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3 Dimensional Chat / first proper go at 3d

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chunks chunks
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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 02:27
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sorry can`t post a screenie photobuckets not working at the momemnt.

my first go at a proper 3d model it`s only a simple knife ,suppose ya got to start somewhere.

Feedback welcome .


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edit: attached zip contains a dbpro exe to show the model with bump mapping , also x file and texture if anyone dare use it lol.

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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 16:05
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please post a screen when photobucket works

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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 20:40
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heres a screenie as promised



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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 20:46
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Not bad at all, you can tell what it is unlike my first model =P Keep up the good work.

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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 23:07
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Can you show a wire shot? It'll help me critique.



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Posted: 25th Sep 2008 21:36
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here is a wireframe screenie , you`ll see that the detail on the blade is missing because i bumpmapped it with a texture in dbpro.



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Posted: 25th Sep 2008 21:50
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You have way too many divisions on the hilt of the knife, and on the blade itself there is a giant N-Gon, connect edges to make it work.


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Posted: 25th Sep 2008 22:14
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sorry for being a 3d newbie whats a n-gon is it the large surface area on the blade ?

anyways i`m gonna redo it and try and get less divisions and mabey add the blade detail to the mesh rather than bump mapping.

thanks for the feedback , i`ve also started a revolver but thats gonna take me a while .

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Posted: 26th Sep 2008 02:07
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Quote: "sorry for being a 3d newbie whats a n-gon is it the large surface area on the blade ?"


An N-gon is basically a face with more than 4 edges. You should try to stick with quads (4-sided faces), but triangles are okay if need be.

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Posted: 26th Sep 2008 07:32
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Tris are alright if it's something you are not going to animate. Besides I don't get why people hate tris so much. I mean you spend so much time trying to get quads and then when you import it into an engine it converts it to all tris anyways! Besides, a quad is two tris

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Posted: 26th Sep 2008 07:43
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Well if it really isn't anything that will deform, as a gun, triangles aren't a issue, the main reason why people seem to hate them is that they generally don't deform well, except in places like the shoulder and the elbow and such.
And it's just good practice in general to try and stay away from triangles as much as possible as it gives you practice on managing the topology of the model. But really, triangles are fine, but don't overuse them.


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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 00:08
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Sorry, but the wireframe pic doesn't work...

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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 00:09
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It does if you take the actual image address and go to it in your web browser.


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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 00:35
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Well, my PC's broken and I'm using my PS3 to browse the forums, so I'd have to type the address, so it's a bit getting on my nerves, typing the addresses with a pad...

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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 00:36
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Here's the image then.



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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 00:56
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TY.I'll comment tomorrow, I need to get some sleep now.
OK, I need MUCH sleep...

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Posted: 27th Sep 2008 01:50
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Ok, well from what I can tell that blade is a 53ish sided poly. Try connecting the verts with a line to make sure that there is no poly over 4 sides. Tris are fine here because it's not animated.

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Posted: 28th Sep 2008 20:53
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sorry guys about the pic its png and it dont seen to work ,anyways im still working on this ,thank for the feedback.

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