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Time to kill and nothing to do

Postby David T. » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:03 pm

Well, seeing as how stopping my WoW addiction is leaving me with countless hours of time to be spent either watching sports, doing homework, talking to people or picking my nose I think it's time that I pick up modeling again.

I believe I'll start taking a look at maya. The only 2 modeling programs I've used are max and lightwave. I didn't like lightwave and we all know I love max. However, our attempts at porting models into formats in max has not worked.

So, uh... hi again. Welcome to the learning process version 2.0.
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Postby Karl G. » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:31 pm

Woot!!!! Hey again :D
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Postby David T. » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:01 pm

Maya sucks. Hard.

No, I'm serious.
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Postby Karl G. » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:26 pm

That's unfortunate :(

It's not a big deal to model in MAX anyway, as long as you're doing static stuff. I think I'm going to yoink EJ's content ::evil grin::
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Postby Joe M. » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:28 pm

that is unfortunate. oh, well. onward, ever onward.
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Postby David T. » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:07 pm

So I installed 3ds and I'm working on creating my first actual piece of artwork to relearn some skills. We'll see how it turns out.
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Postby Karl G. » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:11 pm

Great! Have you tried out the map-maker? We need to replace all of the items in there (and the more shared textures, the better--I remember you were really good at reusing textures with the weapons models from ages ago). You don't have to worry about the number of textures you use either--just keep them smallish :D
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Postby David T. » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:15 pm

Blech, reused textures.

Anyway, when I say piece of art, I mean actual art - like usable as a background. Probably going to have to send it to Rhino to render it up. Again, we'll see.

No, I haven't used the map maker.
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Postby David T. » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:45 pm

This is proving to be pretty interesting. Trying my hand at architecture and it's a challenge. I'm going to have to redetail a lot of this stuff when I'm done. So far I'm getting the positions of the objects I have created set up. Some are dummy parts, some aren't. Lighting is something I've never had to worry about before and it's proving difficult to control also. I'll post something when I have it.
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Postby David T. » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:41 pm

Of course, my copy of max with mental ray (the rendering plugin that is now standard with max) is on my desktop and I can't access it (bjdfjafjfdjklfdjklfdjkl).

Anywho here's my return to modeling:

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Slum Stacker 1 - A shack for a slums scene I am creating.

As you can see this is visibly high polygon, this is not intended for a game environment. It isn't textured (as photoshop is also on my desktop bhdfakjfakdfjafdfafdfjkdafdj*2) but I'm getting my ability back.
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Postby Karl G. » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:49 pm

That's great looking!

Hey if you need *anything* let me know, and I can mail you a CD with it (or DVD with ISO images or install kits, etc). Just PM me.
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Postby Joe M. » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:05 pm

wow. that does look great!
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Postby David T. » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:21 pm

Here's what I have for the scene so far:

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A lot more detail needs to be done. More trash, rubble, and probably a couple more buildings (not including the background change, adding in lesser-detail, taller buildings). Maybe I'll stick the camera in an alleyway between 2 buildings, might be interesting.

I want to see if I can do water effects also but that would be a dream scenario.

Anyway, that's it for today, I did enough work on that for now.
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Postby David T. » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:16 am

I'm getting the hang of this a little bit...

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Oh yeah baby. This is the way it's meant to be.

Finishing touches will be a lot more trash along with random widgets around the buildings. Maybe some torn up cloth and such hanging off buildings. I want a busier foreground also.

So there we go.
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Postby Karl G. » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:09 am

Sweet!!! Can you make a big render for my background?
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Postby David T. » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:59 am

It's a WIP... needs to have touchups. When I'm done I'll render them in several different sizes.
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Postby David T. » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:25 pm

Slums Streets - David Thomas 2007

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other sizes:
Slums Streets 1280 x 800 (Widescreen)
Slums Streets 1280 x 1024
Slums Streets 1600 x 1200

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I should've unified the terrain but I figure what the heck, good enough.
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Next Project

Postby David T. » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:25 pm

My next project is my second character.

Codename: George (Homo Erectus)

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Laying out the face at the moment.

This is also going to be a high polygon piece. Maybe I'll try some voice synching with this character, that would be ideal though.
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Postby Joe M. » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:40 pm

Wow, David. That slum scene looks great. Stolen for my desktop, that's for sure...
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Codename: George continues

Postby David T. » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:20 pm

Codename: George has a head.
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Postby Joe M. » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:52 am

that's one ugly motherf**ker.

but a well-modeled one, even though he won't win any beauty pageants.
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Postby David T. » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:27 am

Nope, haha. Just a character with what I hope will be a personality. We'll see.
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Postby Karl G. » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:55 am

he's ready to chomp some face
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