Pin World

[MooseDog]

Not quite sure what this is:D , except that it was fun to get it rendered.

Starting from one of the video tutorials that WilliamVaughan (http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76843) is cranking out, I modified his technique so that Layout could use HD Instance.

[Pheidian]

Neat, might be lotsa small mushroom also! :)

[agv]

It's the Planet of Cotton Swabs! I like it!

[colkai]

Nahh, jsut someone with Waayyy to much time on their hands! ;) :p

[-EsHrA-]

nice!
now make it animate!

:)

mlon

[Ztreem]

Cool, some movement would be nice.

[MooseDog]

movement would be very nice, agreed.

a dual quad-core machine and 8G RAM to bring render times down under 2hrs/frame would be nicer:D . any philanthropists out there willing to donate?:help:

thx to all for the positive remarks. much appreciated!:thumbsup:

[dwburman]

well, you could render it at 25% size... that'd get the time per frame down. :)

How did you modify the technique to work with HD_Instance?

[cagey5]

http://www.newtek.com/forums/showpost.php?p=629571&postcount=17

[colkai]

movement would be very nice, agreed.

a dual quad-core machine and 8G RAM to bring render times down under 2hrs/frame would be nicer:D .

Hehe, see - mad I tells ya! ;) :D

You know what would be cool - texture it based on a wieght map for some cool colour flow. :)

[MooseDog]

...texture it based on a wieght map for some cool colour flow. :)

definitely a cool idea. the limitation is that all those pins are not geometry. they're instances, and afaik, anything more than the simplest color changes from pin to pin are not possible w/HDI :(.

this scene with geometry would require one of lawrence livermore labs' crays to load and render:phone_cal

wonderful responses guys, much appreciated!

[colkai]

Ahh, hmmm, nuts - woulda been fun :)