Space Helmet. .

ErichWK

So for my next project I'm recreating This guy's Steampunkish/retro-scifish space helmet.



Here is my lo poly, Thought I'd show it for critique before I'd continue with my hipoly.




Right now it's at 5966 tris. . .which I guess is kind of hefty but I really want to get as much of the detail in to make this super nice. I haven't started optimizing and I will probably delete some thinner/smaller elements when I get my hi poly done. We will see where it will take me! Comments are totally welcomed!

Mark Dygert

That is pretty cool

I think you should model out a few of the hose clips. I think it would be only a little more expensive (polywise) but would add some nice detail and catch a AO pass pretty well.

There also looks to be a gap around the bottom hose and the main hood plate thing?

Any plans to take it higher poly and bake down some of the details?

ErichWK

Oh. I didn't connect it cause I am just going to duplicate over to save UV space. I'm still trying to figure out if I want to go for a 1024 map and duplicate most of the stuff, or just splurge and go for the 2048 to add unique detail. . I mean if I want to show it off I guess go for the 2048. I am currently in the middle of the hi poly and I am pretty excited for it! I will post it when I'm done with it. Thank you for the comments! And probably should do the clips, huh. .

A.Kincade

Definitely do the clips to anchor down those hoses.

Everything else looks pretty legit. Keep up the good work.

JasonLavoie

Ha ha pretty cool man, looks like dead head fred's helmet.

Looking forward to more updates.

ErichWK

So this is my second wip renders. . this time of the Hi Poly. I haven't touched the lamp yet. Saving that for last. I might be moving too slow, and I need to learn how to render better in Maya. . -__-



anyways, I'm curious how I should go about doing the gold tube on the right.



The way I'm thinking is creating just a simple long tube and extruding some 100+ loops to create the texture, then baking it out on a low poly tube and rigging it with bones to move it into shape, this is the only thing I can think of so far. . If anyone has any better suggestions, by all means!! Is there any way in maya to crate a CV curve and make a shape follow it's path?

Thanks for your time!

Bronco

Id make the wires as you have done on the LP,but more interpolation so the curves are rounder then just use a bump map to get the grooves.

If you don't want to do that, you could Take your spines in its current shape, apply a morph modifier and straighten it out.....then just use a standard cylinder cut your loops and bake....then morph back into shape.

(disclaimer - ive never tried the second option,just something I came up with on the fly,just tested to see if you can add morphas to splines and you can so all good )

Good luck.

john

whipSwitch

since the indents in the tube are fairly shallow,and are small enough that they don't effect the silhouette, it might be easier to not worry about modeling them in, and just add them to the normal map after the bake.

ErichWK

Heeey. Got an update! So far this is only the AO, Normals, and flat colors to map out what my next plan of attack will go. I'm thinking of keeping it super saturated . . but if opinions point otherwise changes will occur. I am getting a couple problems I will, ie: my weird smoothing errors, weird normal turn outs, seams and what not. Baking out cylindrical normals are such a pain in the ass. -__-


But Alas! I will push foreward

jacob07777

Damn dude, that front panel where the gauges are gonna go turned out sweet!! Yeah I get a lot of those errors myself on the normals. Most of the time I gotta just fix em up in Photoshop afterwards (If you ever figure out an easier way let me know lol)

I'm liking the saturated look to it. If you decide to keep it, make sure any grunge/scratches are strong enough to create some good looking contrast to go along with it though. Otherwise I'd say just keep doin what you're doin and I can't wait to see the final version.

Mark.N

If you're having issues getting those cylinders baked down, then go back to the low and add more sides, rebake, reoptimize. Won't even have to mess with UV's if ya do it right.

Make sure no shells overlap when you do the bake, if you have stacked shells just move them over 1,2,3 etc. so they sit on the tile rather than in 0.1 space. Most of the errors you have outlined seem to be just slight issues with your unwrap. Hunt around in there and play with the unwrap a bit and you should be able to get em fixed easily.

A.Kincade

Well done man. This is coming along very nicely.

Some very minor issues that I noticed from the reference. I know it's still a w.i.p. but here is some stuff I would have done differently.....



Like I said easy, minor issues. Past that, this is turning out great. Nice to see your putting more time into this project. Can't wait to see it finished tomorrow. Keep up the good work bud.

ErichWK

HOLY CRAP!! I totally forgot about the vent!! haha. The things you forget when you have to juggle a thousand different things. Thats fine, I am gonna rebake a few stuff and I don't mind doing the vent. Good call, man.