low-poly power generator model

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.

Yeah I had the same thoughts. Also, the stuff on the control panel looks awkward. Id put some weathered dials, make a crack or two in the glass box on the main cylinder. Id also spend some extra polygons and extrude the shaft once or twice to add more detail.

Ill make the whole main control thing smaller. The base texture is good, so I would not stretch it so big.

Thanks Capanno. Do you mean the right part when you mention the "main control thing"? It might be a good idea to make it a bit smaller. I will check that out.

What do you mean with "shaft"?

The screens looks very nice. Good job.

I'm a lightwave user and I can model with another tool but My question was if you were using lightwave normal map plugin he seems pretty handy and I wanted to know if It could be compatible with 3dgs. I didn't had the time to try it but maybe you should.

you could find it on www.flay.com plugin section

and there are so many, like unfold and stuff could be usefull


cheers

As always, amazing work !!
The realistic factor in it looks nice but I think the same why as broozar, it looks to polished/normalmapped. Adding more 'dirty stuff' would make it look more appropriate for me

Cheers

Frazzle

Very cool, the normal mapping looks extremely fine on this one, AAA material.

Cheers

Thanks for your very helpful hints. I used all your comments to improve the model. The right-hand part got a few more polies and a more dirty texture and has been scaled smaller:



I got a few requests to create more similar objects to fill complete levels with stuff like terminals, cables, pipes, machines, handcarts, panels, desks, lockers and whatever you need to create sci-fi and industrial levels.

I am highly interested in making such a packet with all additional maps attached to have the option to use shaders in your games.

At the end I want to give you the possibility to create decent-looking levels like the big companies do.

Animated characters will follow as well.

If someone is willing to help (e.g. creating audio packs) then I would appreciate it very much. Please contact me!

Great improvement. very good job. No critique from me...

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Great improvement. very good job. No critique from me...

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Indeed, great job updating this Frank

Cheers

Frazzle