Hi all, Thanks for the comments. I'll try to answer everyone's questions: Yes the lighting is very flat. This is going to be in-game so I'm not going to waste time lighting it in max. I plan to rough the materials up a bit with some overlays for moss etc. Right now the entire cabin is built from one log material so if I…
Welcome! It's looking good, I really like the concept nicely done! a.) I see a lot of welded mesh, which chunks up the tri count. Make sure to count tris because polys can have many triangles and at the end of the day most engines are counting tris. It depends on what engine and workflow you are doing but quite a few…
wow! Thanks for all the kind words! Let me see if I have this forum syntax correct. @warby - I agree. I was really surprised not to see more higher quality alien art. It seems like a really good midlevel modeling challenge, and it's such a cool IP, you would think it would have more of a presence. There is one really…
after replying here people asked me if they could have that script with the spinner that lets me smooth surfaces without the usual hassle in 3dsmax. The picture I posted back then was: http://www.renderhjs.net/bbs/polycount/tips/quarantine_map_smoothing_groups.gif its a common task for me fixing the smoothing groups of…
Hey guys thanks so much again for all the nice comments! Jackablade, Striker, Saman: Okay okay! You guys convinced me, after talking a bit with the awesome Andy Hickenbottom I'm going to take a shot at a 3d eye. It's definitely not going to be the traditional spherical 'eyeball in a socket' approach though - but more of a…
Welcome to polycount =) I'm about to rip your model apart in the hopes that you can put it back together and have it be better. Or at least you can walk away having learned something you can take to work on your next model. This is going to take up a good chunk of my free time this morning. Recognize the fact that I don't…
Hey thanks everyone for all the great and helpful feedback. This model has gone through a ton of iterations so it's nice to know I'm on the right track. Getting some fresh eyes on it really helps. I'll try to hit up all your comments individually. TeriyakiStyle; Thanks! For scripts, I have a few custom scripts I use. The…
For a first or second try, its a good start. I have some time to kill and a new keyboard so that means monster verbose posts while I break it in! If you read all of this I applaud you, if you learn something and aren't in a comma by the end then mission accomplished. This is also an impromptu guide for newbie female…