Harrier Jet WIP

Perfectblue

Figured I would try something complex, so I went with a harrier. First time to attempt a jet. Still a heavy WIP much more to be done. P90 is on the backburner atm for texturing between this and the traditional art im working on.





View port grabs please excuse floating bits.






Also spoke to Lroy and moving this out of the environmental thread since this is not an environment.

Ihazard

The cockpit glass looks as if it's melted to the main body of the plane, you should make it look as if they're actually seperate, but that's the only bit that really strikes me as off, looks good

Perfectblue

Updates and some quick test renders. Excuse floating bits that are going to be baked in i.e. paneling.

@Ihazard, does the cockpit still have that "melted glass" appearance? Tried to modify that a bit.








Landing Gear

binopittan

The proportion looks off imo.
look what i found

Also this.

Perfectblue

binopittan wrote: »

The proportion looks off imo.
look what i found

Thanks for stopping by. Are you certain the proportions are off? They match up pretty much 1:1 with the blueprint I am using. I suppose the blueprints could be wrong, but unlikely. Except for customizing the hard points to carry what I wanted e.g. fuel droptanks, its the same as the blueprint.

binopittan

Ok maybe it's just a weird perspective effect.. from the top view it looks fine

Ihazard

cockpit looks much better nice progress

MainManiac

whats it hairier than?

Great work

hollywood-north

This is pretty cool. Reminds me of a toy and I want to play with it and make "pew pew" sounds as I fire those missiles at bad guys.

sprunghunt

it looks funny with the auxiliary fuel tanks out on the wings like that. They're not that way in your reference.

otherwise looks good.

Rhoutermans

Ihazard wrote: »

cockpit looks much better nice progress

cockpit.. http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q27/galakadon/GiggityGiggity.jpg

seriously, nice progress so far. can't wait to see the low poly & texturing

Perfectblue

sprunghunt wrote: »

it looks funny with the auxiliary fuel tanks out on the wings like that. They're not that way in your reference.

otherwise looks good.

The drop tanks? It all depends on what the hard point load out is on that particular jet. The harrier can have them, and the drop tanks are in 2 of the reference shots.

Xoliul

Your blueprints are not very accurate I think, in many areas it feels like it's missing subtle curves to look like the real thing.

Here, what you pm'd me about:


(I know it's the 2 seater pictured, so ignore the cockpit area)

Perfectblue

Xoliul wrote: »

You're blueprints are not very accurate I think, in many areas it feels like it's missing subtle curves to look like the real thing.

Thanks for stopping by and the paint over, much appreciated. I just checked with several other blueprints (from from http://www.the-blueprints.com/) for the
AV-8B Harrier II version of the jet, and they line up fine in side and front view. But looking at that reference, assuming its a AV-8B, I see some problems as you stated. Any other glaring issues besides the one shown that need improvement?

Xoliul

Wingtips are also rounder. Transitions from wings to body at the back looks quite different.
And many of your "floater" details look completely different? Tbh, I wouldn't bother with floaters for those lines. Just do them in Photoshop, at least you can ensure crisp 1px lines there.

Perfectblue

Xoliul wrote: »

Tbh, I wouldn't bother with floaters for those lines. Just do them in Photoshop, at least you can ensure crisp 1px lines there.

Yeah I completely forgot about the separate post I made about paneling here http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85419 people were suggesting the same technique there. Do you use nDo to create the normal lines?

Xoliul

nDo or just the Nvidia or Xnormal plugin yes. All planes/spaceships on my portfolio are done like that, I'd hope they look acceptable
Reason I refrain a bit from nDo is it can get crazy heavy on my PC, like 6gb ram not cutting it...

anyway if you want some general tips to focus on to get this looking really good it's to go for accuracy, get all those shapes right, right now it might look good to the average polycount visitor, but if you want to get good at vehicles you have to grow a feel for this mechanical accuracy. Also really focus on crispness, get all the edges defined right, make sure the textures are sharp, etc...

Mio

good progress so far.

Harrier is one of my favorite jet. keep going plz!

Olli.

youve put the extra fuel containers too far from the hull.. theyre supposed to be on the slot thats closest to the frame (because they are quite heavy, and you dont want your wings to rip off in high G manouvers