Everybody on board the Fifth Train!

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Yeah, but the problem is, there aren't any lights in there.
It's just completely see-through. Look closely.

No yeah the idea was to just put pointlights in there and then make it opaque enough that it wasn't totally obvious there weren't actual fixtures or anything inside. I'll probably do bulbs or whatever for it sometime after I get done with the roof-mounted Gatling gun.

I figured out where my materials got all fucked up, it turns out that in transferring everything from the old file to a new one (which I had to do to clear out the rendering errors I was getting) the program decided to reset all my metals as non-metals. I ran a couple new exteriors but nothing I'm really happy with and then an interior which looks pretty nice (if a bit excessively reflective). That was actually still running when I left for work this morning (after starting it at like 1 last night). I'll see if I can do an exterior with some decent-looking lighting effects or something.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Yes, I concur that it needs more guns.

The Pillar of Osterbaum needs a suitable sister craft for voyages on land.

Maybe this train just needs to be outfitted with equipment to make it amphibious? This could BE the Pillar of Osterbaum.

I mean, ocean tracks. Think outside the box, man.

[Osterbaum]

Originally Posted by Kerensky

This could BE the Pillar of Osterbaum.

I bet Fifth just loves that idea.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Kerensky287

I mean, ocean tracks.

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[Magic_Marker]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

You totally did not open this thread expecting an actual train.

You're right. I was thinking "There's no train, but somebody made a penis for the hell of it and I'm going to feel dirty for opening this page."

[Fifthfiend]

So, new renders!



shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny.



Tried taking the exterior textures out altogther... a little flatter than I hoped, would've liked something more like how the interior came out. Next I'm either gonna try switching the sunlight off and doing positioned lighting, or try and do something with bumpmapping.

I think I overcorrected the headlight transparency on this one; there may be nothing for it but to fill actual fixtures in there.

[Odjn]

From the left, the second oval window is at a weird angle.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Looks good fifth.

[Osterbaum]

Looking good. Still forced to point out the lack of guns.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Odjn

From the left, the second oval window is at a weird angle.

See the thing here I think is the body has an outward curve (you can see this better from the interior) which with the slant to the windows and the curve on the doors ends up working at cross purposes when you look at it in perspective. I think if I were doing it again I'd do either the curved walls or the slanted windows but both together kinda clashes (although it did make for an interesting design challenge).