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- jgjones@earth (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits) writes:
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- > Neat stuff! I like the texturing on the boiler and you've made the
- > chrome and bright metal areas look perfect. The gravel and the uneven
- > timbers look great, too.
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- Thanks for the kind words.
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- > How long did it take you to build this critter?
- > And, (not to criticize), why was the loco not set (apparently) to
- > self-shadow? (...like the smaller pics on the Info image). It'd only
- > increase the rendering time by what, 2-3 weeks? :)
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- It took about 25 hours of modeling to create the locomotive. One could
- easily argue that it isn't done yet, but I just got tired of working on
- it :)
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- As for the self shadowing, it is a little deceptive. The loco is
- actually self shadowing, but the problem is that I have two "fill
- lights" which are non shadow casting, and they are probably throwing a
- bit too much light onto the parts of the loco which should be darker.
- I might try reducing their intensity and re-rendering. Its a good point
- though; it does look a little odd.
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- Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
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- > (heh... besides that I don't have 48 Meg of RAM :)
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- Actually I don't either. I've got 16 Mb, but I use VMM 2.1, and
- allocate about 8 Mb as VM backing. It works very well. There is a
- flurry of paging when LW allocates some things at the beginning, but
- after that there is very little paging activity - maybe one page fault
- every 5 to 15 seconds, typically.
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- - steve
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