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3 Dimensional Chat / made my first decent model

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 01:44
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after fiddling for a few days, i finally made a model that I am kinda proud of. I was fiddling with texturing, and it was awful. Can somebody tell me the best way to UV map and texture a model like this?

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mastercheif 193
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 01:47
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Cool Zaibatsu but i thought you've been modeling for a long time?
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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 05:43
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I bought milkshape around Christmas, but never rally took the time to learn or do well. This was totally off the top of my head, I had no reference image for this.

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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 09:29
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Not bad; try lithunwrap or UV mapper
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Silvester
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 11:24
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Lithunwrap is out of bussinus,though you can still find its download on google search.

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 00:12
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Quote: "try lithunwrap or UV mapper"


I did, but the UV map keeps coming out weird.

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indi
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 03:11 Edited at: 24th Mar 2007 03:13
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The models polycount appears to be way over what would be expected for a model of that shape and quality.

think of the cylinders in your model

think of how many angles make up the faces to complete the ring.

12
10
8
7
5

think also about how many divisions you really need along a cylinder.
for a dead straight cylinder like the barrel, you really only need one division along each face of the cylinders angle.

a models mesh of that quality should only be a few hundred polygons.
This also makes it easier to UV map
this also allows for more polys to be spent elsewhere within your game.

here is a very primitive example screen shot of your gun, check out its polycount.
notice how each ngon or square area is only using 2 polys instead of perhaps many divisions.



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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 03:13
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and some samples of the model so you can see it better in MS3d

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Shadow heart
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Posted: 28th Mar 2007 06:34 Edited at: 28th Mar 2007 06:35
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nice model, but do you have one with textures added now



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