vehicle: marodeur

[Brent Turbo]

Ahhh, so you're trying to tame the Mental Ray beast, eh? Nice results so far, particularly for a beginner. Mental Ray is very difficult to get right in Maya, and you may want to get proficient in Maya's built-in renderer before you dive into Mental Ray, because you can't really harness the power of MR until you get into the mental ray shaders, which are difficult, and behave very strangely. Do a serach for DGS_material and see what you come up with if you want more info on those shaders.

Other than the technical stuff, you really nailed that bump texture.. it sits nicely on all the surfaces. Is this all nurbs?

[Teardrop]

cool....

(the blue bg is slightly off puting though...especially the bright blue portion.) other than that some nice cam angles there!!!

[Specter]

thanx for comments.

yepp the whole mech is made of nurbs.

i know that it lacks of details but it took me just too long to get used to nurbs modelling. sometimes i thought that maya does not provide the tools for effizient nurbs modelling.

but i guess im just at the beginning. i love maya for its user interface and all interaction with the programm. its just amazing!

im looking for good book just about modelling. it does not have to use maya as example. i just bought maya fundamentals 4.5 and its a very good starting point, but the modelling part is very special just for the actual example.

the mental ray thing; yes, its very complex, but i wanted to get more impressiv results on the rendering side than i could get with the build in renderer.

like i said, i'm just at the beginning and are very thankful for critic. its very important for me to get negative and maybe positive feedback because u just loose the distance to your project.

ps: sorry for my bad english

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