God damn distractions.

uh, I keep on getting sidetracked from this... Anyway, strated ading texture to the pipes. this is about my third texture for it so far. I keep on having trouble nailing down exactly what i want them to look like. ( that and they look more like concrete then metal... ) i'm just gonna leave it for now and move on.... maybe if i saturated the color a bit more...

added a texture... then koncked out.

Was really tired but managed to do one texture before falling asleep.

It's all Gravy now baby! Time for texture fun! WHOO!

Well, well. i finally made it to the texture phase of this little project. Honestly for me this is the fun part. I got a little tripped up trying to remember how to project an image onto another but i filally solved it. (mental note, remember to set the default color of the texture ITSELF to black if your using it as alpha when projecting. Otherwise, everything outside the projected area will have that default color. Also, make sure to TURN OFF U and V tiling.) while I'm glad i did my lighting first for this project I am find i have to go back and adjust them each time I make a new texture so in the end i may not be saving as much time as I though. I'm also starting to color my lights most of the ambeant light is warm but the main direct light from above and below is cool. It may not be techniclly correct but it feels way better this way so i'm keeping it for now.

Lighting pass reduex

Okay, So this is my second stab at lighting this tunnel. I think this version is better. I ended up angling the spotlights above up by 45 degrees to avoid having them spill light into the bottom corners. I also added a set of spotlights on the bottom set really low to make the pipes more visable. I still think I'm lighting things too dark but i also remembered that Maya renders also tend to come out dark in general and need post work to finish up. also some of the lights are still to "sourcey" and dnned to be coreected but that's minor. Overall I like this lighting and I'm gonna move on to color.