Cold's WIP Thread

Coldeath · May 2010

Hi all

Long time reader first time poster :P
I have been working on my art/game art for some time and i think i have most of the basics down.
But after seeing some of the work posted here I realized that i have to take things to the next level
and then some if i am ever going to get a job in the games industry.

Compared to some of you i have lot of learning to. Any way i am hoping that if I put in the effort
and get some CC my work should get better. (Note this is only a theory and my be effected by
beer)

So i will start off with some of my current work as i am not to sure i want to show my old stuff :P

This is a gun that i am making for a mod team.

Folded up with no textures

Let the betting commence !!!! eeeeek :P

Coldeath · May 2010

Different gun from the same project

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/random/Screenshot2010-05-13at51503PM.png

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/random/Screenshot2010-05-13at51521PM.png

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/random/Screenshot2010-05-13at51532PM.png

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/random/Screenshot2010-05-13at51819PM.png

chrisradsby · May 2010

Interesting rifle the new one I mean. The first one looks okay you might want to take it into Marmoset Toolbag or something like that because that baby definitely lacks some nice specular

Coldeath · May 2010

thanks for the tip Chrisradsby

Ok texture up date and this has an spc map on it as well
rendering in toolbag

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/main2.jpg

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/main.jpg

3D-209 · May 2010

Hey man, are you baking normals in Modo? I applaud you modeling in it, makes me feel a little less alone, but it looks like you're having normal map issues and it's probably Modo's fault. Could you post some shots with the normal map but without the color?

It'd probably be worthwhile to learn Maya or xNormal for baking maps (if you don't know already), as by default they seem to output a more agreeable result.

Coldeath · May 2010

Here you go. I am to to sure what ya are saying that it could be modo. More likly to be user error.

I do over drive the normals and then sure a different smoothing angel. On the main output. Is there a problem with the normals modo makes ?

Not to sure i am justify 5k for better normal maps. I am learning Xnormal tho and when i say learning i mean felling my way around it. There Tutorial confusese me :P

dur23 · May 2010

It looks like you need to flip your red channel. You can clearly see that shading is all wonky in that gray scale picture in your second picture. The low poly with baked normal maps are supposed to look almost exactly (if not exactly) like the high poly. That is the point of them.

uneditablepoly · May 2010

I do like the design of that first gun, the fanned mag sticking out the bottom gives it a wing-y feel. I like it! ;D

Snefer · May 2010

You need to work on the smoothing of the lowpoly, and rebake. Thats it. Modo bakes nice normalmaps

It's very fast, even though it got some bugs and issues here and there.

3D-209 · May 2010

Snefer wrote: »

You need to work on the smoothing of the lowpoly, and rebake. Thats it. Modo bakes nice normalmaps It's very fast, even though it got some bugs and issues here and there.

You're probably absolutely right, I've only messed with baking in Modo once with similar results to the above and didn't feel like researching it further because I'm so used to doing it in other programs. Does it not do well with all soft meshes in general? Since Modo is still absolutely stupid about not having proper smoothing groups/edge normals, it doesn't seem like it'd be worth setting up if you can't get good results with mostly soft normals.

Normal maps from Maya from soft meshes also look like ass when viewed in Modo, in my experience.

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