in practice castle: modeling - textures - render

[Jelmer]

right, here are my settings and results:
length: 23 minutes
size: 50 mb
resolution: 800x600
codec: avi, techsmith (designed for capturing tuts/software)
framerate: 5pfs
audio: 3 kb ps

i think it should be possible to get the filesize down at least 10-15 mb, video tutorials on 3dpalace.com are much smaller, but use the same codec and similar settings..

[Bertie]

Well that depends on what tutorial you look at really! For example in the blackout set there's an 11minute long 29MB video and later on a 24min long 25MB video! Your audio can go down to 2kb/s, and as I said before change the screen colour to 16-bit - this has quite a large effect.

3D-Palace also has the help of a guy who's really good at compression, so I think that's another trick used!

[Jelmer]

oh yeah i forgot to mention that i had already set it to 16 bit..
The 1 kb of audio won't matter a lot but every bit helps i guess..
another setting that might affect the filesize is the keyframe rate, i'll try playing with that too. eg: 'keyframe every .... frame'
thanks for the suggestions!

[Jelmer]

i've got it down to 48 mb, and because there's quite a bit of movement in there i think i'll leave it like this for now.

[Jelmer]

progress after part 4 (which will be online tonight)

[E=MC2]

The tutorials from you Jelmer, are always nice (exept for the funny sound and quality (well the most of your tutorials)of your tutorials (although you mentioned now: HQ), but something about this tutorial:

The wall texture sucks ass.
Try to find (or make one yourself) a better higher quality texture.
The result etc are looking nice, but that, to me, totally ruins the model.

BTW: are you Dutch or German?

[Jelmer]

i'm dutch, but, why do you think the texture sucks? After making it tileable it looks pretty good to me, i agree that some adjustments need to be made. Like adding some dirt to the wall, could you be a bit more clear about your critique?

[fsd]

Originally Posted by E=MC2

The tutorials from you Jelmer, are always nice (exept for the funny sound and quality (well the most of your tutorials)of your tutorials (although you mentioned now: HQ), but something about this tutorial:

The wall texture sucks ass.
Try to find (or make one yourself) a better higher quality texture.
The result etc are looking nice, but that, to me, totally ruins the model.

BTW: are you Dutch or German?

it not the best possable but i dont see anything wrong with it at all

[azmodias]

hello, i've been going through some of your tuts and i'm at a hang up on the castle. i went to the web site you mentioned for the bricks on the walls but i can not figure out what to do with them. how can i import the image files into 3d studio? i feel like a noob because i haven't seen anyone else ask the question anywhere.
thanks in advance

[Jelmer]

the final textures are included in the 'included_files.rar' so you can get them there. It's pretty simple, basically you click the diffuse slot, then you get a list of types to choose from, select 'bitmap' and there it is!