Horatio Positronic Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I've been working on another 3D VF-1S. I'm pretty much done with the modeling and just starting on the texturing. The first image is about where I'm at now. I've divided my model up into a bunch of texture regions, but haven't really done anything but put colors on them so I can see which shader is which at a glance. The second image is just a quick render with a texture map I made in about 5 minutes to make sure I was doing it right. I still have a lot of work to do, but I'll keep you guys posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapis Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 wow sweet! damn i'm jealous you already have a pilot. I most be working really slow. what program did you use to make it? Also just wondering is the circle valve thing modeled in? or is it textured? love the missiles as well i think i will re-enlarge mine now they seem too small Love to see more of it. keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 wow sweet! damn i'm jealous you already have a pilot. I most be working really slow. what program did you use to make it? Also just wondering is the circle valve thing modeled in? or is it textured? love the missiles as well i think i will re-enlarge mine now they seem too small Love to see more of it. keep it up! Don't be too jealous of my pilot, it is very blocky and is mostly just there to give the impression of somebody in the cockpit. I've been doing my modeling in Maya Complete 6.0. I can't afford a more recent version. The circle things (which are supposed to be combination cold gas thrusters/cable attach points) are modeled. I decided pretty early in the modeling that I didn't want them to just be textures because of what they're supposed to do. Thanks for the encouragement! I'm still hard at work on the texturing and pretty far from the final renders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapis Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 ahh yeah i wish i modeled them in. now if you look at my VF-1A from certain views it looks really flat. Oh cool another Maya user if you need any help or anything at all you can ask, well i don't know too much but i manage. What animation do you have planned? I could give you some reference pictures that i used if it will help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 What animation do you have planned? I could give you some reference pictures that i used if it will help I could always use reference pictures. I don't really have any animation planned. The original goal I set was making myself a desktop background along the lines of something out of the Valkyries book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 Some more progress tonight. Still have a long way to go. I've been mostly making sure I have the panel lines and livery in the right place. Once that's done I'll start weathering and working on bump maps and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTUS Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 that looks bloody awesome.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeminNV Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 (edited) Some more progress tonight. Still have a long way to go. I've been mostly making sure I have the panel lines and livery in the right place. Once that's done I'll start weathering and working on bump maps and whatnot. It looks very good but...it looks like a very good cg model for toy. Maybe it was your goal, but I would add some realism What's the poly count? Edited November 6, 2008 by SeminNV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapis Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 (edited) Hey Horatio Positronic, your VF-1S is coming a long really good. I like what i see so far as for reference pictures i used most of mine from Macross Mecha Manual also i found these useful as well a 1/60 scale i think Thanks boinger It's of a VF-1S super strike valkyrie, you can see a lot of the detail on it. But, some you can't as well because of the extra parts I have this file in a 3MB format 3766 x 3232 resolution. i'll gladly send this to you, but i don't know how to send a 3MB file on this Found this on cgtalk hope those help Edited November 6, 2008 by Lapis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 (edited) It looks very good but...it looks like a very good cg model for toy. Maybe it was your goal, but I would add some realism What's the poly count? So far I'm just sorting out where everything goes on the texture map. Once that's done I start adding the details that make it look realistic. I still have a lot to do before that. The model is about 40,000 faces. Edit: Thanks Lapis! Those images will be a big help! Edited November 6, 2008 by Horatio Positronic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Been workin' on the Valk some more, so I have more progress shots. I'm still focusing on getting all the panel lines in the right place and building those as a reference for the weathered detailed version. Think of this like a base coat. First is a 3/4ths view. Here's the pilot's control panel. Note the bits that don't line up correctly, and parts where the text is upside down and backwords. Still workin' on that. My blocky low detail Roy Focker. Ventral view where you can actually see into the intakes. Aft view. I'd love comments and suggestions. Remember that I haven't even started on what will be the final texture, or the bump map or any of that fancy stuff. Hopefully I should be starting on that soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 More progress. Still workin' on it and still not done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinjo Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 It's looking mighty fine so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Dragon Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Can't wait to see the final result! (with bump mapping etc) Incidentally, how many polys are those missile individually? I was just curious if you'd allow the use of those in gaming? Credited to you only of course... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Can't wait to see the final result! (with bump mapping etc) Incidentally, how many polys are those missile individually? I was just curious if you'd allow the use of those in gaming? Credited to you only of course... I think the answers to your questions are both "I'm not sure". If I had to guess I'd say they were in the ballpark of 350 polys each. Of all of the parts of my model I'm currently least happy with the missiles, so I don't know if I'd want them showing up in more stuff. My renders mostly hide the bits I don't like. Speaking of renders, here's a new one! Bonus sneak peak at the background I'm working on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillyche Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I think the answers to your questions are both "I'm not sure". If I had to guess I'd say they were in the ballpark of 350 polys each. Of all of the parts of my model I'm currently least happy with the missiles, so I don't know if I'd want them showing up in more stuff. My renders mostly hide the bits I don't like. Speaking of renders, here's a new one! Bonus sneak peak at the background I'm working on! Looks cool! What are you modeling in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 I guess I'm getting pretty close to done with this image. Any final ideas or things I might be missing would be great to know about. With the notable exception of the original design of the Valkyrie, none of this is borrowed. The background is even a composite of 4 or 5 photos I took myself. As such I'll probably be posting this in the wallpaper thread (with a small watermark on the bottom), but aside from that please don't borrow it and repost it elsewhere. At least not without asking. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Positronic Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 Roy made a friend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatterBoy Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Excellent work! Does it have other modes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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