Morke's Showcase (3DSMax8)

Doedel · Post by **Doedel** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:27 pm

I want to kill you and take your brain.

Very very good stuff. I wish I had those skills.

morke · Post by **morke** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:58 pm

well, that means im wearing my helmet from now on.

edit: i think there is a rule somewhere that says no eating or removing of brain matter in the forum..... well i think there should be anyways.

Lutemoth · Post by **Lutemoth** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:51 am

I believe there is somewhere, actually.. Falls under the Internecion and Hecatomb act of 2005

except Casual Mondays.. gotta watch out on Mondays

morke · Post by **morke** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:15 am

ok Macar... im actualy quite proud of this one!

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/flute3.jpg

your concept art is the key to it all! i rotated it and used it as specular AND bump maps, and i think the texture looks JUST LIKE CARVED WOOD!!! ahahah ok. im a little excited because this opens about a million new possibilities for wood architecture. anyway ill be applying the same process to the other two flutes, and they should be up soon.

Joco · Post by **Joco** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:08 pm

The texture is really nice. Did you make it yourself?

morke · Post by **morke** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:30 pm

well, Macar gets half credit for the concept art. all i had to do was use the same picture for a specular map and a bumpmap.

our concept artists could really go to town with wood carving designs. im talking pillars, tables, chairs, everything. its relatively simple making the rest of the tex look like wood. (or metal for that matter) i think we should get some nice concept drawings of blades with runes!

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:01 pm

Looking pretty cool, can we have a few more shots from different angles? Just curious how it looks.

Out of curiosity, are you sticking to realistic polygon counts? It looks pretty high poly, but that might just be me.

morke · Post by **morke** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:04 pm

its 1026 triangles. PoHa! wanted 700 but it was hard enough getting it to even look like a flute

i found a loophole in the polys. i think i can cut quite a few.

the other two flutes are around 700. the polycounts are on the screenshot i previously posted.

here's more shots of this flute:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/2-3.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/1-7.jpg

heres the low-poly version. i worked it down to 774 triangles:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/3-2.jpg

morke · Post by **morke** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:12 pm

ok, i re-textured the guard armor (sigh... again....)
but the important thing is that the UV map is all set up so i can add the city livery anywhere on the mesh. i finaly got a brass-like texture that i think will work well when its under a bright desert sun.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/1-8.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/2-4.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o97/solobeck/3-3.jpg

helmet is coming soon, as are the gloves and boots.

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:20 pm

Hey, that's looking cool. It's not quite how I originaly imagined it, but it has a cool folk-art quality. I liked the first picture you posted with the carved shaft- rather than the smooth one.

One thing I want to point out is that (and you may not be getting to this yet) the reed itself (the part you put your mouth on) isnt made of wood- so it should look different. Here's a couple refferences:

[img]http://sia.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/cole.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.millermarketingco.com/neuranter/images/Image45.jpg[/img]
(like the one on the right)