Austrian emperor crown

[Radiance]

Yeah, and one of those little microwave-ovens for heating muffins during rendering

Radiance

[psychotron]

hey Rad it's good to see you in good mood

[loramel]

Next update modelling wise ...

I am right now approaching 4 GB memory consumption with this project, which makes this a 64bit only one

[Lord Crc]

Looking mighty fine there loramel!

[rusted]

looks great.

[psychotron]

very nice progress
I like how every pearl is different in scale - beliveability 110%

[MadSwede]

Sweet. That's coming along nicely.

Are you planning on using a texture for the ornate patterns (where the area is currently white) or are you using geometry all the way?

[loramel]

Sweet. That's coming along nicely.

Are you planning on using a texture for the ornate patterns (where the area is currently white) or are you using geometry all the way?

The ornate pattern are (as far as I can see from the little reference I have) enamel inlays. My plan is to use a mixed material with a texture map controlling which base material I want to have shown. For the enamel material layer I will create a color map.

Well, thats the plan, but I have no idea if this really works out as I intend to.

I am now almost finished with the main raw modelling and then starts the really tedious process of uv unwrapping, texturing and material creation.
I have the feeling that in the end the modelling may turn out to be the easiest part of it ...

[loramel]

very nice progress
I like how every pearl is different in scale - beliveability 110%

Yes, those slight variations do make the difference. But I intend to take this much further.

Right now the placement of almost all the objects is too precise, so once I am finished with the raw modelling of the base parts, I will start to add all the slight variations in size, orientation etc.

After that I will use the material system to create even more variety through bump mapping, dirt maps, spec maps ....

I just hope that I didn't bite off more than I can chew ( or my computer ... )

[MadSwede]

very nice progress
I like how every pearl is different in scale - beliveability 110%

Yes, those slight variations do make the difference. But I intend to take this much further.

Right now the placement of almost all the objects is too precise, so once I am finished with the raw modelling of the base parts, I will start to add all the slight variations in size, orientation etc.

After that I will use the material system to create even more variety through bump mapping, dirt maps, spec maps ....

I just hope that I didn't bite off more than I can chew ( or my computer ... )

Some of the variations could be done using the object loc/rot/scale randomizer I suppose but still hell of an effort.

And when you are finished with this, what about the orb and the sceptre?