Halo Warthog

Lord Ned

(Military) (Wire)


(Civilian) (Wire)

Editor Screen Grab.
Haven't gotten too much feedback at other forums, so I figured I'd register up here and let you guys tear into it.

There is no seats yet, but the rest of the interior is pretty much done.

Not sure what game it's going into, if anything.

Arhurt

Hey man very nice stuff you got there. What polycount are you aiming for? I have the impression that the tires are very high-poly compared to the body of the warthog.

il Duce Primo

A member in the Halo Custom Edition community made this for a high res halo project he was working on.


His has more additions, but if you want it can help you with your proportions. Come check out Modacity.net for more indepth views of what the halo nazis have to say.

Lord Ned

Hate to say it but it doesn't really look like the Warthog anymore. Regardless, my proportions should be pretty on square with the Halo 1 one. I did interpret the detail on the hubcaps wrong, which another friend at school pointed out. But thanks for showing me that, will give me some ideas about adding some more detail! Edit: Went and registered on the Modacity forums, will post it over there too.

vj_box

details should pop out,when normal maps and textures are added,right now hard to judge this one.

Vj

Lord Ned

Sorry for the large bump. I took a break, and am now interested in getting back into this. I've never done a normal map (in another application) and was wondering if anyone would point me in the right direction for this? What applications would I want to use? Or should I just make a high-poly in Max? Is there any special things I need to do? etc. Can't wait to get this looking really good!

rasmus

I'd do all the hipoly stuff right in Max. Check out the "How you model them shapes?"-thread for tips!

Talbot

Maybe check out the eat3d.com nextgen texturing tutorial. Or the Old Damaged Pillar is good too.

Lord Ned

Do I want to have a uv map done for the LPM before I start the high poly one?

Rens

Looking at the wheels, turrest ect, your not going for a very low polycount,
but it looks like the main body of the car itself is suffering from some weird wireframe.
since you can spend some polys i guess, try to clean up the body,
maybe add some more vertical cuts and less all the way down from this side to another, and weld it together.

overall looks like a pretty good warthog to me.
i find it better to do the uv map after you're done making the highpoly. if you end up havind to make some changes to the low poly, you need to clean up the uv and end up doing it twice.

theres no need to do a highpoly model in another aplication, so if you are using max, just stay in max and start adding details.

Lord Ned

I think I need to re-do the body. I don't think what I have is very good edge flow.

Any critque's on it?



I'm no where near an expert in edge flow, but there's no edges that flow from the front to the back, which I think is bad...

Here's my quick paint over. Blue = New Edgeloop, Red= Remove. This good/bad?

Junkie_XL

Yeah you need better edge loops. Keep everything in quads as much as possible.
I would take what you have and retopologize the surface.

Use PolyBoost to do this. http://www.polyboost.com/

Watch from the beginning to 1:45 here...
http://www.cmlcreative.com/Videos/PolyBoost2_video.avi

Lord Ned

Whenever I draw any stuff with Polytopo, when I right click, it makes a mesh with zero polygons that's flat on the ground?


Also: Should I take it from being similar to the game(Halo 1), to making it realistic? Sort of like Crysis did with all of it's models, little things are detailed, like an accurate winch and what not.

BradMyers82

Open up polyboost tool bar. Go to PolyDraw[]. At the top of the new menu select the radio button that says "Surface" under "Draw On:". Click the pick button and choose the mesh you want to retopologize.
This essentially lets you draw on the surface of your object instead of the default which is the ground.
Hope this helps.

Talbot: you are always promoting eat3d. You on the payroll yet? Ha ha. But seriously they do have some good dvds over there.

CerealDemon1

i know a Crysis Halo mod that could use this
I am part of the mod as a designer