Model Competition 0001 - Small Fighter/gunship/bomber

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 29 Sep 2006, 00:04

Well, I had a go at UV maping, this is my first atempt at it. I know it don't look like somthing from TA... Just did what I felt like. What do people think?

aGorm

:: EDIT :: I learnt loads doing this so next time I'm goona aim higher! And do even better! Maybe!...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 Sep 2006, 00:23

Same here... UV mapping is annoying and I did it twice for my plane...
Texture looks good except for the colours (just not my cup of tea) and there was something about not skinning your models but what the hell...

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 29 Sep 2006, 00:26

LOL, this is just becasue , no I have made it, I wan't someone to tell me were the hell I went wrong and were i wen't right. And, yhe, Id rather it was differnt colours and stuff myself to be honest, but It was a first stab at seeing what could be done.

aGorm

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 Sep 2006, 00:34

Yeah some critics would be nice about the model (wasted faces) the uv map especially because me for myself got no real experience at all and I'd like to know if I'm doing good or improve and learn from my mistakes. I guess everyone wants that.

Your texture does look good it's just the colours :)

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 29 Sep 2006, 01:51

I can't give help or critic, I am still a nub at UV mapping. I do have a couple that looks ok...

Anyhow, yours is pretty good for a first try

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 29 Sep 2006, 08:21

Bump maps are your friends

. I recently figured out they exist and they can really bring a unit to life

.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 30 Sep 2006, 16:25

Ever seen a bumped map unit in spring??

Thats cause sping dont have bump maps.

aGorm

LathanStanley · Post by **LathanStanley** » 01 Oct 2006, 06:15

I was gonna say.... "BUMP MAPPING!!! OOOH SHIIZZZ!!"

but yeah, no bumps...

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 01 Oct 2006, 06:36

Thats odd. . .a unit I bump mapped seemed to work in spring. . .

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 01 Oct 2006, 06:44

MrSpontaneous wrote:Thats odd. . .a unit I bump mapped seemed to work in spring. . .

But did the bump mapping?

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 01 Oct 2006, 23:49

Modeling??! Finally a competition for something I don't suck at!

(for AA. rest are GEM)

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 01 Oct 2006, 23:51

Caydr wrote:

looks like the enterprise (that is what its called, right? from Star Trek?)

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 02 Oct 2006, 01:07

I see a little bit of, TOO MANY POLIES!

Seriously, way too many on a ship where 200 could probably look fine..

Keep trying..

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Oct 2006, 01:08

Triangles? Tesselate it and tell the poly count again. I'm pretty sure it's more than 965 tris...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Oct 2006, 01:09

Actually it looks nothing like The Enterprise

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 02 Oct 2006, 01:20

Yeah, triangulate those and give us a new count (several thousand it will be

)

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Oct 2006, 01:28

Not if it's all quads. I guess it'll be around ~1800-2000.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 02 Oct 2006, 11:56

That's the starship Caydr made a year ago for GEM. And since then he explaind around 14 times that the polycount does NOT ruin the FPS.
(It is a pritty ship though, you should see it textured

)

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 02 Oct 2006, 12:35

Zenka wrote:That's the starship Caydr made a year ago for GEM. And since then he explaind around 14 times that the polycount does NOT ruin the FPS.
(It is a pritty ship though, you should see it textured )

Regardless, the rules said sub 1000.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Oct 2006, 14:36

The point is it could have been the same pretty ship with half the polycount.

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Model Competition 0001 - Small Fighter/gunship/bomber