My first serious WIP

[teh1ghool]

Welll her it is. I still need to touch up the seams and change some of the textures around, but take a look! When finished it will have specular mapping, normal mapping, etc for teh game it will be going into. Also I plan on using it in the opening animation for that game. It'll be done in A:M. (I'll post a small movie to show the whole thing after my browser gets over timing out from waiting so long! I hate slow internet!)

[robcat2075]

My first suggestion would be to add some light across the top. It's too dark for me to make any other critique comments...

[teh1ghool]

Ugh you have a messed up screen, like that of the old iMacs at my school. My screen is synched with what real colors look like out here in teh real world. It shows the ship as really lighted up.

[luckbat]

Ryan, that's not helping.

[pdaley]

wow. you may never get another critique related comment on this entire thread now.

[Dhar]

Good start. Simple shape, which is good. The decals need a little cleaning up. Rob's right, too dark. It may be well lit in A:M, but the screen cap here is too dark.

[ddustin]

Too dark on my messed up screen as well.

[MMZ_TimeLord]

Someone turn on a light... I can't see the model on my expensive laptop's crappy screen.

 

I aggree about the lighting. Yves had a point on this in one of the radiosity or Ambiant Occlusion tutorials. Gamma correct the picture to 1.4 (I think Yves said that).

 

This is closer to what the gamma should be for our 'messed up' screens.

[robcat2075]

I calibrated my monitor once... and everything I did on it after that was too dark for the rest of the world to see.

 

Calibrated monitors are so rare that it has almost become pointless to target them.

[teh1ghool]

Dunno. I really don't know. This morning I couldnt't post a new one anyways. I barely had time to write that post before gonig to school.

 

PS: What's with that weird distorssion on the front sides? It's not tere in the UV.

 

 

PS2: (Mine came calibrated, don't know why, but there was no change after I calibrated after I got it.)

[Eric2575]

I got a crazy idea - why don't you post a wireframe and we'll comment on that if you like?

[MMZ_TimeLord]

I could not tell you about the distortion without seeing a shaded wireframe capture.

[teh1ghool]

Alright, here. I recalibrated my profile again, this time to match that of a windows more closely. (It tells me.)

 

Much better I might say...so here you go. I know the ship its self is a little dark, but that's not the point. The wireframe is.

[MMZ_TimeLord]

Your patch density is WAY to much. You only need about 9 patches for the top half of that central hull.

 

Anything that is a flat or single surface can usually be one patch or just a few.

 

The modeling you are doing here is reminicient of ... *GLUP*... polygon modeling.

 

The detail part of the ship in the opening can probably stay as is, but the hull, wings and outer shell of the engines needs to be simplified.

 

If you want the angular look, you can easily do that by peaking splines.

 

Here is a really quick hull I did which is similar in shape to yours. (Took 2 minutes)

[teh1ghool]

O.o You're right, I just started getting into A:M modelling, before I used Wings3d. Thanks for the advice. Although it will need to be smoothed in A:M so when exported to 3ds it wil lhave more polyz.

[MMZ_TimeLord]

Actually you can specify what number of subdivisions you use for the model export if I remember correctly.

 

Just up your subdivisions to get a more dense poly mesh.

[teh1ghool]

True but it can never subdevide perfect unless you do it by hand.