[amehoubFomo]

no, material shaders for everything wouldnt work, what about all the circuit strips ect on the mother board, graphics card ect, and the stickers on the PSU, and harddrive? cant do that with shaders. most of the stuff will just be photo textured though.

You are gong to model the inside, too?

[herbalviagra]

You are gong to model the inside, too?

yeah. Im abit busy with doing models for a game right now, so sorry theres been no updates for awhile.

[CaseyFronczekHomie]

looking very good mate

[Aizutox]

Deathcarrot did a similar thing a few years ago, except much more detailed as he rendered the whole motherboard!

Still good attempt, much better than i could ever hope to do!

[wmirkru]

Very nice man, what company do you work for? Also man that shows some patience and hard work, i am just starting to learn 3D modeling, i have Maya and 3D Sm and so far nothing i have made even comes close to that, also been messing with Google Sketch up as well.

[Ervins Dervish]

its hard to model well, i think the harder challenge is to actually do a model that could be used in a real game

bearing in mind you have to be concious of limitiations for gaming as well, a hi res model looks good but its tricky to get the balance of detail and keep the number of polys down as well

[Arexytece]

Are all those holes some sort of alpha map or modeled.
If they're modeled, that must be using an insane amount of polys

[HQTheodore]

Deathcarrot did a similar thing a few years ago, except much more detailed as he rendered the whole motherboard!

Still good attempt, much better than i could ever hope to do!

I highly doubt he's even near finished

[BodoidearoLew]

its hard to model well, i think the harder challenge is to actually do a model that could be used in a real game

bearing in mind you have to be concious of limitiations for gaming as well, a hi res model looks good but its tricky to get the balance of detail and keep the number of polys down as well

That's what many say but for me its always been doing higher poly models that are harder for me. I am not artist though. This trailer is from a mod I worked on a while back my level is the opening level the entire level is models done in 3DS Max, custom textures, and generated terrain(textures were not quite final on everything in the shots for the mod):

Insurrection

Those types of models are easier than high polys if you ask me.

Main thing with modeling in any program is getting over the extremely steep learning curve at the beginning when learning to model. Once you get past that it starts to make sense.

Really nice job btw better than I could do. Lets see the texturing once you finish modeling.

[BebopVT]

Hey all, sorry theres been no updates for awhile. I've been very busy with this game.. lots of letters to send, models to make, people to hire...

Anyway, yeah, It's NO where near finished, I'd say so far im about 7% done. And yes it's alot of polys, around 23,000 Tri's (Alyx of HL2 was around 8,000 Tri's)

98% of the time I do models for games so are no where near this detailed. I have to say, doing low poly stuff for games is ALOT harder than doing high poly stuff.

Just think. You've got to make a character. One person can make a character with 5,000 polys, the other can make a character with 200,000 polys. The one that can use 200,000 will have a much easier time.

[ZIDouglas]

Hey all, sorry theres been no updates for awhile. I've been very busy with this game.. lots of letters to send, models to make, people to hire...

Anyway, yeah, It's NO where near finished, I'd say so far im about 7% done. And yes it's alot of polys, around 23,000 Tri's (Alyx of HL2 was around 8,000 Tri's)

98% of the time I do models for games so are no where near this detailed. I have to say, doing low poly stuff for games is ALOT harder than doing high poly stuff.

Just think. You've got to make a character. One person can make a character with 5,000 polys, the other can make a character with 200,000 polys. The one that can use 200,000 will have a much easier time.

heh, i always look back at charcters from the PS1 days and wonder how they did it. Lara croft and Solid Snake were always instantly recognisable yet it must have been a few triangles for the face and a blurry texture put on top to get some detail into it[rofl]

[AsmViktor]

Whoops, forgot to post the updates here:


Sailing in at a smooth 84,819 Tri's

[Charryith]

Sweet [thumbup]

[flopay]

thts freaking amazing
keep up the good work[thumbup]

[Redys]

Good work. I could think of a lot better things to model than a boring pc case, but each to their own . What renderer do you use for the GI btw? I use Maya and MR and last time I checked most folk used Brazil with MAx, but that might be old hat now?

[Senasivar]

Good work. I could think of a lot better things to model than a boring pc case, but each to their own . What renderer do you use for the GI btw? I use Maya and MR and last time I checked most folk used Brazil with MAx, but that might be old hat now?

Heh, I'm modelling a few other things such as characters... weapons ect, this is just something I model on the side while I'm bored pretty much.

For rendering it's just the standard max scanline renderer for the GI, when the case is finished i'll switch over to AO to cut down on render times.

[Storwaytozy]

Excellent work [thumbup] Damn you talented people

[herrdwq]

Heh, I'm modelling a few other things such as characters... weapons ect, this is just something I model on the side while I'm bored pretty much.

For rendering it's just the standard max scanline renderer for the GI, when the case is finished i'll switch over to AO to cut down on render times.

i didn't realise the scanline renderer could do GI?

[jokiruss]

i didn't realise the scanline renderer could do GI?

yep it can. dont know who told you it couldnt.

[glazgoR@]

yep it can. dont know who told you it couldnt.

maybe i just assumed it couldn't ...or didn't mess around with the renderer settings enough. I always thought thats why people use 3rd party renderers like vray so often...