yes of course patchesanook feel free to do so. You dont need to ask for permission. The HD version download link is listed above in the thread.

yo ok i got an idea u know the liquid cooling tubes when light passes thru u have like caustics and **** u can make the tubes inside the logo red like in your avatar.

Both The New one And the one from last year look great, any chance of getting a 1920-1080 version of both.



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                                                                Hypn0t1q79

ooo this iz nice! what did u use to make i love it it looks like transformers robot. very nice

you use 3d studio max to render or cinema 4d? how do you make the clear pieces on the e. it look like blurry glass. you have any tutorial for me to try

no I havent used them to render I used Max to set up the lighting and materials and exported out to a third party renderer. There's a bunch of way to get the frosted glass effect, but it depends on which method is comfortable for you. The easiest way to do it by adding a falloff to the reflections and add a very subtle bump map with a noise texture scaled down very small. And just set up your refractive index to glass or clear plastic.

The way I did it was a bit more complex because I'm limited to certain render settings. I had to set up absorption, density, iOR, and map a couple light/emission profiles to the glass. The blurryness comes from a sandblasted glass procedural map I used. This is similar to the bump/normal map/specular/reflection pass but its based on real world units / material light response curves. The old version I rendered with traditional material setups I suggested to you before.

I have used mray a lot in some projects, but you can also start a thread in the 2d/3d section of the forum so others can give some advice too. You should post something up for the contest there is only a few 3d work up there. For your model you can upload a pic somewhere on imageshack or flickr and share it.

thanks for the opinion, but I think I'm going to take my chances with the first one since most people seem to say that one is a greater improvement.

Really nice bot mate, what software did you use? Maya? 3ds? Mudbox?