PETROL/BLOOD – looprix

looprix

UPDATE 8-10::

new rims!



Meet Handy my new driver!



Anyone know whats causing these GPU artifacts?? See the large squares...



OLD::

Whattup polynerds

I have been thinking about this contest while busy at work. Finally I have some time to create an entry.

My concept is pretty straight forward. I am going for a realistic robotic sports car. An undercover type vehicle 10 years from now. Here's what I have so far. The design inspiration comes from the new Lexus 350 and a jaguar f-type. Under the hood its all robotic.

Suba

Pretty cool. Reminds me of a James Bond car hehe.

looprix

update 2:
Fleshed out the robotic guts: Each wheel has its own robotic arm. Also each pair of wheels gets its own engine.

I want the outside shell to look sleek with some wear n tear. In contrast the interior guts are going to be highly detailed and grunged up. I can't wait to dDo this bitch!

hedi

great job so far cant wait to see whats next

looprix

Here is my first dDo test. For this test I imagined the car sitting around a junkyard for a while. Might be too beat up hrmmmm

looprix

engine forms update ::

HitmonInfinity

I love what you did with the ddo wip shot. It's like you're actually building it haha. Nice modeling so far.

looprix

Suba: thx I am actually going for a spyhunter/bond type

Hedi: thx!

Hitmoninfinity: Actually I'm building as much as I can. Only problem its getting too highpoly to squeeze into 2 x 4096

slosh

Damn lee! This is sick!

looprix

thanks Batman!

Mental Ray test.....

jeebs

looks awesome! the texture of all models will take a lot of place, wonder if 4096x tekxture sheet will be enough

Bf.109

great work

Mike8917

Wow! Lovely detailing - looking forward to this

simple_minded3d

This is looking awesome! When I first saw this I immediately thought of a undercover spy type car. The little details are looking great. Great job! Can't wait to see the finish product!

artquest

Looprix, this looks amazing! you are one monster modeler and in maya too! Do you use any plug-ins or extra modeling tools? you seem to be going pretty quick at this.

looprix

Thanks ya'll I've been trying to pump this out after work if my wife lets me I shoot down some espresso and get to work 8l

Artquest: here are some of my favorite scripts:
Most of them are here in my favorites...

http://www.creativecrash.com/users/lee-souder

My script :
http://www.leesouder.com/2014/perfectPoly.mel
it punches perfect circles into any face.

fearian

I love the detail you're bringing to this, and the mechanical design. What are you thinking for the driver? more robotic stuff?

looprix

My initial thought was the robotics are the character. Since then I've become inspired by other entries that have more contrast between character/vehicle

As of now I am playing with the idea of an auto-pilot...

artquest

looprix wrote: »

My initial thought was the robotics are the character. Since then I've become inspired by other entries that have more contrast between character/vehicle

As of now I am playing with the idea of an auto-pilot...

Somehow I imagined after you spent all your poly budget/texture space on your insanely detailed vehicle all you would have left to do for a pilot would be something like this:



you know... to keep the universe from imploding from too much awesome.

InflatableFriend

I approve of the suggested autopilot. Seems like a dashing chap to me.

Loving the design, the render of the cars shell just oozes class.

looprix

artquest :: seriously no joke im out of space (╥﹏╥)

InflatableFriend :: you handsome devil, thank you for the approval.

looprix

sap batches :: update 3.45x

After having trouble in dDo finding edges for rust, I plugged in a curvature map from xNormal and this helped a ton.

Also have you guys ever heard of Adobe Kuler?

https://kuler.adobe.com/explore/most-used/?time=month

click on a swatch set and it will be added to your swatches in Ps!!

I used "blue jeans red shirt" for the tests below ::

EarthQuake

Sweet! This is looking awesome.

Biggest issue I see with it now is that the materials/general wear are very uniform. Right now the wear is sort of universally applied to everything. I think it would be more interesting if you had some clear areas for the eyes to rest, and then some unqie wear, like a big gash, scrape, dent, etc where you can see that something specific happened.

looprix

Totally agree.
How can I manually paint the dynamask in the new dDo and then copy the dynamask to each texture? I can't figure it out...

ArtisticTiger

Man this is turning out awesome

Arsenal

this is looking pretty rad! there's alot of detail under that hood.

EarthQuake

looprix wrote: »

Totally agree.
How can I manually paint the dynamask in the new dDo and then copy the dynamask to each texture? I can't figure it out...

Go the layer you want to edit in PS, do some hand painting in the mask, and then go to copy mask to all layers from the dDo dropdown.

You'll lose your changes if you create a new dynamask though, so be careful.

Aga22

awesoooooooooooome

looprix

Thanks guys!

Ahh i c, thanks Earthquake

QUESTION :: Can Marmoset2 take advantage of multiple GPU's for realtime rendering?

In other words will SLI/crossfire rigs render scenes faster?

EarthQuake

looprix wrote: »

Thanks guys!

Ahh i c, thanks Earthquake

QUESTION :: Can Marmoset2 take advantage of multiple GPU's for realtime rendering?

In other words will SLI/crossfire rigs render scenes faster?

In theory, yes it should. TB2's performance is almost entirely dependent on the gpu, I've considered this myself and talked to our engineers who told me that it SLI should provide a performance boost, however we haven't really tested it.

If you do, we will be very curious to know how well it works for you.

looprix

EarthQuake wrote: »

In theory, yes it should. TB2's performance is almost entirely dependent on the gpu, I've considered this myself and talked to our engineers who told me that it SLI should provide a performance boost, however we haven't really tested it.

If you do, we will be very curious to know how well it works for you.

I am convinced SLI is not working ::

First I switched SLI mode off and on and the frame rate did not change ::

looprix

Secondly, I checked each GPU while Marm2 was running. One of the GPUs was completely inactive ::

looprix

Lastly I ran a GPU tester in which both GPUs were active. Plus while playing Borderlands both GPUs were active. ::



It would be a blessing if Marmoset 2 could utilize SLI!

EarthQuake

Thank you very much for the info, I will send this to our engineers.

EarthQuake

I talked a little bit with Jeff and he told me that SLI should work, but it looks like something is getting in the way of it being enabled for the second card. This could be due to driver issues or something else, its hard to say. Can you try updating to the latest drivers and see if that makes any difference?

EarthQuake

omg just noticed HANDY!