Hey, hey!
The Dino is looking groovy!
The body is awesome, but ( i feel) the head is almostā¦friendly looking.
Try making the snout a bit longer and maybe adding some more ridges/scars or something ?
Good stuff, mate, and thanks for the UV advice.
no prob LavenPillay, tho im not going to have the dragon for this comp iāll try to finish it 
Mooore! Iām really digging on this man. And thanks for the support.
[thread=604648]My Dominance War III[/thread]
I realy like your dragon, the face is pretty weired, in a good way. It looks completely different to the usual dragon designs, kind of alien.
Good models! Her face is very good and a bitā¦scary! Youāre doing a great job. Do you think you will use normal maps from the hi res models?
Please, can you tell me what software you will use to build normal maps?
Thanks!
thank you for your support too man
thanks man, i really appreciated cuz believe it or not i really like how its coming along 
thank you 
, iāll be exporting the hiress parts from zbrush and crunch it in something called polygon cruncher just so i can build the low poly ontop of that, when the low poly is complete im going to use xNormal to transfer the maps from a uncrunched version of the hi polys to the low poly mesh but since i dont have that much detail i might just trasfer the maps within maya from a crunched hiress and use CrazyBump for other detais on the textures.
Thanks for the reply. Iāll try to take a look at polygon cruncher and find a way to use it with lightwave. Iāll take a look at xnormals too. I downloaded it before and I hope to start studying it better this time.
Thank you for your great advices!
no prob man, polygon cruncher also comes with something called 3d browser for 3d users by mootools and thats what im using but ill like to point out that it has failed me several times, seems that it has a limit or might just be my computer but when i try to crunch more than one million polys it says ābad file extentionā :shrug: so hopefully theres better products out there
thx andy.
now i kinda finished the lowpoly, i still need to optimize some partsā¦
now behold! thunder katars of doom +13 + air augmentation lol
little update.
heres my sad attempt at texturing :arteest: I've just started but all ready the skin, boots and armor pieces don't convince me plus i don't think red is a good color for denim pants, color is easily changeable tho.
the normal map of the armor pieces is a little weird too, i made it from mixing the texture and various shades of gray depending of the height i wanted but i couldn't get it right.. since the latest update CrazyBump has been really Really slow for me :banghead:.
i also have some tris left that i will use for more hair.
i'll be hammering it out more tomorrow, any advice would be Very appreciated :wavey:.
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i'll clean any seam in the textures with zbrush when im done
[img]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i60/Rurufus/20cec2f7.jpg[/img]
ignore the katars texture...
[img]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i60/Rurufus/f276f33a.jpg[/img]
i think im getting good texture space based on priority
[img]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i60/Rurufus/646efa2f.jpg[/img]Donāt sell yourself short man! What youāve done so far is good. Your UV layout looks nice and clean. Have you used ZMapper for your normal map? Donāt getting crazy with other plug-ins if youāre not comfortable with them at this stage in the competition. Use what you know will work to your advantage. If the normal maps are giving you issues, you may want to consider doing just some standard bumping in Projection Master/Photoshop instead since your UVs look solid.
thx Firerbert , i tried to generate the normal maps with a software called xNormal that i thought would be the best way to transfer my detail from the hipoly to the low poly but i was getting a lot of tracing errors in the faceā¦ it didnāt make sense! and i ended up just importing the hi poly and transferring the maps within maya piece by piece and that worked great, didnāt even need to crunch the hi poly, the upper body went for 250k or so, quads of course
so what you said about sticking to what you know is so true.
im satisfied with the things i transfer in maya and iāll be fixing the armor normals that i generated from the textures i painted in photoshop alittle later when when my textures are better
you can see here the armor pieces normals is to strong
here you can see the contrast between the ones generated in maya and the ones generated with the textures in CrazyBump
i still need to tweek some textures and make othersā¦ start the pedestal but hereās what iāve got so far
ill post her story when done.
c&cs welcome
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texture sheets: im not an uber expert at texturing as you can see :arteest::blush:
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just started a simple rig, not worth showning but here it is :)
[IMG]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i60/Rurufus/4772a39c.jpg[/IMG]:applause: ah the joy of relief from so much stress! thatās gotta feel good eh? so, my biggest concern is the face. If the her eyes and mouth are going to be sewn shut, then there should be some sort of scaring and stress marking from the initial wounds and from them being sewn. There should also be some bruising and redness from her trying to move her mouth and eyelids. Although after years of being shut, I doubt she would try to open them, but there will always be some involuntary movement that will create these sorts of markings.
d xNormal that i thought would be the best way to transfer my detail from the hipoly to the low poly but i was getting a lot of tracing errors in the faceā¦
Did you use cages to limit the ray distance and to control the direction?
And try to avoid 3dsmaxās OBJ exporterā¦ messes the vertex normals a lot.
Also try to scale up a bit the meshesā¦ usually can happen some floating point accuracy errors when is radius is <=4.0
The cage should cover completely the highpolyā¦ and better extrude it a bit more than should be to avoid tracing errors.
Btw, very good character! I like the glow on the eyes/mouth! ( well, and the models in general are awesome! )
I agree, you character is good and she has a cool glowā¦Iām trying to understand how to put the glow in LightWave tooā¦
Firerbert : it really feels good man after so longā¦ it has been a great experience because weāve seen each others characters develop day after day and see them turn for the better or for the worst (like my case) and i feel happy.
but for what the design is i think ishes not that bad but thats not for me to decide is it? i still wanna be in the poster 
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and about the face textures i agree, the skin seems very clean now that i think about itā¦ill have to paint some trauma, thx man 
jogshy : wow the creator of xnormal! :bowdown: i didn't do any of that, the first time i used it it was for a more complex character in an unmodified base mesh and everything went perfect and it was about the same scale too thats why i said it didn't make sense that i was getting tracing errors in parts as simple as the lips but i see what your saying.
just last night i downloaded the new version and this time really went and read the documentation so ill definitely be using it for all my future projects and definitely donate some dough if a get a job in games :deal: its hands down one of the best software out there the only thing that i would love to see it do is make the normals out of a photograph by it self instead of having to import different lit photos oh and better transparency support :).
and thanks alot fo the help!
medunecer : hey man thanks it makes me feel alot better, i was a little worried about the glow in the face not fitting in but it was in my head all the time that the sewings were magical so i had to do something to make them look that way. i hope you figure out how to do it in LightWave, wish i could help but don't know anything about that soft :hmm: