Space Construction Vehicle - [ WIP Starcraft II Fan model]

Rhoutermans

See page 2 for the printed SC2 statues!



Decided to do this unit from SC2 for practise.
This thread will be fully WIP, any feedback is greatly appreciated

Game model for ref:



Low Poly Block out



High Poly Shoulder Part:

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JDunay

Hey man,

Liking the progress, that high poly shoulder part is pretty nicely designed. Reminds me of some retro space designs.
Also I think that something might be up with your drill, it looks a bit squished or just a little funky. Maybe take a look and see if its just a weird camera angle.

James

Doonhinkun

great work you have done here, I may easily confuse the concept with what you have done, keep going!

Rhoutermans

JDunay > Thanks! I want to redesign the drill, but it does seem to be a weird camera angle.

Doonhinkun > Thanks, trying to stay close to the original model cause I just love it

Update;



working on the body, added the boosters.

After doing all the parts I'm planning to go through them all a couple of times and add additional detail.

Rhoutermans

Added the legs, still looking for a nice solution to attach the boosters. Doing a second iteration of detail from this point on.

Rhoutermans

Didn't have much time today, but couldn't resist rendering an AO thingy. More detailing from tomorrow and on

Rhoutermans

got some inspiration lately Reworking the entire model, more detail and trying to make it all look more interesting and balanced.

BARDLER

That looks awesome dude, keep working on this. I like all the detail you pulled out of the original game model.

Rhoutermans

BARDLER > Thanks m8! Still pushing on this one

Sunday night progress. Realising how much time I should be putting into this now, and how much time I actually have. But will defo finish this!

jordan.kocon

Just out of curiosity, where did you find the game model? I would love to see some close ups of some of the others models.

Rhoutermans

If you have SC2 installed there's a leveleditor in the root folder. You can type in SCV in the search box and open it with the scene editor

Rhoutermans

high poly max screenshot;



Really wanna finish the high poly this weekend but I feel like it's missing something still

Pangahas

Perhaps a crystal to mine?:) Sculpting in some dents and worn out edges here and there should make this one look more believable,A SCV is a workhorse afterall.Looks cool though as it is.

Rhoutermans

I like the idea of creating a turntable/crystal setup for him, I'll defo throw that in there Will try to get him into zbrush 2day for some damage painting

Rhoutermans

Zbrush; Adding damage, gonna do scratches in the specular.



Thats it for me this weekend, I'm out!

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guess he's seen better days, Not done yet

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First low poly in UDK. Quite a few baking errors and a big seam. Couple more rebakes and then starting on the texture, wire coming next post!


13k tris:

Jessica Dinh

Wow, this looks awesome! The high poly is pretty sweet. I'm not sure I care for some of the ZB damage though, like I'd expect to see more scratches and stuff, and less of the indents that look a little bit mushy and like he is made of clay or something. But maybe that's just me :poly134:

I SCV's .. ^_^

carlobarley

scv good to go sir!

Rhoutermans

Thanks! The normal came out a bit strong so took it back a bit. Scratches will be done with diffuse and Specular mostly. I'd need a lot more subdivisions for proper scratches and my pc was already dying at this point I'll take it the normal stuff into consideration after checking the outcome with a diffuse /spec texture.

Jessica Dinh

Sounds good, really excited to see this done

Rhoutermans

Thanks Jessica! Still trying to improve

Baked an AO..
Rebaked some parts, fixed some issues, and created a couple more then I started out with, still loving it so far



Also forgot about the bolts I had in a seperate file..more tomorrow!

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Fixes, new bake

Rhoutermans

Help me chose a color for this one

Pick ur team color:



And the uv's:

J0NNYquid

Looks like you got a nice AO bake. Care to let in on how you got such a clean result?

Rhoutermans

I still see a lot of errors everywhere that I still want to work on.
But I got the result through Xnormal. Rendered an AO + Convexity map. Multiplied the green (or red channel cant remember) of the convecity map over the AO..gonna help a bit with painting damage later on as well.

Someone made me do a pink..

rambooze

Finally I know how it looks I haven't played SC since Brood war. Decent job. I like yellow the most, you can see a lot of details there.

Rhoutermans

(After about 6 people telling me to do a rainbow texture one on fb), most votes went to yellow;

wip texture



To do;
- Need to do a rebake on the shoulder, detail doesn't translate
- rebake the drill, probably diffuse only is the best for this part (no normal/ao like I tried before)
- Make a proper specular, emissive texture.
- work on a material for the glass.
- Make a diffuse for the grey metal parts
- Scratches in specular

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Thinking about rebooting this project, made a quick new bake and default texture in dDo All feedback is welcome!

Rhoutermans

watch me stream this awesome SCV @ twitch, feedback appreciated

Rhoutermans

New material ~ Decided to try out a more basic camo color, quite like it, Creating a scene to present this model in the next couple days!

Rhoutermans

Fixed the glass parts, added a torn off terran logo, updated the material with some yellow details and added particles, time to create some crystals for these guys to mine!

A top down screenshot might be more recognizable

Rhoutermans

a little cubemapping can go a long way~ Material update!





Messing around with lights always great fun!



so many images





more definition into the drill

Rhoutermans

Working on a new diffuse and spec texture;

dreamer00

i kinda like the yellow one...

Rhoutermans

dreamer00 > that's good It's the final color choice



Still searching for a nice material solution for the glass..

Rhoutermans

Boxing out a little scene for these guys, probably adding some 'starcraft crystals' later on;

Brian "Panda" Choi

Real quick question: How many triangles is the SC2 SCV pushing?

RaPtoR_v9600

As a Terran player in SC, i congrats u bud, great model, details are insane, you should add decal terran logo,

Borgleader

"In the rear with the gear"

I like the blue one personally!

Rhoutermans

ok, so I guess I can share this now. Some time ago I finished this Starcraft 2 fanart piece, then months later a 3d printing company (makeit3d.com) contacted me asking if I could work with them on creating a 3d print of the SCV model I made. I tweaked the model a lot so it was fit for 3d printing, and created an entire new model for them (A probe, also from SC2). They also liked an older fan art model I did, a house from World of Warcraft, so they printed that as well. Later I found out that it was actually a present to Blizzard and the statues were given to the blizzard staff during Blizzcon!






The WoW style house, not really starcraft related but screw it


And last, a screen from the original 3d probe model in UDK..no materials, since the print would only need a diffuse I baked most info into that. The (color)/ resolution wasn't gonna be able to pick up a lot of detail at that scale so I made the texture rather simple with basic shapes/colors. Perhaps I'll pimp this 3d model some day
(Diffuse only: )

(Unlit: )


Had a lot of fun with the project, and really cool that makeit3d also send me the statues

AndroidBebop

That is really awesome that you got to make Blizzards gifts and they sent you the statues also.