just a little Lego model

[minus]

I'm sure I won't be the last to say that this is incredible. Great work. No critiques from me.

[Titan]

wow I had to do a double take on that one..its really 3d...very sweet man....great job!

[kyphur]

I have to say that when I first looked at it I thought it was a picture. Then I looked at the ground plane and realized that it is a render. Smashing job guy, that's suh-weet!


Kyph

[so_hi]

:applause: :bounce: :applause: :bounce: :applause: :bounce: :applause:

I Love Lego !!!!

But, seriously nice job.

Funny thing is though I bet if you really built it out of lego it would take about twenty mins to make.

[Fetus23]

I love lego too and this is an amazing peice of 3d.....I still can't tell its 3d!

[doppelganger]

Fantastic work.

I must say that the material on the cockpit glass and truck window is what really sold me on it at first glance. I love the totally accurate blue plastic hue and the distortion!

Great stuff.

Scott

[The Commander]

That's really good, I'm jealous as hell :applause: ! My Lego is in the loft, 200 miles away, so I'm really hurtin' now.

How did you do the clear plastic?

[moonman]

Nice image, can we see the mesh?

[cathode]

wow, photo at first glance! great work! the mesh would be cool to see!

:wip: :grin:

[Refracted]

thanks everyone!

here's the wireframe, though there's no much to see.. being 640k polys, it's pretty dense..

as for the glass, i just used a dark blue diffuse.. a light blue transparency, and an IRO of 1.2 .. plus a fresnell reflection of IOR 1.6

http://refracted.sorrowsoft.com/legoheli11.jpg

[moonman]

What can I say it is brilliant, the mesh is sweet, the model is sweet, the render is sweet... sweet. The question is did you have pieces left over at the end, and what other models can you make from that set? :D

Keep up the good work and keep us informed.... good job!

[cathode]

that is a very cool looking mesh! real clean, great job!

[rondo]

WOW! This is sooooo cool. How many different pieces did you have to model?

[Fritz3D]

Perfect :buttrock:

Oh, who doesn't love LEGO ;)

[AnimaLMotheR]

Originally posted by Refracted
(note: leocad sucks.. crashes alot and has horrible rotation control...so be warned if you actually want to try it :annoyed: )

critiques and comments welcome!

Refracted

Thats a very good render man. :)

BTW, u could have tried MLCAD, that one never crashed here when i used it.

[JoBbE]

awsome!!!!! you rock ;) !!

[Raul-Reznek]

REALLY COOL.


As a small kid i ALWAYS dreamt about making lego thingies and now I guess it lead to 3d.

LEGO is VERY stimulating and fun for kids.



GREAT!!!

[Moo]

Very nice! I love it!
I have been playing with LeoCAD myself, and max4 for some reason flips a lot of the normals when I import the lego-meshes to render.
Could you give some info on how you imported it? Also .. some more renders?
I plan on building some sort of robot with Technic-lego. Lego kicks ass.

Thanks,
moo

[QDD]

damn, theres not much to say that hasn't been said.... Fantastic work. Very nice mesh too.

[Refracted]

Very nice! I love it!
I have been playing with LeoCAD myself, and max4 for some reason flips a lot of the normals when I import the lego-meshes to render.
Could you give some info on how you imported it? Also .. some more renders?
I plan on building some sort of robot with Technic-lego. Lego kicks ass.

Thanks,
moo

To fix the normals, i first of all export to OBJ format (it's alot cleaner) and impot that in max (habware's obj importer/exporter works well for this) and then the only problem is making sure to apply a 2 sided material, because normaps will be messed almost not matter what..

good luck

[Moo]

Thanks for the info. Would you post some more renders? Please :)

/moo

[Refracted]

Well, my first render took about 4 hours.. i dont think i have time to make many more of those.. i might in the future.. hold on for a while ;)

[luigi]

very great job man

Perfect job!!!!!!

what are the settings of the black and red plastic?


:thumbsup:

[Daxx]

Great!!:D

[alx]

brings back memories!!!!

i love it...
and yeah.. like everyone said.. who doesn't love lego.. i have like 3 collections.. oldschool!!!!

nice work..... no... great work...
one crit.though..
i think that it might look a bit cooler if the shadows diffse a bit..
but still awesome!!!!

sincerely

alx
:thumbsup:

legos rock :buttrock:

:wavey:

[Korgath]

Really brings back the memories... :p

Nice scene over all, but make a background too!!

The brazil renderer really gives it a nice look.

[Matches14]

For once being a professional(cough) lego builder some years ago, I must say that this is fairly realistic...maybe even photorealistic. Definitly the best lego model I've seen as of yet in 3d. If I were to make that out of real legos, It wouldn't be so pretty. It would have mismatched colors and a few missing newer pieces. That was one thing I always hated...having castles and whatnot made out of 500 different colors b'cuz I didn't have the right ones ;} Great Job

[saj]

:D

its really nice, almost looks real

[BrainFaucet]

Looks quite nice to me!

For a second I thought it was a photograph.

Very nice work!

[Error323]

Originally posted by so_hi
:applause: :bounce: :applause: :bounce: :applause: :bounce: :applause:

I Love Lego !!!!

But, seriously nice job.

Funny thing is though I bet if you really built it out of lego it would take about twenty mins to make.

LoL 20 minutes??? than your damn fast =)

[black swan]

really great :) it is almost real..

reminds me of my childhood :scream: i used to be fond of that things

[xynaria]

Really great and a refreshing change.. Thanks. :)

[MaskTX]

Hello Lego Master!:buttrock: You have done great job! How much time did it tkae you to do that delicious thing?

[MDB101]

Good stuff lad! omg u must havea fast computer with all those faces!! what kinda pc do you have?? this model is as Deadly as Sin! even better then sex!!! no wait! scratch that.

[hypercube]

Absolutely awesome. :thumbsup:

Been wanting to try something like that for years, but never had the patience. Great stuff.

Time to go reminisce..I had that set. :D


(edit) Argh, snookered by the master-reposter. Should have checked the date. Sorry. Still a great model, if you're still alive out there somewhere. :rolleyes:

[j00st81]

hehe, awsome, I have the EXACT same lego model at home, it really really looks the same :D

[kydjester]

only 8 hours !! you rock :buttrock: .. great stuff 11/10 you get a extra point cause it's better perfect

[Napalmfly]

i actually got that set when it came out...:twisted:

[Refracted]

I've since re-rendered it with the complete brazil (looks exactly the same) (now that i own it) and it only took around an hour to render i beleive, if not less.. all those facets kill a render, but speeding up by 75% isn't too bad at all :P

[Edge]

Awesome job you did there man...
It always takes me back to my childhood, whenever I see Lego models :)

I had to look twice to see if it was 3D or a picture.
Yoy did an excellent job on the glass (textures).
Can we get a close-up of the chopper?

Keep updating... :cool:

[pabbloz]

Amazing and cool idea!!
Can I destroy it!! please please!! :bounce: :D

[Mikademius]

I had to look 3 times. That was a GREAT image man.What would make it even better.....yes I think it's possible...... would be to put the box in the background and some other LEGOelements..
Otherwise::applause:

[xLonewolfx]

Originally posted by so_hi


I Love Lego !!!!





best game ever created

i use to play with it for 6 till i was like 14

:thumbsup:

:bounce:

[The Magic Pen]

That's amazing man !! :airguitar

[slimpy]

I had that set too! That's such a cool model.

If I had to make any critique about it, I'd say that the windows are a bit on the purple side, but aside from that, it's perfect :)

[night goblin]

great job !
no cc from me:applause: :bounce: :thumbsup: :bounce:

[Brown_V]

Great Job :applause:

[monotypic]

BWAHHAHAHAHA LEGO!!!!!!!!!

**queues up music and spikes his hair** LEGOOOO MANIEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[HapZungLam]

How much time did you put on this scene??? i think it iwll take me forever to do it. you have a great looking plastic texture.

[zandernice]

isn't there a freeware plugin or program that makes lego meshes?
Did you model that or use the program?

[mlykke]

HapZungLam & zandernice

Refracted actually already anwserd that. :) Look at his first post:


"Oh and it took probably about 8 hours to model (note: leocad sucks.. crashes alot and has horrible rotation control...so be warned if you actually want to try it ) "

And yes... its an awesome picture. :)

[erilaz]

I actually clicked on this thread thinking "pah, what's the hype about, it's only 3d modelled LEGO." Oh how wrong I was. This is perfection. I'm looking at some lego right now, and I can't tell the difference!

(I can't believe it's not lego!!)


:D

[iLL]

Originally posted by Raul-Reznek
REALLY COOL.


As a small kid i ALWAYS dreamt about making lego thingies and now I guess it lead to 3d.

LEGO is VERY stimulating and fun for kids.



GREAT!!!

For kids? I'm almost 19 years old and I still love to play with Lego :)

Lego is a neverending source of fun for people of all ages ... and it's danish too ;))

[Moralles]

I'm sorry but, ...... are you nuts??!!??


Great job, now thats patience!!!:bowdown:

[LoneLobo]

Originally posted by iLL


For kids? I'm almost 19 years old and I still love to play with Lego :)

Lego is a neverending source of fun for people of all ages ... and it's danish too ;))

and imho it's very similar to modelling.
you take small pieces of sth., put them together, and in the end it looks good :D

[OrestesMantra]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Looks photorealistic...speechless.

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