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Ok, textures then... And can we (and by we I mean I) see them. That's what I meant by posting the textures.

I love the recycler. Can you post the texture you used?

I did some more work on the rhino, I like how it turned out now. And you were right, the scales help bring him to life more.



Also started on the ISDF Bomber. Modeling is mostly done, not going to do the insides. And I know an engine is out. Rendering setup error. Too late in the night to fix now.



Tell me what you think.

Need a top level PC to run it at higher res, but even lower res is beautiful.
Option for aim assist
Negatives:
- 3rd person viewpoint (hate it)
- All the objectives are highlighted by some glowing rings
- All powerups are highlighted by glowing icons?

Who knows?,,,

I just thought they had a massive hangover after a wild night or something.

Nice pocket TV.

"they [the glasses] are meant as a radiation shield since the set is also the world's first TV with built-in "nuclear reactor" according to the machine translated text. 

As for the game, is it after the new avatar movie or the old Avatar:The last airbender movie?

They go around 20k triangles, but the model is adaptive, meaning that at the click of a button it can go from 1139 which is the built count to 100k depending on weather it's a close-up or distance shot, using the built-in algorithms which are a smoothing and an interpolation, all in one. It also triangulates the mesh so there aren't any non-planar polygons, like you see in the first pic. The mesh is closed but since polygons aren't planar, they appear to be half transparent or not appear at all.

No iteration-------------- 1 iteration ----------- 3 iterations
1139 quads -------------- 2260 triangles ---------- 20340 tris and things go way up from there



So, what do you think? Better?

Haha, nice.
Make a shot of him trying to munch on a pilot or the side of a power generator.  
I seem to remember them trying to attack the buildings in my base.

I might do something along those lines... I just need a few more props and an environment. Currently working on those.

so what'r they for?

All shall be revealed in time. For now, just for practice.

Feel free to comment and cc on any aspect you think can be improved.




I'll post some more things when I have them.

Uhm... so... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o... watch it once... and only ONCE.
This video should only be used under strict parental supervision.

It has some nice moments in it. Overall, you might say it's retarded, but in a good way.

I kinda liked the first one batter:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
You just gotta love hot magma!




And Egyptian kings.

P.S. doesn't at least one of the astronauts' voices seem to be of one of the Red vs Blue characters? Really great machinima show. One could make a BZ one too... hint hint.
http://redvsblue.com/home.php

IIRC they expel radiation from their poles from matter they absorb, unless it was the multidimensional energy from somewhere else thing.

I thought they were going to contain the black hole in a magnetic field or something so nothing actually gets sucked in, which would cause the black hole to become unstable with possibly dire consequences.
The two polar jets you're talking about are something else. And I think they can't appear at such small black holes. We are talking, if not microscopic, then mostly a pin head sized one.
But how do you contain one, anyway? I mean... can magnetic fields contain gravity? That would be a more important discovery than how to actually harness the energy emitted from them.

Hawking radiation is... water, evaporating from a pot, one molecule at a time, very slowly. Small black holes have a shorter life because of this. While supermassive ones can keep losing particles for a long time before their mass can no longer cause a singularity and they first become visible, ghostly and then fully visible and decompose away into nothingness, small ones will generally "burn" out quite quickly. Black hole batteries, for your long lasting MP3 needs.

On a side note, seing as they will need large amounts of energy, I would love to see a Dyson Sphere created to harness the full power of our or any other sun.

OT: The Astronomical Zoo, the Black Hole exhibit, sign: Please, do not feed the black holes!

Yes, but in coal, the energy is already there, and we only release it through combustion. If we create black holes, we will have to inject energy into them, by accelerating particles and smashing them against each other so they fuse and collapse. But we will have to come up with all the energy since the particles themselves will not have as much as a lump of coal, hence the solar array. Also... the hawking particles the black holes give is a kind of evaporation so with each hawking particle emitted, it will get weaker and weaker  ...and so it would consume more energy than it will give off.
But, like I said, I'm not that good at physics so I might be wrong.

I vote for Aenea, mostly because of how it sounds...  Read  (canadian) Eh - nay- ah
It's exotic and aerated and melodious. Maybe not the best thing, but...

I also like the name for the scion ship. I'm beginning to see a new trend for ship naming these days. Pillars of Autumn, Valley Forge, Andromeda Ascendant, Pax Magellanis, Pride of Argos....
One word names are so yesteryear. Although Pax sounds nice too.

And some other names I like:

Gaea  - (the Earth.... read Guy-Ah ) Also found as Gheea, Gaia or some other variation. It's an interesting name considering the scions are, at their core, earthlings searching for a new home. And since they couldn't find or lost one, they decided to build one and take it with them. "After Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus. She brought forth Uranus, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her"

Hyperion - is one of the twelve Titan gods of Ancient Greece, and was referred to in early mythological writings as Helios Hyperion, 'Sun High-one'. Hyperion is the titan of light and the greatest warrior under Cronus' command.
"Of Hyperion we are told that he was the first to understand, by diligent attention and observation, the movement of both the sun and the moon and the other stars, and the seasons as well, in that they are caused by these bodies, and to make these facts known to others; and that for this reason he was called the father of these bodies, since he had begotten, so to speak, the speculation about them and their nature." —Diodorus Siculus (5.67.1)
(source - Wikipedia.org, of course)

Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) ... which, seeing as the ship gets destroyed is kind of interesting.

Pillars of Creation

Just a sidenote for those who might not know... the image in the post is from the motion picture Event Horizon, which is also the name of the ship that had that device installed. It was thought that it would punch a hole in spacetime and create an artificial wormhole but things went horribly wrong and it crossed into another dimension altogether, which drove the crew mad and made them kill eachother. It was said that they actually made it to hell.

As far as I understood, at least one idea was to collect the radiotion emitted by the black hole to propel the ship forward, kind of like a solar sail, only having the sun anchored to the ship. It's different, I must admit, and it could actually work.
But they're using such an exotic body to power a ship in such a conventional way... it seems such a waste. I was hoping for something more along the lines of a pair of black holes creating a pseudo warp effect, causing the ship to move inside a gravitational bubble.

On a side note: someone said that the holes would be too small to create very much trouble, but wouldn't accidentally feeding it enough mass turn it into the world gobblers we all know (and love) ?

On another side note: The article states that it would require the sun's energy over a period of a year to be stored (somehow, that would be in itself a great feat of engineering) in order to create a black hole. And after we create several we could harnes them to create more. But, would't that fail? I mean... all energy to energy or energy to matter conversions happen with a loss of said energy.
Say you have a battery and you use it to power a motor that in turn power a generator to charge another battery of the same type, then reverse batteries. After a while, because of friction and heating in the wires and whatnot, both batteries would be dead. So if we create two black holes and harnes their power, wouldn't we be able to create only one and a leftover?
I must admit, I'm not great with advanced physics so correct me if I'm wrong.

I also have a question. I have read that in a revolving black hole, the event horizon is not a sphere, but a torus, or a ring. Would that mean that in the exact center, gravity cancels itself out... and could that be a gateway of some sorts, seing as space is so curved around that point? Or would it just be a normal region of space in the middle of a maelstrom?

Seeing as this has become the new best thing, hype or call it whatever:
......
Bot:What do you know?
Me:1+1=2
Bot:No. Barrack Obama is a person.
......
Bot: Do you really want to live forever?
Me: I want my soul to wonder the universe until it finds that special something or someone that makes me feel complete and offers me peace.

Then it died.