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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Taristin on November 20, 2005, 02:00:43 pm

Title: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Taristin on November 20, 2005, 02:00:43 pm
Since this seems to be the one form of renderring that doesn't choke my laptop to death, I had a bit of fun with it... Most of these are of ships that I haven't shown anyone before... so... yeah.

(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cellship.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cellship2.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell3.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell4.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell5.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell6.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell7.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/cell8.jpg)

I'm tempted to make an entirely cell shaded mod for the game. (Hell, it'd be so much easier to map too :p)
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: FireCrack on November 20, 2005, 02:43:19 pm
The first one looks somewhat vasudan, the last one looks kinda vaygr, but hell.. they all look cool
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: karajorma on November 20, 2005, 03:23:14 pm
Very cool Raa! :yes:

I like the one with the big medusa style bombing pods although it appears to be missing a cockpit.
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Taristin on November 20, 2005, 03:41:04 pm
The cocpit on that one is to be right above the two gun barrels.

(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/persherc.jpg)
(http://www.game-warden.com/raa/temp/cell/more.jpg)


As you can see, I like this effect. >..>
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: BlackDove on November 20, 2005, 04:36:43 pm
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm effecty..................
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Unknown Target on November 20, 2005, 07:39:05 pm
Oooo, cooool....
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Mongoose on November 20, 2005, 07:43:22 pm
Nice models. :) That rendering drives home the fact that someone really needs to finish up the mv_cell set.
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Fineus on November 21, 2005, 09:12:39 am
Say, where can you actually get that from?
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Black Wolf on November 21, 2005, 11:52:36 am
That looks awesome
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2005, 01:07:10 pm
Say, where can you actually get that from?

It's a material plugin that comes with the Brazil renderring system for 3ds max.

I wanna get hold of some of the cell shading maps for some fighters and see how it works out, since it can be used with maps, too.
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Fineus on November 21, 2005, 01:31:59 pm
Does it come "as standard" with 3DS Max? I've not seen it in my student copy and a little research implied it was about $1200 for a copy of Brazil...
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2005, 02:19:29 pm
Brazil is a seperate plugin made by Splutterfish... so, no, it doesn't come standard with 3ds Max.
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 21, 2005, 03:40:52 pm
Interesting...C4D comes with a celshading option for rendering, also better options for applying textures (much simpler to do multiple maps with C4D).

And I think by having Cinema4D I might have shot myself in the foot, gaming-model-wise, because as one might guess from the title, C4D was designed for the making of movies, and as such makes things that are practical for movies (having twenty maps on a model bothers Cinema4D not at all, the celshading option, some other things) but less so for games easier...while ignoring some things that are important to games. I don't even have a polycount function, much less a trianglization one, and trying to convert to or from formats that are better for game modeling is a vast pain.
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2005, 03:43:01 pm
3ds max comes stock with a cellshader. It's called Activeshade, but I prefer the Brazil engine to the max ones, personally. Much better effects and image resolution in my experience.

http://mekhu.woodentoyandgift.com/files/cellship-dvx.avi BTW. ~1.4Mb
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: pyro-manic on November 21, 2005, 05:03:43 pm
Ooooh, very nice.... :nod::yes:
Title: Re: Fooling around with BrazilToon
Post by: Grug on November 22, 2005, 04:44:47 am
Nice work dude. That last one looks like the one from Homeworld 2. ;) :p
(Is TAP influencing your work? :p )

:yes: