Hi all. I'm pretty new here. Have been registered for a while but I mean new as in I dont realy post on these forums untill now

Well, I'v been working on this project for a little over a week in total now and just wanted to share it with you and maybe get some C&C's

Its still WIP, I still have plenty details that need to be added onto it. I'm posting up a series of shots so you can see how it has progressed up untill now.

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WIP no2...

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WIP no3

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Woops sorry...here it is...

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This is where I currently am with it... C&C's welcome

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Heya Nalu

Good to see ya posting up on the forums.......Coming along nicely indeed, looking forward to seeing it complete.

Mills

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Hola porra! hehehe. Thanks for the reply man Heres another update...

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ahh looking sweet. guess your useing FG, render there. So how so you get a shadow and stuff without seeing the plane underneath? ive tried this but cant see to do it.
Do you know of a tut anywhere that shows it?

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There's nothing normal about normals. In FACT i think the are abnormal.

Nice Nalu! Looking much better, keep it coming

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Thanks for the replies

AntiAnt, I'm gonna do a small tutorial soon. Its using occlusion with MR to get it looking like that.

Another update...

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And heres a wireframe...

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cool looking tank with a nice amount of detail

if you do a simple tutorial on how you rendered that then let me know (I've no experience in mental ray yet)

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nice i love it, but your tank look to have way to much rockets, the bradley supposed to have only two i think

btw how do you get those smooth shadows?

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Hey thanks for the comments guys
I'll be creating a simple short tutorial on how to do it soon

IMG4 I'll try find some more images on the net for the bradley. I think you are correct tho'

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Yep you where right. It does have two. I fixed that up and I'm now busy playing around with some texturing...

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