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Re: [WIP] Rain Cannon
Hah! Using AA guns to scare away rain is brilliant. Anyway before I start modeling the low poly I wanted some advice. I want to know the best possible way to model the cylinders that come out of the side and the indented areas of the upper rail. I would just keep the entire side flat but those small cylinders do stick out… -
Re: Student work: Mech Model
Great progress. I used to love those tight deadlines while in school :) Your model is coming along nicely. Some things on the lower body to look out for if you still have the time. The vent on the side is angled out more in the first concept than what you have it. Not a huge deal, I find it directs the eye towards the… -
Re: CHUN_LI [WIP]
when you start with 100% parallel eyes the front of the face and the forehead area tends to look flatter than usual. i can see the same flatness on Hai's model a bit. technically it is still symmetrical when you offset both eyes in the same amount. it is just not parallel. and theoretically speaking, i believe you have a… -
Re: General noob modeling and texturing - critique welcome!
Hi mate, thanks heaps for that! at the moment the box has no actual purpose, it was just made for the sake of making it and practice, i have been thinking about making something to go inside it, ill have to see if i can find some reference images for the lid for example, if i didnt model each plank, am i right in thinking… -
Re: Rounding off a cane
Apologies for answering for him, but the pinching result happens with it being tris on a concave/convex/non-flat surface. It doesn't generally happen if you have quads in the same situation. If you have a pole being all tris, it generally gives that unwanted pinching affect (if the surface isn't flat). If you have all… -
Re: Smoothing out a curved surface in Max?
Relax is nice if you want the surface to be FLAT flat, like on a side body panel. Around curves, you'll probably want the vert-by-vert method, although there's some sweet Maxscripts for speeding this up a bit. Check out: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/straighten-edge . To use that one, I'd do a loop… -
Re: 3D Presentation for Portfolio Website
I would say you definitely need one full-color + lighting "glamour" shot, and at least one flat-wire shot with even lighting to show poly-flow and underlying construction. Showing full texture sheets is less common these days. No one really cares how the 2D paint job looks when its flat. As long as it looks good on the… -
Re: FAILED: Art Test!
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but decals help a great deal on tileable stuff. Cheap and easy to place on flat surfaces (decals can encompass stuff like small pebbles, stains, grime, etc). Everything else people have gone onto great extent to mention I would agree with...the textures need some more detail and they… -
Re: Normal bake issue
hmmm nope... I don't know why would you added those loops(ngon alert :D ) . In the first image you posted you had things kinda right... ofc you could have removed and reconnected some edges to reduce the tricount. I mean it is just a flat surface... no need for so many polys. What you need here is a combination of cage… -
Re: Chinese Roof - modular approach
i think the main problem here is going to be the different slope of every level's roof. in a modelling app i would simply try a modifier with a curve. i don't know if something like that is possible in a game engine, too. however, you could make the central parts of the roof flat. then, you only have to make one corner…
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