Peyton the Pig-Beast... UT3 problems! Help!

erik!

**UPDATE AT BOTTOM**

Hi all. Here's a little something I've been working on the past few weeks for one of my class's UT3 level design project. Hopefully I can get him in engine with little to no problems. High poly is almost done, need some tweaks then I'll tackle the low. Enough text. Hope the images aren't too big? (Photobucket won't let me link to the larger turnaround)




Some sketches if you're up for it:Sketch 1 Sketch 2

I'd appreciate some feedback before I move on to the low. Thanks ladies and gents!

HonkyPunch

Hardcore
But too shiny.
Tooo shiny!

rollin

nice cloth design

dejawolf

et's manbearpeeg! see i told ye he wus real!

Slum

Jimmies: dude, that's an untextured viewport grab. of course it's going to be too shiny. lay off the drugs.

looks awesome!

whats_true

I saw you working on this in class. Very nice. His calf's seem a bit odd though.

erik!

Thanks for the comments guys. I should mention that he'll have spurs on both feet. I'll handle surface detail in the normal map, skin, leather, embossed stuff.
As far as the calves go I can see where you're coming from. They could probably be toned down a little.

adamlewis

Cool design. Most of the forms look quite nice, but I think you could push the lower forms in the face a lot further. Especially around the eye area that is reading quite flat to me.

Ferg

lookin awesome so far, seems like he needs another layer of detail in the skin though, especially for a piggy. Needs more hard creases between the bulbous bits, and stretched skin over surface landmarks. Give him more sense of tightness, sagginess, bulging and so on in different areas. Right now the skin has a pretty uniform feel to it... needs more evidence that he's had gravity workin on him.

erik!

adamlewis: You're right, sir. The eye area was one of the more difficult parts for me.
Ferg Spot on. Great suggestion.

I'll do another pass on this guy and incorporate the feedback as best I can. Thanks guys!

erik!

Textured! Mostly final textures. Quick 3dsMax renders, no fancy shaders or anything. Have at you. Disregard the eyes, they'll be all glowy in the final shots.

Full body large

vertexguy

That's sweet man! Love the design and execution of it.

Davision3D

Fat! I mean very cool!
The texture is great, makes it look like tasty fatty pig meat.
Would be cool to play with him in UT3.

rooster

sweet! is there some bit to the spurs I'm missing? it looks like theyd fall down his foot and come off?

Sean McBride

awesome :O

SHEPEIRO

looks real nice, but id say a little too errrr pre-rendered, it doesnt have the depth of shadow in the crevices in the face that id expect, and the colour texture of the leather (name doesnt come to me) hat isnt varied enough. could do with more material detail like you have in the belt.

erik!

Thanks guys, glad you like it!
Rooster: Good eye, forgot about that, easy fix.
SHEPEIRO: I'll put a little more color variation into his mask.

Now, a couple questions for you folks. I got him into Unreal, playable and all that good stuff (though he didn't fit the rig exactly so he deforms awkwardly). The only problem is that is glows like a mofo and he has no smoothing groups. All of the polys have a hard edge. I should note that I used Shakeno's work around to get him it (if that effects anything, I don't know). So, how can I get him to not glow like the sun and be smoothed properly??

Vailias

Smooth model: Open the actorx exporter options and turn off(or on if it is off) "bake smoothing groups" Seems to work better that way out of maya, might help in max too.

As for for glowing in the sun, its likely either a material issue or a map issue. Screenshots and info on what material you are using as a parent might help.

Piotr Słomowicz

I love the design. Head leather hat/hood could use some better texturing though. Lacks some dirt spots and such.

Emil Mujanovic

To be honest, mate. I'm not really liking this too much. It looks very first pass to me. You left the sculpting phase much too early and everything is looking blobby and unfinished (especially the head). The tusks don't really look like tusks, the big one looks like someone wedged a banana into his face and left it there to turn brown. It seems to taper back in where it plugs into his face.
The spurs as rooster pointed out look like they are going to fall off, but even if that was fixed, it doesn't really match the rest of the design and don't really serve any real function.
Have you made a spec map for this guy? Everything at this stage seems to have the same specular level, but oddly enough the metal parts seem to have very little spec or shininess.
Keep it up, mate.

-caseyjones