I'm making 3D models in Blender, Have a look at them.

Jim Stix

Ive been working with Blender for about 4 months.
I learned how to use the tools and controls from youtube vids and the Blender wiki.
kinda getting the hang of it.
So, here's the stuff I've made so far.

Jim Stix

RobeOmega

I can see no pictures nor any pictures that seem to be attempting to load?

programmer23

no pictures are showing up

Brian "Panda" Choi

Use IMGUR, and paste the BBC Code

Jim Stix

A castle. Its not much but its my first attempt at making something
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Jim Stix

I added more details and messed with the lighting a bit then rendered it.

WarrenM

Do you have a goal in mind or are you just noodling?

Brian "Panda" Choi

You should totaly practice tiling textures on that castle.

Jim Stix

WarrenM wrote: »

Do you have a goal in mind or are you just noodling?

I do have a goal. I want to be able to make decant looking, fully working video game.

Jim Stix

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

You should totaly practice tiling textures on that castle.

Yeah, I'll give it a go.
I know how to do UVmapping. kinda.

Jim Stix

For the texture. I want to make it low poly pixel style of old mossy bricks and some random colourful graffiti on it here and there.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Get to it. Google and learn about "Tileable Textures"

Brian "Panda" Choi

Also, I think this will REALLY help.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2197943#post2197943

fullchaos13

Haha nice to see people starting off using Blender, all I can say is stick with it. You might hear some negatives about it but imo its all foney baloney. You're definetly making some good progress. I suggest that maybe for the renders try to play around with the cycles renderer.

theStoff

I agree with projectEagleeye that you should try to break your big goal down into smaller ones. After your done practicing uvs and texturing on this castle perhaps you can try building a series of small props. Maybe things that could go in the castle. Regardless, keep on going I'm sure we'd all like to continue seeing work from you.

rbong obong

good stuff so far but i would really recommend using the cycles render over blender render as it gives better and more realistic renders.

Jim Stix

I made that castle/fort a few months ago and I am going back to texture it. So I do have other things made after that.
Like this star shaped star blaster.




I made this in about 5-6 days.

Jim Stix

Brian "Panda" Choi

I think you're ready to try making a high poly.

Cube Republic

Blender user of several years here. I recommend getting to know the modifiers. The ones that are especially useful are: subdivision surface - similar to max turbo smooth I think. Mirror - your gun would really benefit from this, as well as your castle. Array - combine with the modular tutorial linked earlier can really make building architecture fun. I could really fill this post with links to youtube, so I'll leave you to search. However people I recomend are, Andrew Price & Sardi Pax.

Jim Stix

Thanks for the advice guys. I should of got on Polycount a lot sooner.

Jim Stix

Here we go. I always have major problems making seams and Doing good seams for UV mapping is hard on its own.
Fist problem is this archway, it looks fine its flat and perfectly square boarder but the UV layout has collapsed in on itself.

The outer wall is a bit wonky as well.

Jim Stix

The other problem I have is some parts will separate themselves with no seams.

I checked and there are no over lapping vertices or edges.

Millenia

The main issue likely is that you have an n-gon in a concave shape. I'd always avoid n-gons on low poly models because there's no reason to leave them in, really - but concave shapes like this are especially problematic as the program's underlying triangulation can make for really wonky polygons and/or screw up your UVs (as happened here).

Try connecting the verts with edges in this fashion to make tris and quads:

Jim Stix

Thanks Millenia that worked straight away.
For the second problem I just removed the edges and made them one face.
Here is a export of the UV, I'm now going to look up those tiling guides.

Nosslak

If possible you should strive to make your UV islands into axis aligned (non-rotated) rectangles as that makes it a lot easier to efficiently pack them. You also get the added benefit non-aliased lines when you need straight edges on your textures, as you probably will on a castle/tower.

Most projects like this would also use tiling textures so you don't necessarily need to give the islands unique UV space.

Good luck!

Jim Stix

I made some tileable wall textures. Nothing super amazing but something to use for the fort.

Youngy798

I like them

Jim Stix

I'm testing this texture but its stretching and also it's a bit blurry.

billymcguffin

It's stretching because you have ngons. If you cut it into quads it should look better.

sushi

Did you modify the geometry after UV mapping? that could be the reason why you're seeing texture stretching. Try UV mapping those stretched sections again.

Jim Stix

sushi wrote: »

Did you modify the geometry after UV mapping? that could be the reason why you're seeing texture stretching. Try UV mapping those stretched sections again.

I don't think I did.

Jim Stix

I did cut it into quads it does look better.

Jim Stix

Here is an update on the tile sheet thingy.

stickehbunz

I think it would make it easier to texture if you placed identical shapes over each other in your UV map.

Jim Stix

stickehbunz wrote: »

I think it would make it easier to texture if you placed identical shapes over each other in your UV map.

Yeah I will try that.