Low-Poly Modeling No. 1 (Military Veichles)

[Turv]

any 1 know a good tutorial for texturing a car cos iv modeled it but when i try to uv map it it doesnt work.

[The Mad Artist]

Sooo, still no one stating what the limit on texture sizes are or anything like that?

[Turv]

im not sure if you have to texture cos it could be like the speed modeling where you just do a wire and clay render. hopefully it is cos im realyl struggling with texturing

[The Mad Artist]

Here's my F22 raptor. 500 polys per plane, 1024 diffuse and normal map.

[Turv]

nice btw when u go to find the poly for ur model do u go file>summary info and is it the faces?

[The Mad Artist]

Yeah, that's one way. I'm using max 9 so you can just press 7 and it will show the polycount. If you go to Customize/Viewport Configuration/Statistics you can change it to Total + Selection, so it will have the polys in your scene, as well as the polys of what you have selected displayed. In previous versions of max, polycounter was under tools I believe.

[Dyablo213619]

The Poly Count is At Strictly 750 polygons. The Submits will be a Rendering of your model, a wire screen shot showing the poly count, and your texture.Texture maps have a limit of 512X512 and bump maps are aloud but !! NO normal or specular maps.!!and finally no lights in scene just your object and it's map!!!Good Luck!! Any more Questions??

Heres A sample of what your entry should look like.

[Dyablo213619]

Hey Turv I know some good ways of UV unwrapping I have a DVD that shows how but I dont know if I Can Upload parts of it so you can look at. If not just P.M. me ill teach you some ways if not ill write you guys a tutorial if you all like.=)

[Turv]

thanks i cant download cos of my crap internet but i know how i think its just when i go to rendering the uv map it shows like a tiny bit at the top and when i texture that bit and apply it it tiles itself about 100 times.

oh yea thanks for the poly thing its much easier now.

[Turv]

Heres mine its going to replace the hmmwv soon but i made a few changes.

btw if i can manage to get the uv map working ill do that.

polys are in the wire shot

[Dyablo213619]

Turv Check your P.M. Inbox.

[The Mad Artist]

Originally Posted by Dyablo213619

The Poly Count is At Strictly 750 polygons. The Submits will be a Rendering of your model, a wire screen shot showing the poly count, and your texture.Texture maps have a limit of 512X512 and bump maps are aloud but !! NO normal or specular maps.!!and finally no lights in scene just your object and it's map!!!Good Luck!! Any more Questions??

Heres A sample of what your entry should look like.

Cool. Its simple enough to redo mine to enter. But it sure would have been nice to have the specs from the beginning and not all the way on page 2 a few days before the deadline.

[gryshnak]

Hi, I'm new to this 3D stuff but this looked like fun so I figured why not put something together? Here's a 1910 Farman biplane, using 747 polys

There's no texture maps on this, I'm working my way through the tutorials and I haven't reached that chapter yet! But building this has been a good learning exercise. All the books and tutorials in the world are no substitute for sitting down and actually creating something.

Gryshnak

[Turv]

its ood but its not a military vehicle well i dont think it is.

[gryshnak]

Originally Posted by Turv

its ood but its not a military vehicle well i dont think it is.

The British Army (and probably French) used them before WW1. The Royal Navy even used a floatplane version. They also said it had "no military application" and that aeroplanes would never be of any use during a war...

Gryshnak