My digital unicycle

Nice! that makes me want to try and learn how to do that for about the
5th time. What program did you use?

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Truespace 6.6 for the modeling and bryce 5 for rendering 🙂

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Nice!

Could you post just the uni and not the background? Or how about a
lighter background? It is really hard to see.

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you forgot the seatpost clamp, the "alex dx32" sticker on the rim, and
the winged "P" stamped onto the hub. great model though, hats off to
you.

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Yeah, the background is a little busy. It's like a patchy lawn with no
horizon.

The unicycle is nice. I like the shiny chrome rim.

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Yeah that's pretty good, but I'd like to point out some things that
would make it more realistic. Frame... the forks need to be a bit
thicker, they are VERY thin right now, would be scary to ride. The seat
needs a bit of texture added to it. Add a seatpost clamp? Not really
needed though. Deinately add some tred to the tire, that's what tells
you it's not real. And prolly change the pedals or add a bit of detail
to them, right now they're pretty much just grey blocks.

Other than that it's perfect, but once you have those I think you could
fool people into thinking it was real.

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If you want the wheel to have actual tread (3D not just texture), there
is an easy way to do it - make the tread like it would be flat, like:
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And then select it and apply a bend modifier, 360 degrees and ta-da it
is now round instead of flat. I don't know what the bend modifier is
called in bryce, but I'm sure it has comparable. You can even make the
tread with a linear array, making your job even easier.

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TheBadger587 said:

*you forgot the seatpost clamp, the "alex dx32" sticker on the rim,
and the winged "P" stamped onto the hub. great model though, hats off
to you. *

That's definitely not an Alex DX32 rim. It's too narrow, and the dx32
is black. That looks like a stock Torker Chrome rim.

But considering the fact that I'm arguing what style rim it's got, it's
quite good! When I was quickly scrolling through the page, I thought it
was a picture of a real unicycle. 🙂

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Robbie said:

*Frame... the forks need to be a bit thicker, they are VERY thin right
now, would be scary to ride.*

It looks like titanium to me, that would be thick enough.😉 😄

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Ok, here's the updated model without the background. I added treads to
the tires and pedals along with a seatpost clamp. 🙂

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would you mind if either of these images were used in the magazine?

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Magazine? What magazine? 😕

But sure, you can use it if you want, just so long as you say I'm the
author 🙂

PM me if you'd like it in a different size so I can re-render it 😄

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See the weird texture rings on the wheel? They look like theyre from
mapping a box or planar texture UVW onto a circular surface.

You should apply a cylindrical UVW to it to get rid of the weirdness.

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I would if bryce supported different mapping methods 🙁 . Unfortunately
it doesn't.

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Here's on final version of the uni with a little bit of background. I
also fixed the tire texture a little 🙂

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Nice,
as a wheel builder i would like to see nipples please..

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Eh? What are those? Is it the thing you put air into the tire with
😕

I'm not very good at lingo 😉

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ethilien said:

*Eh? What are those? Is it the thing you put air into the tire with
😕

I'm not very good at lingo 😉 *

They are the bits that join the spoke to the rim.
The red bit in this picture:
http://www.parktool.com/images/tools/SW_7BIG.jpg

The bit you blow the tyre up with is the often refered to as the valve
(although it is really the valve stem imho)
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Well, I don't know if I really want to put those in 🙂

There a rather small part that really wouldn't make the uni look much
different (plus when that img took over an hour and a half to render, I
really don't want to have to do that again) 😉

If I try making a REALLY accurate uni sometime I'll include those.

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