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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 11:35 Edited at: 31st Jan 2009 11:43
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Yes, another annoying recreational model by Toasty that will never get used.

I just recently got a HD 4870 with dual screen support, so what better way to test it than doing some modeling?

I've honestly got no fudging idea what this bad boy is exactly, but I like it. I just know it's got caterpillar tracks and it's big. I recently watched Wall-E and was inspired to make something with caterpillar tracks.

Enough talk, here's some screens.






You want a wireframe? You asked for it.



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petsall
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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 11:43
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Cool work toasty

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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 11:47
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Thanks.
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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 12:39
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Even though you didn't care about poly count the cylinders on those tracks are overkill, you could get the same look without all those divisions.


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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 12:55
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Looks sweet, man. Like a chibi 40K land raider
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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 12:59 Edited at: 31st Jan 2009 13:01
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Quote: "Even though you didn't care about poly count the cylinders on those tracks are overkill, you could get the same look without all those divisions."


True. If it weren't for the fact that it's recreational, I of course would have changed it. But seeing as it is recreational, I pretty much just made almost everything about it high-poly.

EDIT: Thanks, Errant, it means a lot coming from the likes of you.
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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 19:31
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Lookin' good, I would say you could add a little detail to the back of it, the part visible in the 3rd render. Also not sure what app you're using, but the ao is making it a little too dark and fuzzy, try upping the samples and lighting if possible.

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Posted: 31st Jan 2009 23:54
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I agree with you on the detail bit. It doesn't have as much mechanical bits 'n pieces as the rest.

I don't exactly agree with you on the AO bit, though. I dunno why, bit I like it in that grainy-ish style. But I'll post some more renders anyway.

Here you go.


Here's some screens of the detail I attempted to put into the track wheels.



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Try using set smooth, the divisions are quite obvious...

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I used smoothing groups as much as I could, but on some parts it looked like garbage...
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Posted: 1st Feb 2009 09:48
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Quote: "I used smoothing groups as much as I could, but on some parts it looked like garbage...
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Stop saying that.

That's where you need to smooth the normals.


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Please don't say I didn't warn you...
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Posted: 1st Feb 2009 10:35
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Quote: "Please don't say I didn't warn you..."

Why would I?

And that doesn't look normal, could you post a shaded wireframe shot of that part?


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It's Because you didn't change the values. Your meant to change them with each connect poly area to ensure smoothing groups are perfect.

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Quote: "It's Because you didn't change the values. Your meant to change them with each connect poly area to ensure smoothing groups are perfect."


Ahhhh...

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Ahh... (Quoted from Toasty ) I like that. Even though it's got that massive, bloody, overkill polycount. Wall-E's a good movie BTW. Have one:

Greetz.

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Go into Edit Mode and check the normals, sometimes Blender makes them backwards, especially if you're using Booleans...

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What did you use to make it? Like AC3D, World Studio, etc.

Nothing is too hard as long as you can achieve it (*Note* This does not apply to programmers).
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Quality

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