Metal Gear Rex - Tank Transformer

wolfonthehorizon

for my module at uni I am required to make a transformer so I have decided to make Metal Gear Rex.

this is my current progress



some sketches to try and get a feel for the machine










this is the quality I wish to get my Rex

any critique or advice on techniques or process would be great as I have never modelled vehicles before . thanks guys

wolfonthehorizon

update

PhoenixWolf

hmm ..keep it going

wolfonthehorizon

just an update

wolfonthehorizon

started the unwrapping process and did a quick normal map test , never modelled a vehicle before so i need to research the best way to bake maps and how to layout UV's this was just a head test

ImRuKus

This is so amazinlgy awesome! Just started playing through all the MGS games last week and Started to sculpt Sniper Wolf, Keep up the awesome work, hopefully I get to see this finished ! Totally following this thread.

Iciban

huge mgs fan! looking good so far.

JoshWilkinson

Model looks pretty solid. Just so we're on the same page, you know your pixel densities are pretty inconsistent, right?

piko

Only problem I see with the uv layout is scaling issues. You want to make sure the checkered pattern is the same size for all the separate objects. This ensures texture quality is the same throughout...

i.e. the head has a small checkered pattern in the front and then a large checkered pattern on top. You want these to be the same size (as close as possible to each other) to guarantee no texture stretching...

wolfonthehorizon

thanks for the support guys its really appreciated

BringMeASunkist yeah i know at the moment im just unwrapping each part first then i im going to combine it all together, at least i think thats right. this is all pretty new to me at the moment so kinda learning as i go

piko ok mate cheers, its only really big at the moment because as i unwrap i have things huge to start with then scale it down after once i unwrap everything, thanks for the feedback though (Y)

wolfonthehorizon

update on the unwrap of the top half of the model, some wasted space, ill try and make it more efficient



just noticed an pretty stupid error in the middle major overlapping my bad will fix in the next update

alifarsangi

good work and progress so far ! i will keep eye on ur next post !

just wondering what is that curved strip on left middle of ur uv map ! u might be able to straight it if its not that big object !

wolfonthehorizon

Jet_Pilot

Really hard to tell what the hell I'm looking at. I'm not sure if its the dark lighting, weak texturing or what.

Selaznog

Jet_Pilot wrote: »

Really hard to tell what the hell I'm looking at. I'm not sure if its the dark lighting, weak texturing or what.

You're not alone. I want to like this, I really do, but it's just really hard to comprehend at this stage. It doesn't help that most of the screenshots have distracting backgrounds or overlays ...

Maybe just a really big render of the mech, with perspective on, at a good angle?

mecons

I think it is the best work of the module! there is nothing else to say ;-)