Bacteria

[Maphistal]

hey,

Can anyone give me some great tips on how to texturize a Bacteria?
I tried tweaking with the Procedurals, but I always seem to screw it up :D

so if I anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it ;)

[toby]

do you have reference materials? photos?

[riki]

what does bacteria look like?? Do you mean the B/W electron microscope look?? There are some presets for that over at luxology.

[Maphistal]

I mean the bacteria kind we have in our bodys, and make us sick :D
the biological ones ;)

this is a quick reference pic I've found on google ;)

[riki]

Man I told you already, luxology

http://luxology.net/community/lwpreset.aspx?id=11
http://luxology.net/community/lwpreset.aspx?id=108
http://luxology.net/community/lwpreset.aspx?id=10

[Maphistal]

sorry dude :confused:
didn't know the URL

[riki]

That's okay. You might find something over at Preset central, work a peek.

http://www.presetcentral.com/

[Maphistal]

Ok, I'll do that,
thx for the links ;) :D

[jimnokc]

If you don't have the Darktree LW Simbiont, download it (free) from http://www.darksim.com

You'll find a preset called "technoXRay.dsts", I believe it may be pretty close to what you're looking for.

[Maphistal]

Oki, I'll give it a try then :D

[Maphistal]

Lolz,
I tried the plugin, then I came out something like this,
don't mind the screwy left and right one, and the lame background :D
did this one in 5 mins or so ;)

the effect on the bacteria is quite cool though :D

[riki]

Try increasing the render sub patch resolution in the object properties panel, will give you a smoother finish.

[Maphistal]

this better? :D
used a subpatch level of 20 in this one ;) :D

[riki]

That looks better, still some funky polys in there that need tweeking. ie the pinching

[Maphistal]

yeah,
you've got a point there, but ooh well,
it was just a darksim shader test :D

[Hiraghm]

So the Blue Pill was really a bacteria?

[Maphistal]

that's what I tried,
but then again, I'm a noob :D

[merlinux]

if you want to make a virus i can give u a preset who give something like that...
render with no AA but DOF as u want

[Maphistal]

hey,
that would be pretty cool :D
I like that effect, I have a lot of presets :D but one more couldn't hurt :D

I'd be honoured to have that preset dude ;) :D
thx

[merlinux]

it's better for a newbie of knowing how too do it ;)
http://www.niklasindustries.com/tutorials/tut_virus.htm
they've got pretty good tuts here so enjoy yourself

[Maphistal]

lolz,
hahaha, great man :D

[jimnokc]

I didn't think of this one.

This is a tutorial on modeling blood cells. I think if you make them blue instead of red, this is pretty close to what you're trying to do.

http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/modeling/bloodcells/index.html


If you want to animate them, there's also an animation tutorial in the tutorials section as well.

Jim

[Maphistal]

merlinux

Thx for site, great tuto's :D

Jimnock

Same for you dude :D

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and the other ones, thx for presets and for the darksim plugin, it rules :D

[riki]

As long as we're comparing viruses, here's mine.

This is worth a peek http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/proofsht/sv/index.htm

[Maphistal]

ooh well, let's just make it a bacteria/virus contest then :D

here is my go for it :D

[DigiLusionist]

Ok, here's mine...

*cough, cough*

[DigiLusionist]

Here's the bac doing a little jiggle courrtesy of FIFlabby plugin...

[Lamont]

Ahh!! I like that!! Did you do a larger render of it?

[DigiLusionist]

sure, here...

[Maphistal]

very cool man :D

love the animation to

[Fate]

Hey , DigiLusionist , nice use of Xfrog ... Those guys from Greenworks should really appreciate a guy like you :)
Nice job though ...

[DigiLusionist]

It wasn't XFrog, it was the FIsFlabby plugin I mentioned.

Check it out...

[DigiLusionist]

Oh, and I modeled it out of a metaformed box and pulled out tendrils with Magic Bevel.

[Maphistal]

yet again, a living proof that Magic bevel ROCKS !! =]

[Darttman]

you are all sick......(get it?)

[Nobilis Draco]

was passing by and thought i'd give it a try. textured from scratch.

[policarpo]

OOH OOH I wanna do show and tell!

here's some innard ickies i've been playing with.

http://www.policarpo.us/cgi-bin/images/graphics/blog/021246-big.jpg

[riki]

Hey poli, damn that's a good likeness of 'turdus virilius' bug :)

[policarpo]

:p

it was something i discovered after some indian food took to me the wrong way.:D

[richpr]

Always room for more nastyness... ;)

http://www.richardprins.com/images/render/Bacterium2-800.jpg

Bigger (http://www.richardprins.com/images/render/Bacterium2.jpg)

[jimnokc]

You know, a few more mutations and I think that purple thing will turn into Barney! :)