Tutorial exercise: (Calling all Noobs)

#341

:beer: ey orignally said by Mr. Einstein himself :thumbsup:

#342

Hi guys,

Thought I post an update, just about finished modeling. Just got the loop of the belt to add.

Hoping to see a few more updates soon, should be quite a few of us that are nearly finished modeling.

Cheers, Bur147

#343

Wow, looks great bur147! I sure wish I was as far as you. I’m procrastinating at this point on the breastplate, specifically where you extrude the borders of the plate (after the swirley crap and making the polys around them). My problem is when I extrude all those polys, I do it like it says and select all of them and extrude, and they go EVERYWHERE, so I’m gonna have to do them one at a time and get that straightened out. sigh That’ll be a lot of work. I can’t wait for the modelling to be done so I can move on to texturing, rigging, etc.

#344

Thanks fleedawg,

I know what you mean, I wouldn’t have thought I could get fed up with modeling, but this sure pushed it.

On the extrude thing, have you tried the extrude dialog. You can select to extrude on the local normal, this usually give very good results.

Cheers, Bur147

#345

Hello I’m back in the world
You never believe what happend. First my Comp crashed… my video card is dead (it was a GeForce 4 Ti4200, 128MB) :cry: … After this it took me a week to get another videocard and to get the comp back alive (so also no internet all that time) … I was so happy when it worked again … then two days later there was a big thunder over here and guess what … the lightning smashed into the cabel and killed not only my modem but all the modems in the neighbourhood … it took 10 days before the company could deliver a new modem. Today they changed it :slight_smile: so finilly I’m back in the world. :bounce:

I see you guys did alot in those weeks.
BUR147>>>> Looks GREAT MAN

Because of the computer crash I lost all my work so have to start over again… yeah yeah don’t come with those smart lessons, like making backups. I know :wink:

Well hope I can work fast so I can show you something soon

#346

Sorry to hear that eMig. I know what it’s like to lose everything on your hard drive. It’s definately no fun. Good luck in getting caught up. It’ll go by quicker the second time through.

Here’s my latest update. Got the breastplate done, finally. Took a lot of time and effort, and it still looks like crap, but it’s done and I can move on. :slight_smile:

#347

im gana redo the front of the breast plate and make teh tights and then its on to :airguitar: texturing :buttrock:

#348

k I’m done with modeling the body + head… tried the ears… didn’t work :stuck_out_tongue: As you might see her stumach looks weird… wanted to try something, yet failed so I ended up with this :stuck_out_tongue: I’ll model some clothes over that :slight_smile: I didn’t use the whole tutorial, so some parts won’t look as good, but thank god there are clothing :stuck_out_tongue:

and

#349

I dont want to be mean or anything, but it looks like the head is growing back out on the lower picture ;( like in MiB when he shoots the dealer in the shop.

Check if you are following the reference pictures. good work overall!

#350

hey guys sorry its been so long since I posted had some other things going on but I got some time this weekend Here is where I am with her .
:wip:
sorry about the crappy jpg’s :shrug:

#351

Lookin’ good Stygian! No crits except it’s hard to see the details of the armor with that really shiny texture on it. :stuck_out_tongue:

#352

been busy lately and just wanted to tell you guys i haven’t given up but i am stilll working on the sword

been real busy lately…

#353

still have a long way to go just wanted to let you guys knwo i didnt forget about you lol

#354

I’m joining now, too. And I already got the first problems. Why does max cut my edges not where I clicked? (im still working on the foot (first part of the tut)). It just cuts the polygon in some direction and I didn’t found any logic behind :D.

P.S.: Using max4.

#355

Cut can be EXTREMELY tricky to deal with. One thing that is basically neccessary is 3D Snap needs to be turned on. Right click the 3D Snap button to select what it snaps to. I have it on Vertex and Edge all the time, and a lot of times on midpoint as well. That should make the cutting a LOT easier. But still, you may end up with floating vertexes, so you may need to weld those to where they are supposed to go.

#356

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#357

I’ve been procrastinating :scream:

#358

Hey all, I haven’t joined in on this thread for a while, I keep getting sidetracked from this tutorial, trying to do my own things, then getting frustrated when I realise I’m not skilled enough, hehe… So I’ve been lacking in modelling motivation, unfortunately. Seeing all your posts here has given me some motivation to try to catch up though, so I’ll try starting on the sword again tomorrow, when I should have some time.

Keep up the good work guys, we’ll all be CG Stars in no time!

BS.

#359

Keep it up BSlinger. I haven’t had that much time lately to work on it myself, but I know I’ll get back to it. And no one should feel disheartened because many of us are n00bs, sure, but I’ve learned so much from this one tutorial (and from help from everyone else) that I feel like I can do just about anything (as long as I have good reference images). So keep it up everybody. We’re all doing a great job, and we CAN all be stars some day. :thumbsup:

#360

Thank god I found where the noobs hang out!!! :slight_smile: Kick ass thread. I searched the Maya section for something similar to this but couldnt find it. I assume it wont be that difficult to follow the tut in maya even though it was made for max, but then again im still wet behind the ears with this stuff. Hope ya dont mind if someone using maya joins in the fun, I think it would be cool if peeps would do the tutorial in various programs and check out the results. woohoo im psyched to get started.