Early version Chess Scene

[Jargonloster]

Here’s a render of my board following the parenting/hierarchy lecture. Looking forward to making the rest of the pieces and what modeling techniques we’ll be using.

Edit: Just realized that there aren’t any shadows in the render. I’m guessing it has something to do with the scale of the scene, but I’m not too sure exactly. It’s not really an issue for now, but I figured I’d mention it since I noticed it.

[Lochness]

Shadows all depend on angle of light source and if you have contact shadows on, which you can find that in your lamp properties. If that still doesn’t work try and adjust the power of lamp or the radius, a larger radius gives softer shadows and a smaller radius gives sharper shadows

[Jargonloster]

Ahh, what happened is that I was using a sun lamp and since I had previously set all of the rotations to 0, it was pointing straight down on the scene.

[Lochness]

And there they are

[NP5]

Looking fine so far, on to the next piece!