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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Liz P
polycounter lvl 10
Hi, I'm liz, and I'm using this thread to show some WIPs. Enjoy!
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Unfortunately none of your images are showing up (or did you not post any?).
Welcome to the board, Liz.
p.s.: I see dead people O.o
It exists I tell you!
The Subject:
So now to make the Hi Poly Version:
*using maya 2009*
Here was my first go around with critiques made while polycount was being slow to activate my thread...:P
In addition to those critiques, I also skipped out on some detail on the wooden base.. >.>
<.<
So here was my second go at it.
Ok so issues with the wireframes..
Using two methods there, PolySmooth (up one subdivision) and then Maya Vector Render in the first sheet.
Disadvantage: Can't render smooth without going up one subdivision
Then the second method I used Maya's High Quality display, slapped on a surface shader, and screen captured it.
It's not really working for me.
Any suggestions of how to Render a high quality wireframe in maya without MayaVector?
ok now, no joking about her models not showing up. She is still waiting on her post to be approved.
Also, as far as wires on a render goes I generally use Multitool for my wireframe renders.
First draft:
Checking the silhouette:
Having major issues around the speaker at this point:
Some pointers from raul, thanks raul!!
So at this point, I've spent a majority of my week trying to just get normal maps to work in general rather than working on my real maps.
I made sure that my speaker lined up perfectly with the high res mesh, but still even in my "final" go, it doesn't look quite right. I noticed that even without the normal map, the light didnt seem to be bouncing off consistently around the edges... so if anyone has any thoughts on that...
oh, and yea, I gave my color map an alpha channel for the record, and also tried hooking that up in the transparency, and it seemed to ignore me, here's my alpha if anyone can see something immediately wrong with it:
With all that said...
Here are some sheets:
Color:
(exactly like it is described here:) http://wiki.polycount.com/Normal%20Map#Modeling_The_High-Poly_Mesh
Proportions are going pretty good so far. I see in the reference that the handle part of the phone is actually sagging a big, probably from age, where mine is perfectly straight across. So i do plan to fix that, but figure it will be easier to get the detail on there on a straight model, and then do some deforming as my last step.
So as far as detail goes, I think im just going to start from the bottom, and work my way up! This is going to be an adventure! :poly108:
You have to go into the mental ray section of your shader's shading group and select 'Enable Contour Rendering' - this is also where you choose the color and width for the wireframes. Then you also have to go into the Features tab of the render settings window, and select 'Enable Contour Rendering'. In this section, 'Over-Sample' increases the anti-aliasing quality of your wireframes and under 'Draw by Property Difference' selecting 'Around All Poly Faces' will give you what you're looking for.
This might seem a bit involved when reading it, but it is really only choosing settings in two locations and you end up with very nice, anti-aliased wireframes. If you want to add your wires via compositing, you can render pure white wires on an otherwise pure black image to give you a matte for your wires. Otherwise, this feature just slaps the wireframes on top of your final render.
Hope this helps. Also, I dig your gramophone. Best of luck with your antique phone.
http://www.cabinfevershort.blogspot.com/
Here is what I made today. Probably will look at it tomorrow and want to change everything!
Reaaaallly want to get back on the phone!!
Yea my goal with this model isnt really the high res, but the low poly version. That's what i really need practice on. And when i get a nice low poly version working with my normal map, i plan to really work on creating an awesome texture too!
Here is my starfish guy textured. Sculpted displacement in Zbrush, and painted textures with a combination of zbrush and photoshop. This is for my MFA project, an animated short.
This is rendered in Mental Ray, and our short is going to be rendered in renderman. So there will be changes to some of the actual shaders.
I'm pretty proud of the color scheme, and i really like his displacement! what do yall think? go on, lay it on me!
The character looks great! You might want to scale his hands up a bit to give an extra boost to the cartoony proportions and because everyone loves oversized hands
One thing that confused me is how you got the base lower, space invader type shapes on the gramophone to bake properly as they look like 90 degree angles with no chamfering going on. So I was going to say chamfer more but hey it worked.
As a side note, it seems there are quite a few pattern details missing on the gramophone and the shapes created to represent them are quite simple in comparison to the reference. It might be a good idea to concentrate on making those shapes more complex and pleasing to the eye which should help ao produce more interesting results.
ps: are you using the edge clone technique with a plane or modifying primitives to make those shapes?
Look forward to seeing more from you!
As for the gramophone.. that was my first low res model ever, so i didnt know about that whole chamfering thing... Ive since learned that normal maps work better with 45 degree angles, and that makes sense. Haha slooowly learning how to do this stuff.
There's plenty of cool and useful threads on here if you get stuck and most people love to help out as well
Nice work so far.