Diary of a madman!

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

That's looking better all the time!

I've got to admit, it's getting better.
A little better all the time.

[lost4ever]

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That's looking better all the time!

[boredjedi]

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I fell asleep working on the stitches hehe but here they are in their rough form

[boredjedi]

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Oh sweet look what I just found on google. This never came up on stitch searches before hmmm.




Just what I've been looking for. It's like texture mana from heaven.

[boredjedi]

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Good to see you're still going at this.

I personally think you may have gone a touch too far with the contrast on the "fabric".
If you compare it with the screen you posted way back when.

Unless that's just a lighting thing.
Also, it looks like the red stripe could be lowered slightly.

Other than that, looking great as usual.

Oh, I ain't stopping this project no way no how. I take breaks from time to time until I get the inspiration to start working on it again and I don't want to rush it too much and have it look like total garbage in the end.


Yeah, it's the lighting. Sometimes it looks a darker blue other times it looks paler. Unfortunately, I need a scene with full panels to screen capture. I would have loved to grab a panel from those close up still (ship not moving). I actually got the panel shot from this scene:




Basically, that isn't the permanent texture either. I am still going to rework it until I get the stitching of them better. Right now, that was just to give a look of the thing looking a lot closer to the real thing than with the original texture I had.

As the paneling, I'm waiting until I finish the middle panel before making adjustments but yeah it should be rotated down more and the wings have to come down more.

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Good to see you're still going at this.

I personally think you may have gone a touch too far with the contrast on the "fabric".
If you compare it with the screen you posted way back when.



Unless that's just a lighting thing.
Also, it looks like the red stripe could be lowered slightly.

Other than that, looking great as usual.

[boredjedi]

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Egads it's been a while. Started reworking the textures a bit.

[boredjedi]

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Another High Definition rendering to check for smoothness and conformity of the new trim work

[boredjedi]

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You get a "**** yeah!" from me

Thank you very much. I'm just grateful you didn't say anything on the lines of XYZ. It's a three dimensional nightmare it is. At this point I think taking on the horde or mordor sounds quite appealing over taking on the horde of vertexes, faces and polygons. lol

[ForGreatJustin]

You get a "**** yeah!" from me

[boredjedi]

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Well that pretty much takes care of that bit of trim. God that was a nightmare.

[boredjedi]

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Holy shit, and I thought it looked good two weeks ago!

The constant tweaking has done this replica good. :)

put this in crysis.

I just might try that.

[ForGreatJustin]

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put this in crysis.

[Mr_Gazpacho]

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Holy shit, and I thought it looked good two weeks ago!

[boredjedi]

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Bah got home last night and didn't feel like working on the model. Woke up this morning and starting trolling through all mesh modifiers 3d max has. I think I just found my next best friend. Turbosmooth. I applied it to the side and upper trim. Looks pretty good more balloony looking. otherwise I would have had to add each point to the trim mesh by hand oh heck no :)

Don't worry about the passthrough from the outer surface still needs a bit of tweaking.

What do yas think? Looks good?