The random model thread!

It looks really cool acumen, you nailed it, i like how you did different colors for the keypad .

Personally, i use splines too to do cables / tubes with the render in viewport option on. (3dsmax i assume)

I do that with a bezier curve to have a lot of subdivisions, i collapse it's modifier pile into an edit poly, and then optimize the mesh by selecting the edges with loop selection and delete them with CTRL + BACKSPACE ( or add some by chamfering a loop).

Never really had a problem

hm, right, the line tool works fine for the cables !

but um, let me tell you a little story, mister !

yesterday i spent lots of time figuring out how to do that spiral - and the thing was - i fought my way through the internet searching for some tips on how the helix stuff works...

cause i had found the "renderable" and "display render mesh" options but i couldn't figure out how i could decrease the height segments - it was too hipoly for my model...

so what i did was extruded a cylinder primitive along the helix spline, which often resulted in weird objects. sometimes it was alright but rotated in a weird way and i couldn't figure out how that could be stopped - then it was extruded quite deformed - it was really annoying.

and that's why i didn't even think about doing the cables/tubes with the line tool...

thanks, for giving me the the right hint again !!

but still, if you should know how to get the helix problem solved, you'd be my hero of the rest of the year

it just has too many height segments (something like 42), which i don't know how to change, so it adapts to my low poly model

Thanks for the psd Pomperi. I learned a lot of it.

But for what is the glow in the corrugationlayer ? I see the effect but i can't image what

you reason was to do this.

And are those creases from a photo, or did you paint those ?

And could you say something about your way of approaching a texture like this?

You way of thinking when texturing ...

Somebody has a sollution for these bad schadowes ?

EDIT : excuse me for the bad link

The pictire is just a render from 3ds max.

ehm posting urls from that http://www.game-artist.net forum requires that we are logged in there...

you should also specify application/engine etc.

Try using mentalray or something.

But why would you need shadows? The mesh isn't even textured.

Also, you can always import the mesh into an engine, for better view of the materials!

But, if you insist on using max's viewport, then I suggest using a DX shader, like Doylles shader over at Game-artists

If you're using Shadowmaps then increase the shadowmap resolution and/or play around with bias. The object might be also really small.

tried some modular modelling today, not sure if that makes sense in the end, but it was fun doing these parts

i also have all the elements made with only one and not the double connecting pieces

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That looks like a nice set of props Acumen, pipes are one of those tings i havent found a comfortable way of doing yet .

Here's some shots of my work I'm doing for Uni, it's for a first year assignment and I've got to model a house for a VR environment to help people undergoing "shoulder rehabilitation". This is the most complete room so far.

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Ive never really played with lighting a scene before so any comments on that would be cool, i didn't make it too bright because it isn't the focus of the marking for this particular assignment (the kitchen is).

Its a bit empty. Maybe some extra props to make it more interesting ?

Small update of my lowpolyscene

Jenn0_Bing, i'm not sure if i understood correctly but that room looks veeeery scary for a shoulder rehabilittitioans thingie

and Nysuatro, mighty fine as it is right now. i'd love to see some closeups when you're done to see the texture en detail !

and there goes more modular pieces

i made the 2nd railings with varied middle sections, but i guess you can all imagine what it looks like

after some discussing in forums concerning performance we said, it'd be best if the modeler can combine these small assets in his editor and i'll put the models together for a big one in each room (for example), so it can be compiled together, sharing one texture and collision box.

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edit: now that'll be the last railing for a while - need a break from these things !

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and some more other models, i forgot to render in the first place^^:

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My second model I've ever made, a sign warning that Koalas, Wombats and Kangaroos may be found ahead. These signs are commonly found on Australian roads in bushland, rural and outback areas.

Someone make a mod that replaces the headcrabs with wombats.

Not bad aaron_da_killa!

Haha, thanks guys .

Looks nice in game but there's a lot of contrast from ground to sign's pipe. It's like that:

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1 - big contrast

2 - smaller contrast at the edge of model and ground

Been working on this tank for awhile and I'm pretty satisfied how it turned out since I haven't worked anything this large before.

I'm planning to texture it aswell so I want to know how you like it before It's finished

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Looks cool white devil, but you should really work the back of the tank, it's a bit uninteresting right now

A little prop to show i'm doing something

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the elephant is on crack? nice though!

that's war paint