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philnolan3d
10-19-2003, 06:29 PM
This is my first attempt at HDRI lighting. I wanted to use a new model, not something I had already done, so I looked around and modeled the first thing I saw, a PS2 controller. I used Lightwave 7.5c and Photoshop for textures.

http://www.philnolan3d.com/images/artwork/ps2_ctrl_04-final.jpg
pZion
10-19-2003, 09:01 PM
Hm, a bit low-poly? And it seems very flat...
philnolan3d
10-19-2003, 09:23 PM
it's 2420 polygons.
Man
10-19-2003, 10:17 PM
well....the proportions are wrong man, and the shaders are different from a ps2 joystick..

nice lighting
Stewpot
10-19-2003, 10:36 PM
pZion is right, it does look low-poly. If you look around the major curved pieces you can quite clearly see the polys.

Did you turn on 'Shading Noise Reduction' and AA, there seems to be a fair amount of noise, unless that was intentional.
philnolan3d
10-19-2003, 10:55 PM
Oh now i know what you mean by low-poly. I wasn't sure what was being referred to. Unfortunatly I did have low anti-aliasing and shading noise reduction on. I'm not quite sure what will get rid of the noise/moire effect.
Stewpot
10-19-2003, 11:15 PM
Did you turn surface smoothing on in the shader panel?

Try a higher level of AA - say medium, this might help.
philnolan3d
10-22-2003, 01:17 PM
Okay I've made vast improvements to the image, it seems a poorly made HDR image was the culprit here. I also added some more polygons for detail.

http://www.philnolan3d.com/images/artwork/ps2_ctrl_05.jpg
karabo
10-22-2003, 05:28 PM
Well I think you obvioiusly need to look at your controller properly and you will see that what you have modeled there is not the same thing. You need to look at proportions as was mentioned. I mean if you look at it yourself, I'm sure you can see that it doesn't look right.
As for the lighting, I have no problem with that, good job.
OlafK
10-22-2003, 05:40 PM
i don't know the PS2 controller really, but the image looks quite good to me. The comments are already given, nothing to add
gj :D
philnolan3d
10-22-2003, 07:15 PM
I know I probably should always model the best I can, but when I first made this I wasn't shooting for super realism, I was just making something quick and simple that I could use to play with HDRI lighting. SO due to that I didn't exactly measure everything, a few things I did but the rest I just eyeballed to get it gerenrally the right shape. Thanks Olafk
TheArrow
10-24-2003, 11:43 PM
yeah, the circular parts of the main section are way too big
philnolan3d
10-24-2003, 11:50 PM
Actually those and the space in between them are what I did measure. I think the problem may be that the hand grips are too small.
TheArrow
10-25-2003, 12:36 AM
oh yeah, good point, now that i look @ it, you're right
DigitalChamp3
10-25-2003, 02:23 AM
The Handles don't look right. It's like they're not completely rounded.
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