ZF-1 from Fifth Element Model

armodka

Hello Everyone!

So this is my first time posting. I've decided to create the ZF-1 gun from the Fifth Element. I would like some feedback on it please. Here is the picture of the High poly version of the gun.

I will have some pictures of the low poly all textured up soon.

Thanks in advanced!

marq4porsche

Haha, great choice I can't wait to see more. Remember though when doing the high poly to bevel your edges so your low poly captures the bake easier.

Clark Coots

hahah ohh ya, that movie is awesome and so is that gun. it's looking good so far

SaferDan

This looks good! Can we see wires?

cdevens

Great start. That movie (and that gun) is awesome. You should throw up a reference shot from the movie so people can give better critiques.

armodka

Hey everybody, thanks for the comments!

Here is the reference I am using for the gun:



It is a movie replica of the gun. I've also got a great turnaround of it as well.

Here is the wireframe of the gun. This is the High poly. I started out with box modeling and turn on NURMS subdivision when I want to see it smoothed.

Digital Cantina

Looks great so far, one of my favorite movies of all time. Nice clean geo, cant wait to see it finished. Just a quick question, whats the little red button on the bottom of the gun for?

armodka

Endr wrote: »

Just a quick question, whats the little red button on the bottom of the gun for?

I guess you're not a cold blooded killer :poly129:

MadnessImport

Its beautiful!

The Fifth Element was what maxed out my interest in sci-fi stuff

Love how you shaded the red button that was my second favorite part of the movie

HughieDM

but a cold blooded killer would have asked what the little red button does he methodical

lookin good cant wait to see it finished

Razgriz

I'm eager to see the low poly of this, hopefully you can keep it under a billion triangles. That's the trouble with modeling from movies, or photographs sometimes, it can become necessary to go off script a bit to keep the low poly manageable. There is a ton of stuff breaking the silhouette on this thing.

armodka

Hey everyone, here is the low poly closed and open:







And here it is animating:



I watched the scene with gun animating, and replicated it frame by frame. Never realized how fast it was. The top part with the light doesn't rise until a little after in the scene, but I decided to raise it with the rest. For reference: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxjnl1yuXk"]Zorg's ZF-1 gun - YouTube[/ame]

nick2730

they forgot to ask about the little red button on the bottom of the gun

armodka

So I need some help on my model. I've put it in UDK but I'm having trouble with the shadows. :poly127:



The anti aliasing is just real bad, and I can't seen to find an option to increase the resolution size for the shadows. I know with a static mesh I could just make the resolution for the Light map bigger, and it would fix it. But I can't seem to find it on a skeletal mesh. anybody know of a fix for this?

Thanks

BlvdNights

Any update to this?

AmbiguousPackage

Far as I know from my experience is skeletal meshes only have a 0 UV channel which is the diffuse. Then they are running with shadows in real time so they are depending on the settings from the light sources in the environment and or a light environment setup.