G'day tume & whitepass,
@ tume,
Yes, I discovered your 'enthusiasm' for "The Milwaukee Road" from watching some of your videos and your location is in plain sight for all to see, so I can appreciate the difficulties involved. However, it really is "a small world", these days and with the right contacts, one can overcome the Tyranny of Distance (which you seem to have done, quite splendidly, with the asset in your most recently posted image)...
@ whitepass,
...you are, indeed, correct, Sir (although I might disagree with your 'estimate' of 10') but it has to be remembered that none of the detail you see in either my or "tume's" images is actually on the model (it is all a 'trick' of some clever combination of photo-realistic textures, 'normal maps' and "the light"). Naturally, the 'effect' is going to reduce the further you get away from the 'model' but if you 'remove' the presence of the 'normal map' from the mix and replace it with a "onetex" type (or heavan forbid, a "notex" type), the 'brain' will very quickly notice this omission...
Jerker {
}
@ tume,
Yes, I discovered your 'enthusiasm' for "The Milwaukee Road" from watching some of your videos and your location is in plain sight for all to see, so I can appreciate the difficulties involved. However, it really is "a small world", these days and with the right contacts, one can overcome the Tyranny of Distance (which you seem to have done, quite splendidly, with the asset in your most recently posted image)...
@ whitepass,
...you are, indeed, correct, Sir (although I might disagree with your 'estimate' of 10') but it has to be remembered that none of the detail you see in either my or "tume's" images is actually on the model (it is all a 'trick' of some clever combination of photo-realistic textures, 'normal maps' and "the light"). Naturally, the 'effect' is going to reduce the further you get away from the 'model' but if you 'remove' the presence of the 'normal map' from the mix and replace it with a "onetex" type (or heavan forbid, a "notex" type), the 'brain' will very quickly notice this omission...
Jerker {
}
