tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51873472011-04-21T23:45:27.929-04:00Master of the D'uh!What is the D'uh? Nothing. Just opinions. If you don't like them. Tough!Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1134585721473640942005-12-14T13:40:00.000-05:002005-12-14T13:42:01.483-05:00ORAAAAAAAAAAANGE SWOOOOOOOOORD!Thanks all for the words of congrats on my getting the first part to the Thunderfury sword quest. I got a long way to go, but this is one uber hoss sword.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1133970147325200342005-12-07T10:41:00.000-05:002005-12-07T10:42:27.336-05:00Quick message. Next person that screws up our Baron Geddon attempt by killing half the raid when you are bombed will get beat with a wet kitten.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1133891724501836622005-12-06T12:51:00.000-05:002005-12-06T12:55:24.510-05:00WOW. It has been awhile since I posted here. Well I was never able to complete the Maya course. Just way too much going on at the time. Maya Advanced Modelling comes out soon, but I won't be ordering that till next year.So what all have I been upto? Well other than work, my World of Warcraft +guild Knights Templar have been finally getting into Molten Core pretty heavily. I havent gotten any Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1118422642736017672005-06-10T12:44:00.000-04:002005-06-10T12:57:22.740-04:00Ugh! How am I going to control myself? Here I am using my free time to work on the class, and here comes Battlefield 2. I have been waiting for this game for so long. I discovered Battlefield 1942 before the hype started. Same for Desert Combat mod for it. So impressive and so fun. It came at a time when I was bored with other multiplayer games. To me, Unreal Tournament just isn't all that fun.AsCanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1118340019746376522005-06-09T13:56:00.000-04:002005-06-09T14:00:19.750-04:00I finished my saucer last nightAdded a little extra detail. Not all that wanted, but just something extra to play around with a couple of the tools some more.I also nearly have my alien done. I have been adding a little ridging to the eye area to give a little more detail to it.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1118245428776314492005-06-08T11:38:00.000-04:002005-06-08T11:43:48.780-04:00It is amazing what I am learning. Ever since watching the alien building VTM's I have gained a NURBS eye. What I mean by that is I am looking at some images and objects and I can start seeing how to construct them. I just now got some ideas on adding some more detail when I start working on the alien while looking at the Art of Oddworld book.Currently I am adding a little more detail to the ship.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1118152149791275222005-06-07T09:37:00.000-04:002005-06-07T09:49:09.796-04:00Well I finished watching all the ship building VTM's. Currently I am thinking of some ways to make some adjustments to the what I want the final model to look like. I want to take this set of lessons as an opportunity to go a little above and beyond the minimum. I have a couple ideas. One is to put a gap in the bulky outter ring parts between the top and bottom piece. Plus I want to model the Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1118098524026049662005-06-06T18:53:00.000-04:002005-06-06T18:55:24.030-04:00I finally did it! I got the color wheel assignment completed. My problem was I ws thinking about it too much. Sometimes you just need to stand back and take a more simplistic view. At any rate not much else to report today. Just starting on the Section 4 videos.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117858525950439702005-06-04T00:12:00.000-04:002005-06-04T00:15:25.956-04:00I regret to say I am no closer to a resolution as of yet. I scrapped everything and went with another approach. Still thoroughly lost. I think I will jsut spend tomorrow watching the Section III videos again. Maybe I will pick up something I missed or misunderstood.But now it is time for sleep.Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117823506589852782005-06-03T14:26:00.000-04:002005-06-03T14:31:46.593-04:00I may have hit upon the key to the solution. Obviously I cannot say much about it, but it hit me when playing with the color chooser in The Gimp and looking at the numerical values. I'll start working on that theory that hit me shen I get home. It could just be a dead end though..... :pCanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117805453969641562005-06-03T09:23:00.000-04:002005-06-03T09:30:53.976-04:00Another day is upon me. Last night I began experimenting with all the utility nodes to try to understand how to do the color wheel project. I have gotten it setup up to Diffuse the color as it move a from the inner circle to the outer circle. That was the easy part. I also have some color blending figured out as the locator moves. I have pages of graph paper with notes and chicken scratch as I Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117750382761621312005-06-02T18:11:00.000-04:002005-06-02T18:13:02.766-04:00Ugh. I listened to my review. I would have gotten a passing grade...except that the curtains were missing! D'OH! I was entirely focused on the ball that I did not notice it. They were in a layer with visibility turned off to speed up playback in the viewport. It is now rendering again, with curtains this time. A case of tunnel vision..... :-/Canderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117719696512550712005-06-02T09:30:00.000-04:002005-06-02T09:41:36.516-04:00Failure. It is part of life. And such is my project. I turned in my project 1 assignment last night. I thought it looked pretty good. But Buzz and Zak apparently didn't agree. LOL I checked BuzzNet before leaving for work and saw a Failed mark. Oh well. When I get home I can check on feedback to see what I should work on and come up with something different. This is all new to me so I expect someCanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117633459804972222005-06-01T09:36:00.000-04:002005-06-01T09:44:19.806-04:00Hello Maya peeps.Well last night since I had really had nothing to do until we were grced with the opening of the Maya class, I decided to do some learning on my own. Knowing that in the next section of the course we would going over Utility Nodes I decided to start palying with them myself to go ahead and get a leg up. I was surprised that I was able to come up with some nifty looking shaders byCanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187347.post-1117133627653869022005-05-26T14:52:00.000-04:002005-05-26T14:53:47.653-04:00I am in la la land. Haven't used this in yearsCanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13855511630332457293noreply@blogger.com0