Stryker ICV
Here's some shots of a Stryker ICV I made for my final semester at AAU. Looking to get some insights into how I could improve going forward here, and tips for anything that might help on future projects of a similar aesthetic. Further details about the project can be seen at my site, www.JoshRife3D.com. Thanks PC!!
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Thanks for the crits, I'll look at the spec and try to get it to read better. I've been fighting it, trying to get it right. Still needs work.
I think your biggest problem right now is your lighting.
Its very yellow (or it's the texture)
maybe give the lighting more contrast and throw a blueish back-light in there
and the specular-parts look simply white, so it looks more like a texture / display error
...Was the enemy throwing them at it?
Was someone walking near by and accidentally dropped them?
Well, the model itself looks good, good job!
Also there are _alot_ things that just could've been baked in rather then modeling them... you needed to unwrap that stuff and wasted really alot of space in your uv map. Also mirror more, you used only 1/4 of the texture space for the actual body of the vehicle....
Specular is too yellow and dark.
and read the comments to the overpaints I did.
there are also ALOT of details like he said that need to be normal mapped. your wasting a buttload of polys the bits on the front and side definately should have been. you got a 2048 texture.. thats alot of space.. use what you got
its a nice peice though. dont let the fact it can be improved impact that fact.
On the next vehicle asset I'd consider mirroring more of the main body - you have made pretty good use of a unique unwrap, but a small, separate decal sheet would allow you to get a lot more out of this. With a vehicle you can pretty much mirror both sides because you'll never see both sides at the same time, and that would get you a significant amount of space back, so you could up your texel density or use a smaller map.
Someone doesn't know what they're talking about.
It's perfectly fine how he did it...if he didn't use floaters it would increase the tri count by making cuts to connect everything.
I second what others have said about and baking more stuff into the map. I actually just finished going through the bake process on a complex prop myself, and I found that when you doing the baking you tend to get biased towards having more stuff in the model because you are rotating around at close zoom levels. When you zoom out to a realistic render size though, those little details become much less significant, all that matters is that there is a spec hit on the normal map to give the detailed look. So keep that in mind, and keep zooming out to keep your sense of scale.
For the spec, I find that creating a layer of noise, and then running it through a couple photoshop filters gives a nice looking spec variation. Overlaid onto your spec map, and it gives you nice varied highlights. You can also get that bloom/overexposed effect on parts of the spec without blowing out the entire model, a look that seems to be pretty popular these days.
the left side is missing a lot of details that should be different from the right side but perhaps this styker is different, dont remeber what ICV stands for so it could be a differnt model from the normal stykers I guess.
I think your model is very nice but the biggest problem is the scale of some things and the bolts in the chassi that gives it a blend of cartoony look.
UV map is pretty horrible if its meant to be optimized but i guess thats already pointed out.
Keep it up!
if i made a model like this, i'd be ashamed of myself.
its a complete mockery of the real vehicle.
oh and what did you use all those 21 000 polys on, perfectly rounded handles?
Are you off your meds or something you've had a lot more hate than normal
i've always hated artsy-fartsy renditions of real world military vehicles.
its like entering a public toilet where someone has taken the sourest shit in the world, and having that disgusting air blow into your face as you open the door.
Which is why they're probably here trying to get constructive crits on how they can improve their work.
There are plenty of mistakes here that I won't be repeating in the future. Thanks very much for all of your collective time and wisdom!
@Dejawolf, I'm sorry this thread offended you so much, man. Maybe we should all stick to marginal M60a3's.
That's really not constructive at all, if this is so bad why not show us your rendition of the stryker, because to be honest all ive seen from you is that half modeled T34, and that hardly gives you the credibility to badmouth someones work in such a way.
yes but your personal hatred is not part of the discussion. keep it for yourself
the time of words is over, i shall officially destroy you and your puny work.
bbl in a week. gotta work on my ULTIMATE TANK MODEL.