The random model thread!

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Normal map will smooth all the edges you want and it's a blast for your model. There's a way to fake it by chamfering the edges and changing vertex normal so there will be no problem with weird gradients. Anyway, you should think about making a high-poly model

Would I be faking the smooth edges for the low poly mesh though, or is that for the high poly? One thing that concerns me is that the normal map will have to be a certain high resolution for the slightly smoothed edges on the main body of the vehicle to show up well.

Faking is for a low poly if you don't want to make a hipoly for it.

Quote from Steppenwolf

There are plenty of threads about tanks and armoured vehicles on polycount that you can check out to get an idea what the hp mesh is for.Btw Seir there is also another method other then chamfering to fake smooth edges. This seems to be quite popular with people who use only ndo for their normal maps:

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There's a way to reduce polycount with only one chamfer and nice smoothing. Here you go:

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With "Edit Normals" you can "fake" some lighting information, still baking normal map is better but if you need to make a little prop and save memory with not using normal in separate DDS file then it's a good idea to do that.

but you get ngon there

Of these examples only number 3 has a similar effect as the one that i posted and it has a higher tricount actualy.

Here is the thread on polycount where i got the trick from. Check it out: http://%7boption%7d

It does a pretty good job imo. You can't really tell that the props haven't been baked.

Yep, 3 looks nice in 3DSMax but I've noticed that 4 looks also cool in game engine and it has lower triscount Still the bevel technique is nice

Meanwhile in Russia:

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but you get ngon there

Of course, it's just an example.

Felt like sculpting some wood today and it was really fun. I am thinking of doing a small scene in the style of this red steel concept art: http://i.imgur.com/hyQ08.jpg

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Nice, that looks amazing!

Looks awesome

I reworked the weapon I made shaving several thousand triangles off of it, created additional LOD models, remapped the U/V and smoothing groups for greater efficiency and texel density, reworked the texture, eliminated the redundant styles, added a self-illum mask to the 'stickies,' modded the stock particle effects for it, and created two small little promo scenes in Source Film Maker, which I didn't know how to do before.

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Workshop page - please rate and comment.

View in 3D at p3d.in

Nice weapon Mr Happy

So yeah, my corridor now has walls and a floor, exciting.

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PenE dude that is looking badass. Could you post the texture flats? Would love to see them!

looking good penE

Very nice, I like it alot.

The plaster looks good but the color variation on the edges, I wonder what that supposed to be. The red outline. I guess it's painted on but if it's supposed to be aging or wear it doesn't look right.

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Nice weapon Mr Happy So yeah, my corridor now has walls and a floor, exciting.

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Lovely. It's incredible what a lovely, warm atmosphere wood can bring. Even your earlier version with just the wood was cosy.

Thanks alot for the love, in return, some texture flats:

The Pillar:

http://i.imgur.com/WfcgK.jpg

Some wood beams:

http://i.imgur.com/y0uHw.jpg

The floor:

http://i.imgur.com/HzXc1.jpg

And the plasterwall (yeah, the dirt on it still needs some work ):

http://i.imgur.com/LG9Px.jpg

Texture sizes still are a bit obsessive, but I always can scale them down in the end.

Mr. Happy, yep, I'll work on that some more .

Looks awesome man. Reminds me a lot of Pontus' work (I think his nick is 'Pomperii' on these boards). Subtly stylised

Wow those are very nice, have you painted these from scratch or used references?

I sculpted the wood parts, baked them down and painted from them on with the baked stuff as a base.