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Title: A different kind of video
Post by: Dragon Tamer on December 27, 2014, 01:51:51 PM
Someone on another forum wanted to see how I made my skins. Unfortunately, it takes way too long to make them (usually between 40 and 80 hours) so instead of live streaming like he requested, I made a time lapse of one of my skins from start to finish.

http://youtu.be/D6ceqitSYqU
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Scotch on December 27, 2014, 02:05:48 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Latrobe on December 27, 2014, 02:15:08 PM
That's a lot of work!  :eek:

 :aok
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Volron on December 27, 2014, 03:21:27 PM
My brain melted... :noid

For you 40-80 hours.  For me, 40-80 decades. :bhead
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Tinkles on December 27, 2014, 03:48:43 PM
Someone on another forum wanted to see how I made my skins. Unfortunately, it takes way too long to make them (usually between 40 and 80 hours) so instead of live streaming like he requested, I made a time lapse of one of my skins from start to finish.

http://youtu.be/D6ceqitSYqU
Had a feeling of headache/nausea by 2 mins in.
Definitely wouldn't have the dedication let alone the knowledge to make that. Takes too long for (imo) too little .  :salute

Superb job though.  :aok
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Dragon Tamer on December 27, 2014, 03:53:44 PM
Had a feeling of headache/nausea by 2 mins in.
Definitely wouldn't have the dedication let alone the knowledge to make that. Takes too long for (imo) too little .  :salute

Superb job though.  :aok

It was my first video so I didn't really know what settings I should record at. I didn't know exactly how long the skin was going to take so I had it set to take a screen shot every 15 seconds. That seems to have been a bit too long so in the future I may try 10 or 5 seconds. It will make the video longer but should make it a bit easier to watch.
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Chalenge on December 28, 2014, 07:59:06 AM
It's a little funny to me that you have to paint skins, but it's understandable I guess.

I don't know if HTC bakes skins for their default skins, but if so it should be possible to set up a queuing unit and then bake your base textures into their template while using their models. Development time would go up a little while developing higher details on the models, but the appearance would improve greatly also.
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: artik on December 28, 2014, 08:12:08 AM
Someone on another forum wanted to see how I made my skins. Unfortunately, it takes way too long to make them (usually between 40 and 80 hours) so instead of live streaming like he requested, I made a time lapse of one of my skins from start to finish.

http://youtu.be/D6ceqitSYqU

Can't you use the shades map to extract the rivets? There is an excellent B/W map of the "elevations" that allow to extract the rivets and to use them as "dots"

I used it for several my skins - it makes the work way faster.
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: Dragon Tamer on December 29, 2014, 10:53:02 AM
Can't you use the shades map to extract the rivets? There is an excellent B/W map of the "elevations" that allow to extract the rivets and to use them as "dots"

I used it for several my skins - it makes the work way faster.

It does make the work faster and I do use that technique whenever I can but the textures for the B-26 had such low contrast that it was faster for me to just to them the old fashioned way.
Title: Re: A different kind of video
Post by: mechanic on December 29, 2014, 10:58:09 AM
That was cool, great talent