futuristic racing jet or something
polycounter lvl 15
This is my first attempt at hard surface modelling in maya, so I'm keeping it pretty simple. I would have liked to make panel lines on the fuselage to make it a bit more realistic, but I honestly don't know how to build that into the geometry without ruining the shape of it. I'm considering just making a heightmap with the panel lines and bake that into the final normal map for the low poly. Any constructive criticism is of course welcome!
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They are separate, but I still need support edges to tighten up the corners.
I removed those because it actually made the problem about 10 times worse.
@Spoon - You may be right, but at this point, isn't it too late to start adding more geo? Wouldn't I basically have to rebuild the whole thing?
The canopy. I think I should have cut the edges around that area in the UV map and made those normals hard instead of soft. I'll try that tomorrow.
The area between the air intake and the body. I think this problem is caused by my envelope overlapping itself. Again, I'll try another bake tomorrow to see if I'm right.
And finally, the detail around the canopy. The detail looks really wonky from certain angles. I don't think this is a problem that can be easily fixed without adding more geo to the model, but correct me if I'm wrong.
That's all. Advice is as always more than welcome since I'm still learning.