Automated mining drill

MingoXMX

Hey, i wasn't able to create much lately due to being busy with non 3d art things, still i was able to call this one  finished, worked on and off on it for a few months. By the way, here it is, just some kind of huge drilling machine with mecha legs.



Of course feedback is welcome, all the pictures can be found here https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lr1PV

LaurentiuN

Looks very nice mate, is this from a concept or something ? or from your imagination... good job anyway  

MingoXMX

Thanks, this was conceptualized while making it, i started with a vague idea of some heavy machinery and developed from there.

LaurentiuN

Can you show us the HP/Wires, what programs you used for the HP/techniques ? BTW ...what does it drill ? OIL ?

Port-Seven

How did you texture? Substance painter?

soulstice

awesome work!  love the design!

MingoXMX

@s1dKSure, here are some shots of the HP, messy topology here and there

Modeled in sub-d and baked down to the LP using Xnormal, used a lot of floating geometry. Also i agree that what i had in mind as dirt really looks like oil , didn't put enough tought into it.

@Port-seven Yes that is SP, i recently bought the indie license version and decided to give it a try, really quick and powerful software.

MingoXMX

@soulstice Thank you!

Burpee

Hey! Amazing work and I have a question I googled and i'm not sure about what I found, but what do you guys means by floating geometry ? 
Thanks !

LaurentiuN

Looks good man, thanks for the screens. Make a terrain now and put it to drill  

Sugus

@Burpee Floating geometry is geometry you place on top of other geometry, floating on top. An example of that are the nuts and bolts and some of the insets he has in his geometry. It saves a lot of time as you don't have to model it into your high poly and you can then bake it onto your low poly to almost the same effect as if it was modelled in.

Burpee

@Sugus Al'right that's what I thought, thanks ! So there isn't any restriction to use floating geometry ? Any " bad side " I mean ?

Thanks mate!

airdrummer

may I ask, why triangles?

MingoXMX

@Airdrummer I exported the hp to marmoset to take the screens and the export triangulated the mesh, i forgot to check quads in the exporter my bad.
Reuploaded the screens with quads.

MingoXMX

@Burpee the only downside i can think of is that some shapes won't look right on your high poly, an example:

That's a floating inward bevel, doesn' look too bad right? Will look pretty much like that when i bake it on the normal map.
But this is what happens when i change the camera angle looking at the high poly:

So basically floating geometry is a really good idea when you plan to bake everything down, but if you are working on a higpoly for cinematics or movie (or in any case where you are not going to use a low poly and a normal map) then you may want to consider modeling some of those shapes in, to make it look right from all angles.

Burpee

@MingoXMX  Thanks for the clarification mate !

Sugus

Another thing is that it might cause problems in certain maps when you bake. For example if you bake out an Ambient Occlusion map it will generate occlusion where there shouldn't be but because the geometry is close to each other (the High Poly and the floating geo) it will create a shadow there. Very small thing but worth knowing of

MingoXMX

Yes, that's also a really good point Sugus

citizen47

I could use something like this for my game? e-mail me if ur intrested

billymcguffin

Looks great! But there's not much indication of scale that I can see. Is it skyscraper sized? Human sized? Normal power drill sized? If there were elements that indicated it's relative size to a human it could help a lot.

Dethling

Looks really awesome.
I work also with SP and always have problems with the edge wear generator. Either it didn't show anything or the "edge wear" is more like redrawing the edges with a "silver-liner".

MingoXMX

@Billymcguffin Thanks! Totally agree about the lack of scale indication, in fact i think that's the main issue with this design.
@Dethling Thank you! Yeah, i should have made those edges less obvious, i think that experimenting with different curvature maps and generator settings should help fix that.