Model pimpage Thread

[MaK]

Golly that looks fantasic

[Black_Stormy]

Finished a russian military crate pack today.



Close up images are here if anyone is interested.

[PaulH]

Nice Stormy, makes me want to get to the texturing stage! And yeah I plan on setting the car in a CE3 scene, modelling the fence behind the car (that the T-Rex has broken out of) and making it all muddy and rainy.

[Ich 666]

Tbh i think the Texture on the metal crates is a bit too cloudy, especially the blue one and the brown one on the right side of the middle row have a more concrete like feel. If youre going after the metal look, a specular map could help too.

[Black_Stormy]

yeah they have phong specular but it's hard to notice with a still shot. Actually you can see the specular pretty good on the blue metal crate, that's what's making it look so cloudy. But you're right the one on the end of the middle row is crappy, I wasn't very happy with it but it's better than what I had before.

[Yzooo]

Freezer model I'm working on for a map, and now that the easy part is over I'm over to texturing it...

Also does anyone know any decent tricks for making translucent glass textures on models in source? I tried $translucent but it had problems displaying correctly and $alphatest just makes it 100% translucent...

[source-maps]

$aplhatest or something

[Gambini]

$aplhatest isn´t implemented yet in the source engine but $alphatest is only for fences and things like that.

The best way to go IMO is using a different material for the glass, with $translucent and avoiding to face two faces in the same plane. You should not have problems for that model since the glass is going to be seen only from the front angles.

Another option would be compiling a different model for the glass or attaching a func_brush. This way you can make the surfaces behave like metal and like glass separately.

[Yzooo]

$aplhatest isn´t implemented yet in the source engine but $alphatest is only for fences and things like that.

The best way to go IMO is using a different material for the glass, with $translucent and avoiding to face two faces in the same plane. You should not have problems for that model since the glass is going to be seen only from the front angles.

Another option would be compiling a different model for the glass or attaching a func_brush. This way you can make the surfaces behave like metal and like glass separately.

I'm gong to try using a different material then, thanks.

[Dejavo]

Yzooo: Sweet. Will look really fancy with textures I'm sure.

I'm trying to find out what all the mudbox/zbrush-buzz is about ^^

It's a bit tricky but a lot of fun. Btw, does anyone know why the models aren't casting shadows on to each other?

[Armageddon]

Because it's Source.

[Welsh Mullet]

$aplhatest isn´t implemented yet in the source engine but $alphatest is only for fences and things like that.

The best way to go IMO is using a different material for the glass, with $translucent and avoiding to face two faces in the same plane. You should not have problems for that model since the glass is going to be seen only from the front angles.

Another option would be compiling a different model for the glass or attaching a func_brush. This way you can make the surfaces behave like metal and like glass separately.

I'm gong to try using a different material then, thanks.

or do the glass with a func_surf_breakable and have quite nice breakable glass

[DonPunch]

Yzooo: Sweet. Will look really fancy with textures I'm sure.

I'm trying to find out what all the mudbox/zbrush-buzz is about ^^

It's a bit tricky but a lot of fun. Btw, does anyone know why the models aren't casting shadows on to each other?

So you made a mud box in mudbox? nice

[Dejavo]

Armageddon: I was afraid that might be the case. Might try the portal2-engine to see if there's a difference in model lightning.

Donpunch: next time I'll make a hammer in hammer.

[Hollow]

Armageddon: I was afraid that might be the case. Might try the portal2-engine to see if there's a difference in model lightning.

Donpunch: next time I'll make a hammer in hammer.

There won't be. You'll need to light your scenes with a env_projected texture if you want to have the models self-shadow. It is indeed better to do this in Portal 2 merely for the fact that it has better shadow quality. But your best bet is to get hold of a custom codebase that has all the dynamic light fixes, (meaning you can actually use more than one.)

Source up until now has been very limited to it's shadowing techniques (As our moderator Gary will rightly know lol). The only engine branch to fully utilize global CSM lighting is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.