Razorwing's Willow Flower

[Razorwing]

Got it and will check it out asap, thanks a bunch Quentin! =)

[Siegfried]

I love the willow flower!

[Razorwing]

Thanks again Quentin, the textures worked perfectly! I used both your varieties of petal textures, thinking that we could use the second version for withered flowers. I also deleted the old leaf meshes and made new ones.

Here's how it turned out:

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(Guys, do keep in mind the player will never see the flowers as close-up as in the last screenies. If anything they'd display in the actual game world more like the thumbnails do.)

[raggidman]

keen observation by TheMann777, but there are many flowers that have a shiny look - esp the 'waxy' varieties, so I think that what needs to be considered is what knid you want the willow flowers to be, and you might add in 'transparency' as a petal factor if you really want to get sophisticated!

So could the petals of some flowers be transparent to light and therefore 'shine' in the sunlight?

Maybe a more transparent flower would give a lower poly-count, which would allow the extra processing that a change in luminosity would bring.

The one thing that I most experimented with when I was creating web site gifs and jpegs was the lighting effects, and I noted that although to make lighting effects obvious took loads of memory, subtle effects that were almost subliminal could be achieved at almost no memory cost.

Since I have never used max I can only speculate, but...?

Aaaargh - the essential edit: they look beautiful and there is a very real feeling of delicacy about the petals - as it should be.

[horodnicdragos]

Guys....come on.This flower will be very small.I mean it's size will be small so we don't need to work on details.It's just a plus of polys that will slow down the comp.Anyways it looks cool.

[Roger the Shrubber]

is that the Tomb Raider chick? :eek: if it is, why? :eek:

[Harikari]

You mean Lara? Why is she there?

[Quentin Fortune]

She's Razorwing's trademark when he's presenting his great creations. Another reason is that you can estimate the size of the object compared to a human being. (or an otherworldly goddess in this case )

Greetings

Quentin

[Harikari]

Oh, makes sense

[Razorwing]

Apart from that, maybe we can use her as a "ninja monkey" model for our custom creature spawn lists