Diary of a madman!

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Oh, that is so damn cool.

Especially the 3-D tail insignia.
God is in the details.

Yar, all this work and detail really does pay off in the end. But man I'm darn tired. Got lots done today and have one more image before I finally head off to bed. I finished up the detail on the tail insignia and I think it came out pretty good.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Funny, I can pretty much do quite a bit with 3ds max but for some reason the trim work I was unable to get a handle on. I think I figured it out though. Here's a sample of what I've done so far and think it looks good just needs more tweaking and shaping.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Trim work is so tedious. I finished the top trim and gave a quick good rendering to see if I did it smooth and catch any misaligned vertexes. Nothing shows that better than a shiny smooth silver exterior. I didn't crash this time :)

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Just a small update. Still working on the trim. Should have all the trim done by tomorrow morning.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

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?

[Mr_Gazpacho]

Re: Diary of a madman!

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

[ForGreatJustin]

Re: Diary of a madman!

put this in crysis.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

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.

[boredjedi]

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

[ForGreatJustin]

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

[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

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

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

[boredjedi]

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

[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]

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.

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.