My latest Art Project

[Valarian]

It helps that online, no-one can see you going green with envy.

[Robbie]

Whats even more beautiful is that I've seen people come here and not be able to draw even an x-marks-the-spot map properly and several weeks later turn around and garner a lot of praise for a very nicely done map.

What saddens me though is that in my experimentign with 3d stuff...I keep creating map related art, but not actual maps...I may have to suck it up and make some more maps..I haven't been GMing lately, so I haven't been mapping.

[RobA]

It helps that online, no-one can see you going green with envy.

Here you go...

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[Robbie]

I didn't get to work on this much this past week...was in Orlando for business...hence my lack of participation lately

This doesn't look too much different except for the fact that its using a different environment map...I'm using a bightened up version of grace cathedral for both global lighting and reflection mapping. I'm using global illumination from a skylight HDR and Final Gather for accuracy. Its a little darker than the Kansas City environment map, but brings out some of the details a little better at the cost of other details...

I also made a separate brass shader with a smaller rounded edges shader to account for the smaller details, such as the knurling on the knurled knobs, and the screws....