Mine First Model :P need help

[Jacky The turtle]

Hello,

Maybe you noticed im was of for an While.. Dam School..
And i have to start moddeling and Installed 3dmax
I always wanted make mine own buildings..
but now im stuck.. i dont know how to unwrap it..

Model

and now im looking for suggestions and tips hope you like it

~IceCreamy

 

[Verdun]

Hi!

Regarding the Unwrap, if your tool resembles gmax in that regard, you'll have a list of modifiers from which you can pick "UV coordinate modifiers" and "Unwrap UVW" if your mesh is selected. To get the texture, you probably have a material navigator that allows you to assign a texture to the model (just to have a basis for the unwrap, if it is like gmax, the texture won't actually stick to your model unless you add it in notepad)

By the way, http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-3d-s-max-5-chapter-1-modelling-uw-map-51012/ . How did you miss that ?

I like your model, not that original so far, but nice shapes and proportions. Is the roof held by only one Column? That's kinda akward, I hope you'll cahnge that or have a reasonable explanation for it

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Thanks for your help Ans voor The roof its made of hai ,do you have Somers suggestions?


-Update- i added a barrel,box and a Roof and some small details to the intrance

 

[D a w n]

what's the face count??

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Ehrmm were can i find that i have 3dmax since yesterday

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

either click on the hammer symbol on the right side of your monitor in the same tab section where you can switch between the modifiers and making new meshes
then click on more
doubleclick polygoncounter

or

press 7 on your keyboard and select the appropriate mesh!

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Okey
i think its kinda much bhut it not for wc3 so : 2111 now 1711
I Made a Test for unwrap its al CnP sorry for that but it just a test

Tips are welcome

 

[Gyrosphinx]

I think the model looks fantastic for a first try! Keep it up matey, and you'll be one of the great modellers.

My only suggestion is adding corner pillars supporting the roof, only one pillar looks slightly strange. And if you have room for more details, add a brazier for fire arrows in the tower

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Yeah good idea i can somting whit that

 

[Boneknight]

i just wanted to say when you are wraping a model you will sometimes have to use a bunch of views (like: top; right; left; bottom) to get it look good. So why am I saying this to you well take a look at your model. See the window now look at that pice of wall bellow it its wraped perfectly on the sides but it aint from the top so you wold have to fix it by rewraping that piece of model with top view.

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

this is, for a first model, really nice!
(and u can ask pppl around here, i am almost never saying anything positive )

u definatly need to get rif of allthose unwrapping errors first though!

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Thanks im working on it

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

just a quick tip!
you should first unwrap your whole model with a checker map (where it says "bitmap" and you choose Warcraft 3 in the material editor just use the "checker map" and put the tiling a little up!
this way you know that the parts are not unwrapped in different scales!

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Ahh.. Thanks very useful


UpDate: Not yet


But i made a Speedmodel and unwrapp and Found a Nice old texture that taked 20 Hours Drawing O,o

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

well, normally you go the other way round and first unwrap the model and then make a render of the unwrap and then paint on it...
you shouldnt be scared by the time it takes to do stuff!
1. its really taking long for everyone
2. you will get used to it and speed up if you work regularly

 

[Jacky The turtle]

OKey, but is the model good?

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

you should provide a wireframe:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/wireframe-simple-render
(you are using 3dsmax, arent you?)

its okay for a beginner! its got logical errors all over the place (e.g. it wouldnt work)
its maybe okay for wc3, but if u r interested in getting some skill you should think about if the stuff would work in real life
(e.g. even if you have some plasma tank on the back of a robot you need to think of what does the plasma and then come up with tubes for it connecting the parts and stuff like that)

 

[Jacky The turtle]

Yeah Thanks, and yes im using 3dmax Im looking for an great render Tut

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

you should get your modeling and unwrapping right first...
then u can think about the next step