{"id":677,"date":"2025-01-12T06:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T06:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/?p=677"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:00:38","slug":"3d-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/2025\/01\/12\/3d-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To expand my 3D skills in Blender and further demonstrate the atmosphere, I decided to take a stab at 3D modelling the Control Panel. Using Blender I 3D modelled a CRT TV and added a static and RGB material to the screen to give it a proper retro look. I’d never textured in Blender before, and the nodes ended up being very satisfying to link up and play with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To simplify the process, I decided to 3D model 3 seperate TV designs, and then arrange them in a tower in the Control Panel. That way I wouldn’t have to spend weeks and weeks modelling a unique screen for every monitor. The first one was a standard RGB TV, while the next was more reminiscent of the 50’s, so I textured it black to modernise it a little – and the last was more emblematic of the 2000’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I began to model the room itself. Using the bend tool, I managed to make a round table, and started to set up the TVs around it using the duplicate function. It took a while, and was a little tedious and difficult to place them all, but in the end I managed to pile up a high tower of monitors to surround the Watcher character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, I needed to light the scene and render it. However the frustrating part was that I couldn’t get my lighting to work for a long, long time – I sat there and tried to puzzle it out for an entire evening. I wanted the lighting to be soft and a bit blue, able to light up the detail on the TVs – but it just wasn’t happening. The monitors always ended up shrouded in complete darkness. The solution ended up being irritatingly simple… I hadn’t turned the wattage up enough. Then my lighting started to look cool and blue. It took a few (very long) renders to get it right, but in the end I liked the effect I came up with. If I had a bit more time, I’d add a bit more lighting – some varying shades of cyan and white as well as dark blues – but this still looks good. Now the only detail left out is the metallic sheen on the table. For some reason my renders never picked it up, and I never figured out why… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also wanted to render out a short animation, but my laptop decided it couldn’t handle that \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To expand my 3D skills in Blender and further demonstrate the atmosphere, I decided to take a stab at 3D modelling the Control Panel. Using Blender I 3D modelled a CRT TV and added a static and RGB material to the screen to give it a proper retro look. I’d never textured in Blender before, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-semester-1","category-world-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}