Competition to win an exclusive Overclockers UK Goodie Bag!

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Emphacy said:
If you're using 3DS MAX, I'll give you some pointers.


1. Set the OCUK Logo image as the viewport background.
Simply goto Views>Viewport Background>Viewport Background or press ALT+B. Select the location of your image by clicking files. Then tick 'Hold Before Start' and 'Match Bitmap', 'All Views' and 'Lock Pan & Zoom'.

2. Using splines, draw around each part of the OCUK Gauge.
To do this, go to your top viewport and maximize this viewport. Then go to the shapes tab (next to geometry and lights) and select the line tool. Before drawing lines, set the tool parameters to corner and corner respectively.

Now, draw around each individual segment of the logo using the line tool, keeping to the shape and contour. When the end of the line reaches the beginning it will ask to merge lines. Tick yes. Repeat for every segment.

3. To make 3D convert each segment to editable polygon.
Holding CTRL select all segments of your OCUK logo. Right click and select convert to editable poly.
NOW: Select one of the segments and select the modify tab and navigate to the polygon selection tool (red square). Then select the face of the segment and click the extrude tool. Set it as you like.
Repeat the process for each individual segment of logo.

Once this is done, select all of your segments and navigate back to modify, in the drop down list, select 'cap holes'. This will close all of the rear open polygons of each segment.

All done! :D
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Thanks so much! I probably won't have time to enter now as I am not around next week but I will give this ago at some point and make myself a wallpaper. This is a big big help.

Thanks again!
 
The competition is still open, so make sure you get your entries in now, the closing date is this Friday coming up.
 
I'm awaiting for someone to whack out something ridiculously awesome so I have competition for my next background.

Hurry up gord! I've been waiting days! :D
 
Is that Messiah hair Calibi, or are you rendering in something else? I'm liking the Arnold renderer in it, but haven't had as much chance to play yet as I'd hoped. Damn minecraft stealing my time ;-)
 
seabiscuit said:
Is that Messiah hair Calibi, or are you rendering in something else? I'm liking the Arnold renderer in it, but haven't had as much chance to play yet as I'd hoped. Damn minecraft stealing my time ;-)
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Yep, I couldnt get it to work right. I think because I resized the plane after adding the hair, no matter how many hairs per cm I dont get a full coverage.
 
I didn't like how my last 3D design came out, so I did an overhall. This one looks so much better, took me a few hours for the past few days to get it right, but here it is!
This is a quick 'Hidden Line' view of the design, shows you the details.
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OCUKHiddenLine.png


It looks very good on the desktop...
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OCUKCarbonDesktop.png


Finally the full thing, (scaled down for the forum)...
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OCUKCarbonSmall.png


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Yes, the above rendering time is in hours. Hope you all like it, feel free to download the full 1920x1440 version HERE!
 
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