My renderd HL² logo/wallpaper

[PvtRyan]

Hi, I rendered this one with 3dsmax 4.2 and Brazil. About an hour of work, no photoshop editting (yet).
I still like to think of it as WIP, not a final render.

[nw909]

you could make the logo smoother.

Its cool man

bad colors but i like teh logo

[BloodyL]

Nice, the only thing I could constructively criticise is at the top right point of the HL2 logo.
The 2 needs the top most point rounding, much like the round 2 used here, rather than the straight topped version you have now.
The curve of the emblem that is to the right of the 2 needs more polys in that area, it's a promenant feature of the emblem and so more detail needs to exist there.

Excellent work otherwise. :)

[PvtRyan]

Originally posted by BloodyL
Nice, the only thing I could constructively criticise is at the top right point of the HL2 logo.
The 2 needs the top most point rounding, much like the round 2 used here, rather than the straight topped version you have now.
The curve of the emblem that is to the right of the 2 needs more polys in that area, it's a promenant feature of the emblem and so more detail needs to exist there.

Excellent work otherwise. :)

Yeah I'm trying to make it as smooth as possible, but the problem is my wire is een real mess up there (boolean powerrrrr.....) and smoothing could give a lot of poly errors. But I'm working on it, thanks for the crits :)

[dawdler]

I feel like eating it. Am I odd?

[Login_Here]

Yes you are dawdler :P
BTW, cool wallpaper

[simmo]

I love that orange....its so lovely. May i eat some after dawdler ?

[PvtRyan]

Which of these do you guys like best? The 1st is lit with a blue light, the other with a less blue one.

http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/test_blue.jpg

http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/test_green.jpg

[PvtRyan]

Well, I took the liberty to render the blue one fullsize and edit it with Photoshop (just text :P)

http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/HL2wallpaper_blue.jpg

[DarkelP]

I like the one with the blue light......the orange looks like jelly.....mmm....jelly.
Good work my man!

[4LpH@]

Hi PvtRyan, firstly I would like to say good work, secondly I wnt to know which were the programs you used to do this HL² logos. see ya

[pixartist]

sry...the model sucks! it can be done much smoother easily...i did it my self

[nw909]

Is there some way to make the image into a bevel or something with max?

I know you can with text...

[PvtRyan]

Originally posted by 4LpH@
Hi PvtRyan, firstly I would like to say good work, secondly I wnt to know which were the programs you used to do this HL² logos. see ya

3dsmax 4.2, and I used the renderplugin Brazil for the rendering, photon maps and the materials.

[4LpH@]

oukay, thnx about the informations... :afro:

[PvtRyan]

Here's a different render using different materials. Same scene and objects though.
Rendering time was ridiculous with 7 hours, because of a mistake I made in the settings :x

http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/wallpaper_dirty.jpg

[crabcakes66]

Originally posted by PvtRyan
Here's a different render using different materials. Same scene and objects though.
Rendering time was ridiculous with 7 hours, because of a mistake I made in the settings :x

http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/wallpaper_dirty.jpg

new backround. thx :)

[PvtRyan]

Originally posted by crabcakes66
new backround. thx :)

I'm honoured :afro:

[tim8604]

Can you render that dirty one with a different color for the logo? maybe brown, red, or a black? The blue doesn't really fit the scene :p. Good job though!

[nw909]

Originally posted by PvtRyan
Rendering time was ridiculous with 7 hours, because of a mistake I made in the settings :x

I know how you feel ;(

[Finger]

Those Boolean errors are quite common. If I were you, I would rebuild the whole shape with splines (including the 2), so that when you extrude it, you extrude that entire shape and you wont need boolean.

[PvtRyan]

Originally posted by Finger
Those Boolean errors are quite common. If I were you, I would rebuild the whole shape with splines (including the 2), so that when you extrude it, you extrude that entire shape and you wont need boolean.

Yeah I was being quite dumb there, I did build the whole shape out of splines, but I could have just added the splines for that 2 to the shape of the main logo.
The HSDS modifier is pretty cool too, makes the entire shape into tri's again.

BTW: here (http://members.lycos.nl/dayofvictory/render_complete copy.jpg) is the 1600x1200 version :)