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Granted, but it only lasts 1 episode.
I wish for world peace!

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Here's my submission, I might still do a few changes/additions if I have the time before the dealine...

[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wrecktest4.png[/IMGzoom]

PS - Moving to the other computer has saved me some time, this one took under 18 minutes to render.

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Sorry, no. I'm very particular about my work, and no, you can't have it because it's mine, all mine...sorry.

But, but, but... it's already on my HD!
And even if I delete it, it will still be there! Oh nooooo!! The browser is the real portal! Once you open a page all info on it gets sucked into your HD and will remain there FOREVER! (laugh)

Shot in the dark, but did you remember to lock your animation loop? Maybe that's what's missing?

Oh, I was worried that if I won I would have to come up with a topic for the next coloring ball... "/me very happy with 2nd place"

Cool! The perfect wrist watch!

Boss - "What you doing?"
Employee - "Me? Oh, just checking the time..."

Congrats selmiak and all the others, and many thanks for the cool voting.
I was starting to get worried there.

Crap...did I choose a lame theme for my one shot at hosting a contest???

I do! I do!
But I need to finish the BG blitz first... so I probably won't make the deadline. And it's not crap, it's pretty cool!

Thanks for the input you two.

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Yes, I was playing with the depth, focus and distance of the camera last night, then set it to render just to realize that it was just the opposite of what I was trying to do! At that hour I wasn't on the mood to fiddle with that again, and wait another hour or so to get a new render... I went to bed past 1AM... and had to get up at 5.30AM to go to work... damn that! So yes, the DOF. I wanted the focus on the doorway, and all past that to be gradually out of focus... wasn't meant to get out of focus on the foreground and focus on the BG....
Thanks for the link. Will take a look at it once I get the chance.

And feel free to give critic, even if it's not the Critics Lounge... but if it fills too much, just PM. I always welcome constructive criticism!

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Thanks guys for the vote of confidence.
Been playing a bit more with it, and have now added a few trees (they were easier than I thought they would be). I think it starting to look somewhat better, even if am still not sold on my stone texture (but I better not focus on that right now, or I'll go insane). Am still needing to add a few bushes and a proper background image (which oddly enough is proving harder than it should... ) if all else fails, I'll just try and export the image with an alpha transparency for the background and the add it with PhotoPaint.
Here's a sneak peak:

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Never mind the brown leaves, I accidentally used the bark texture instead of the leaves on those ones. I promise I'll change it for the final version! This is also the longest render I've done in Blender so far at nearly 48 minutes (yes, I found the render quality settings! ).
[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wrecktest2.png[/IMGzoom]

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(*cough* the kind of things I've always dreamt to do but never got a chance to learn *cough*)

You joking right?
You did an amazing BG in 1 day! I'm the one dreaming about one day being able to do such a feat!

You could also try and running winsetup and adjusting the sprite cache to the max (100MB), if it's a performance thing it might produce other results.

That is done in Blender, so no need to worry about it there. I'm just a plain rookie at this, and this is the first time I'm trying adding textures on it. Bet you know the feeling: you know exactly what you want to do, but can't make the program to do it, cause you just don't know enough of it to be able to correct what's wrong.
But think I'll stop focusing on the detail of the texture for now, and will try adding those trees and bushes...

And after 4 days of "working" I've got...

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...still crap.
[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/wrecktest.png[/IMGzoom]

I've spend 2 days finding the right program to generate bump pictures, I finally found one but alas, it did not work on neither of my 2 computers, this one only has OGL 3.3 and prog needs 4! The other computer it just crashed... Then I found out that I could use it on my husbands PC, barely, it run but it only displayed black instead of showing the texture... argh... I complained... and got a "new" GF card for my "new" PC... installed it yesterday and alas! it was working! Happy me!
Spent the rest of the day yesterday and today trying to figure out best settings for the textures map... but still have this nagging idea that I would have been better off modeling each stone by it self. Might still do it!
Anyway, still missing trees and bushes in the picture, and I just "made up" a quick sky background in PhotoPaint...

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This is what I call service!


Can I ask for a million dollars now?

Thaks, just finished... shorter than I expected... had I realized it was so short, I probably would have done it long ago...

Anyway, only needed to use one hint

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I missed the pile of rocks hotspot

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And I agree, the narrator voice doesn't fit with the rest of the game. Think a male deep voice would be better.

Is that a nine or a selmiak six?

mbday630, can you use the hide tag on your posts? This way ppl can accidentally read the solution and spoil the puzzle for them.

You can edit your post, highlight your text and them click on the "slashed eye" icon, if you don't know how to add a tag.

As long as we're sharing wips... My second draft done today (abandoned the 1st cause it was just getting too big for what I wanted...)

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[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Jake/housewreck1.png[/IMGzoom]

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1st - selmiak
2nd - Sox
3rd - Mandle

(Do those Mess Goblins also mess with msg posting? I was sure I had posted this yesterday! :o! Luckly found it on the cache... )

Actually, am not sure that will help Michael, as I was also stuck on that part yesterday...

I'll drop a few hints, in case the above hint doesn't help.

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Read at your own risk of saying "d'oh"....
Hint 1:

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Chew chew chew...

Hint 2:

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A piece of gum makes a messy wonder and very sticky two!

Hint 3:

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Have you tried to get that anchor? How about the pencil?

If you need the solution, ask again.

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