Tom's Cat
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I’d just like to point out that the artist of the above shot is Siregar3D and you can find his works over at DeviantArt. Below is a WIP shot of the finished model without textures and with Ambient Occlusion lightning. I’ve seen many (if not all) F-14(D) 3D models on the net and this has got to be simply the best model ever made and I have a hard time to even find one tiny detail that doesn’t look right - especially in the areas of canopy front/nose/glove vane and fuselage area around the engine intakes where most F-14 models fail in some regard.
Siregar3D, baby! A truly talented artist and a Tomcat loveeer
3 million Polys…
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AWESOME 3D model !!!
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The artist said on the site it took him over one year and he didn’t even touch the pit :D. It is absolutely incredible work…
Tomcat forever, Baby!
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I have never seen such a beautiful model before… Omg that is just crazy… :shock:
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lol only? wow needs killer machine to load it.
I saw his rig in a picture on his site, it looks like a piece of military equipment :D.
@ original poster of the ‘Dark Knight’ pic:
Thanks for the bump, I got the message. I’m on it…Mogwai on 550W helping me stay focused
Meanwhile Grumman’s masterpiece alive, well and in good company in June 2013…
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I’m in Berlin atm and in these occupied lands the video you posted is not available and I dont have a proxy solution atm either. Sure it looks great judging by the title.
Keep it up!
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Back at it…
Check back soon!
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Hey Pete, … looks very nice once again.
Cheers,
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Thanks, really just total WIP shots. This is the first rough application of the camo via paths. I started redoing the Tomcat panel lines but ended up just redoing all rivets (I have by now mastered the rivet brushes and also the path tool:)).
Onesimus’ original rivets are just incompatible to the way I put together the skin now. Apart from that its pointless to redo the panels for this ancient model except for a little added detail.
With the paths for panels and camo technique now set I’m doing the Aggressor Tomcats. Tomcat, Baby!
If anyone knows anything about how task automation in PS CS 3/6 works pls let me know. It’s keeping me from spending time on some really awesome weathering techniques cuz I don’t feel like doing them 100 times over.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
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Oh and for us Tomcat fan-atics, the Tom is an F-14B, back then F-14A+ with the VF-24 ‘Renegades’ around 1990. Tomcat like this was spotted at Fallon in 1990 and had sister in slightly more eclectic techno camo in sand/red colors.
BuNo of this bird is unclear right now, there are.conflicting accounts but I’ll consult D. Brown tonight:).
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If anyone knows anything about how task automation in PS CS 3/6 works pls let me know. It’s keeping me from spending time on some really awesome weathering techniques cuz I don’t feel like doing them 100 times over.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
Pete, use the “Action” window (Window -> Action or press Alt+F9)
There create a new Action (icon similar to create new layer)
… enter a name for that action and click record, then simply do the actions you want and it will be recorded
(note also those red record icon)when you’re done with recording, press that stop icon.
Now you can “play” that “record” on another picture or layer.
Be warned: always have a backp of your work before you try any “record” the first time.
and BTW. I’m on CS5.Cheers,
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Hahaha I hear the back up call but thats all taken care off - I now run all files far away from the system disc and have a second external backup. This isn’t gonna happen to me three times
Thanks a bunch for the automation tutorial. The recorded actions…I assume PS notes the location of the action within the file?!
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Lazystone I don’t think I expressed my appreciation sufficiently so…THANKS A BUNCH!
And i took a Kodak of an F-14D pit 15 years ago…
You can keep it
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The recorded actions…I assume PS notes the location of the action within the file?!
No, (if I understand you correctly) … actions are saved in Photoshop (like brushes),
not in a *.psd file itself.So you can use an action on a differently *.psd.
BUT sometimes the actions use layer names when you switch layers during a record for example.
Play around with that feature to see where it’s helpfull for you.Lazystone I don’t think I expressed my appreciation sufficiently so…THANKS A BUNCH!
Oh, you already did, … with your already released stuff and with your latest WIP shot.
I’m glad I could help you out.And Thank’s Pete for posting that old Kodak of an F-14D pit, … so nostalgic.
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I was asking because of the location of where the action is applied. For instance if I apply a certain manipulation in a 1024x1024 texture in a particular area of.the texture and then run the recorded action on the same layer in a different texture will it be applied in the same area?
I’ll play around with it some more tonight. Oh and that Kodak is actually a.screenshot of mykinge’s pit with some post processing :)))
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Now i got it.
The answer is yes and no, … hahaha.
For example:
If you simply use the brush and paint a line it will be not recorded.
If you select an area -> then fill (foreground color) then it will select and fill the same area on another layer.You can find a more exact explanation here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7448a.htmlBTW. did you know that in fact there exist many PSP video tutorials on youtube?
try to search there for:
cs5 actionsAbout kodak, … bloody hell,… still nostalgic.
Cheers,
LS