The random model thread!

    Oh wow I love that, looks fantastic!

    the texture of the normal map on the shade is too large. It doesn't read fabric, it reads really bad normal map. Try get a finer fabric normal, or I'd suggest maybe just noise.

    I have to learn maya for my job, so I checked out a few dvd's to get myself familiarized with the interface and poly modeling and uv mapping etc. I think I know enough about it not to be a burden asking dumb questions like "HOW DO I SHOOT WEB"; pissed about for a couple of hours and got this -

    [Blocked Image: http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/21477/2004618521404135605_rs.jpg]

    Nothing fancy, just trying to prove to myself that I can use maya well enough to do what is required of me

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    I have to learn maya for my job

    Have you been working with 3DS MAX before? I mean... Do you see some differences betwen MAX and MAYA...? I heard that MAYA is more simple, every tool is 'near hand' and UV Mapping is beter (don't know why but someone said that )

    Btw. really nice looking street. You should continue with that and maybe it will be your new level

    yea I started with xsi for a few months, moved to max and found it really intuitive. And now maya. Personally I think they are all the same thing with the buttons in different places. I don't think I am in a position to judge maya yet as I haven't used it long enough - ask me again in 6 months and I'll let you know

    The thing I liked about max was that, depending on what mode you are in, and then what tool you are using within that mode (say polygon mode, and then in face editing) you have all the tools you need right there in the command panel. In all my time using max I have had to use the menu's maybe twice, and that was to add some hotkeys

    I really like maya's navigation though, but it seems to be built around that one perspective window - and when you jump into a 4 viewport mode there is suddenly an awful lack of space (I am running a 21 inch on 1600x1200 btw, max is wonderful at this res).

    They are definately different and I predict in a month or two I will love maya, as I learnt to love max, but I don't think I will move over to it exclusively, max just seems to have a much nicer workflow for polygon modeling, but after a week in maya I can't really say that with any authority.

    Not to drone on for too long, but maya's uv tools, well I don't like the way it is handled much, it has a couple of nice features like snapping and welding to edges (if this is in max then I haven't found it ), but aside from that it's too clunky - it's usable no doubt, but it feels very awkward at times.

    Now that autodesk owns them both I am hoping they will migrate certain features between the two, I would be really happy if there was a "3ds maya"

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    is that a Canvas texturizer filter on the wall texture

    Actually, recently I've been using filters for texturing much less that I used to. Only the odd noise here and there when I need it. So no, there's no canvas texture filter - it's just a wood set to soft light (if I remember correctly) even so I'm not happy with the texture.

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    you could move the origin in the qc:$origin 0 0 0 (x y z)

    I'll give it a go.

    the latches and door are too thick and the handle looks on the small side, also the square base for it is very dull

    and its only taken? eight months... lol joey don't quit your day jo OH SHI

    Looks good but maybe you could remove the smaller details from the normal map. I'm not too fond of really tiny, insignificant bumps. :X

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