Guest EricFoy Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) Just thought I'd throw up a couple of my latest renderings... This was a project I did a couple years ago. The airframe was modeled using surfaces and solids in combination -whatever was most convenient at the moment. This is a Van's RV-7 with numerous modifications, most notably to the engine cowling and spinner. We used the nose section of the spinner of a Boeing KC-97, which has four Pratt & Whitney R-4360 (that's 4,360 cubic inch displacement) radial engines. The retractable landing gear is a future mod. Hopefully this aircraft will fly in the spring of 2009. These renderings each ran in about five minutes. Settings: Super-sampling - Medium, no initial jitter, no filtering; GI - Medium, Shadow Quality=.75, precision=10, Photons enabled, Count=25000, Radius=.100, Count=65; No Lights, No Reflection Blur (important). My next steps for improving these renderings would include adding a texture map to the aluminum skins, really dialing in the reflectance parameters for aluminum, adding the back windows (which are currently missing) and getting the plexiglas® to look more realistic, and figuring out how to better simulate a real propeller. I grabbed this cool panorama from this link:autostitch I then modified it using The Gimp, which is a pretty nice piece of free software (once you figure out how to use the dern thing). Note my padding above and below the image to get that all-important 2-to-1 aspect ratio. Edited January 3, 2009 by EricFoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Andersson Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 -Nice! (I miss some nice texturing/ decaling do) -If those are "quick" renderings, hove does the "Slow" ones look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Nice Eric! I once had an all chrome motorcycle, it was murder on the eyes tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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