Amplifier model to practice materials

Pedro Amorim

So I did this small prop (lol crate) it's a small amplifier. And made it with the purpose of releasing it here so that people can pratice their materials with it. The max file is max2009 and is using 3pshader Pro. But you can easily use the lite version.

Inside the zip there is the normal map, difuse tga and the psd which I set up like if this was for me.

Download Here



EDIT:
I'm adding to the first post Per's image of the amp and his download link to the files which has some tweaks to the psd (less group layers and what not. and better namin. see this post for list of changes http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1410801&postcount=22 )
DOWNLOAD (10 MB)





Some refs..













Ok, so, have fun and post things here

metalliandy

Nice! Thanks for sharing, mate

Pedro Amorim

Oh, forgot to say that the HP is inside the max file. But it's in exploded format. So I uploaded the OBJ for it.

Here it is.

Hipoly Model Unexploded

gilesruscoe

Nice one Pedro, thanks!

Sean VanGorder

Oh that's awesome. I'll take a crack at it after school lets up in a few weeks.

Have you textured it yourself Pedro?

Quack!

Very nice! Need to work on my texture skillz, and this looks like a great object for that! Thanks.

[edit] The high poly seems broke. Did you apply e-mesh with a turbosmooth modifier on? Importing into max and throwing a tsmooth on it causes errors.

Jungsik

Goddamn im so getting this :DD

Pedro Amorim

chaosquack wrote: »

Very nice! Need to work on my texture skillz, and this looks like a great object for that! Thanks.

[edit] The high poly seems broke. Did you apply e-mesh with a turbosmooth modifier on? Importing into max and throwing a tsmooth on it causes errors.

yeah. it's working fine. The errors that appear is because i deleted the .mtl so he is saying that file is missing. But the mesh is good. Just tried it.

Sean VanGorder wrote: »

Oh that's awesome. I'll take a crack at it after school lets up in a few weeks.

Have you textured it yourself Pedro?

I haven't. I just finished assembling the file to upload here and I might start texture soon. For pratice.

Quack!

yeah. it's working fine. The errors that appear is because i deleted the .mtl so he is saying that file is missing. But the mesh is good. Just tried it.

Alrighty! Thanks.

n88tr

needs scratches like the refs
and tape.

Oniram

n88tr wrote: »

needs scratches like the refs
and tape.

so download it and do it yourself. thats kinda the purpose.

thx for sharing pedro.

r_fletch_r

awesome, is this supposed to be a sdk thread?

thanks Pedro!

makecg

nice one !

Pedro Amorim

r_fletch_r wrote: »

awesome, is this supposed to be a sdk thread?

thanks Pedro!

Yes sir. That's exactly the point

r_fletch_r

I have the same problem as chaosquack. the mesh comes in corrupt. turbosmoothing it results in a load of smoothing errors.

Quick fix for me was to import it. then export it back and re import. dont know why that worked but it did.

Pedro Amorim

oh wow. what max are you using?

r_fletch_r

2011. but as i said its easy to fix. just wanted to make sure anyone with the same issue had the fix.

2009 uses the old obj exporter so maybe thats the issue.

Piesandbombs

Thanks a ton mate, I'm gonna work on a hand-painted texture for this.

Quack!

fletch, that is the exact issue I was talking about. It did this in max 2012 also.

sneakymcfox

Thanks Pedro was just wanting something to practice my texturing on. A really nice clean model lots of room for texture input was exactly what I was hoping for

Rens

have not fully read of tried it, but sometimes objs are sort of broken when imported,
try adding an edit normals modifier and reset it

Jeremy Tabor

Sweet. Thanks Pedro for the set up, and to Perna for additions.

Tho, I'm getting the ole' 404 on your link there, Perna.

Bryan Cavett

Perna: Can you guys provide a little info about your PSD setup script? This post and Vahl's recent post made me start thinking of automating my own PSD set up and I was curious what all yours does. Seems pretty efficient if all those masks, curvature, ao, and crazy bump layers were made for you. This also helps with consistency when working with on a team.

Nick work Pedro

Pedro Amorim

LOL MEX

Pedro Amorim

Changed first post with Per's link and image to the amp because he is a sweetie and told me to say that he loves you all.

vahl

Cool Stuff pedro !!

Per : as far as the actions go, I think Nick is referring to the Deus EX scene I posted earlier on, which was indeed using your actions (being done while I was working at 3 point ) except for curvatures which were baked with some extra max plugin and a simple action I made to separate concavity and convexity (kinda like you rgb extract action). And that kind of stuff is indeed incredibly handy ^^

Jesse Moody

This is awesome. Thank you Pedro for sharing! Gonna download and take a look. Paint up an amp. Lord knows I need the mats practice

[HP]

ah ah, you always model the weirdest things man, you should be a Prop Artist!

Great stuff man, bake came out so awesome.

sltrOlsson

No OBJ loving on the lowpoly to? Us maya-niens (yes it's a word describing maya users, duh) want to play to! Looks awesome! Can i plx have?

Pedro Amorim

Oh. well. the problem is that im using max baker and 3ps quality normals. So probably it wouldnt look the same in maya :S But i can get it to you still.

EDIT: Here you go
OBJ File
FBX File

sltrOlsson

Yeah, i get that. I'm a bit jealous of that fance 3point shader :P I'm no baking master but i thought i could make a xNormals bake of it to use in marmoset?

If it's OK i'll upload it here?

I thought it would be awesome to practice some to

IxenonI

cool idea. Clean bake Pedro, I like it.

Nice materials and decals perna

ZacD

I may trying to make a dirty texture for this why no screen?

willy-wilson

Pedro Amorim wrote: »

Oh. well. the problem is that im using max baker and 3ps quality normals. So probably it wouldnt look the same in maya :S But i can get it to you still.

EDIT: Here you go
OBJ File
FBX File

I thought 3ps was making the normal map work more like in Maya.

Either way it works just fine

sltrOlsson

Well, what the F am i whining about. Works perfectly fine in Marmoset to. Still, thx for the obj my good sir

Pedro Amorim

oh, looks great:) Awesome Let's see those materials now ladies

Oniram

@sltrOlsson: wow thats a nice setup. didnt know marmoset could do reflections like that. great job

stoofoo

Pedro this is a brilliant gift to the site. Gonna encourage my class to grab this and try and kill some material work. Thanks.

Pedro Amorim

stoofoo wrote: »

Pedro this is a brilliant gift to the site. Gonna encourage my class to grab this and try and kill some material work. Thanks.

Nice! Have them post the results later

Baddcog

Wouldn't this have been a more fitting ref? lol

Dan!

thanks alot man- great model to work with! I sent a couple hrs today and kludged this up- no real spec map just the diffuse and normal.

Pedro Amorim

Looking good. Altough the leather part could be better.
Try one of these patterns.

Pedro Amorim

well, then maybe scale the pattern down?

Surfa

I have a small amp here with me and it is about a year or two old and one thing I have noticed after not looking after it at all is that the dust really likes to build up in the corners of the handle and as your version seems a little flat on the top it could really help sell some more depth at the corners.

I took a quick photo for you with my phone (hence the bad quality)

Pedro Amorim

perna wrote: »

hey dont hijack the thread

ooololol

grantthompson

Spent a couple hours the other day on this Still not finished but just thought I would share

Thanks a lot dude for this, it was a great model to test my texturing on.

richwderby

Great texturing work, very ample stuff in this thread keep it coming

Rik

Great idea Pedro! This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks for the adjustments you guys made as well, as it made the model and texture easier to work with.

Here are my shots: