Help me with my balls????

[morse]

I am trying to model a tiny little scene in 3ds max thats got paintballs on the floor. The paintballs don't look quite real, but i dunno why. Any suggestions?

[mdipi]

hmm, they look ok but something deff is missing...could it be the shaddows? i really dont know...

[reverendflash]

yup, I think that the shadows are too fuzzy for such a small object...

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[morse]

shadows are an as$. thanks for the help guys, ill try messing with the shadows.

[mdipi]

hmm, are you gonna texture them too? that might help them a bit.

[asphaltcowboy]

I think that the problem is: the shadows on the balls are too dark.. have you got some light source that only applies to them and not the rest of the scene?

[morse]

uh.... yea. but its to lengthen the shadows.

[asphaltcowboy]

the shadows on the balls are waaay too dark :)

[telekinesis]

Listen to asphalt, he knows a lot about balls! :P

[morse]

here, some darker balls. Maybe i'll lighten the balls too in another try...

[mdipi]

those look a bit better

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by telekinesis
Listen to asphalt, he knows a lot about balls! :P listen to telekinesis, he knows a lot about 'dans'! :P

[morse]

try these on for size...

[morse]

please?

[fishtank]

ways better, but its hard to see that they lie on something... try to add sth to make the floor visible...

[Soul]

Maybe add some splatted ones? Because theres no way I would know they were paintballs

- Soul :s:

[sintax321]

ya the big problem is they look liek they are floating.

[Starpromo]

Or have a the gun that shoots them in there... and that would make it look all the more realistic... Or not, i don't really know!

[mdipi]

i was just pbin' (like just got back 1/2 hr ago) what i noticed is that they dont sit that perfect, make some defromed ones or something. they are to perfect. yeah try some splatter, but that might be hard.

[morse]

yea a little hard. i could photoshop it but im too lazy.

How was paintballing?

[morse]

Originally posted by Starpromo
Or have a the gun that shoots them in there... and that would make it look all the more realistic... Or not, i don't really know!
Yea thats a great idea, but I don't think I could model a gun :(

[mdipi]

add a pod with some coming out!!!@!

[morse]

hey thats a good idea!

[morse]

Here is a pod, but i can't seem to eliminate the shadow from under it...

[morse]

:sigh:

[morse]

Hows this?

[iLikePie]

I still wouldn't guess that they were paintballs, but i think they look ok anyway

[andr.in]

Nice subject!

:P

[Starpromo]

They still kind of look ball bearing-ish...

[mdipi]

much better! maybe another one? twords the other side? w00t now i owuld say, poor kid, thats at least half a pod gone,,,


:P d00d i split a pod of evil yeserday, my last pod of evil, it sucked...

[morse]

lol, I can't afford to shoot evil :(

[mdipi]

its the same price as everyting else :-\ or at least around here it runs the same (60-62). that is expensive, but its the same *** all the other medium-high paint :-\

[morse]

For those of you who think that they don't look like paintballs... If this website were about paintball, do you think then maybe they are fitting?

Newest edition:
http://www.morsedesigns.com/images/avec.jpg

[mdipi]

if it were about pb yeah. but are you going to leave it white like this?

[Starpromo]

Personaly i like the white... Maybe have it so the shadows are not cut off and then it will look really nice!

[morse]

Hum... interesting idea. Yea, I like the whiteroom feel. Thanks for the idea starpromo, I think I'll do that.