[WIP] RED V-Raptor camera, Plasticity practice

3d_legionary

It's my first WIP post here, but not my first model in Plasticity. I bought it about two years ago and have used it occasionally for small tasks. However, the gaps between my uses were too long, so every time I came back, I had to learn it almost from the very beginning. That's why I decided to make something big, with lots of details.

Main goals:
 - To get comfortable with Plasticity and it's logic and methods.
 - To assign convenient hotkeys.
 - To create a good, complex piece for my portfolio.

The main object I'm modeling is a RED V-Raptor camera

Later I'll make a cage and a rig for it. Don't know configuration yet. But most parts will be from Tilta.




I have old version 1.4.20. So no fancy things like xNURBS. But I don't think they are needed for such project.

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First steps and references

iam717

Alright, i saw these or a similar one on a tech channel they spoke of how accurate and stuff it is, i am not a camera guy or anything i just know they are insanely expensive.

Hope it turns out the same as irl if that is the goal, near project to watch, will be checking in from time to time just to see the progress but wanted to say this is pretty neat looking once complete and even possibly needed if you decide to "sell", it at the end to any production environments.  I didn't check if someone has already done this, sell camera objects.

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Front part is ready. Except screw holes. I'll add details to them at the very end.






Are 800px wide images ok to see the details? Or someone needs full res?

sacboi

Your knurling is looking sweet and as for image resolution it's good enough, people can always open in a new tab to zoom in if they so wish.

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sacboi said:

Your knurling is looking sweet

Thanks. Plasticity performed better than I expected. I thought it would be very laggy or even crash while making so many intersecting booleans.

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Another 3 panels are ready.






Top grill was quite hard to make. However it was enjoyable.

d1ver

Dang this is a greeble wet dream. Looking great so far 💪 excited to see how you light it and render it. 

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d1ver said:

excited to see how you light it and render it. 

Thanks. But don't get too excited. I'm good at modeling and not so good at rendering 

d1ver

That's ok that's why you have us here 🤓😉

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Back panel is almost ready.

sacboi

"That's why I decided to make something big, with lots of details."

I reckon achieved your goal and then some, very nice 

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sacboi said:

I reckon achieved your goal and then some, very nice 

 Thanks! But still, there is a lot of work to do. Something tells me, that it will be a very long project.

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The camera itself seems to be finished. Added the last panel, some objects behind grills and bolt threads.
Haven't decided how to create signs on buttons. Geometry or displacement. So, just on/off switch is ready.










From this point my work will be divided into two. On one hand, I will import into 3ds max, deal with artifacts, uv unwrap, substance painter. On the other, I'll model all additional objects in plasticity.

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Update without any cool images.

I liked Plasticity for its speed and for opening the last project on startup. Several seconds and you're ready to go. Backups were enabled in preferences too. What could go wrong? I'll tell you.

It seems like after the second launch, Plasticity loads a file not from your project folder, but from the system's Temp folder. Subsequently, it stops saving your main project and backup files. The temporary file has the same name as your main project, so in the app window, you see that everything appears fine. What happened next? After a break of several days, the Temp folder was empty, and Plasticity loaded an empty scene. In my actual project folder, I only had saves from the first day of work. What's even more frustrating is that I manually copied the whole folder to my backup drive several times during work! 

What am I left with? Only what was exported into 3ds Max: simple polygonal meshes with bad topology and very high density – 9.5 million polygons. The Plasticity project is almost entirely gone. If I want to change anything in the camera model, I'll have to remodel everything or just accept it. So, it's not the end of the world, but it definitely cost me some nerves. 

In summary, always double-check your save files, especially when working with new software.

P.S. Maybe it's just an issue with an old version (1.4.20).

P.P.S. Or it was just a bug.