Quick-Crit 2010

The school really does need more specular on the ground tiles and lockers, dry erase board, wet floor sign, etc, and yeah lighting could be improved and could possibly change how it looks a bit. You say you want it to be dull and boring (and dry) but you should also still have some shine on things so it dosent look to unrealistic.

Yeah I looked at my specular again and was comparing it to some other artist's work and it really does not look all that great. Don't want it to look wet, but I also feel now that it looks too dull. Thanks for making that a point

I model too slowly :/ Yeah, texture's don't really show much detail as they are low res so making most of it up.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9492/rockethog1.jpg
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2480/rockethog2.jpg
http://img574.imageshack.us/img574/5459/rockethog3.jpg

Yeah, used floaters as they make life a LOT easier and can be cleaned up on the baked textures. Although I still need to attempt to bake something LMAO.

You can (or should be able to) bake in multiple passes. So, you can do one pass for the floaters and another for the rest of your object. Technically, this means floaters don't actually have to float. You can model them at their natural depth -- though it will be harder to work with and visualize a result.

This thing again

http://imgur.com/n2MEZ.jpg

The arc that the bullet cases take from the gun are unnatural-looking... I can't think of anything else to crit on, exam.

I'm pretty sure Hunter haven't modeled this, I might be wrong.

I haven't touched max in several months now and have 2 weeks off from skool so I found something simple and easy to replicate. Reach sniper rifle. Not done but most of it is. Just need the scope, bipod, mag and small details.

How many barrels should I allow on the screen at a time? Currently the chain-reaction code works with 17 barrels, after that they don't carry on. Turns out the code to check barrel to the left wasn't working, so chain-reaction can work on as many barrels as you can fit in the screen :) But I need a number to limit it to, maybe 10?

http://limited-development.net/images/screen2.png

I don't know how your game works. Do they barrels appear with a detonation timer and you have to run away from them? Do you place them? What's the goal? It should be tied to changeable game difficulty maybe.

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Originally Posted by Con

I don't know how your game works. Do they barrels appear with a detonation timer and you have to run away from them? Do you place them? What's the goal? It should be tied to changeable game difficulty maybe.

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Oh yeah sorry. Its bomberman, you drop a bomb which has a set timer the bomb then explodes and if there is a barrel nearby it will explode the barrel in a chain-reaction. The barrels will appear randomly in a map, maybe like 5 or 6. When you blow up all pieces, you may be given a 'barrel drop' which basically means, you have 1 barrel in your inventory for you to drop. The final goal will be to eliminate the other players however thats down the road.

Heres a more updated screenshot, the barrel lights also pulse.



Bump, damn code isnt working.
Anyone who knows A* will find this humours :( Any ideas people?

(if you don't understand it, dont worry A* is a pain).

I made a thing I guess. Anyone know how to rip sounds from unreal?

Stabbing himself doesn't look all that natural. All he does is move his wrist back. Needs more shakiness like it actually fucking hurts.

Have you ever had a needle stuck in your arm? You don't want to move during that shit. Only makes it a lot worse.

New stuff should be posted in the Quick-Crit 2011 thread. I'll leave this open for now for crit on what was recently posted.

I tried to make it look painful with the fist clench, but maybe that wasn't enough. I also experimented with making him shake with nervousness beforehand, but it didnt seem evident enough exactly what was going on, and then it sort of detracted from the seizure/spasming that happens once the eve settles in. A lot of people have also told me that the injection needed more force, but it seems to me that if I'm injecting a vial of mystery goo into my vein, I would at least do it carefully and precisely.

The clench comes at the wrong time (should be a moment after the needle goes in) and there's too much movement the split second before the needle goes in. you're going to want to keep the left hand as still as possible while pushing a needle in.

I say keep the left hand completely still right before it goes in, and give the fingers a slight twitch when it goes in. Then clinch the fist after he pulls it out.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8941/33849044.jpg


Please crit.

I think the tip needs to be a little more defined, being a carrot and all. Aside from that and where the stem meets the root, it looks perfect.

Wrong thread? lol

Decided to try my hand at designing a tablet PC for a project.

http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled-17.png
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/Tablet-1.png
A lot of wasted place I know, still working on that.
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/TabletUV.png

Lol, getting a tablet. You're doing it wrong.

I'd buy it, but that's probably because angles turn me on. I don't like rounded corners.

I thought it was the cover to a crate in Halo. >.< I would suggest making the renders more realistic if anything. And moving the screen behind a thin layer of "glass". It just looks like you applied a screen texture to a face. There's no real... uh... design I guess. At least not a very comfortable easy to look at design.

Oh shit that's sexy.

Isn't this the 2010 thread?

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Oh shit.
Why haven't we locked it yet?

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Originally Posted by TVTyrant

Isn't this the 2010 thread?

:smithparrot:

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party like it's 1999 2010:iamafag:

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Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII

I thought it was the cover to a crate in Halo. >.< I would suggest making the renders more realistic if anything. And moving the screen behind a thin layer of "glass". It just looks like you applied a screen texture to a face. There's no real... uh... design I guess. At least not a very comfortable easy to look at design.

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Yeah, I've actually started doing exactly that, I've begun to inset the display slightly so they there is a thin bezel and then move the display inwards so it now has a layer of glass/perspex to add some depth.
I'm not entirely sure how to go about making the renders more realistic but I've taken notes on having the model showing it topology off better than a mere clay render.

E:
You may not see it in the second image but the screen is inset by a few milimetres and then down by a few with a glass cover over it.
working on the high poly getting all the details I need in before I go and bake a normal map for this.
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/readings.png
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/.../readings2.png

Now it's looking good. I like what you've done so far!

You seem to have put the main viewing screen so close to the edges of the main frame, yet you have so much spaced wasted as soon as it inclines (The frame work). If the screen doesn't need that extra trimming on the main device, what does? I mean if its the hardware, it would only make the tablet more fat (You can see this on the HP tablet, ect).
So atm, you have a lot of wasted space, which doesn't make any sense.
(If you don't get what I mean, I am referring to the inclined parts of the tablet.)

Also, use Mental ray to render or Vray, will really help bring out the tablet. :)

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Originally Posted by Nero

You seem to have put the main viewing screen so close to the edges of the main frame, yet you have so much spaced wasted as soon as it inclines (The frame work). If the screen doesn't need that extra trimming on the main device, what does? I mean if its the hardware, it would only make the tablet more fat (You can see this on the HP tablet, ect).
So atm, you have a lot of wasted space, which doesn't make any sense.
(If you don't get what I mean, I am referring to the inclined parts of the tablet.)


Also, use Mental ray to render or Vray, will really help bring out the tablet. :)

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I see what you mean.
The idea behind this was to make a tablet which didn't follow the same rules nearly every single one currently does.
By that I mean nearly every single tablet looks in some way or another akin to the Ipad, This is all good and fine but I wanted to look into something a little more diverse.
The other aspect I took into mind is the hardware of your average tablet is rather...weak, with the buffed chassis you could have more powerful tech and possibly have touch pads on it
in the space next to "Legacy" once powered on it would have some functions show through the casing, I'm sure you've seen some of the monitors which seem to have no power on only to find that they're touch sensitive right? The idea follows on that line.

Here's a small check list I followed when designing this:

Does it have a 16/9 ratio screen for viewing widescreen media?

Does it look functional and yet distance itself from other devices on market?

Does it have the ability to be upgraded at a later date via possible panels in the back? [yes but they've not been shown]

How would the user handle the device? [many tablets have such a small bevel that a guy like my self wouldn't be able to handle it without having atleast one finger on the screen, big hands and all]

Would the device be large and come with it's own carry case for ferrying to and from places or would it be small, nimble but prone to damage from pocket carrying?
I chose to have this larger than your average tablet and be about the length on it's widest side of an xbox 360.

Many of the little details were put in on the fly as I was designing it on the fly.
I am taking notes on things to take how ever but in general proportions I am rather happy with, obviously there are smaller details to be changed or enhanced and those will continue with the help of suggestions and what not.

I've been showcasing this off to several places and had a few people take interest in it, one even mentioning interest in purchasing the device if it ever got produced.


Would it be possible for a staff to move the posts about this tablet into this years thread rather than having two serve the same function?