[Video Tutorial] Modeling a modular level piece

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Hey, good job on making a tutorial! I'll see if I can have it downloaded by tonight. Want to work together on breaking it up? You do first half I'll do last half?

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Thanks. ^_^ Thats a very generous offer, but I compressed it as a flash file. (camtasia studio, don't think you have it) I'm going to look into other compression types (divx mb) to bring it down. Also going to split it into 4 parts or more.

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I think tweek was asking if it was too much effort for you to speed up through the parts where you said nothing so the size would go down.

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I pretty much never stopped talking.

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I love vid tuts but...sweet Jesus what have you done? 400MB??

You have SO many options...either you compress it CORRECTLY or you SPLIT the video into multiple parts. Isn't this common sense?

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Common sense it is young one. [/Yoda] Like I said, I'm going to split it up. The only reason I released this huge file is because I already made it, and I didn't want 2 days of compression to go to waste. If you think about it, the size really isn't that big. It's 800x600 by about 8 frames per second for three hours with fairly good quality. Thats a little over 2mb per minute, which isn't TOO bad.

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Ahh thanks man. I agree with everyone the size is a bit big, but it only took me 8 minutes to download so I'm not complaining. Anyway, Gonna go check it out now, I'll leave a comment on this later.

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Yah, it really depends on your internet. To some people this file means death, to others it's only a minor inconvenience.

As much as I don't want to, I'm going to split it up now...

400 megabytes? You pansies :awesome:. Try somewhere shy of 2 gigabytes just for a weapon.

I'll watch the vid after homework maybe and judge it.

I'm breaking it up into thirds. Please don't start complaining that the file size is to big, as it's about the same as a cmt map (120mb).

Here is the first third, the other two are on their way:

http://files.filefront.com/part+1+ll.../fileinfo.html

Second: http://files.filefront.com/part+2+ll.../fileinfo.html

Third: http://files.filefront.com/part+3+ll.../fileinfo.html

Updated my first post with the new videos. If anybody watches them, please rate it.

level modeling that detailed takes a while but 400 mb, kinda big
the end result looks like the piece from the h2 trailer, where mc grabs a gun b4 "giving the conventant back their bomb"

have you bothered of hosting P2P links, it's not illegal unless you're distributing copywrighted material and it's faster than using a http server.
just upload a .torrent association too (if you do i'll help seed)

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Originally Posted by n00b1n8R

I'd dl the 3rd but i'm getting max atm (gmax doesn't have half the tools you use D: )

it's well done. glad to see someone taking it slow and going indepth for those of us who suck at modeling :D

(though you should have mentioned you need to go counter clockwise when creating faces. I know that from another tut but you don't seem to mention it).

make moar tbh.

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Glad I could help! :D One thing though, you don't need to go counter clockwise in editable poly. No matter how you create it, the poly will always be created with the normal facing you. I only went counter clockwise in the video because I used to use editable mesh, and now I do it instinctively.

Moar videos eh? Suggestions?

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Originally Posted by LlamaMaster

Too much effort? I never thought I would hear that from you Tweek. I don't know how learning modeling was for you, but for other people it can be damn hard. You know how fucking worthless those videos which were sped up were when I was a noob? I couldn't learn shit from them, nor could I learn much from a text tutorial with a few pictures. The whole point was to make a tutorial which explained every fricken boring detail. Basically, the tutorial I was dieing for when I was a noob. Also, conscars told me to explain it really well.

I agree with you 100% on the file size though. I've been trying to trying to find a good video compression method, but the best I've got is a little over 2mb a minute. I'll split up to video into smaller pieces.

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Holy shit, you win a free blowjob if this helps me out, which It looks like it will :D

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Originally Posted by LlamaMaster

Too much effort? I never thought I would hear that from you Tweek. I don't know how learning modeling was for you, but for other people it can be damn hard. You know how fucking worthless those videos which were sped up were when I was a noob? I couldn't learn shit from them, nor could I learn much from a text tutorial with a few pictures. The whole point was to make a tutorial which explained every fricken boring detail. Basically, the tutorial I was dieing for when I was a noob. Also, conscars told me to explain it really well.

I agree with you 100% on the file size though. I've been trying to trying to find a good video compression method, but the best I've got is a little over 2mb a minute. I'll split up to video into smaller pieces.

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QFT

Trust me, this is what the community of noobs needs, not some goddamn speed modeling run. You can't learn shit from those, for serious.

Though it is just part of a level, it looks amazing. You've come a loooong way, and have definitely surpassed most of us 3DS newbies who lurk around here :P

It may be a piece of a level but most parts of the halo levels were used in many places, the rooms connecting halls in aotcr all bear a striking resemblence, those big halls at the end are identical.

So pretty much a small piece like this could be used over and over again.

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Originally Posted by n00b1n8R

do something totaly origional.. like a gun! :downs:
naa, IDK but I like this one ;)

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I would, but it's already been done. :( I've been meaning to make a map. Somehow I know all this crap yet I've never released a a single map. (tiny-ass doesn't count) So I guess I'll model a small outdoor map, in hope to bring an end to maps with the dreaded jaggedy cliffs.

Also, does anybody know where I can "spread the love" of my tutorial to other modders? I can't find any good sites.