Losticmate, you could be inspired by that for the armor in hard surface :
Sculptris hard surface



Even without textures it has great patterns.




Perhaps it's personnal taste if i prefer more simple htings and less crazy details sometimes?
But less details and more clean surface can be good also !


Sometimes general shapes and patterns are lot more important than billion of details.




@Otter :
I like the gun and it's shapes !

Finally: i can read the Erroroutput of the LiteC compiler properly and fix false line numbers:


Greets
Rackscha

also wanted to add about the youtube video you posted ratchet... part of the problem i have is im using a computer with a single core old amd athalon 64 and an integrated nvidia 6150 all with a whopping 1gb of ram... I cant get nearly as many polys in sculptris as that guy had, i could probably if i had zbrush throw a rough copy from sculptris in zbrush to straighten and harden the lines, but i dont have zbrush either:(

I rely heavily on painted bumpmaps for some of the smaller details in that character.

I of course still do have a lot of smoothing out to do especially in the face, and have already done a lot, still have to fix the bottom claws and finish the diffuse map. As far as the part you wanted as metal ratchet: its supposed to be bone like material that makes a hard armor cage.:)

EDIT: I swear I'll stop hogging this thread soon







coming sorta close, still have a lot of color correction/brightening to do and small normal/diffuse map details to add, but soon its off to blender

Very nice character model and pretty detailed. You`re talented

I worked on improving the vegetation mesh of my river level and added wineyards, new waving bushes, trees and stuff. That`s how it looks like in the Acknex engine so far. Of course many details are still missing, but I think I`m on the right way in terms of the colors.



And I modeled some more fish. This is a zander and it`s lighted pretty bad .
For texturing, color adjustments, alpha channel creeation and stuff I use Photoshop Elements 10 and Blender for modeling. Just if you`re wondering.



@Otter: Is this Commander Keen`s lazer gun? Looks a lot like it . Very nice modelling. You`re awesome when it comes to comic style.

Creating some overlayed UI for Gamestudio. Events are sent via Windows Messages, Design is done per xml file. You can setup settings which are stored in a file, also it supports overlaying the default starter window of gamestudio.

Currently supported controls:

• Button
• TextBox
• ListBox
• ComboBox
• CheckBox

the game looks very nice, but it runs very very slow on my system.
And the installed size is 158MB.

Suggestion For an Indy game:
-dont try to reach AAA game level detail and effects.

This will on the one Hand overload you with work to
make a complete game, thus killing motivation
, and it is not quick and easy to run on many
systems.

There are too many professional titles that look better,
are complete and run much faster.

-> unless you use this as showcase for getting a modelling job in a company.
Then this approach is fine.
I suggest to program an automatic camera ride through the scene, wich also helps staging effects easier.

I disagree with this. AAA developers are people too I think the main issue is scope, rather than detail.

That is, detail can be sacrificed for the sake of scope, especially for Indies, but I would not want someone to think "low detail" is a good general rule for Indies.

but people who do that on a daily salary.
For good secure money I would also work on games 8 hours per day.

@losticmate :
I understand with a lower CPu you can'o as high.
But Sculptris have the hidden feature to speed sculpting on some parts only

From what i see you are alreday high in details. Even with the details you have i could make more regular curves.

I think the main problem on your model is lot more that you don't paint regular cruves, even on muscles, this is distortion on surface curve.

Some example :
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/sculptriscurves.jpg/]

If you want more control on your surface sculpt i recommend a lot that you use "Clay" feature.
This way you keep big control on surface cvolume, like making volume by adding layers.

Do you use a tablet or mouse ?

What about using the Reduce Brush?