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…
Current bake with a quick smart material slapped on: I was hoping to have this all textured by now but I ended up redoing the modelling (a lot) more than I first anticipated. All part of the learning process at the end of the day but I will definitly need to make up for lost time somewhere. I've also taken a look into…
Quick update. I'm still a bit stumped on how I will make the lines/panelling look in the image above ^^ But I have pressed onto texturing regardless to keep the ball rolling... Was a lot of in and out of baking and remodelling to get the High poly mesh as close as possible to the low poly mesh. I now have in a state which…
Another update... Very closed to finishing all exterior modelling. I will not be modelling interior ar this stage. But If I have time at the end, I will do so... Anyways... Low Poly model is 34k tris High Poly model (2 sub divs. Will most likely do 3 or 4 when I export for baking) is 280k tris. Hopefully this is good…
Thanks again for everyones help[ thus far. I looked into Floater island baking and I gave it ago with mixed results. I'd like some critique on my texturing so far. I am putting this down now for a bit to get on with other parts of the project. But I'd like to be able to come back to this at a later date with a clear idea…
Hey all who are reading, just thought I'd share some work for my first tasks this week. From yesterday (Monday) I have been working on Modelling the LAAT Gunship. I have used this image reference to help get the proportions right. This modelling & texture task is designed (by me) to get myself warmed up and back into the…
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…