The random model thread!

[knj]

Are you are using Mentar Ray (or smth simillar) to render ?

no problem in my case

[The Vulture]

Yeah, I'm using Mental Ray.

[PogoP]

Made a vending machine over the past couple of days. It's great to do some high poly stuff, didn't really get much chance to do any on Disneyland

Edit - Now with self-illum!

[ultradr3mer]

looks like a pretty good vending machine to me .

the last couple of days i made a reskin of an old weapon model i made about 2 years ago.

here is an image showing the workflow:

you can find the old version here:

(i would say i made some progress .)

[RedYager]

Nice vending machine man! What sort of workflow did you use to create it?

[knj]

Still trying to improve my zbrush skills

there are some flat surfaces, that i want to cover with alpha, but i don't have any nice alphas to do it, i've tryied to make some of my own from big res pictures, but in the end it looked like shit, some tips ?

[RedYager]

That looks beautiful man

[D3ads]

Awesome, reminds me of Uncharted's artwork

[knj]

Thanks a lot guys :-)

[KoKo5oVaR]

Amazing knj !!!!! make it it low and texture it !! will be a nice piece for your folio

You could bake an heightmap in xnormal and using it as a mask in photoshop for all the cavities between the extruded parts, but i'm not sur that will be much useful

otherwise, if you want a "grain" you could use the "noise" function in zbrush

To me anyway it's quite finished as a highpoly, if i would have to add some normal details that would be in photoshop with NDo or whatever

[-HP-]

That's fantastic knj! I am loving to see your progress dude, congratulations!

What was your workflow with the masks? How did you do your projections?

I agree that for a high poly is already pretty cool any more will probably ruin it, if you want more high frequency detail on your normal map, generate it in CB, Xnormal or NDO and overlay it.

[knj]

Thanks again guys

Koko: i'm fighting with the LP, i'm on 6k tris, it's getting hard to go lower and lower, i would love to go around 4k, but i don't think this is possible, it is already blocky as hell

HP: after i had my model imported into zbrush and after couple sublevels up, i took screenshots of those parts where i wanted to put the details, with that screenshots in photoshop i've made simple alphas, after that using projection master i've projected the alfas on those spots i wanted

as for overlaying some details for a normal map, thanks i've got that same feeling but i was just curious couse GoW3 guys have details all over the model, and for me some of it will look noisy in game, i know how UDK can make noise on texutre

[-HP-]

Yeah, but if you ask me, that's definitely going overboard with high frequency detail in the sculpt. I mean, yes, it looks good on a folio, but in the context of production I see no point in doing this, unless your job is only about making high poly pieces, which is what Kevin does. (Afaik, he doesn't model LP's, and if he does he probably just runs decimation master on them)

Although that piece looks marvelous, try and bake that on a 256*256 or even on a 512*512 normal map and all that detail is gonna turn into a shitpile of pixelated blobs, that's why you should have a readable high poly.

I prefer to keep the sculpts with low to medium detail, and do the high detail later, your shapes will read better that way. You can use either a overlay on top of the normal map, or use a tilling detail normal map to give it a bit of texture, but obviously it's all down to personal preference.

So if you're practicing for the sake of learning how to do it, then fuck it, do it, go overboard for the lulz! If you're making assets for games, it's better not.

[knj]

And this is the answer i wanted :-) thx bro

[KoKo5oVaR]

Koko: i'm fighting with the LP, i'm on 6k tris, it's getting hard to go lower and lower, i would love to go around 4k, but i don't think this is possible, it is already blocky as hell

I hope you don't use decimation master

do your low by hand !!! http://www.topogun.com/