Pret-a-3D opened this issue on May 14, 2012 · 8453 posts
Reggie68 posted Thu, 13 September 2012 at 5:42 PM
Quote - Reggie.. love the render and the theme of it. If one was to listen to the often-coded job titles; the recent attack on our embassy in saw the deaths of not just the ambassador; but, the navy seal who was his security detail(most likely a SEaL detailed to DipSec) and the Foreign Service Officer for the embassy. It is the latter who was an Air Force vet who served as an information management officer at various embassies. That position(information management officer) is usually state department code for "resident CIA guy." So, another blue star will probably go up soon.
It was originally created around a year ago as part of a series of film style posters I was doing and an experiment into Mixing materials. The wall is actually a scaled single cube in DAZ with the black writing and CIA seal as a texture. The gold stars and text are added as a metal and mixed via a trans map.
With this version I replaced the bump with a normal map and applied IES profiles to the ceiling lights.
The wall doesn't exist in real life, although there is a book of Remembrance at Langley which has the same inscription and stars design. Images are available online.
The number and positioning of the stars is not accurate. There are quite a few less in the real version IIRC.