Strike Gundam Model
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Just registered here and I hope I'll enjoy my stay. 
Here's one of my latest projects. It's finished on the modeling stage and I got it rigged. Now I'm planning for UV mapping and texturing.
Here's one of my latest projects. It's finished on the modeling stage and I got it rigged. Now I'm planning for UV mapping and texturing.
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wires? polycount?
Now texture the scratches and wear.
Polycount is at approximately 60 000 tris.
Sounds great that you want a dirty and worn out texture on it since that is what I'm planning.
I'll see if I get some time to throw together some nice construction shots.
Cheers.
Have a look at this in the meantime.
dang i think once the final textures are done and some really bad ass lighting is added to this guy and a quick photoshop paintover and this piece will be a total bad ass
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I second that. Can't wait to see it when it's done. You've got a good start on the compositing allready.
Model is ace (even though i hate gundam designs), uv is... well... will see what is coming out of it, anyway: GOOD LUCK !
Good stuff nonetheless though.
polycount is 60k, why?
Plus the way you organized your layout does not make much sense especially with the peices fighting each other and sitting at an angle. You could do yourself a favor and just put them 'upside up', it will make them much faster to texture (if you even plan to paint the texture traditionnaly I mean). Aslo your pieces are way to close together for ingame use.
I'd say ... with what you have so far, just run a layout script that separates the UVchunks much more to avoid mipmap bleeding and simply bake your render to the texture. You could have saved yourself *hours* by just running an automatic UV script and baking the render to the automatically done layout - automatic layouts are usually a no-no for game models but in that case it wouldn't make much of a difference considering how highly split the current layout is.
Hope it makes sense?
Mesh looks cool still :P
Edit - obviously my crit was made with gameart in mind. But still if it is intended for film-like use, why taking the hassle of UVmapping that way? Just use procedurals, simple big UVs chunks from the desired angles for the textures overalys, and voila...
I think I have trouble understanding this model because 1 its not working as an ingame model and 2 not as a film model either becaue of the very hard edges (normal splits?) defining the blocky shapes. For fil m use you are better off with a microbevel to catch light. But if it's just to produce one still image ... why bothering with the UVs? You could just overlay the dirt textures in PS!
I am quite curious to hear what you intend to use it for!
And why bothering mapping it? Well, for the challange, for the practice and everything I might learn from it. I want to at least have a turn table made for it for portfolio purposes and therefore have it looking good from all angles.
And you suggest me going the easy way and making look "not perfect" which isn't good enough. I want it to look perfect!
Who wouldn't want that for their work?
And the beveling? I've given that a thought but I don't want to bother with that since I want my model as clean as possible. And still, for softer edges, we have anti-aliasing. Not that soft perhaps, but still.
did you use a plugin to layout it?
personaly i'd split it into material types (ie armour, bare metal, plastics etc) and lay the uvs so things are more grid like, not to get the most out of the space as thats not realy the point (is it?) but just to make drawing on and lining up decals, panels and other linear details that much easier and faster.
cant wait to see it
SHEPEIRO: Yep, as I said before. I'll split it into several maps instead, though I wills sort them in parts instead of material type since they're all going to have the same base surface, which later will be covered in paint etc.
I'm planning to have a map for the head, torso, arm and leg. Arms and legs will have individual maps for their own decals n stuff though I think I'll make them from the same base.
BUT it's a film mesh... :P Still I highly doubt that in a film production environment anyone would spend this amount of time on UVs. You could reuse materials, use procedurals for most things, maybe do smart things with UV sets... But then again I'm not sure.
I mean that's the catch for folio pieces ... you'd rather show that you can think outside the box rather than spending a very long time on a pipeline bottleneck that could be solved differently. Well it shows you've got patience so that's not bad :P
Good luck with what's up next!
(ps - what's going on with the boards lately? each time I type m.o.d.e.l it gets deleted once the message is submitted? Is this just on my side?)
Anyways, here's the new maps.
Head
Torso
Arm
Leg
Maybe you already planned this, but you might want to consider combining them into one sheet, with area occupying a quadrant ,instead of there being four different maps
If I will have them all in the same PSD file I've not decided. Probably not since the file will be 8k x 8k then, and that might get heavy when the layers are increasing in numbers.
but those look alot more managable now.
can't wait to see this textured
good work there, looking sweet.
I'm also planning on texturing the sword.
it will be all grayscaled?
And the colors will come plus decals. I guess I made myself unclear when I only said "phase shift".
Once thats done I imagine some edge highlights will make this model SING. but- I also imagine that will take forever.
craziest unwrap I have ever seen. how long did that take just out of curiosity?
Oh yeah, and whats the count on this, plus do you feel like posting wires?
details, woven carbon fibre bits, different material types, damage, you have the space use it
as it stands it is not coming across, though I am looking forward to when it does.
Here's a huge amount of pics, and now I'm going to warmup for the coming dominance war!
Cheers all!
Renders
Wires
Textures
The only things I would add might be paint chipping around "frequently contacted edges" like the feet and things, and a bit more grime right at the seams of things...
And some chip off and mud traces along the feet where it touched the ground would work nicely too.
Other than that...the sword seems fine
Keep us updated.
Still its looking great
And I've put up a turntable.
http://www.vimeo.com/621849
That is blood...
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It's blood? Gundams are like 55-60 ft (18 meters) tall. It seems a little hard to believe he went around slaughtering infantrymen or something until his 50 ft long sword was soaked in their blood.
Very impressive modeling. Wish I could pull something like that off
I think it's from when he killed Godzilla. It's Godzilla's blood on the sword.
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Exactly.