Any tips on how to model rocks?

[Cubikat]

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I have some rock models I ripped from the games Overlord and Legend. They're fairly low poly, but they might at least give you a starting point (they're game models though, so they're triangulated).

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3844/rocks01rt3.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2370/rocks02bv0.jpg

Anyway, I've uploaded them to Rapidshare for you. I wasn't sure what software you're using, so I exported them as .obj files (I threw in some different rock textures for you to play with as well :)). Rock Models (http://rapidshare.de/files/44933171/Rocks.rar.html)

Good luck and I hope this helps.

[musashidan]

do you use digital sculpting software? Realistic rocks are pretty quick and easy to create. There was a recent vid tut at Gnomonolgy showing a typical workflow in ZB(but any sculpting app will suffice)

[divi]

well, if you have zbrush just go crazy with the MalletFast. on stroke for the basic shapes and on spray for the details. if you dont...

http://www.cgtextures.com/ -> tutorials -> recovering detailed normalmaps from textures.

hope that helps :) cheers

[yoroba]

Thanks Cubikat. That might give me an idea of what I'm going after.


do you use digital sculpting software? Realistic rocks are pretty quick and easy to create. There was a recent vid tut at Gnomonolgy showing a typical workflow in ZB(but any sculpting app will suffice)

I use Maya and zBrush. I tried to model the rocks in Maya at first, but went over to zBrush, which didn't help much. But I'll definitely check out Gnomon for that tutorial. Do you by any chance have a link to it, musashidan?

well, if you have zbrush just go crazy with the MalletFast. on stroke for the basic shapes and on spray for the details. if you dont...

This actually seems to do the trick. I'll have to test it a little more, but the initial feeling when I tried it was; "Holy shit! I'm finally making rocks!" ;) Thanks a lot for suggesting this, divi.

[musashidan]

here are 40 odd free stone alphas (http://gnomonology.com/tutorial/114) from gnomonolgy and here is the sculpting a rockface (http://gnomonology.com/tutorial/255) tut which isn't free but is cheap

Best of luck.

[yoroba]

here are 40 odd free stone alphas (http://gnomonology.com/tutorial/114) from gnomonolgy and here is the sculpting a rockface (http://gnomonology.com/tutorial/255) tut which isn't free but is cheap

Best of luck.

These will come in handy. Thanks a lot :)

[musashidan]

You're most welcome.

[gumurki]

There is a script out for maya, it's called rockGen.mel, you can get many different shapes out of it! it's maybe a good starting point, if you have to build a lot!


http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/modeling/misc/498.html
cheers

[saravanan75]

nice link dear gumurki

[yoroba]

Thanks gumurki. I tried out the script, but it didn't really do the trick for me though. However I was wondering if you might know of an alternative. I tried to find some scripts myself, and found a few for 3dsmax, but they just wasn't what I was looking for either. Do you know if there are any other Maya scripts out there for creating rocks and such?

[musashidan]

Thanks gumurki. I tried out the script, but it didn't really do the trick for me though. However I was wondering if you might know of an alternative. I tried to find some scripts myself, and found a few for 3dsmax, but they just wasn't what I was looking for either. Do you know if there are any other Maya scripts out there for creating rocks and such?

What were the scripts you found for Max?

[gumurki]

Yes, there are some of them. I did a search on highend, and that's what i found! maybe they are worth, to give them a try!


http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/search.php?searchtext=rock&filter=3|11&search.x=8&search.y=8


cheers

[yoroba]

What were the scripts you found for Max?

This was what I found for Max: http://www.maxplugins.de/max2.php?search=&sort=Author


gumurki: Thanks, I'll give it a try in the near future :)

[Wurich]

here are some great references on rock topology .Its from digitaldomain's bts videos. Hope itll helps!

http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss199/yyurich/rock_wip01propertyofDigitalDomain.jpg

http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss199/yyurich/rock_wip02propertyofDigitalDomain.jpg

[briciola52]

what program do you use to rendering

[lvninjas]

I am new at this, so don't mock me...:shrug: What about a bump map? You could get a low poly, 'smooth(ish) model and do the rest in the map. Just an idea. Maybe not a good one...