If by the wireframe mesh you mean to get the wireframe in the render like that:
1. Clone the mesh you want to render
2. Add a push modifier to the cloned mesh with a smallish value
3. Apply a new material to the cloned mesh with the "wireframe" box checked
4. Render
I wish they'd add a proper way to do this.
*edit - Beaten to it by Dark.
Anyway I decided to give the lighthouse one a go, too. The top curve bit's wireframe looks weird from this angle, but it's actually OK. I'll finish this and add the light itself tomorrow.
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Hi Defrag 
Neat models. The lighthouse window kinda looks like it had a texture applied to it although it hasn't.
I got bored so i threw some stuff in roboblitz editor . (that and i haven't posted anything in a long ass time <-- i think ima start posting more shit)
I played around with self illumination on this model.
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i guess it looks nice but can you also make a shot where we see a little bit more of those vending machines thanks
rather not 
they suck pretty hardcore (just kinda posted them for fun )
I'm trying to get a good highpoly workflow going, so I modelled this airship thingy
http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~beulaers/wips/airshipwip1.jpg
still far from finished, I have alot of detail planned and will probably normal map it on a lowpoly version later on.
comments/crits much appreciated!
I love the material on that
I'm trying to get a good highpoly workflow going, so I modelled this airship thingy
still far from finished, I have alot of detail planned and will probably normal map it on a lowpoly version later on.
comments/crits much appreciated!
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i always think of alien when i see this WIP :X
Hipoly version of my barracuda + uv map (I already fixed the front hood issue btw)
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What about the top-of-the-car issue? 
WAY too many polies in the wheels versus the rest of the body.
hah yeah just about to say the same thing
check the uv wires - he finished the LP uv, and the HP mesh
I'm using this hipoly version only to bake the normal map... how am I supposed to bake a normal without UVing the model ? I'm noob at normal map making, this is my first one.
I'll use that UV map to paint the texture on and then apply it on the low poly version.
snipa: fixed that too
this is the low poly for those who havent seen it (1000 tris budget)
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I know the car is a bit too long, I'll fix that soon.
You dont have to unwrap the high poly because all you're getting from it is ray data from the normals on the polygons. You only need the lowpoly UV'd so it can bake the proper normal data on the material sheet. So if you unwrapped the high poly you kinda wasted time but you'll learn from it. If that one IS your highpoly, go ahead and put more detail into it for better normal mapping
Nice job though.
ok I think I get it now ferret. I'll still use the high poly for ambient occlusion baking though.
The highpoly doesn't need to be uv wrapped as well for AO, if you are using max, then just do the same (render to texture) but (or actually additionally, so you don't need to render it two times) choose lightmap or shadowmap (sorry I forgot :/). Alternativly you can use xNormal for both normal and AO.
Nice car mino
You should definitely model the interior too tho (perhaps you planned that).
Wouldn't need to be very advanced. But it adds a lot.
oh, so you ... did ... unwrap the high poly
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