Any suggestions

[Mechanical Man]

This is what I have done so far. You should know what it should be, if not, it means that is very crappy

Can somebody give some suggestions to add more detail (it has only about 250 polies )

Sorry for those colors

 

[HappyTauren]

starship? looks nice, mesh is clean... and dont wory about colours it's fate of us gmaxers do you think about texturing it?

 

[blazing-inferno]

it looks good... it kinda looks like a zerg drone from starcraft... cool

 

[Daminon]

I first thought it was some tyranid structure.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Saying "you should know what it is" really doesn't help those who don't.

Like me.

Anyway, give me a few shots with edged faces on.

 

[Mechanical Man]

I hoped that someone will realize what it is, but it seems that I is not so well made

It is supposed to be Templar archives. I don't know how to make the back as in sc is not seen.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I didn't realize, because I have no clue what a Templar Archive is...

Exactly my point of not saying "everyone should know."

 

[Mechanical Man]

Never played Starcraft?

 

[blazing-inferno]

i think theres already one made at wc3sear.ch models under starcraft. good luck

 

[Deleted member 126647]

No, I never got into Starcraft personally.

 

[Kimbo]

doesnt look bad..but it kinda looks like a toy on the way u screenshoted it.

and yes, use edged faces.

maybe u can render it for us? add a skylight apply the defualt material to the model, go to the render options, go to the advance tab and add the ray tracer (activate it) and render to get a clay render.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Im sorry but I really do not know what it is. . .
It looks starcrafty but I can not choose betwene a drone and some protos building (forget name)

Well anyway the gaps inbetween the geosets is a bit wierd, espicaly in the second screenshot.

I also recomend upping the poly count to make the curves look better since even with a high res skin it will still look a bit pointy on the edges.

Next to that, all it needs is a sking to allow us to really comment.

Certianly looks more complex than my modle though. . .

 

[Mechanical Man]

I do not get you werewulf. For which program did you mean that? Can you explain better?

to blazing-inferno: there is no archives model. That is the reason that am I making it.

 

[operator]

Link me up to a pic of the real thing

 

[Kimbo]

It looks like you used max, max can clay render, but if your using gmax, i guess you can..clay render

What prog did u use?

PS: a clay render is like this:this

 

[Dr Super Good]

A clay render basicly is a monotone fully skined modle that uses shading to make it look 3D instead of lighting, high res shadows, shadow maps or any other kind of highly advanced rendering techniques, well atleast I think. . .

How it is done? well I do not know.

 

[HappyTauren]

hes using gmax... i've just started learning how to use it... so dont look at me

 

[Mechanical Man]

I use 3dsmax 5

 

[HappyTauren]

lol it reeeeeally looked like gmax... perhaps because you didnt use shading on models.. anyway, you should make more polies (300 is nothing) but not to high though (2000 polies) just make sure it looks cool from bird perspective, and then make it look good from third person

 

[Mechanical Man]

I used only 'gmax' features at the moment.

The problem is, where to put that detail.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Where it is needed I suppose.

And all you need to do for that render effect is place a skylight, make sure that light tracer is active, and hit render.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Ive heard Gmax has no "render" function and as I use it and do not see it I think it might not have a render function.

And like I said, the only really needed detail is the skin and the smoother edges next to that it looks fine.

 

[Kimbo]

also, remember to apply the defualt materail to your model before you hit render. So the model is gray.

if you dont understand, it would be easier to google i guess and i heard gmax doesnt have the render part of max, and the uvwrap tool set it horrible.

 

[Xlightscreen]

lol well if me and Sven can use the unwrap tool on gmax so can you lol.

As for the model this what I think...First if your trying to mimic a starcraft ship its not looking anything close to one so instead just make up your own name. Obvisly its alien orgin not human since most humans sci-fi often involve there ships with the sharp design of industry why aliens have more of a smooth organic look like what you have. Your best bet is to give it a really high glossy texture such as a shiny metal or a dark metal with maybe energy wires exposed.

(ow and just for people to know there is a render option for gmax but it extremly complex and takes about 6-8 sucessful times to acutly get the rendering down to where you can do it without hassle.)

 

[Mechanical Man]

For edged faces, I should remove all smoothing groups?

 

[Kimbo]

Why? I always have the smooth modifier on and edged faces at the same time.

 

[Mechanical Man]

So i should add a smooth modifier? Because I was working without any modifiers. Should it look like on the pic? I know that if I editable mesh modifier (on the right) is selected, the mesh would like smooth. (ignore those poles behind for now)

 

[Sansui]

Ok.
Here we go.

The first thing I will have you do is select an object in your model and merge all the objects into one by selecting the attach option and clicking on each object.

Next, head over to the material editor.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2202&d=1170816239

That will open this window.
Make yourself a new material that I kind of grey, make it two sided and apply it to your object.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2203&d=1170816239





This step is not that important.
Apply the smooth modifier and select smoothing group 1.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2204&d=1170816239

Now select the Create lights tab.
Select skylight and place it in your scene.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2205&stc=1&d=1170816239

I like to zoom way out and place the light like this.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2206&d=1170816259


Ok, now click on the Rendering tab in the upper menu bar.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2207&d=1170816259

It will open something like this. If not make it look like this.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2208&d=1170816259

Now click render.
http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2209&d=1170816259



I might go ahead and shrink the images and flesh this out more and tack on the clay render with wireframe.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Helpful, thanks a bunch. That deserves some reputation in my book.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Thanks, Sansui. I will try it when will get better. I am rather ill at the moment.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Did I do everything right?

 

[blazing-inferno]

looks much better

 

[Kimbo]

yep, thats it, thats the clay render, now, it looks like its time for you to unwrap and texture, if u need help with that, feel free to ask here.

 

[Mechanical Man]

An update.

However I have a problem. The red circled tool (squash) in the small image below has appeared instead uniform scale. I do not know how to restore it, because this 'new' tool is slightly different.

 

[Daminon]

Hm, clay render. Nice. Gut Wery.

 

[Guessed]

Hold down on the squash button and you can change it to a different scaling type.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Already solved. Had to press Ctrl+E.