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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #45 on: February 26, 2008, 10:42:44 AM »
Lots of 3d work :)
Was planning to use this for the recruitment posters but eventually didn't finish it. Was planning to go for a fictional tank merc unit but currently don't have the inspiration to finish and the pictures there are already of a high 3d quality.
Still I thought lets post the line drawing here since, if I didn't, I would just toss it away.
It's a Manticore heavy IS tank.

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #46 on: February 27, 2008, 04:58:07 PM »
Impressive. Thats all I can say.
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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #47 on: March 03, 2008, 04:06:35 PM »
The finnished model, but texturing is still WIP.

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #48 on: March 05, 2008, 04:37:18 PM »
This looks like a good space to ask you guys´n´gals (hrm) a little Q of mine ...
How do you make such horrificly cool renderings, i.e. the shadings on you 3d mods?

I have only resently allowed myself to dwelve down into 3ds max (dec 2007) and have reach as far as to the rendering and texturing. I´m an old Photoshopper (since 1991).

BTW thanks for a humor-filled tutor on the UVW mapping, cant wait until he shows his skills in Maya, an unknown territory for me!

Please critizise as you wishes ...

First of the finished poster for your "contest"!
p.s. the following should have been added to the (now closed) Att: Clans and Player... topic ... but I´m posting it anyway ... so here it goes

Just a thought (Yes I know I´m fantasizing again, that I actually can think *ouph*... who said that! not me, over there!)

Could this little post of yours (this on, I said and pinned my head to the desk), be implemented as an extra feature in the actual game, so any “member” of your community (me) or clans (my alter ego(s)) can continue to post or update their art, may it even be a server feature so clans can post their own art at a specified place in the game itself? *drool*

I am certainly aware the threat from hackers that will spam such a feature. And also how should it be implemented on a server? By an Admin solely, or is it done by community vote? And also how may this affect “load of graphics” when starting a map. Each map would need to have a specified number of “place holders” to eventually be implement the new art in the game. Graphics would have to be uploaded to a specific target on a server, and manually or automatically implemented in the game, again only an Admin may place the art on a given target (place)?

p.s. this question is not related to Unit Logos? Ellements from Cannon Uniforms? at all, thou the point given on that part, is a good one too, and visibly southing. :)

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #49 on: March 05, 2008, 04:42:33 PM »
And now for the more serious stuff ...

the vehicle from the CBT TR3026r, first ever skinned! A newer version with a new skin is being worked out!

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #50 on: March 05, 2008, 04:53:13 PM »
and now for some weapons...

Here´s a cool gear, the Bearhunter" Superheavy Autocannon from Clan Hell´s Horses (of which I´m missing a logo *sob*)

firts one is (dooh) but naked, no skin! erh the others ar´n´t skinned either!
second and third is hand painted in photoshop, I have not learned UVW mapping properly, yet!

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #51 on: March 05, 2008, 05:00:41 PM »
Remake of the LB-X Autocannon by Mike Jackson, found in BattleTech Compendium: The Rules of Warfare, p. 118. Published by Fasa inc.

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #52 on: March 05, 2008, 05:05:05 PM »
And another cool "soft-body" weaponry ...
"David" Man-Portable Ligh Gauss Riffle ... o_o I´m still stomping on the "King David"

and as with the Bearhunter ... they are hand painted in Photoshop!

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2008, 05:07:26 PM »
This was made from the second sketch of 2008 ... a free-style mech!

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #54 on: March 06, 2008, 10:46:19 AM »
Some nice bits of modelling there you have netrom! In answer to your question about the shader:

Most people using 3D Max or similar use the default shaders for their test renders, and render it of in V-Ray which does most of the hard work for you. Just remember when you're doing a test render to light it appropriatly, you need the details to be HIGHLIGHTED by one or more light sources, you also need a bit of contrast, and have a bit of specularity to make the details and contours more obvious.

For me in blender things are a little more tricky as it is a more difficult program, with pretty sucky default shaders. It comes down to lightig really, you need a bit of ambient light, a bit of ambient occlusion so that the nooks and crevises are shown up to be a bit darker, than you just light it appropriatly to show the highlights off. Its pretty basic stuff.

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #55 on: March 06, 2008, 06:55:17 PM »
TheANIMAL Enjoy it! All of it!

I´m at the brink of extinction, all you see here is lost! I presume ... I have just been out for a mayor disastor about an hour ago. The drive which obtains all my 3D models, renderings and photoshop edits, and also the softwares used has failed *please sh*t me*

I don´t know what has happened to the HD but it just freezed while viewing the Bearhunter, another edit it Photoshop I did last evening, and it rebooted several times afterwards I installed it in another system were it showed this [standard drive name, I had rewritten it][It said it was formatted in RAW, (in other words it did see it as formatted), originally NTFS][And finally the worst to look at it read the HD volume as 0-byte, not 1 or 150000, no no, simple 0 byte on the drive, and the HD is now only capable of obtaining 0 byte in total!

I hav´n´t done anything to it yet, so my hope is not all lost

Thanks for the interest in my work
« Last Edit: March 06, 2008, 06:57:24 PM by netrom »
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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #56 on: March 07, 2008, 07:35:14 PM »
Hmm, sounds like you need something like Partition MAgic or anh hard drive recovery program, something you can boot form a CD if its not already on your computer.

Hope you sort it out!

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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #57 on: March 08, 2008, 02:01:51 PM »
Well, I´m on it, sort of!

But it seems that I´ll have to pay $700+ for Ontracks recovery utility!
Thanks for the reply TheANIMAL!

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« Last Edit: March 12, 2008, 07:09:32 PM by netrom »
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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #58 on: March 11, 2008, 06:48:40 PM »
$700??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

*Edited post, no warez discussion*

jeeez.
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Re: Concept Art
« Reply #59 on: March 11, 2008, 07:11:06 PM »
Get Data Back for NTFS has always done a spectacular job for me of recovering data from failed drives.