I'd been dreading this part of the build and I was in split minds on the method to model this. Do I refine the edge by adding more loop cuts and make the model higher poly? Or do I do a Boolean difference and suffer the affects of N-gons? I asked my class mates on our discord (a really brilliant group and I'm very lucking…
Going against what I had said before, I decided to jsut go for it and retop the main body of the model again. I've kept it pretty efficent this time around (I hope you all agree) The thrusters/rockets on top i'll redo. But what I have found interesting is doing the boolean difference modifier operation for the main side…
Quick WIP update... I've remodel this thing about 5...maybe 6 times now? Obviously this isnt sustainable but all part of the learning process I guess. I've managed to get the doors cut-out WITHOUT doing a boolean difference which I did not think I'd be able to achieve. But over the past week I've become gradaully more…
is this is intended for games? If so, I might ask around a bit about UDIMs. I thought that was something only used in film (or at least not games). To finish the assignment probably best to just do whatever teacher wants but if trying to get a job in games it's going to be good to know what workflows work and won't for…
panels are loooking ok in that last image. lots of different ways to do panels tbhyou can stamp normal map details in Substance painter( the panel on the very right was stamped on) and some people even do the panels in susbtance I was messing with my bus , adding a few details, but I have only just started learning this…
Had my head down the past few days but am happy to share some progress... High Poly mesh has been baked onto Low Poly mesh pretty well. I have decided to use a single UV tile and not go for the UDIM route.
I would stop with the long thin strips, go for more square poly/even distribution. think about the silhouette and try to be minimal in capturing thelook. think about the wasted loops where nothing is defined adding extra lengthways loops
i'm not much of a hard surface modeler, but my first hunch for the panels might be to model them and bake them as floaters. I think that would just be simpler to do rather than try to paint it in texturing. And if you bake it you can get curvature maps and so on which can give you more flexibility in texturing. you might…