The reactor thread

Raging Deadstar · #1 January 6th, 2005, 06:42 AM

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Ragnarok-X said:
Oh come on, no offense but PLEASE talk in english. I hate to not understand people.

[paranoia]Maybe that's exactly what they wanted, Those Dutch people are up attempting something ruthless, power gaining and so shrouded in mystery we cannot guess.....[/paranoia]

....And Dammit Timstone I want in On it!!!

NarfsCompIsBack · #2 January 6th, 2005, 07:11 AM

Pretty pictures!

Timstone · #3 January 6th, 2005, 07:21 AM

RD:
What?!! You want in on something exclusively for Dutch people?! No way!
You have nothing to gain in our strugle for complete control of this board and Malfador!
Crap!! I've told too much! Damn!

Intimidator · #4 January 6th, 2005, 08:58 AM

You promised me to keep it a secret Timstone

Timstone · #5 January 6th, 2005, 09:23 AM

Sorry Intimidator.
Now we'll have to begin anew.

Timstone · #6 January 6th, 2005, 03:03 PM

Damn it! The GF of a friend of mine became mother. She gave birth to a boy; Dennis.

This screws up my entire scheme for this evening!

Okay, due to time constraints and lack of sleep I have only one pic sofar... and it isn't even rendered.
I'll wait with that untill David has given some crucial advise, hint, hint... (look in the " Thanks to AT" thread)

David E. Gervais · #7 January 6th, 2005, 04:20 PM

First let me say that that is a nice simple reactor design. I like it. (remember imitation is the sincerest form of flattery) That said,.. it took me about 30 mins to build this replica of your model in bryce (would be faster if I was a better modeler) I then applied a dirty chrome like texture to the whole thing then seelected the center core rod and gave it a glowing green beam effect (one of the default preset textures available in bryce) I then changed the core rod to red (just had to change the material color palette) and changed the sky to give the dirty chrom a different color to reflect. As you can see it doesn't take much to make a 'different' variant of the reactor.

Notice that I removed the Black 2D panel I placed behind the model to reveal the selected sky presets that are reflected on the chrome.

Anyway, I like to share tricks of the trade, and hope this little example will help give you ideas for your reactor.

If you have any questions just fire away.

Cheers!

Timstone · #8 January 7th, 2005, 05:00 AM

Very cool pics David. I like those a lot.
The model took me about ten minutes to build. I certainly have an idea to texture this little reactor, thanks to you.
The only thing is, I'm very bad at texturing. I'm doing my best with max 7, but I simply don't get the results you get. I guess there are too many options to change in max 7.

Maybe you can give a few setting you used to create these wonderful pics.

Edit:
I've just completed a few drawings for the next 4 reactors. They're all variants of this Version. I hope I'll have some time this evening to work on them.