202 replies to this topic

[JJ]

Mmm, better idea to just take the normal ZH infantry models, then add more polys to them?

[Ion Cannon!]

Well for a start, the arms are in the wrong place.

[Wizard]

Gen.Kenobi, on 25 Nov 2009, 13:34, said:

This has to be my favourite model you've made. However you have over-detailed it by miles. I dread to think what the poly count is. You could save many by taking the detail out and letting the skin do some work.

Gen.Kenobi, on 26 Nov 2009, 1:25, said:

Well apart from the position of the arms I'd say proportionally it is ok.

[IPS]

@the infatry model:
try to understand the anatomy of the human body befor you start modeling.

a good start is allways that one:


given that you want to model a human of course

Edited by IPS, 27 November 2009 - 11:48.

[Gen.Kenobi]

Models Dump:

[n5p29]

that's not my/HB1 APC ripoff right?
because somehow they look similar.

[Gen.Kenobi]

If you want....it's yours

[n5p29]

Gen.Kenobi, on 10 Dec 2009, 20:24, said:

If you want....it's yours

hmm... maybe I will mix it with the ruby's

[Zhao]

Very nice , such Inspiring models you got there

[Gen.Kenobi]

[Gen.Kenobi]

Tried some skinning...
It looks good for a first try in my opinion

[Zhao]

Bought dam time you made a quality model

[n5p29]

very nice, GK. really good for the first try.

[Alias]

Not too shabby, there's quite a few UV errors here and there, and the texture doesn't really flow as a whole, but it's certainly better than my first.

[Stalker]

It's good.

a few things though:

1) you didn't skin/unwrap the housecolor-parts
2) You didn't (correctly) unwrap the side parts of the hatch and plates that are sticking out.

Quite nice for a first try

[Gen.Kenobi]

Thank you all.

@Stalker: 1) I don't know to do that yet.
2) Those will hardly be noticed ingame

[Alias]

Whether they are noticable or not is irrelevant, it is good to have well grounded principles. It's an extra 5 minutes work for God's sake.

[Zhao]

Alias, on 11 Jul 2010, 15:31, said:

Whether they are noticable or not is irrelevant, it is good to have well grounded principles. It's an extra 5 minutes work for God's sake.

This.

[Zeke]

Indeed, you should at least give the barrel a hole

HCs are skinned just like any part of the model, except you use a black and white texture. Just use "Housecolor2.dds" it's whats always used.

To get then to work ingame, jusr rename the mesh to HOUSECOLORXX (XX = any number from 01 to 99)

Looks good for a first try, nonetheless

Edited by Zeke, 12 July 2010 - 05:01.

[Wizard]

UW errors aside you've done well for your first attempt. Just a bit more practice and you'll be one step closer to being the highly sought after types, a skinner.

[Gen.Kenobi]

@Zeke and Wiz: Thanks! and i'll look into that file.

[Jordan]

Hehe, it's just like I skin all of my units. Just use all the textures EA made in as many ways as humanely possible, and you'll probably never have to actually create a skin for a unit yourself. I love using avpaladin.dds, I use it for just about every single unit I make for the USA in my Crazy Mod.

I have a few suggestions for this model in particular though:

• Detach the front face of the housecolor tip of the barrel, and skin it using the barrel hole texture in avleopard.dds. You can find it in the lower left corner of the texture. Check out the model for the Crusader tank (avleopard.w3d) if you don't know what I'm talking about.
  
• At the front of the tank chassis, you have three rows of bolts, but the texture doesn't flow. I suggest you only have two rows of bolts, with a black line dividing them.
  
• The face on the turret where it meets the barrel is upside down. You can tell since the white line is on the bottom, not the top.
  
• Skin the housecolor using housecolor2.dds. For rendering, recolor a copy of that texture so it is blue, and use that texture only when rendering.
  
• The Humvee texture on the boxes that the antennae come out of just doesn't fit, I would suggest using something else.
  
• You need to properly skin the sides of the hatches and that rectangular protrusion coming from the chassis.
  
• The skin on the back of the chassis looks stretched.

I know it's your first try, and it looks great especially for being a first try, but these are a few ways to make it even better.

-Jordan

[Gen.Kenobi]

Hey guys!

I reccently switished to Blender So i'm gonna post now..a selection of my best works over this software (so far - i started learning it since August).

Flinstone's Car:






HDR Testing with Blender's Compositing:

Very simple scene.

Mosing Nagant (my proudest model so far )







I did the post-producing (compositing) with Blender.


In all models i used Blender and Gimp and the Internet to find some good textures

My lastest WIP:



Stills a lot of work to do. Everything is WIP, including lighting and scalling (suggestions are open )

[Umbrella Secrets]

This is Blender?

damn...that is better than I thought.

[Pav:3d]

That Mosing Nagant looks great!

Where did you get that wood texture?

You've improved a hell of a lot since your last models