Posts by ReNo

  • dm_petrol

    What the hell is going on with your ultra-thin point_spotlights? You really have to widen them up, it would look better without them as is. The building front in the second last shot also looks far too dark - get some lighting on the go there to spruce it up a little. Other than that, looks good to me

  • Lookey what I can do!

    Any brushes that were invalid in HL1 will be invalid in source - its not really about the program being whiney, but about the structure being ACTUALLY impossible to calculate (unless it was smart enough to split four sided faces into triangles itself that is).

    WIP is work in progess, but if these are complete they should be put in the finished work gallery I guess. Hell what do I know, I'm fairly new around these parts myself

  • its my first model thread #3

    Delete all those bottom faces and any other faces used to close the cylinders...bar the top ones of course. Thats wasting a whole lot right there.

    Fabi, yeah I see your point, I guess its due to us mappers being used to showing off our work these days, and so it comes second nature I pounce on people for posting their first levels, and its really no different for modelling. I have learnt the error of my ways

    /enlightened

  • Lookey what I can do!

    Impressive stuff for the most part, though some parts look a little dodgy (here's looking at you, buildings next to the submarine!). For me the best shot is the underside of the submarine, though the bit on the left looks like it has been covered in carpet

    As an afterthought, shouldn't this really be in Finished or WIP level design?

  • Pub sign

    Yeah you're totally right on that, it was down to lack of planning really. I made the outer wheel thinking the end result would be quite low poly, but then I used the same number of sides per cylinder for the inner hub despite it being much smaller. I'll probably remake this one from scratch - optimising it would essentially be doing that anyway!

  • its my first model thread #3

    I think it uses too many faces for what it is - you could remake it with 12 sided cylinders without any signficant quality loss by a substantial polycount saving. Would be interesting to see how many polies are used on the handle as well - might be worth posting a wireframe or wireframe overlay to see if people can spot optimisations.

  • Pub sign

    Keeping in the pub theme, I've got to new offerings today. First up was a bar stool, at a rather pricey 396 polygons...

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/images/models/stool.jpg]

    Due to the circular shape of the stool, I couldn't really see much further opportunity to optimise, but if anybody has suggestions on ways I didn't notice then I'm all ears.

    Next up I made a picnic table, using 240 triangles...

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/images/models/picnic.jpg]

    I'm tempted to put more detail into this by adding bolts and bevelling edges, but I think a skin could do all I need given that its for an RPG with a camera unlikely to get overly close.

    Think I'm gonna try and make one other model today, and then skin them all properly (including replacing the rush job pub sign) tomorrow.

  • Pub sign

    Good point about the lack of shadow on the picture, I'll get to work on that. The skin was a quick hack job, I need to tidy it up quite a bit really. I'll also try and improve the link between the rope and the picture, as the current fixings look pretty crappy.

  • so, a new CS:S map from valve

    I'm really impressed by Tides actually, visually I think its a refreshing change from the other maps. Perhaps it gives off an aura or UT in some regards, but it still looks awesome, and doesn't feel horribly out of place or anything. Seems packed full of detail and still runs nicely too.

    The bots, from my quick playtest, seemed awesome. I was sat in spectator mode watching through first person, and it was amazing how convincing they were. You really could forget they are bots when looking through their eyes - they take unorthodox routes, use cover well, recognise good spots to use, and panic when taken by surprise. Very good first impressions.

    EDIT: Woohoo, 100 posts

  • Pub sign

    Well after Ferret's first model post, I feel tragically underwhelming with my first offering, but here it is anyway. I figured I really needed to get into learning to model, so cracked open milkshape and built this little pub sign, for use in an RPG we are making for a uni project. My first version was a hilariously unnecessary 720 triangles...

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/images/models/pubsign.jpg]

    As you can see, I wasted them all away on the hinges, and I hadn't even put in the chains at that point. I figured since the camera will never really get in close enough to show the detail, I'd simplify it and get it down to <200 polys.

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/images/models/pubsign3.jpg]

    I made really basic replacements for the hinges and simplified the sign itself to be just a simple box since the detail wouldn't be made out anyway. It makes an unimpressive model even less impressive, but hell, at least its somewhat more useable now. Ended up at 208 polys since I didn't want to lose the curves in the framework, which is a bit more than it really needs, but I couldn't see much opportunity to optimise further.

  • Fishy el Dewm

    Doesn't look half bad if you ask me mate, puts mine to shame I'll post my first model a little later, once I've finished skinning it.

    I really like the way you handled the fins - the tail in particular - though the front fins look a little awkward where they join the main body. Not sure if that lack of smoothness was intentional or not though, my knowledge of fish anatomy is sorely lacking