pop the mech out from the background and make the distant trees feel more distant.
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I used a daylight system as lighting so it should already produce soft shadows.
I was already pressed for memory so I had to cut back on the light bouncing. I didn't think of placing a light under the scene tho. Thanks for that idea, I'll try it out.
For some reason I can never get fog to work right with mental ray. Or I'm just not using it correctly. Otherwise I would have used it.
So nice to get some useful feedback for a change.
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Glad to be of any help.
I actually prefer not to use light bouncing from radiosity solutions and instead manually place a few lights here and there to fake it. It gives you more control over the lighting and is much cheaper to render. Are you currently doing a multi-pass render that you composite in Photoshop afterward? If not you should consider giving it a shot, since that will help out with your memory issues. For glamor shots I like to separate out my AO, diffuse, and specular renders into separate images that I can then layer on top of each other in Photoshop and easily tweak relative intensities without having to wait another half hour for an all-in-one render to finish.
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I just rendered it all at once. I would try the multipass thing but i don't know how to disable the composite render. Not that I've really looked in to that anyway. I'm sure I could figure it out after a few minutes of googling.
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Yeah, the background could have used a bit of a blur(if added in postprocessing) or the camera could have been given a perception/focus/depth setting to accomplish the same so the mech would be the prime focus with its clarity versus the lessened clarity of the stuff behind it.
Not a not of blur, just a tad so the mech'd stand out since the picture's about it and it thus would be in the camera's focus.
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I love the mech man, but there is too much goin' on in that background. I hope you don't mind the critique, but I can't really tell what he's standing next to or on, or what. I know it's plants and rocks and such but I think that ground texture is really throwing me off.
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Shoop Da Woop!
Very fine looking mech, CGL should ask you to make the next book.
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ima chargin mah la... ok I'll stop. Don't really like the nova cat, but definitely looks cool.
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what mech is this again? im pretty sure its not Orion but for some reason it's stuck in my head.
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HELL YES. Freaking awesome, Punakettu 
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You just lurb everything I do don't you?
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