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Published: 2009-10-02 08:35:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 3907; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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WARNING - BIG IMAGEThe turntable vid can be seen at the following [link]
1024 x 1024 - Diffuse, Specular, Normal and Ambient maps
3283 - Polygons
6288 - triangles
programs used - Photoshop, Zbrush, 3DSMAX
A turret that I just felt like modelling...
comments and crits welcome
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Comments: 37
Odd, I think i've seen this turret in some RTS game before. Weird. :/
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porbably every idea ever has already been done somwhere =/ this was out of my head though no research
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the ambient is to make the lights on the mech glow, it basically makes whatever UV space has the ambient colour will ignor shadows or darkness and instead, will appear to be lit.
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Aaaah, I should use this. Must study it first. Thanks for sharing
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just a tip, its better to use a colour rather than white with game engines such as unreal and if you give is some glow in photoshop then the area around the light will "glow" a little too.
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I will never forget about that
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Good detail, you've done well with the textures. Are the glowing bits on his legs just diffuse mapped? They really pop nicely.
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the lights are both within the diffuse map and have an emissive/self-illumination map generated for them, the emissive map helps the glow really punch out the lights even when there is no lights in the scene.
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Very nice texture work, given that the model itself is so low poly, it looks really good overall. You could hardly tell it's low poly. The model looks well constructed too.
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thanks I made a whole bunch of these mechs too including some flying ones.
I'll be putting up the others soon.
thanks again for the comment
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lol I get that comment more than you'd think, thanks
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One day, I'll be able to UV map paint like that...one day...
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thanks but theres really not much too the texturing, its the cube map that keeps the whole model looking unique all over
thanks for commenting
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Say!
Are you tired of screaming at kids to get off your lawn?
Well we have just the thing!
The Whippersnapper Whacker 6000 mini turret. Put one on your lawn and backyard and those kids will stay away.
Just turn it off when the mailman or local law enforcement folks come by or you will be in trouble.
Get one of these and save your voice!
Let the Whippersnapper Whacker 6000 mini turret speak for you!
Also comes in smaller versions for pigeons (BirdBlaster 2000) and those grey rats with bushy tails(SquirrelShredder 1000) too.
Looks great.
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xD that reminds me of the fatman trailer for fallout3 lol thanks
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Its like if the artists for Unreal Tournament did the Doom3 sentry robot, i love it
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You made that with such a low poly count? Sweet. Nothing really to add in terms of critique, only that now that I'm -finally- starting to use 3Ds Max, I can fully see just how much of a pain in the ass it can be to use. Actually, I rather like how you chose to opt out of making it look like a beat up war machine (though I think it -could- have used a few more scratches here 'n there). A lot of people seem to think it's more realistic to make really beat up machines, but haven't they ever seen a new-ish one before? 
Glad you made such a large, coherent file by the way. It's easier to see the details when you do it like that. I like how you added all of those little panels off to the right too. Very nice.
By the way, what is Zbrush?
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thanks
I was aiming for the new-ish kinda mashine to be honest. what I find is that if objects or vehicles emit some solar flare it takes away from the realism of the object, the only thing that should have flare is the fun like in games.
Zbrush is a program that quickens the process of generating a normal maps. basicly you import a .OBJ file into Zbrush and you use Zbrush to sculpt high poly details into the mesh. trust me just the body of this turret came to 300,000 polys in zbrush.
you then take the new obj exported from zbrush and import it into the scene. you transfere the map of the high on to the low one and the low poly model keeps all the detail from the high poly mesh.
in games characters can have anything between one and two million polys after a trip to zbrush.
thanks again for the comment
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I'm glad you think so too because too much of it will just make things look utterly unrealistic. And yeah, I had guessed it was supposed to be new. Nothing wrong with that.
Ooooh. That's great, I'll keep that in mind. 
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thanks and I shall and you should too
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you shadow baked this...its good baby, I think there could be a bit more detail into the texture, like little scratches and marks..it looks to clean, but other from that its good..its not to high poly which I like to see.
Why is the image so big....?
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thanks
I did add a large ammount of scratches already but only in areas that would have realistically recieved them such as around the dinted areas of the turret and the body.
asfor the clean look, thats what I wanted it to be like. I wanted the turret to look new as if it's only been in a few small fights.
its the cube map that makes it look so shiney.
and finally the image is so big because I wanted people to really see the detail of the model rather than just some small image sheet.
thanks again
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war is not clean....but there should be more scratched and mraks
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lol tell that to bungie the ghosts in odst spakle more than dimonds xD
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yeah, but you want your stuff to be original..not like bungies
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Real nice use of texture. Poly painted?
Are there norms or rules to organizing uvs this way (particularly if I'm working with multiple subtools or combined meshs)? Looking around for tutorials on this subject
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thanks but no this model is not poly painted at all, its all painted in photoshop.
backed the shadows from a skylight on there though, I did some cavity map shadow painting in zBrush around the wires though.
as for UV layout, if your creating a model ligh a vehicle, object or character. even if it has multiple meshes try and fit everything one to one UV map keep things as close together as possible and made use of the "unwrap mapping" and "detatch edge verts" tool's.
hope this helped and thanks for commenting
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