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Creating terrains of rolling hills and mountains is no easy task if you brick-ify them.

The trees' distribution don't seem to line up with the studded plates.  Were these trees generated via particle emitter?

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I believe that MLCAD has a built-in terrain generator.
You might want to check it out.

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It has been awhile! Good to see others still hanging out here. I've been trying my hand at modeling a bit in blender.

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Uncle Moralo.

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ZachFB Studios wrote:

Ignore the top edges of the frame, and note that there will be a motion blur added to the speeders later.

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A couple of the speeders have trees growing through them. And there isn't much room for them to drive around in.

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Wow that looks nice JamesW mini/smile
As for the texture (which you'll probarbly will work on), try to make it more plastic, shiny-ish.
Like, try to give a bit of a reflection, a specular, and ofcourse the recognizable LEGO colours.

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Looks awesome!
My only complaint would be the color, and like Tom said, the specular.

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Double post:
I have a MAYA question:
Whenever I export a minecraft map with Mineways and import it into MAYA, I turn off  the "use default light" option, and remove all the lights in the scene, but the model is still lit! I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

Help?

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I created a cityscape for a non-existent city builder game (Totally not ripping off SimCity) today:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/RealBrick/Drawings/cs.png

Here is the original render before it was Photoshopped:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/RealBrick/Drawings/cityscape.png

Thanks for the tip on ambient occlusion Zach, while this was still in Blender, I just left Environmental Lighting on and turned on Ambient occlusion. My PC overheated the first time, but the second, it rendered.

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I like the composition of the scene itself, but the kerning on "CITYSTATE" hurts my brain.

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I copied the pacing between the letters in both words so they were exactly the same, I guess that is why you should always do things manually. I saved the PSD, so I may take another crack at it.

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I like it!  Great work, especially the blue color of "City" haha.
The bloom effect on 'State' is kind of harsh and makes it a tad bit difficult to read; this also goes for a few of the building tops as well.

Did you use cycles or blender internal when rendering this?

If I'm on the forums, I'm probably waiting for Blender to finish rendering.

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No, I just used default render settings. I think cycles would torture my PC. I wanted to make the rooftops bright to give off a "beating sun" feel. But I do agree that the text for CityState needs work, and I will try to get to that.

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RealBrick wrote:

I think cycles would torture my PC.

Assuming Renderfarm.fi still doesn't support Cycles, my doors are open (just tell me what to install first).

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RealBrick wrote:

I think cycles would torture my PC.

You'll never know until you try it.

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My computer crashed once while I attempted to render what I have. (It isn't very good, to say the least)

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What is causing it to crash?  If you post the symptoms, we might be able to prescribe a cure mini/wink

Overheating perhaps?

If I'm on the forums, I'm probably waiting for Blender to finish rendering.

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It overheats constantly, and it's a laptop, so It's basically screwed. I am looking at a gaming computer though, so things will improve.

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All right, ignore my offer. mini/tongue

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Oh yeah, laptops are NOT the greatest for rendering... I could see where the overheating problem comes in.  Perhaps you should take Lechnology up on his offer mini/wink

If I'm on the forums, I'm probably waiting for Blender to finish rendering.

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I render on my laptop all the time, no problem. That said, my laptop is a MacBook Pro...

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