Low Poly Lego! #483 Rocket

Sastrei

Hi all,

First post here, never really knew about polycount til I found an awesome thread on normal mapping here through a search. So, again, HI!

Looking for some critiques on how to give this thing a bit more character, and what y'all think of the idea of an "engine glow" in the rear cone. It's a game model for my Homeworld2 mod, BrickSpace. All the textures are baked on from a high poly model. I'm still not happy with the red and green pieces, they're supposed to be clear plastic.



I can post a wireframe and some more screencaps if desired.

Here's the real thing for comparison.
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=483_1&v=z

-Stefan-

Monochrome

That's the rocket from the 910 alpha rocket lunar base! i love that set!

Sastrei

I finished another model using the same techniques as above.



And yes, I just realized I left the engine off, d'oh. It's a seperate piece for game engine purposes (texture changes when the ship's in motion).

Some more pics on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91372734@N00/2435109135/in/photostream/

Hm, my pic seems to be breaking the layout. I can resize it if it's too big.

-Stefan-

neolith

Sastrei wrote: »

I finished another model

*childhood flashback* :icon60:

renderhjs

great stuff

hawken

neolith wrote: »

*childhood flashback* :icon60:

ditto!

rollin

damn .. bild bigger wings you have to put all this cool flap-laser rocket shoot kill all super guns all over it ..

ohhh this was fun

nice stuff

RogB

i currently have 928-Galaxy explorer and 6 other classic space kits parked on the floor of my living room! Classic space rocks
(they look odd next to a collectors edition scout walker and batmobile though!)

Should be a great mod though. Is it all classic sets, or are you doing MOCs by builders like Nnenn and co also? (well ,i suppose most of the microspace stuff is influenced by homeworld anway so wouldnt make much sense.)

Sastrei

Thanks for the kind words all.

RogB - Awesome, another AFOL! Because it's just me doing all this, I was forced to scale back my plans considerably, that being that I wanted to make PCS, 3vil, and Jade Empire stuff too. I even have a model of Adrian Drake's Tribunal started, if you're familiar with that one.

Here are some old-standard game models that I did though. The Explorovore by Brian Cooper, a ship by a friend of mine, Ranger, and two ships by a builder named Stenz. If you use IRC, you should stop by esper.net sometime, there is a #lego channel there!




-Stefan-

hawken

Sastrei wrote: »

I finished another model using the same techniques as above.



And yes, I just realized I left the engine off, d'oh. It's a seperate piece for game engine purposes (texture changes when the ship's in motion).

Some more pics on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91372734@N00/2435109135/in/photostream/

Hm, my pic seems to be breaking the layout. I can resize it if it's too big.

-Stefan-

my new desktop wallpaper

stimpack

shits so pimpn!! i was more into the midievil sets myself, but space.....well its every boys dream playground.

nkoste

Hey Satrei
Looks great! Do you know the program LEGO Digital Designer? I was an intern at lego 3d software and had a chance to actually work on the program. It would be great for you to prototype your models with this. I imagine it's a lot faster to build your models and then you can easily base your highpolys on that. Just google it

Sastrei

Thanks for the suggestion, however, I import models from Ldraw and use those parts as reference, as LDD is far too limited for my purposes. Ldraw is fan maintained and has been around for much longer than LDD, and is the only thing that makes my current models possible.

-Stefan-

Sastrei

Thought I'd drop by to get reactions on my newest model. Set #924 Space Cruiser.



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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2502827987_8dc4524f85.jpg

1712 tri's, and uses a 512x1024 texture sheet.



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-Stefan-