Telescope WIP

RichardS

Hey guys stealing work from Raul and going to give his telescope a shot. Don't worry i asked so no ass whoopin' coming this way!

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Progress:

RichardS

Modeled the bolt I will reuse around the model starting with around the coupling.

megalmn2000

The twisted part of the bolt should be thinner & sharper.

RichardS

Appreciate the critique on it. I am always glad to get some freed back but the threads won't really be showing, but if I find time I will revisit that. Good thing is the threads barely show!

JoshC

Looks nice and I'm really enjoying the level of detail you are taking this. My only real comments so far is that if you are wanting to stick very close to the reference then the rivets should be smaller and the bolts should be larger. The bolts in the reference are very prominate. Also if you are going to bake this, I would scale up the metal bands and pipe heads so the geometry doesn't poke through which would show up on the bake (possible).

raul

looks cool man! one thing i will say is that the details kinda look paper thin and you need to use a shader with a high specular so you can see your details better.

RichardS

Thanks for the crits. Haven't gotten around to fattening things up yet but been working on the base. Any thoughts on it?

RichardS

ok on render noticed a muddy corner so just had to add a few edge loops so it was straight and not short bus curved. Here ya go and a little bit closer also.

Donavonyoung

Personally I wouldn't waste your time on screw threads and all that insignificant detail. You are really just wasting your time because it will not be seen.

RichardS

Thanks for the input Donavon. Basically modeled the bolt because I never had and Raul said it would be more difficult than it looks....which it was to get the exact shape I was aiming for. Good thing is I can add it to my collection of things I dont need to ever model again

Computron

Maybe if you loosen up the edges, then you could kit bash them later, but as they are right now, probably not.

RichardS

Sorry Computron not familiar with kit bash can you explain? Am still in school and never have heard that term.

Did some research basically is it having a kit of premade models to detail your work? Would be interested in it, but also i think its good practice for me to be modeling most if not all of my stuff at least right now.

Computron

RichardS wrote: »

Good thing is I can add it to my collection of things I dont need to ever model again

I read this as meaning you were going to re-use the bolt you modeled here In other projects, that's called kit bashing. This would not be a good Idea because your edges are too tight, and would only show up as one pixel or less in your normal map.

aajohnny

Honestly with the bolts, if you have nDo2, you can put them in like that, or just use a texture. Takes up a lot of time (Up to you!)

RichardS

Damn aajohnny that is one sexy looking tool I have mostly been using Maya and xnormal bakes but that def looks sexy. Might have to spring for it.