Huey - Drone from Silent Running

[mhtaylor]

You will need to add different textures, "dirt" is a nice option in the Vue material pallette... Twilight will have this in the future.

For now, you will need to add the dirt in the textures in SU... I will see what I can do, and post

I looked at the model, and there's a tiny problem in the corner in the smoothing of it...easy fix. It's noticeable with the plastic materials.

Also, click each material and apply a good material template instead of the "quick" templates... so choose "Plastic" or choose the metals.

Also, the glass "flash bulb" needs some realistic modeling to render with real materials...

Vue is great with 'faking' the materials. The material editor, and eco systems are my favorite thing about vue.

Thanks for the tips - I really should read your manual properly - I'll give them a go this weekend
- Martin

[Fletch]

sorry haven't gotten to 'play' with this scene at all for a few days...
just thought I'd say that Boofredlay posted this nice Tip/Trickat the Twilight Render forum on how to creatively use SketchUp materials for all sorts of things... I was particularly thinking about your desired for "dirt" on the robot...

[boofredlay]

Aww shucks, thanks Fletch.

[David_H]

You know, I was going to give those a try myself back during the ROBOT speed challenge, but obviously it wouldn't have worked. I loved that movie as a kid. In fact my Architectural Thesis was a space station not unlike Freeman Lowell's Domes in Silent Running. It came out in about 1973 and was the first film that spoke about "ECOLOGY" and the dire fate of earth if we didn't take care of the planet.

I loved the little Bots, Huey, Duey and Louie. .. who unfortunately got swept into space. It was like losing Bambi's Mother!

Anyway. . .Lowell teaches the drones how to play poker, and they try to cheat. It's pretty cool.

Great models.

[mhtaylor]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions - I put the rendering aside as I got sucked in to modelling the Spaceship "Valley Forge" from the same movie. I'm about half way done so give me a week or two and I'll have something to share in the warehouse other than just one of the biosphere domes: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... 9cede05c27

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I loved the movie as a kid but probably more for the props and special effects than anything else. I bought and watched it again a year or two ago and it does seem a little dated and heavy handed - ripe for a remake?

[David_H]

Probably, cuz even tho' Bruce Dern MURDERS his crewmates, this is a rather tame piece of SciFi and updating it for today's attention challenged audiences would probably have to include Aliens and Zombies, , the Rock, light sabers, weaponry of all kinds and R2D2, or as my daughter called him. . .Arty TooToo!

[Simon B]

I wanted to cheer when I saw these models; brilliant job!