Model pimpage Thread

[Magicmuffin]

Made a quick LP m1911 in blender. still WIP though.

http://imageshack.us/f/824/m1911.png/

[TicTac]

Maya > 3ds max.

<3 maya!

Looks wonderful though tictac

I found 3ds to be much easier to pick up and use than Maya. I also can't remember it ever crashing on me, where-as maya crashes at the drop of a hat.

And thanks Gambini

[jangalomph]

keep it up muffin. And maya never really crashed all too much for me.

[source-maps]

both programs have crashed on me multiple times

but maya does some things really dumb for modeling, even my teachers agreed so it's a fact not opinion

[Magicmuffin]

Added the remaining details,

1565 polygons. Now time to UV map and texture. ;_;

[Saxon]

Added the remaining details,

1565 polygons. Now time to UV map and texture. ;_;

Looks pretty nice there.

UV mapping is never much fun, but texturing can be greatly sped up if you bake lighting & AO.

[Magicmuffin]

Thanks for the tips!

[Smurftyours]

Upvote for my submission on the steam workshop! Thanks to those who do!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=76535580

[Shirik]

Looks pretty nice there.

UV mapping is never much fun, but texturing can be greatly sped up if you bake lighting & AO.

Hi there, could you explain a lil more better about the Lighting Baking?

[Magicmuffin]

Got it UV'd, now time to texture it

[Saxon]

Looks pretty nice there.

UV mapping is never much fun, but texturing can be greatly sped up if you bake lighting & AO.

Hi there, could you explain a lil more better about the Lighting Baking?

Go into Render to Texture and choose "Lighting" for one of your outputs.

Oh and be sure to load up your own UV map in the automatic unwrap that 3DSMax generates.

[Magicmuffin]

Guys, would any of you happen to know the best way to make a chrome-ish material in source?

[kraid]

Make sure you're using a dark base color in combination with envmap.
E.g. if you'd like to make a mirror, base color can be black, but in case of your weapon i'd say a dark grey and a good envmapmask will do just fine.

You should also take a look at the $phong stuff on the vdc-wiki.

[Black_Stormy]

$envmap and $phong aren't cross compatible, and I would think that a very light grey would work better with a subtle envmap? If it's a viewmodel, the player will be passing through envmap entities and that might cause some noticable 'popping' as the envmap changes, more so if you have a very strong envmap. $phong wouldn't make a very good chrome material though, so maybe play around with $envmap. Also try some $envmaptint stuff. Maybe some high values in that would make the envmap look light, like silver or chrome.

[Major Banter]

@MagicMuffin, to help with Stormy's explanation.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$envmap

Might help. Not sure how to make the envmap be...just an envmap.