Rocket Mech
polycounter lvl 16
Been working on this mech a little bit, images are so huge so didnt want to post them in the WAYWO thread ^^ Built and rendered in Modo, textured using shaders and some photoshop-cheating 
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Would you mind sharing the textures you created for the mech?
I would love to see some wireframe shots.
How long did it take you to model this?
Nuclear Angel: just a highpoly mesh for this one : )
Grubber: Hmm, not sure how long, maybe five days total? Was alot of experimentation involved with rendering, shading and stuff.
YakZSmelk: not really any textures to speak of. A tiling metal texture for diffuse, a tiling rusttexture straight from cgtextures, and a quick bumpmap. The rest is shader-based and pohotoshopoverlays. Really quick stuff, because im lazy like that ^^
Looks excellent.
How do you get creative with all the gubbinz and little details? Do you have references, things you keep in mind? Miniatures? Mechanical stuff?
Definitely like the way those legs are built.
Really awesome job man. :thumbup:
.... and .... that's the real-time model ? O o
Assuming snefer is using the same technique as usual... there probably is very little subdivision being used. Modo's round edge shader instead
Yeah I was also curious on how modo does that, its like you can cut out holes into any type of mesh without repercussions. Try doing that in Maya causes all kinds of hell on earth!
However this mech is pretty darn amazing! I'm sure it will be a key reference for many artists thinking of doing the same
there is almost no sub-d polygons in the mesh, even if it was, i wouldnt care so much about n-gons anyway : )
It is possible in maya using the architectural shader, or mia roundcorners. There's some problems with baking it down in maya though.
Started designing another mech and kitbashing pieces from the old one, making a lighter assault mech this time : )
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How do you texture/render the model? Do you use projection mapping or also UVW? Can you tell something about the texturing/render techniques?
Ged, just bake, it bakes down like anything else, ntohing special needed, if its on your highpoly, it will bake down : )
But how do you project those shaders/bump/grunge maps onto the model? I am a 3Dsmax user with a little bit experience with Modo. In 3DSMAX you can use a number of projection mapping techniques and basic box/spherical/cylindrical mapping. I'm a fan of your videos ;-) and have seen you use grunge and bump maps on your models in the viewport.
Am I seeing the combination of intersecting & combined geometry correctly? What's the rationale for combining some parts and leaving other pieces separate?
BradMyers82: you can feed cavity/convexity maps + occlusion etc into a shader aswell, aswell as custom weight maps and masks, and combine it all into one big soup of a mask basically. There are no real limits, I combine different masking methods depending on what i want to achieve and what suits the model/works with the geometry i have to play with. For example if its a really dense mesh I generate vertex ambient occlusion instead of a shaderbased one because its faster.
But how do you project those graphics onto the model with shaders?