Gramophone for TF2

ElysiumGX

This was my weekend project.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9YEZrhZtHI[/ame]

Polycount is 1472, but I wasn't concerned with it. My goal was to get a custom object working inside a TF2 level. This is my first time exporting any object to Source. All created in XSI 4.2 and Mod Tool.

A work in progress shot:


Normal mapping:


Realtime rendering in XSI using one of Ben Cloward's shaders:


Source SDK ModelViewer render showing what it looks like in a well lit area with cubemaps:


In TF2 with cubemaps built:


My goal now is to animate the record spinning, and attach a sound, to record a short video. --edit: DONE

Comments, Critiques, Cookies welcomed.

John Warner

cool man! that's purdy. IMO, there's a little bit too much detail for TF2... if it were up to me, i'd get rid of a lot of that textural detail...

either way it's pretty cool

bluekangaroo

sweet. nice hi poly

Cody

Very cool. Fits the style too.

Pedro Amorim

Very nice! I like it!

ElysiumGX

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments. I understand about the texture detail not being fitting. Perhaps I'll update that and release it in the future.

To wrap up the project, I've included a youtube video in the first post. Some fun with animations, and triggers. Enjoy. :P

Kytos

Best choice of song..ever!

BradMyers82

heh, thats pretty funny how you destroyed it. Nice work!

MoP

haha, cool stuff

ElysiumGX

Thanks. There were lots of comments on how the wood texture was too noisy and saturated. I toned it down a bit.

John Warner

hehe would i be a shithead if i said "too much!" ???

i would add back the trim edges of the bottom box, without adding back the smaller details. i think medium details are cool, but a whole pile of noise certainly doesn't fit.

other than that, this is pretty sweet. the colors are great, it stands out, it looks really nice. this would be an ideal focal point in an environment i think.

Cody

Very nicely done. and you can blow it up? Awesome.

System

Haha nice job:D Not a fan of the metal yellow colour though, maybe you could make it a washed out red or green?

MoP

Yeah the yellow looks a bit weird, looks like butter instead of gold metal. Similarly the LP record itself looks really light brown, I'd expect it to be more black.
The playing needle and arm arrangement seem to have no texture at all, just flat yellow.

ElysiumGX

Perhaps it's the lighting, or I turned down the spec too much on those parts. From my searching, Source does not use a Spec Color map, so I can't use the suggested methods to achieve a nice gold appearance. But I'll work with it some more. I believe the record is brown due to the cubemap reflection, because the texture is completely black. Perhaps I should turn down the spec on that some more.