Hi,

I created a low-poly power generator (about 800 triangles). Here is a screenshot from my modelling software:



Most time went into texture-painting. I created height-, spec- and normal-maps and made a few render images with them (it looks similar in-game with normal-mapping but textures would not be that high-res):












Best regards,
Frank

FanTastic! I wish I had your talents Frank!

Very well done. Congratulations.

quick question - how do you go about painting your skins? Just a photoshop-like program, or do you have special hardware/software? Awsome model, and the normalmaps make it really stand out.

Regards

If I remember correctly, he uses Gimp.

Third screen looks incredibly realistic. As for the whole model, i think generator's right part is too low-poly. Anyway, great work as always

I saw you were using lightwave, but did you use also the normal map pluging ? or is it lightwave bump mapping ?

anyways great job !

cheers

Josiah:
Thank you! But it is no talent, just work and reading tutorials often.
It took me 3 evenings: 2 for texture-painting and 1 for the model + rendering

Carloos:
Thank you!

JayWatergate:
Hellcrypt is right (my regards to Hellcrypt ) - I use "TheGIMP". It is a fantastic tool and even delivers some nice features that Photoshop does not have. But it has weak points as well (e.g. scaling brushes).
Actually it is only painting and blending layers over each other. My original textures have 2048 pixel-size each and contain more than 10 layers per image to get the right effect.

Shadow969:
You are right. I have the same feeling about it. I try to add some edges to make it less blocky there.

Sueds:
Yes, I use and love Lightwave. I used the gray images for bump mapping. Normal maps are created in GIMP this time and for in-game rendering I would prefer them. Often they look even better than the bump-mapping from Lightwave. Maybe I make a shader screen-shot in Gamestudio as well.

Best regards,
Frank

nice, but imo, all the generator consists of weathered steel, but the right part looks like it's been polished recently...? i'd love it to be as weathered and rotten as the rest, maybe some oil trails right off the top and a matching color. nevertheless, well done.

Good idea, broozar. I will try that out.