Saab 37 Viggen

[RaymondSalter]

Nice modeling thier bazze.

[RmachucaA]

looking good

[bazze]

Here's an update. I've created a bump map, a diffusion map and have added some more details.

http://www.colacola.se/pix/viggen_wip/wip_viggen_20051031.jpg

[bazze]

Please tell me what you think about the composition and light/shader settings. I've been staring myself blind..

http://www.renderosity.com/photos/MSG2/Message2457943.jpg

[Skyraider3D]

Awesome!
Just decrease the strength of the bumpmap, as it's much too strong. You may get better results highlighting the panels using specular maps.

[Thr35h0ld]

seriously, that last one looks photoreal.
KEEP IT UP.

[bazze]

thanks!
Here's a new version with the bump reduced. I've also re-worked the (lowpoly) pilot.

http://www.colacola.se/pix/800_viggen_1.jpg

Here you see it flying:

http://www.colacola.se/pix/800_viggen_2.jpg

and here's a render showing the model with a different texture applied.

http://www.colacola.se/pix/800_viggen_3.jpg

[Skyraider3D]

Lots better! The camo one is very nice too.

Lower your glossiness a bit, cause the highlight is pretty strong, making the plane almost look wet or varnished (middle picture).

[dbates]

Something about the tail is bothering me. . . it seems too clean somehow. I might be mistaken though. . .

Really nice work there. You've got a lot of talent with aircraft models!

[bazze]

Above images updated (camo texture on the 1st picture added and glossiness reduced on the 2nd). Pls reload. I think it is finished.

[Skyraider3D]

Top! :thumbsup:

[kevjon]

Very nice bazze, I particularily like the inflight shot. Hopefully you'll do one with the camo version as well.

I really like the way you have reduced your bump maps on recent aircraft, it is much more realistic.

[Matadŏr]

Great images and a great airplane :thumbsup:
I really like the camo version, the colors appear to be very acurate.
Well done.

greets

[Michael Miller]

wow, looks really great man. One suggestion, if you going to put it
into an enviroment such as the flying picture, you should take into
consideration the lighting to give it an even more realistic look with
the environment

-looks great, keep it up

-Michael

[bazze]

wow, looks really great man. One suggestion, if you going to put it
into an enviroment such as the flying picture, you should take into
consideration the lighting to give it an even more realistic look with
the environment

-looks great, keep it up

-Michael

Mhh I thought I had taken the light into consideration :/

I don't know if you have checked the finished piece in the "finished" forum but here's another in flight render:

http://www.colacola.se/pix/800_viggen_4.jpg

And here's another wireframe view:

http://www.colacola.se/pix/800_viggen_1_mesh.jpg

[dbates]

I would suggest adding some grain and lowering the saturation a bit--the model doesn't entirely mesh with the background. There's quite a bit of digital noise in the background picture.

I love that model! Very clean!

[retardedmonkey]

Very very nice I love this thing :D Could you do wires in some other views, like the back and under...
Where did you get the cross sections? I have been looking for a good place for cross sections for a while now.

[Skyraider3D]

A very nice movie about the Viggen can be found here:
http://gruvnet.sytes.net/sh/Movies/Cerebrosus/Flyg/Show%20must%20go%20on.mpg

[bazze]

thanks for the link!
About 2/3 into the movie actually they're flying over my neighbourhood (the Oresunds bridge connecting Sweden & Denmark).

[Lee Qid]

Thumbs up. Your model really looks spot on.

Here's some more pics from the real thing:
http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php?topic=2541.0

Actually I think you need to tone down the specular highlight a bit and maybe als need to make it wider. But looking at the picture of the green one further down in the linked thread it does shine quite a bit.

[XCNuse]

these models are fantastic bazze, just out of curiosity after looking at some of your threads, where exactly do you get your blueprints from?

[Skyraider3D]

If it didn't come from http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html then probably from a book ;)

[learner88]

Very nice!where did you take those blueprints?

[bazze]

yepp the blueprints are from www.ariwar.ru. A fellow forum member also sent me high res scans from a book he has.

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