Need some feedback on a sculpted weld

sltrOlsson

Okey, i'm doing a HP atm that needs some welded seams. I saw some tutorial on the subject like 6 month ago, but i can't find it. Can't really get it right

Any sugestions? I'm using "wax" in Mudbox btw..

BlvdNights

why not just make a super high detail blockout of it in max/maya and bring it into mudbox for detailing afterwords.

sltrOlsson

What do you mean? I can't really see how i would do a blockout?

paulsvoboda

Here and here. Hope that helps.

Sean VanGorder

I don't really know much about welding, but from googling some images, it looks like there should just be one row of welds, instead of two. Also, I think the individual shapes in your welds may be a BIT too big and defined, but that may end up looking right on the normal map.



Also, there is some info on welds here and there in the WAYWO thread.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1133389&highlight=weld#post1133389

sltrOlsson

Thx, it was bitmaps tutorial thought of, though i remembered it as mudbox :S Well, good enuf (:

I like the more rough welds he got, and the one down right on your pic Sean_EG.
Your right, it should only be one line of weld, not two.

sltrOlsson

Got some good ideas from the bitmap tutorial. Not perfect, but it fit my needs.

It's a sphere as base and the some vertex moving to get the sphere to just fill the seams. The I used the wax brush with a pretty hard falloff in a circular movement.

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VPrime

Your welds are too thick.. and blotchy. They almost look like someone trying to MIG weld, but still very new at it.

sltrOlsson

Thx for the feedback guys!

I actually did one try in between with a lower strength to the brush and got result close to the MIG technique, but it was small i didn't think it would pick up on the normalmap. That's why i did a thicker rougher weld. The object i'm doing is actually from the 1960's, i guess i didn't have the same technique as we do today?

I'll keep this, and for the other stuff i'll try to tone it down a bit.