3D modeling in general

[dawestsides]

Tumanski indeed! Are U planning to release that MiG-25 for LOFC?!

 

As this is my first model,I didn't put any restriction on the polygons,so it's gonna be a high-poly model,thus unsuitable for games... :(

 

But this is in my next to-do list.

[joey45]

Whats the wireframe look like and the poly count?

[samuel150892]

What is normally the best way of creating models?

At the moment I am basically doing a flat poly and extruding it ect.

The other method I know of but never used is creating a box and modifying it ect.

[WhiskeyJuliet]

There's a shot of the wire in the animation :), smoothed poly count is a couple of hundred k. High res hehe.

 

Extruding from a plane or a box doesn't really matter which in the end. IMO there's no such thing as "box" modelling or "plane" modelling - it's all polygon modelling at the end of the day :).

[joey45]

Got any tips on building ships?

[Grimes]

Plane and box modeling are very similar yes, however lately a 3rd form of modeling is becoming quite popular, and that is freeform modeling. Free form is used best in applications like zbrush and mudbox. However 3dmax just introduced some basic freeform modeling features to version 2010. Generally though freeform is ideally suited for making natural and organic shapes rather than the (usually) hard and defined edges of human engineering. So if you interested in more of a mechanical modeling stick with box and planar.

[dawestsides]

I'm using box modelling mainly.

 

Whats the wireframe look like and the poly count?

 

A huge mess and a very high poly count. :doh:

Even if the render looks ok for me,I think I have to review my model and refine it.

[dawestsides]

My 12 hours shift doesn't let me a lot of free time to progress...:\

 

Worked on the wings yesterday:

 

 

[joey45]

I haven't had that much time either, with my new job an' all.

[dawestsides]

I have to confess that I was busy with MW2 too (done in 5 hours )...a great game!

Shame on IW though for cancelling dedicated servers,I will stick to COD4 for the multi.

[joey45]

restarted the plane

with wings

[Grimes]

I suppose I could post this.

 

T-62M

 

 

It essentially was my first object that I created and went the whole way with UVW unwrapping and texturing. So it is far from perfect. It was originally created as part of my senior design project with intent to be used for DCS, but its missing a few things as I ran out of time for the school deadline. I recently went back and made a ton of fixes and improvements to the texture and the baked in AO pass.

 

If Eagle still wants it let me know. The way I see it there are 2 options for what to do with the model. A. Do a complete re-texture/optimization/add new missing features (It doesn't have a Dshkm) so it all fits on a 2048x2048. Or B. Keep the main model as is, but put anything new onto a small secondary texture. The majority of the detail in the texture was created in Adobe Illustrator so its not exactly a ton of work to adjust the previous file to fit a new one (yay for vector graphics), but the grunge map and paint job were all done in Photoshop.

 

In its current condition it has 20,395 tris.

 

Wireframe

[WhiskeyJuliet]

Very nice, great job :).

[joey45]

bit more work before getting ready for work..

 

[joey45]

Tail section so far..

 

 

and the front

 

 

you'll see the tail section is differant..

Edited December 6, 2009 by joey45

[joey45]

having a go at the Bucc.... yeah don't laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

probaly not gonna be a finnished like the others...

 

too many curves on this one.... gonna try the Jag.

[dawestsides]

I'm not laughing....

[Grimes]

Its the hard stuff that makes us better.

[joey45]

How do you do Canopys?

[Grimes]

How do you do Canopys?

 

 

Creating a simple box with subdivisions at least 3x3x3 and applying a turbosmooth can give decent results. Depending on the length and the shape needed add more subdivisions. Two iterations on the turbosmooth should be plenty to get a smooth looking shape out of it. But you may want to go back in and optimize the model some more by removing unneeded edge loops.

[dawestsides]

Ok my 2 months vacation is over now,so I'm back to duty.I think I got the canopy shape right now,C&C's are most welcome:

 

 

 

 

 

Not completed but so massive.Some people look at the Foxbat as an ugly thing,but for me it's the jet fighter by excellence...

 

 

Remaining some details here and there,then my first 3D model will be completed.Have to study again,this time texturing!

[joey45]

@ G - Thaks will try out something later this month...

heres the engine outlet

 

Do you think the MoD would give me the propa blueprints for the Jag???

 

EDIT: That is looking beautiful.

Edited January 19, 2010 by joey45

[asparagin]

Hi dawestsides,

could you post some wires, so we can also learn something?

 

Keep up the good work.

PS: and also which parts did you do separately?

Thx

[dawestsides]

Thanks asparagin.

 

Here you are!

 

You can guess which parts have been done separately:wings,control surfaces,nose,canopy glass,...

 

 

 

As you can see the polycount is already very high,mainly because of the exhaust nozzles details,but as this is my first model,I'm not bothering myself with it.Next model will be cleaner I hope.

Edited January 28, 2010 by dawestsides

[Grimes]

I really like going back to older/horrible/unoptimized models and reworking them. You'd be surprised how much fun and challenging it is to perfect something like that. A friend of mine even gave me a horrible made model of his to see what all I could do with it. He built it on the school of thought of turbosmooth, so his base geometry has horrible to begin with and the turbosmoothed geometry was overkill. Here is a sample of my reworking the model. Mine is on the left, his is on the right. My poly count was at least 1/4 of what he had.