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Published: 2009-06-30 11:16:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 6434; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 501
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Pylons are power sources for the Protoss from StarCraft. They're warped into the battlefield and generate an energy field around them enabling different Protoss structures to be warped in.Update 25.03.2012
Re-rendered with V-Ray
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That's one awesome render I really like it. 
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Wow you made this way back in 2009?! Youve got some experience behind you.. no wonder your so good. How did you get the fine highlights in the crystal to glow like that? Is it some kind of IBL?
I remember buying starcraft 2 a few years back with a bunch of friends. We were like "yeahh we are gonna make it into masters and GM and go to korea!" That did not work out.. but I have fun watching husky on youtube still haha.
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Thanks Freelancer! In fact, I just posted it back then, but my first version of this art is from 2005. Since then, I literally redone it more than 10 times. The crystal was the hardest to do, not the mesh, but the material itself. Highlights are the effect of IBL, yes, I've bought 2 HDR, high-resolution skies at cgskies.com, and I use them in many, many scenes.
Hahah yes! Me and my friend bought StarCraft 2 too, we were actually pretty good because we had much experience from original StarCraft which we played countless hours. We played 2v2 as a team, and we reached diamond, 6th position in first season, so it was pretty awesome. Not so good now, we don't play almost at all, we're busy, and I also play other games atm. I also watch Husky on YT, have been since 2010
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Hahah, don't tell me that, I've heard that 500000000 times for the last 8 years xD Thanks for all the favs though ^^
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Great job! Reminds me of those red blood elf crystals in the warcraft universe, which I wanted to build once.
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Hmm constructing pylons is just like some kind of drug. You can't stop it.
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Very very nice!
I love the caustic effect.
Maybe make the energy crystal "glow" / illuminate a little bit?
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Thanks!
That's actually a transparent shadow, I think it's impossible to do caustics in 3ds Max when the scene is lit with daylight system
In fact, the crystal is glowing slightly, if I didn't add this small illumination to it, it would be too dark.
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Ohhh ok. I haven't used the daylight system. But that's a rather hefty drawback :-/
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It seems I was wrong, you actually can create caustics with daylight, gonna use that for the Pylon and update soon.
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niiice. can't wait to see that
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There's always that ONE damn pylon left out in the middle of nowhere....
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*marauder swarms over Pylo*
"PYLO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lol priceless
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You have not enough minerals
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You require more vespene gas!
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cool nice work! i miss starcraft
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Yes we've been waiting since an announcement in 2007 but it's close!
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man i thought it was close last year
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Looks awesome, I like it.
It'd be better if you added refraction and stuff to the jewels in the 'crown' thingy. It kind of steals the texture around it.
Still, it looks very nice. I don't think you would've like rendering again with said suggestion given the size .great job
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Hey it's no problem at all, I usually leave my renderings for a night so I think I might change these and give it a go soon
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woah, this is awesome! i completely recognized it
great job with the details
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