On a High Desert Highway by tallpindo
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This is a line from a song. It took me 9 takes to get this object and figure to align right. I'd like a little more ambient occlusion but it's not too bad with the lights turned down and the shadows off to use the mountain shadow. It's the reflection that does not respond well to light level that tips you off to unreality. I once studied a sand area near Holiday that had been run over by a motorcycle race and then a car race. The motorcycle raised up standing waves in the sand that are the familiar whoop-de-doos of motocross and hare & hound experience. What surprised me was that the car race did not change them. With different masses and shock absorber valving and spring rates you would think resonances would be different and the amplitudes and wave lengths of the sand hummocks would be altered. Gravity is the same week to week sort of. There was no rain. No change in wind erosion or piling up. So I have to conclude it is like beats in doppler due to speed. From the Baja Race all thse vehicles reach about the same terminal velocity over the bumps. The bikes have a slight advantage that the cars, trucks and SUV's make up on pavement. Before I came down I was looking at some workmen repairing concrete overpass bridges. They were hammering and blasting out the seams and putting little centipede like structures of round rod into the gaps to be filled with concrete patch. On the way down I saw other workers in Georgia laying what looked like the same centipedes on top of freshly laid asphalt rough. Miles later I found a concrete laying machine laying concrete over the asphalt and the centipedes were the seams. I did not know how they would saw and fill with epoxy for the seams. Maybe they just let it crack and then fill after. So now I see the thing that gvies vertical displacement to the road as speed not weight or mass and suspension parameters. There is a physical speed limit that all vehicles obey that is not just a statutory number. If they go too fast or too slow the road breaks up. Next you will want to know how the lubricants and shock absorber fluid and power steering fluids and compressed air becomes lingerie choice. A new road in a new vehicle is very special. Especially if it is freshly washed.
Comments (29)
Magnificent picture dear Friend!!!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
She looks like she could use some company on that long and winding road!! Your truck looks good on the road!!
keep on trucking!
Freedom of the road. Cool pic and thanks for the afterthought.
The long and winding road..... Good work, mate, Rob.
Nice setup - looks like a long climb.
Great picture - great truck - steep road but you've got a good driver
man ! dale I love LOVE THIS!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~wow amazing work ~~~5++++
Wonderful work..nice background!!
That''s right , put it in the real roads!
Very realistic render! Love the Truck!
The United States, and many others, lost all real understanding of concrete a generation ago. The Romans not only invented the aggregate, they also invented a type that would set underwater. Both are still going strong. The uncured and incurable children who nowadays think they are "scientifically trained" civil engineers have a lot of catching up to do. Sorrily, they know neither where to look or how. Most of them are constitutionally and psychologically incapable of looking. The last seriously designed highway in the United States and Canada was finished half a century ago. Its inheritors, for the most part, don't know what it is or why. The skills have not only been lost, they have been buried in hidden graves. For want of anything but the most superficial expertise, and also for the ribbon of continuous cash flow by contractors, road building is now an endless loop of building and repairing, timed so that one contract is finished just as the next must be begun. Railroads? Surely you josh. The incompetence is omnifarious and interlocking. The collapse is just beginning. The Aztecs had the wheel but no wheeled vehicles. They had no wheeled vehicles because they had no fit roads and highways. The question few, if any bother to ask--why no fit roads and highways?
Nice, really nice work!
this is not a regular highway but an access road to Red Rock Canyon.the road in the foreground is one way going down the hill and the one to the bottom left is returning to the main highway.the road that continues goes back into another area that most people miss and it has some of the best scenery. thanks for the awesome render Dale and the truck looks natural on the pavement
Awesome... must say this one makes me homesick, love getting out on the desert highways heading west.
wow it look like the truck means to be there. cool
Welcome back, Willie Nelson! Fabulous marriage of the oncoming rig with the mountain pass and surrounding environs.
very cool, love the old truck :-)
Very cool. Reminds me of a Humphrey Bogard movie. 'High Sierra?'
Excellent job!
Fantastic background and super work.
Absolutely fantastic Dale.....!!!!!
Interesting way of mixing real and 3D
Nice!
A very wonderful render. The truck truly rides the road!
This really works a pleasure to view !
It was almost scary as I cruised through all your posts. I recognized way too many car parts 'n' cars 'n' other stuff. Hmmm, and I should add that I prefer the twin headlights on both sides of the '59 Corvettes compared to the single ones of the earlier models. ...oh...that's just MHO. I really like this scene! I really liked a lot of your posts, but it's early 'n' I'm lazy! Good one! (:
Nicely done. The road width matches the truck.
C'est un très beau travail! Après un long moment d'absence, je découvre à nouveau du bon travail de fait. Bonne continuation dans cette voie et merci pour votre fidélité qui fait chaud au coeur.