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the question mark thing he circled isn't an error, it's a detail in the mesh. and I'm not sure if what you're noticing on those side things are the same thing I'm seeing, no way to know until I fix them and everyone gets a second look. As for the rest of it, yes they're errors lol
so here's what I came up with thus far. More crit is appreciated however I won't have the time to finish it for another month >_> time to move on to the next project.
http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/5...lprender4p.jpg
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5...lprender4p.jpg
How big is you're texture? It looks a bit blurred to me.
I like it so far! Good job!
I think the blurring came from some rendering/compression issues, doesn't look as blurred in viewport. If I get a moment I'll try and re-render and get another one up
Better. I like it!
Cutscene I made in gears, was bored *shurgs*
That was awesome.
So uhh this isn't the most up to date but i want tips: how do I get good topo?
Apply turbosmooth with 10 iterations. Then pikachu will turn into pokeball
Turbosmooth isn't a win button...Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrickssj6
Think he was being sarcastic in how much it would round the model out...
Turbo smooth would cause an extreme amount of pinching in the model because it lacks quads.
I did a quick YouTube search and found this. I have no sound available so I can't hear what he/she is saying, but the tut looks decent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr4li...el_video_title
Look how he keeps everything in quads and how he/she starts from a simple shape to make a more complex shape. Using you're different profiles. Also, play with the tools like crazy. Find out what they do, because thats what will help you in the future. :)
This is what I am talking about pinching (What quads and tri's do):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOTl2GcS-E
Hope this helps.
Thanks I'll take a peek and try to make it more friendly to quads
[thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8632965/panther.png[/thumb]
Mock-up for a painting, and I need some general ideas for it (Like what to have in the background..). Oh, and don't address inaccuracies; I am well aware of them. :(
Also, Penguin: I really wish the Company of Heroes engine could handle that--the guys in that community work so hard to make vehicles, but they are too busy to tackle A1/A2 Sherman variants right now, so they just the M4A3 that came with the game. :(
From the look of your mock-up it appears to take place in a battle stricken landscape. In my opinion it would work best with a gritty and bleak setting. Because of this I suggest perhaps a series of explosions through the sky or a flight of planes en route to the battlefield.
Blah, stupid jpg compression. Anyways, didn't come out how I wanted it but I still like how it came out. This was just a few hours ago behind my house. Took picture from the front of the house across the street from mine.
http://www.deviantart.com/download/2...08-d3ezfbh.jpg
looking for some input
ahaahhahaah
I'll give him some
input
furries again?
:|
I love furries.
boba you are a welcome addition to this forum
Been a while, but I've been busy with test prep stuff. Here is a scene I've showed a while back, and I'm needing some tips. It's still being unwrapped here and there, and I'm still texturing it. Also, there's a vending machine, but I'm thinking of moving it right near the lamppost
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...ICANNOTLIE.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...bapitobopi.jpg
Is that an industrial McDonalds?
Nope. It's based of an image I took when I was at the loop in Chicago.
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1932207_n.jpg
The building on the left.
Sooo...I've been playing around in Maya a bit, and this is the first thing I've come up with outside of school. It's in no way finished, but it feels good to finally work on a gun for once.
is that like a bathtub with a handlebar for handicapped people?
because a railing has no application unless you're handicapped, just like the ones on stairs.
truth
Something is really awkward about that perspective. Can't tell what it is though. Just unpleasant to the eye.
its not perspective, its isometric.
thats whats throwing you off :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6OgSysrts
Working on a orbital glassing scenery.
Animations are very rough, the particles still need their charge up and cool down effect but I'd like to know if there's anything I should add before finishing it.
If you look at the Cruisers on Highlands from Halo Reach, they glass with their plasma beams in intervals. In other words, the beam would discharge for about 5-7 seconds and then stop, then continue some seconds later. The beam also would not move as fast what yours is when it moves around, though I think it has more to due with your animations being rough than anything else.
That's a rather low orbit for an orbital glassing.
Shouldn't the sky be red/orange? After all, they're burninating the countryside.
You mean like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePlague
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...1-39-41-54.png
Iiiiiit's
Doodletime
http://i.imgur.com/n1AnE.jpg
Nice. I see that you figured out the perspective of feet and things.
And if you read the books, you would know that the Covenant don't usually use beams to glass. They charge up the big plasma bolt guns and let it fly en masse. The energy projectors were more for digging.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Oh wait, sorry, I forgot that Bungie fucked it all up.
Actually, the books aren't exactly canon in terms of visuals because they can be interpreted by anyone as anything. At least in the games we can actually see what the CREATORS of the Halo Universe wanted a glassing to look like. The reason why I think the writers in the books said that a plasma bombardment led to glassing is because that's how it was traditionally done in Sci-Fi up to that point, for example, as in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Point being, you can't say Bungie fucked up canon because they create the legitimate canon. Any other errors are done by Microsoft Game Studios. Halo 3 introduced the first time Halo fans were able to actually see a glassing. It is by that standard that is how a glassing is done by the Covenant.
My post was also to help Warlord's glassing plasma beam and the method of using the glassing plasma beam by the Cruiser. Your argument is irrelevant because I was directing assistance to Warlord based on what is actually seen in the games and can be comparable for a reference. The way the Cruiser glasses currently is not accurate in comparison to what is seen on Highlands. Not that the point is to disestablish your argument, it's just I was trying to provide accurate reference for someone's methods and similar assets in their work.
Yeah, I don't get why the ships are so low if they're supposed to be glassing the planet. For one thing, plasma is hot. The atmosphere is going to get more and more heated as the planet turns to glass, and even Covenant ships have limits.
Go to 0:48. That's where the ships should be positioned for a proper glassing.
I figure it might be a good idea to clear up some confusion and contradictions.
Anyhow, now that's talked on I'll show what the alternative form I've currently got going is.
It's much closer to that seen in Halo 3 than it was before.
Remember, the ship is in no way attached to the effect which is why the ship doesn't move as you might expect it to.
I've got my own model being created currently to replace what there.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...2-43-27-88.png
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyVa1pJPgU
So like I said, Bungie screwed it up with a retcon. I'd hazard a guess that a single beam is technically easier to do in the game engine than having a massive volley of particle effects.
I don't care that they are the creators. These are the same people who stamped their seal of approval on "Halo: Legends" and "Halo: Cryptum."
Eric Nylund > Bungie.
That said, that video is still fun to watch. I imagine that it's trying to bore a hole in the ground more than just glass it, but hey, what do I know? :downs:
Uhhh Bungie was still part of the Halo Label when both of those were published, not to mention I seriously doubt they have ANY editing power over anything put into the books. I enjoyed Legends. I HATE Cryptum. Both were published and okayed by Microsoft, not Bungie. Bungie's name is just slapped on for the people who don't know who really pulls the strings and see a familiar, reliable game. Bungie has nothing to do with the non-canon atrocities that plague the community. Their publisher/co-producer for Halo is still Microsoft who pulls most of the media release weight anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
You're also wrong about the Plasma Bombardment and game Engine; Bombardment was done to destroy some buildings on Reach and to destroy the Frigate in the Space level in Halo Reach. Either one could be accomplished. It's also more methodical to lay waste to an entire mile with a glassing beam than it is to send countless balls of fire to do it. You have more control over the burning area and can stop/slow/weaken the beam to avoid collateral.
Warlord, the beam still moves too fast across the ground. Slow its progression across the ground or make it more concentrated.
I would rip your argument to pieces, but not in this thread. Maybe later in a visitor message.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Warlord, it might make a more convincing animation if it pulsed on and off at random intervals. As it is, it looks like a lawn sprinkler upside down.
I'm scared now. Wanna fite?Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
I agree that intervals would make it look a lot better than it currently is. It also, now that you mention, does look a lot like a plasma lawn sprinkler.
That was not supposed to be hostile. Don't get all defensive over it.
Lol. I was just kidding around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Attachment 2106
I actually got something. A bit of concept work I drew up of what I think a Forerunner Spartan would be like. I know it's not professional, but I was aiming for simplicity over master piece. I made the mistake of not drawing on graph paper too, but that's besides the point. It's a rough concept, mind you, but any suggestions would be nice.
can't tell if this is troll or not.Quote:
Attachment 2106
I actually got something. A bit of concept work I drew up of what I think a Forerunner Spartan would be like. I know it's not professional, but I was aiming for simplicity over master piece. I made the mistake of not drawing on graph paper too, but that's besides the point. It's a rough concept, mind you, but any suggestions would be nice.
You're joking, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
hahh
hah
hahahahahah
:downs:
The concept is just a simple one that took no more than 30 minutes to dish out. It's more or less a reference point for me so I know what to draw in a better form/perspective next time I decide to draw it. Also, black pen is messy and makes it tough to draw nice things. I should have used a pencil. :(
At least that way it could have had dimension.
still not sure if troll.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
ban darkhalo for trolling
Don't need crit at the moment. But I need some serious help. Why in the hell is this happening? I've tried portals, they don't help either... or if they're supposed to I guess I'm doing them wrong. I've been messing with this for days, can't seem to figure out what's going on though. Obviously the geometry comes back after I move the camera, but not at the expense of more disappearing.
http://imageshack.us/m/833/193/ahhhh.jpg
rasterizer_stats 2 screenshot please, and the total triangles in your model.
You exactportal'd too much i bet.
I don't have any exact portals in there. Or any portals at the momment. They don't seem to help anything as much as I would like. Regular portals do okay, but I still have geometry culling everywhere....Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwood
Hm... 3ds Max says 50,692 triangles.
Although it seems that sapien thinks otherwise... guessing scenery?
http://imageshack.us/m/39/2610/ahhh2e.jpg
@pictureQuote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
I raise you one concept:
Mind you, I drew that six years ago. If I did it again, would make a few, ahem, alterations. This is little more than a smoothed out Mk. V, honestly.
@Bob
Fix your co-planars.
Put exact portals just about everywhere you can, and then if that doesn't work go onto regular portals.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
Halo can only render around 50k~ tris at once, and bsps are rendered multiple times for reflections, lightmaps, and so on, so that's why your count is higher than the actual model file.
Have fun portalling.
Ban Selentic for being a jackass.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
Is that your entry for the Competition Bob? Looks interesting!
@Warsaw: Interesting concept and it's very neat. Pencil right? If I would have had a pencil, mine might have been neater/dimensional, though my rough-rough drafts usually mean I have to scribble some pretty ugly so I don't forget them. My mind is a blackhole when it comes to creativity; I'll forget it if I don't reinforce the idea. :/
Eh. It's poo compared to what I can do now. But yeah, I'm the same way. If I don't draw it, I'll forget it.
@DarkHalo003; We all do that at one point or another, but most of us take out a new page and recreate it in a more presentable manner.
If I don't draw I get shitty, but after ten minutes of warming up it all comes rushing back. It's crazy how much the life drawing class I'm taking has helped me with figures, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
It's not the skills I forget, it's the object. If I think up a weapon design or a character's appearance, I need to draw it or I won't remember what it looks like.
As for figure drawing, it is definitely all about the practise. I learned through observation and 8 years of trying to draw people. Now the only things I really have issues with are the occasional perspective on arms and muscle groups. I've got feet down, hands down, and faces really down.
If I don't draw for a while (like seen), I get very bad with perspective, very lazy, and almost timid when I want to try make it 3 dimensional, sort of like I panic when I begin to move into a 3d perspective.
I'm only afraid to progress on a drawing when the lineart comes out so nice on the first try. Tonality can kill a picture.
You should try crosshatching more. You do a lot of side-of-the-pencil rubbing stuff, and crosshatching can give a ridiculous amount of extra form and texture to a piece.
Something I did in my 2-D art class a few days ago.
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2112613_n.jpg
I also painted it with water colors, however have not gotten a picture of it.
Also, you can totally tell I half assed a bit of it, but it was still the best in the class :P
It was based off a photo of Cuba in a 1999 issue of National Geographic.
That's pretty cool Higuy. When can you get a picture of the water colors up?
Thursday... It's at school and I don't have the class till then. I have a 4 day weekend.
I've started to do that more, actually, and you're right. When I'm on a bigger drawing, it works out so much better. On tiny drawings like the ones I post here (the actual drawing is smaller than 8.5x11"), the resolution of cross-hatching is mostly lost to the density so it becomes superfluous next to typical z-form.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
Actually, I meant for the small drawings. I never draw things bigger than a sheet of printer paper, since I lose my focus and general sense of proportion (and my patience for crosshatching) if I can't easily see the whole thing at once, while i'm drawing. I guess just increase your spacing a bit more, and use something that does thin lines well, like an 0.5mm mechanical pencil.
I use a Twist Erase 0.7mm mechanical. I can get thin lines just fine, it's just that when you add tonality on small pictures like this, how you do it doesn't seem to matter because the texture is lost inside itself anyways. When I draw on the ridiculously big 18x24" pad, I tend to crosshatch more for the same reason you mentioned earlier. Maybe it's the paper I'm using; it's just 50lb. sketch paper (9x12"), not drawing paper. It's not smooth at all. I don't smudge my pencil marks, either, at least not in the past two and a half years.
My strategy has shifted to this in recent months: take your line art, and [lightly] draw hard edges to define where you want the primary shadows. Fill those sections in with some diagonal hatching so you don't confuse whitespaces. Once I have that all down, I darken those a bit with some cross hatching or additional parallel hatching. Then I draw more hard edges for the next darkest shadows. Darken those, and darken the first set even more. Repeat as necessary. Eventually all you have left to fill in are the "normal lighting" areas and highlights, if needed.
My strategy has always been to work down from a midtone laid out over all areas that aren't intended to be really bright. Also I block out relative flat shades for different materials before pretty much anything.
I think it's funny that in either case, we are working in "layers" like one would in Photoshop. Except we can't delete if we screw up. :v:
Final project for art class
abandoned Reality Maintenance outpost
I demand a Halo map made out of that.
Gonna need to invent a way to directly access the vertex shaders to warp the world like that, then.
Not the warping, just do the geometry like that. Would play like a small Lockout built for 1v1 and 2v2.
Half the map wouldn't have a playing surface
Half of Lockout didn't have a playing surface. That's what made it so exciting.
After a little break I decided to try something a little new.
Currently I've noticed a few things that need fixing such as the arches on the roof.
But C&C would be good none the less.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...arlord/hmm.png
it needs more bevels
Is it a particular architecture. Looks like Forerunner a small bit, but I can see a lot of human in it too. Then again, when you look at the ONI buildings in Halo Reach (not in New Alexandria), then I guess it's sort of difficult to tell the two apart anyways.
Attachment 2134
An update on the alley scene I'm making right now. Does anyone know how to make the materials appear stronger like the ones in the UDK packaging?
Once upon a time(6 months ago), I started a project to revamp the Fallout:NV Hunting Rifle. Being the lazy man I am, I just now got arround to finishing the model and texturing it so uhh... yeah. (No plans to put it in-game as I don't have New Vegas installed anymore)
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3631/whatabeaut.png
Holy christ on a stick. I WANT that for new vegas. :O
The Hunting rifle is the only thing I use sniper wise, and this would just make it a thousand times better.
looks cool, optimise more!
also, you should be careful with doing outlines of any sort (even just a little blur) because it'll make anything appear cartoony.
It's been a while since I've used max so I decided to start off with something simple. I'm working on a high poly version, but not enough progress to post atm.
Seeing a few non planars but otherwise nothing too major.
Don't fursecute me
attention everyone.
stop saying shit like 'i see non planar faces'
you are making yourself look stupid.
i've seen so many people say that here, and it's the biggest bullshit ever.
oh
did that stop being an error now lol
it never was an error to begin with, that's the point.
i dare you to make a model, and then press 'make planar' on every goddamn face.
it's not even possible unless you triangulate your entire mesh.
the only point where something like this COULD be an issue, is when you have a VERY non-planar face, and you'd really want to triangulate it manually to make it concave/convex to suit the shape you need.
Sel it needs more detail. Is it a male or female? No breasts=no boner. That is all.
What are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
One of those icky straights?
Yes. Yes I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
that's rather icky, TVTyrant
