Posted the model in the contrib cue
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Looks great, Ken! The only question I have is about the dark queen...it looks like a hybrid with the knight on that image?

oops shes sitting on a knight, can just delete the extra model

all fixed

I like it!

Looks like a miniature set I once had the opportunity (and money--at the time) to buy. It was a 2.5"x2.5" board and beautifully made little chess pieces to match! I held off buying it and when I returned to the game shop it was already sold. Never saw one like it since.

Nice work!

Thanks, I just realized that the king and queen are transposed... Shows you how long its been since I played chess lol

was the night being bad, or was the queen being a mean sister??

Think it was the dark evil queen in this case.

Very very nice model pixelplucker. And thanks for sharing!
I hope you don't mind but I just had to do a AO render of it
The dof is not done in A:M though. I rendered out a depth map and used DOF PRO

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Beautiful chess set! - beautiful render!

Stian - could you share the details/technique of your lighting, texture setup on the chess set - when you say depth map - do you mean using fog to generate a depth map?

Stunning!

EDIT: - I found this topic discussing creating a depth map in A:M - quite good

As Nancy mentioned, the depth-map is created by removing all textures, materials and lights in the scene, and then render with fog. The depth map is attached. The white reflection is created by a luminaire. The luminaire is simply just a plain with light aimed at it to make it pure and bright white. The rest is regular AO.
I think it took eight hours (overnight) to render, with occlusion sampling set to 100%

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Thanks Stian! Thanks Pixelpucker!

Nice render Stain and thanks for the compliments