autoVino's bat projects

[autoVino 26]

[JakeMD 107]

Looks like a giant cooling tower..

[autoVino 26]

some renders:

  

  

  

[nihonkaranws 88]

I love it!

[OffshoreTacos 5]

autoVino, this relates to your post on the last page. Sorry for the delayed response.

A problem that I do have, which is what I think may be the culprit, is that there are many instances where a glass material touches a solid black material.quote>

I think you're right about that. I don't use MR, but often with raytracing, coincident surfaces are treated as special cases. In other words, when two faces are flush against one another, the renderer might treat it entirely differently than if they were separated. If you ever try to render a glass of water, you'll run into these issues.

A workaround is to create a tiny gap between the surfaces. This sometimes leads to results that are not physically correct, but it can eliminate some weirdness.

The cooling tower is beautiful. I love all the fans. I like the subtlety of the texture on the main body. And the detail inside is really impressive.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Wow, super coolio. I can't say I have ever seen a cooling tower quite like that, but it looks pretty awesome. Interesting base texture you decided to add too, it looks a lot like a LE job, but flows much much better than a bunch of 16m^2 pieces.

Great work,

-Todd

[jacqulina 162]

very nice

[autoVino 26]

Originally posted by: jimmy2040 autoVino, this relates to your post on the last page. 

I think you're right about that. I don't use MR, but often with raytracing, coincident surfaces are treated as special cases. In other words, when two faces are flush against one another, the renderer might treat it entirely differently than if they were separated. If you ever try to render a glass of water, you'll run into these issues.

A workaround is to create a tiny gap between the surfaces. This sometimes leads to results that are not physically correct, but it can eliminate some weirdness.

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This can produce problems, as you have mentioned, but those problems are more geometry related, e.g. the renderer chooses one material to render on the geometry and often ignores the other or renders the two materials in alternating stripes usually a few pixels wide.  With raytraced materials, if two polygons have the same normals and positions, then that also causes problems.

The problem here is clearly an error mixed in with the photon decay rate and the filter used to display the caustics (I know that mental ray 3.5 has subtle problems with this in gi, apparently it also exists in caustics and i've seen it happen in final gatherer as well), some of the photons emmited from their source just seem to have a decay rate of zero: they don't decay.  Changing the decay rate and the filter type to something shaper fixes this problem for the most part.

@Todd  No the inside is just mmy imagination.  The outside though is fairly energy practicle, called a reverse draft cooling tower.  It requiers less space, can be smaller, and is more effective in cooling water than natural draft towers of the same proportions, plus the amount of plumage that comes from the steam is decreased.  Of course the easiest way to cool off water is to just pump in new lake water and pump out the hot into a surrounding stream, but it's a no-no for environmentalists.  Plus this is largely for visual effects.

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[bixel 1,228]

Showoff!

[autoVino 26]

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Isn't he, Bixel?

[autoVino 26]

This will be a large nuclear power station, with five reactors and a fully batted lot.

[panthersimcity4 162]

OMG!!!!!!! That is so amazing that I am lost for words!

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

I love it, we clearly do not have enough power plants

[autoVino 26]

   
This was mostly re-working on the ground texture, adding some water-reflectivity to it, color correction, etc.  I've also did some display corrections for the large image, so that nothing will be displayed below the visible ground plane (before some key objects were cut of at z=0 and above, now that issue is fixed).

[Jasoncw 12,030]

It seems like the ground texture should be a higher resolution, or it it's already at a really high resolution maybe it needs a noise filter or a sharpen filter or something.

(looking great btw)

[Fresh Prince of Wmbg 44]

Oh Snap!

This is tootal ownage!

[autoVino 26]

the ground texture is at plenty high resolution, but I agree it just needs some noise.  Much of the little detail is just sort of hard to see.

[Ferrariguy1000 43]

man at first I thought it was the solar updraft tower you were making, but now it looks like a fission powerplant. Looks awesome.

[autoVino 26]

 

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Wow, that water looks flippin' sexy. Ground texture looks really cool, but it seems to be a bit to bright (The dirt part), especially in comparison with what the base/ shadows of the towers. I don't know, it might just be me, we would have to see it in game. I have a feeling you might have to lower the contrast a tiny bit and/or lower the brightness slightly. On a side note, the orange dirt in the corner of the first pic is a bit too saturated IMO.

But all that aside, this is INCREDIBLE. Honestly, really fantastic, and to think that you aren't even done yet!

-Todd

[art128 4,622]

Wow ! awesome ! great work.

Arthur

[autoVino 26]

The reactor buildings are complete modelling wise, so now I need to make some turbines, work on the processing buildings and control buildings and add some piping all around and general detail, still plenty of work.  I'm probably going to take a break on modelling and try to figure a way out to gain better control of texture coordinates, as right now the tools in uvw unwrap aren't sufficient.

[JakeMD 107]

They look fine to me

[_Atticus 10]

That looks extremely sexy. One question though, how massive are the lot and capacity gonna be? And also, is it based off any real plant?

-Pingangster

[autoVino 26]

The uv texturing problem is not found in the picture, but it occured when texturing the dome. I could not find a convincing way to position the uv coordinates without there being excessive streaching of the texture at the top of the tome and on the extruded portion; it looked rather synthetic with standard uv mapping procedures.

The plant is completely imaginary. All component parts are based off of real plants, are ligit, or give real use to the plant; such as the deep water basin, reactor domes, cooling towers, control biuldings, etc. The two cooling towers are imaginary modifaction of forced draft cooling towers.

I'm probably going to have to redesign the road layout for the base. The current one is not very space efficient and I cannot adequatly place the reactor domes around it so that they would properly connect to turbines.

[art128 4,622]

The nuclear power plant look awesome my friend

[allez l'om 1]

I never see something as much realisitc as you are achieving!!!

[autoVino 26]

I changed the layout quite a bit, and made the control/research & development building more of a modernist kind of building.  Now there are six reactors.

The cooling towers are on a seperate file  (they will be x-reffed) as modelling with 3ds max and texturing with photoshop has reached my memory limit for this computer, so the towers are not shown.

Click on the images to view full zoom four resolution.

each one of these renders (zoom four) takes about 15 to 20 minutes to render, so the whole lot will be feasible if sliced into quarters.

[_Atticus 10]

Looking extremely sexy. Are the cooling towers and these part of the same power plant?

-Pingangster