The random model thread!

Ha yes But I will finish mine first

I know that, I can get 2-3 hours per week on that

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Seir, when I'm looking to your model, i'm thinking aboir a Scar-h

I'm tweaking the normal map of my Spas12. I need more training on baking because it was a lot of shit and I have made a lot of modification in photoshop basicly on rounded surfaces.

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But overall i'm happy for my first weapon

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Seir, when I'm looking to your model, i'm thinking aboir a Scar-h

Reminds me more of modern FAL variants:

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In any case, nice work you two! Bring on the guns ammaright?

Yep, I'm using lots of refs. Thanks for the feedback! Anyway:

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Few things to to (Aim to small etc.) but no time to do it

I finally have a decent normalmap + ao so now it's texture time

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Hi guys I'm having trouble creating a shape, that seems so simple but is bugging the shit out of me.

Here is the object/shape I'm trying to work out.

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The main body area is just a simple box with a rounded top, but there is that indented shape (highlighted) which is like a slice taken out of the metal.

With a low poly I could manage this fine, but creating a high poly version is where I find the trouble, here is a really shitty way I thought of doing it with a boolean, but its messy as hell and just wont do.

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Is there a cleaner way to do this? It seems so simple but I can't get my head around it!

Thanks

You could probably get away with making the shape with less loops. Make out of, say, 4 loops going lengthways and then just loop. them down to the bottom

The curve is way to detailed. Just make a chamfer + 2 support edges and TurboSmooth will make it curvy enough.

Use pro boolean and clean the mess a bit:

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guys guys, start at the beginning of this thread its amazing. like a history lesson. shiiiiiiiiiit

Awesome Seir, thank you so much for taking the time to help me!

I personally hate booleans! But everyone has a diferent workflow.

I prefer to blockout my shapes with as least geo as possible, when I'm satisfied with it, I throw some edge loops on there, and mesh smooth it, as simple as that.

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' timestamp='1349827700' post='314072']I personally hate booleans! But everyone has a diferent workflow.

I prefer to blockout my shapes with as least geo as possible, when I'm satisfied with it, I throw some edge loops on there, and mesh smooth it, as simple as that.

Yep, booleans can be ultra messy, but when you'll make it with vertex snap to exact places it will make minor mess and it's like fast cut with auto cap holes I remember you've blamed snaps in 3DSMax and yep, I found snaps very annoying, for example when you want to align vertex to edge. So easy to make on paper, so hard for 3DSMax devs to make it 100% accurate

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Awesome Seir, thank you so much for taking the time to help me!

No problem, I'm glad that I could help a bit. One more note - if you want to cut things in curved shapes, make sure that you've tessallated the surface enough and avoid triangles

took me the whole day (7hrs) to do this Childs Bed. ... . Its for a computer animation so I optimized the model so that turbosmooth can do its job..

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that's the smallest bed i've ever seen

For your fat ass, yeah probably.

even a hobbit can't sleep on a 100cm bed, more like 200cm's ;P

Atm I'm trying to get away a little bit from hyper realistic stuff to some more stylized, fantastic environments, with all handpainted textures. That's something I haven't been doing a lot so far, so I want to get into that, learn some new techniques by the way and hopefully end up with a nice scene in the end.

I found a pretty nice concept art, made by Pascal Casolari for that purpose:

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Here's what I've got so far:

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And some flats:

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