TRON - VEHICLE - dpixeel

dpixeel

Hi, I am dpixeel and I has been around some time in polycount. But not very active with posting in the forum. Anyway I has decided to join the Tron challenge for fun. Here is my rough sketch for what I gonna modeling.




It is kinda buggy car design. I will go for Tron Legacy art direction.

Good luck everyone and have fun.

dpixeel

Here it comes, my lowpoly vehicle. I made some change from the orignal sketch. Right now it is around 876 tris. Any critz or comment are appreciated.

Baddcog

Looks pretty cool, but that wing is begging to be more sleek and curvy.

dpixeel

Today update. Next up is uv-mapping.

@Baddcog
thx, I has make the wing with a little more love now.

dpixeel

UV-map finish.
What is left now is mirror it and texture the car. First I must come up with few design about light lines to the car.

That all for today.

renderhjs

because of the limitations in the competition for the rendering (no filtering, no anti aliasing, mip mapping,...) I would suggest to squeeze out as much texture space as you can.
Put the UV islands way tighter together to get out about 30% more from the texture, straighten the tire part more so that you have nice / perfect aligned pixels at that area. Same for some other parts, try to straighten them more as you will need good aligned pixels at this texture resolution.

squeeze out more texture space!

dpixeel

Ok, I will try to put it tighter and make it more straight.

dpixeel

So I has made few changes to my uv for the car. It is more tighter now.
I has straight out few parts a little, I am afraid of I stretch them out to much.

What do your guys think? Any feedback is appreciated.

renderhjs

the middle right dark blue part could be aligned to the UV axis so that its pixels won't be rotated later, if needed otherwise shrink it slightly so it fits aligned there. Otherwise looks good, get ready to texture

Conor

dpixeel - Great to see you taking these tips on board. The UV map is looking much better. I like the elongated back wheels - those fit the Tron theme well.

dpixeel

Conor: thx

Sorry for lack of update. Been busy with other work in school.
The texture is still work in progress. As for the light color, I chose pink because I want to try with a diffrent color instead blue or yellow (standard Tron color).
Right now the view mode is unlit and I has not combine the mesh yet.







I will post a another update in few days.

Joshua Stubbles

The purple is looking cool - it's a nice changed from the typical blue/cyan/green

dpixeel

Add another color to the purple, to make the lines light up and I also add some shiny lines.
That it is, not so much change from the previous post. If you guys wonder, it is still work in progress.

renderhjs

I don't like the polycount logo in it, looks just wrong- imo just don't use it. It could use some hard reflections and maybe color in the gray?

dpixeel

-renderhjs:

I like the polycount logo in the car. But you are right, it don't fit in tron world. You won't see it again in next update.

As for the reflections, I am trying to make the car reflect. Tried with dodge tool in photoshop with very low exposure. You can see the result in my in latest wip pic. It is there. Maybe I should add another layer paint it with a grey or some color and play around with the blend modes.

Any tips is appreciated.

dpixeel

Here is another update:

I say it is done. Time to go on with environment. When beauty shot and final presentation.

Texture in unscale size:

dpixeel

Hi
Here is the finish editor shot and work in progress in-game shot.

Editor shot:
Include texture and wireframe.


In-game mockup test:
As for the in-game, I decided to go for real time in-game menu. I hope it is ok to do. The shot is in 480x320 resolution.


that all.

dpixeel

Final shot:



In-game mockup, this is final. I change resolution to 960x640.


Beauty shot.


It was fun. I will join more of this challenge in the future for practice and fun. Wish I had been more active in threads and post some crits or comment. But I am not good at it. But it will change in the future. That's all.

Good luck everyone.

MattQ86

You should try experimenting with connecting the color map into different things like the ambient channel in the hypershade window to get that glowy neon effect.

dpixeel

Tiny update for beauty shot.



Thanks for tip, MattQ86.
So what do you guys think? Will this do?

With the deadline extended I will try too improve my car.

hawken

not sure a button like "exit game" exists on handheld devices

dpixeel

@hawken:
I never thought of that before.
So I seek for game menu images for iphone in google images. Indeed all of them don't have "exit game" button.

Look like I have to change my ingame mockup.