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...

Thank you Germanunkol and Frazzle.