Environment: Burnt out WWII village

[(B-HOLM)]

hey looks pretty decent :)
but I'll bet it'll look superb with textures on :)

[gnarlycranium]

...Looks like a little red X. :D

[(B-HOLM)]

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[gnarlycranium]

Ohhh, there it goes. Darn thing acting so funny tonight... *kicks connection*

Looks a little too regular, maybe-- give some of the broken beams some bent parts or half-broken bits hanging down, and muss up the shingles around the blast holes some, make the roof sag. Also maybe give the pile of rubble by the broken door some more big brick-shaped bits, so it doesn't look so much like a pile of dirt or potatoes.

Textures and lighting will really be what kicks it into high gear, of course!

[Kev3D]

Sorry about the image link, that's what you get for using free web servers to store your files.

I hope this one works a little better.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/anita.r/Buildings02a.jpg

[PvtRyan]

Looks awesome, very high detail. But how on earth are you gonna texture all that? :p

[Kev3D]

Gnarly Cranium: Thanks very much for all you crits, I have taken them on board.

PvtRyan: I don't know.

Thought I'd update my scene so far because that's as far as it goes, I'm on to texturing now.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/anita.r/Buildings03a.jpg

[MCGrund]

This is looking pretty nice. I like the rubble heaps and the sandsacks. Can't wait to see this one textured. I thing the damage on the roof looks too regular cause the shingles next to the holes aren't damaged and the roof still looks too stable.

Oh, Gnarly Cranium already mentioned that.:surprised

[Kev3D]

Twisted ankle: Your right, he has. I'm glad you mentioned it again, it is something that I really want to get right.

[gnarlycranium]

Well, I'm not a he, but yeah. :D

Those piles of bricks look pretty good now! I like the sandbags, too.... good luck texturing it all, yow. :argh:

On second glance... the pile of rubble on the left appears to be defying gravity!

[jstroja]

Hey,

Looking ok! Seems to me the more elements you add to the scene, the better it gets :thumbsup: I was thinking maybe the bricks are a little too rounded.. my suggestion would be to square/jagger 'em up... if you know what i mean. Good luck with the texturing!

[Kev3D]

Gnarly Cranium: I'm sorry, please accept my most sincere apolagies. And yeh, that's one of the problems of using scatter, the bricks tend to float.

If anyone's interested, heres the thread of the actual Tank involved:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43448&highlight=Sherman

[Kev3D]

Okay, I have textured most of the scene.

I know the ground texture still needs to be fixed.

Any comments/crits/suggestions would be appreciated.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/anita.r/Buildings04a.jpg

[Darius43321]

Lookin good but i think the house needs to have paint like chipped off and stuff its too clean right now

[wayfaerer]

looks very good with the textures! What I think needs some work is the hole above the door. It's too smooth, the shape should be more brick-like. Also the plaster should have fallen off around it.

[Prs-Phil]

Looks great but there is one thing I have to crit ... the broken walls. I´ve NEVER seen a wall before that has been chopped of so nice and smooth before. You can see what I mean on the picture. At the left side further up, the wall looks like a wave, nice and smooth. To smooth if you ask me especially for a war.

Keep up the good work

Phil

[Mattrne]

one big crit here - the colour of the bricks in thee rubble is nothing like that of the walls of the houses - you need to either show that the houses are plastered, with some smashed off showing the bricks underneath, or change the colour of the walls or rubble.

Looking good though!

[Caman0]

very cool!!!

id be interested to know how you made the sandbags...

[swampthing]

My only crit would be the direction the machine gun is facing. I look at it and wonder what they're trying to cover? I think the gun would make more sense if it and the sandbags were flipped opposite to face the viewer rather than covering some buildings.

[MCGrund]

Good work so far.:thumbsup:
I think there should be more smoke/fire caused stains on the walls especially around and above the windows. If the houses had been on fire, smoke should have come out of the windows. And how about some paint peeling off?

[Kev3D]

Thanks a lot for all your replies, I shall try to work on all of that.

From what I remember, these are the steps I took to make the sand bags:
- creating a camfer box
- adding a noise modifier
- adding an 4x4 FFD box modifier
- joining the ends of the box together together (using FFD)
- positioning the bag
- using the FFD again to make it look like its sitting there
- making several copies and repeating above step
- applying a different seed number to each bag

Swamp Thing,you have a point, but, seeing as there is supposed to be a tank where the gun is pointing, is it not possible that the gunner was firing at the tank in his last moments (before he got shot by the tank and dissapeared from my scene)?
Or, going by your logic of the gun needing to cover something, it could be covering the path that the tank took to get to it's current position.
I see nothing wrong with where my gun is positioned, besides, it lines up nicely with the grid lines in max. :)

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