Dominance War V - 3D - God Of Enlightenment - Newhere

[SquallLion1]

Originally Posted by newhere

ok....i have one alpha map i am using in the luminosity channel which is brightened to 100. thing is i don't know how to make it glow so the texture can look right. i will try what you said about using color ambient to light up the map and see if it works.

glow? it's lightening, pal.
use light map or reflect.

[newhere]

Ok guys and girls...this is the best to my knowledge i can do as far as making it glow using all the channels i know in Lightwave3D:

[SquallLion1]

It's much better!
but you can still do better. The lightening seems a bit line one skin
use transparent map or anything else..

[BiG ToE-3DT]

it will never look right, if you keep it in the skin. It needs to be above the skin. You have plenty of tris leftover, you can make it work.

[Puckducker]

You shouldn't have it follow the contours of the muscles. That is what is making it look a lot more like purposefully design painted on lines, rather than energetic, dynamic lightning.

And like ToE suggested, try getting it up and above the skin too.

[newhere]

SquallLion1: thanks...i mean thats the best i can do for it

BiG ToE-3DT: I'm gonna do that and render it and see how it looks.

Puckducker: True but i want the design to look like that. I just got to get it to look right, that's all. I so want to finish this so i can turn it in. i need to get out of my man cave and into some real girl boobies

[newhere]

Just tried what you said about making it above the the skin. thing is when i do it, it makes the tri count go way over the poly limit so i guess that's out of the question.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

you shouldn't need more than 1,000 tris to pull it off. 1,500 at the most.

Can you post a wire frame with the new lightining?

[mix_mash]

You know, with the lightning, if you varied the thickness of the branches it might look better. Also, if you added a small tinge of colour to it, it might be more appealing.

Paul
(mix_mash)

[newhere]

here are the wires......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieG0H2ZIBg

[TMNI VISION]

You can make the head a little smaller and it will make the character bigger and more powerful . With all the hair the head looks bigger and makes it smaller proportionally . I think you can do this minor changes even in this stage . Good effort so far . Keep it up .

[newhere]

shrunk the head:

[newhere]

Main Final image(rough):

[Puckducker]

I'm assuming that the skeleton you have on the ground is the same skeleton character you did for the last dominance war. I don't know if you'll be able to use that, the rules say you can't use anything pre-made for your entries.

It's not a big deal but I wouldn't want to see your entry disqualified for such a little thing, if that were the case.

[newhere]

Yes but it does not say anything about using it. They said for the "main final image" i can do what ever i want to it. The actual one is without bones......look below: