Gemedet, A rendering of my gemedet game

I tried to fit the description in BoT of gemedet and came up with this model..
it was about 100000 poly's and a lot of fun to model!...



Here's a 1024*768 Pic

[Update]RAWA notified me that gemedet is played on a 9*9*9 Grid so I've remade the grid now the model is almost 200000 polygons[/Update]

This post has been edited by phoenix: Aug 21 2003, 03:20 AM

:o Wow! You created this all from a description in the book? Excellent job! I haven't read BoT yet, but this is a great render (how long?). What program did you use?

I'm happy you like it this much! ^_^

The render took me like 15 seconds...

I used 3dsmax 4.2

Great render I'm wondering how it's possible to play

All I remember of Gemedet is being confused by it :rolleyes:

It's like a 3D version of Connect Four, only you Connect Six.

It's the D'ni Equivalent of the Star Trek 3D Chess game (which I've never taken the time to comprehend...)

Wow thanks d00dz!
I'm gonna re-render the pictures tomorrow they're sorta blurry atm

Even as 6 x 9 x 9 it looks great ... only, if I may say it, the tongs are far too short, they should look more as those used for gripping sugar or small pastry pieces, with three fingers or grips controlled from the end of the handle.


This post has been edited by Leo'Ri: Aug 22 2003, 06:31 AM

That looks great. :thumbsup:

Even as 6 x 9 x 9 it looks great ... only, if I may say it, the tongs are far too short, they should look more as those used for gripping sugar or small pastry pieces, with three fingers or grips controlled from the end of the handle.

Hehehehe yeah I noticed and its supposed to become 9*9*9 hihi ill put the real finished version on soon

So how are you suppose to see where the balls near the middle are like? It'd be difficult I imagine

So how are you suppose to see where the balls near the middle are like? It'd be difficult I imagine

It's a little hard yes.. I might make it glass balls and glass plates but all the refrection calculating takes an enourmous amount of my computer capacity and since its 200k on poly's I've got problems managing it with my ATI Rage already!

Hey, can you read? Each side of a square has 9 slots, meaning 3x3 per side. A cube with the slots on the exterior rotates on a hemisphere. 5 sides of the cube have 9 slots, 45 slots total, line up 6 and you win. A SOLID cube. Kind of like tic tac toe, but with 5 playing boards all hooked up.

Sorry about my initial comment, I make gemedet boards out of copper and stones and steel, so I have a pretty good idea of what it looks like and how you play it. If you put all five sides on one plane, you will see that there are many options diagonaly and across the sides, but you cannot wrap from one side under the bottom to the opposide side.

Agaeris
Agaeris@cwnet.com

No, actually, Gemedet boards are built so that you can place a piece anywhere within the cube, so there are 9*9*9 slots (729 total). It's a completely 3-dimensional game, well suited to the D'ni's cavern-based lifestyle, where mastery of 3 dimensions is vital to any project they undertake.

And I would appreciate you being more polite if you choose to continue posting here in the future.

Rotate on a hemisphere? Some of the board peices moved ?

The board that Aitrus and Tiána owned was on a lazy-susan kind of base that allowed the entire cube to be rotated to gain easier access to some places on the board, or examine it from multiple angles without getting up and walking around the table.

Cool board. I like it alot.

(Mmmmm, Dumb and Dumber)

Cool board. I like it alot.

(Mmmmm, Dumb and Dumber)

Huh, Dumb and dumber? What do u mean?

Movie, in which the line "I like it alot" is said in a hilarous voice by Jim Carey.

U know i really like ur story ghens allies on ur site. But i meant what it had to do with this like if u were refering to som1? :pout: Joking.

Love the artwork! I've only so far read 2 of the books, Book of Atrus, and Book of T'iana, but read each one in less than 2 days! My local library has all 3 of their copies of Book of D'ni missing! :cries:
http://tambradoll.freeservers.com/index.html

Hey, can you read? Each side of a square has 9 slots, meaning 3x3 per side. A cube with the slots on the exterior rotates on a hemisphere. 5 sides of the cube have 9 slots, 45 slots total, line up 6 and you win. A SOLID cube. Kind of like tic tac toe, but with 5 playing boards all hooked up.

Sorry about my initial comment, I make gemedet boards out of copper and stones and steel, so I have a pretty good idea of what it looks like and how you play it. If you put all five sides on one plane, you will see that there are many options diagonaly and across the sides, but you cannot wrap from one side under the bottom to the opposide side.

Agaeris
Agaeris@cwnet.com

Well, I think you are very wrong, when I first created this model Dr. Watson himself commented me that it looked great but it had to be 9*9*9... and not 3*3 plates or something like that

I'm sorry I can never finish this model though... I lost the model after a crash of my computer..
I might redo it though, better this time... and I'm thinking of making ti glass plates now since this computer can probable handle it

I don't think its possible to see the rendering you made anymore - no matter where i try from it just aint there hope its not just me! Is it cos u lost it?

Yeah... I can't seem to see the picture either.
BTW, I've been confused about something.
The game of Gemedet has a hemispherical base on which it can rotate... but how is this possible? It seems to me that this would block off some of the possible locations for game pieces towards the bottom of the grid... i.e.

[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] XXX [] [] []
[] [] XXXXXXXX [] []
[] XXXXXXXXXXXX []
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Am I thinking of this wrong?

Also, you said RAWA contacted you... can the game be made on a level-based design, or must the grid be composed of boxes? In other words, could it be a nine-slab high complex, each slab having a nine-by-nine grid of holes that pieces can be placed in? Or would it need to consist of 729 half-boxes, each accessable by the pair of re'dantee? Also. Sorry, lots of questions, but I don't know how in-depth RAWA was... the playing stones are described as "ovoids", which I looked up and found out it meant egg-shaped. Is this precisely what was meant, or are the pieces more ovalish-roundish, like the little glass circles some people put in flower-pots?

Thanks to anyone who responds to this. I really want to make a set for myself and my cousin and my friend and my Chelsea to play. Not at the same time.

This post has been edited by Jycius: Aug 25 2008, 05:53 PM

Perhaps something like this?
Sorry for the cheap graphics... my 30-day 3DS Max trial ran out, so I had to use pseudo-3-D PowerPoint tools.
Just wanted to get a picture out there to see if I'm thinking right.
The feet fit into and can slide along tracks on the base that I didn't take time to render.
(Oh, and ignore the re'dantee. I couldn't figure out how to use PowerPoint to make smaller tweezers. I know they wouldn't quite work...)

This post has been edited by Jycius: Aug 28 2008, 11:41 AM

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That's a very cool render Jycius

I hope you realize though, that this thread's last post (before your first one) was over four years old!