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# 46 14-09-2005 , 10:28 PM

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# 47 15-09-2005 , 02:00 AM

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Are you going to texture map it all?

Looks good so far.

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# 48 15-09-2005 , 07:49 AM

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looking good, did you keep it low poly or go high? If low, how many polys?

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# 49 15-09-2005 , 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by joed8349
Are you going to texture map it all?

Looks good so far.

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ya I will texture map it

I'm going to take the model into z-brush and see what happens.

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looking good, did you keep it low poly or go high? If low, how many polys?

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I went for High Poly count. But here is a pic of my low rez mesh with the heads up info in it.

Smoothed with both halves it is around 32,000 poly, Once I zap it with Z-brush it will prolly be like 500,000-600,000 poly.

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# 50 15-09-2005 , 07:55 PM

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Just a test....some success

I finally nailed down an ok process..

modeled in maya 5164 tri's (with smoothing 1).

displaced in Z-Brush 600,000+ tri's

rendered in Mental Ray

this was mainly to test that my mesh would displace right and not crash maya etc, etc...

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# 51 16-09-2005 , 07:17 AM

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nice start on the displacement user added image

You could probably reduce the geometry in the wings quite a lot without affecting the final smoothed version (just in case you cut it down to a low res model later user added image

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# 52 17-09-2005 , 01:35 AM

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wow, I love this model. Great progression, and nice modeling.
Did you do the uv mapping in maya, or use zbrush for mapping?

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

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# 53 18-09-2005 , 02:23 AM

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Originally posted by t1ck135
nice start on the displacement

You could probably reduce the geometry in the wings quite a lot without affecting the final smoothed version (just in case you cut it down to a low res model later ).

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I'm not to worried about a few extra polys cause im going for high res. If I get far enough and have time to make a low rez version then I might go about reducing them.

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wow, I love this model. Great progression, and nice modeling.
Did you do the uv mapping in maya, or use zbrush for mapping?

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I did the uv mapping in maya. I just finished up with that. I messed around with my model in Z-Brush this evening for about 2hrs.. heres what I've got so far...

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# 54 18-09-2005 , 02:30 AM

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heres a shot of the uv map

This is a shot of the uv map.. im not really that hot at doing uv's yet but so far this is working out, nothing overlaps at least ;p.

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# 55 18-09-2005 , 04:11 AM

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ah.. well i was wrong about the polycount in z-brush.. it has nearly 5 million poly's. Thats the head, torso, arms. legs, and wings.. one piece. the bracers on the arms and legs are separate and so are the feet and hands. I'll texture/bump map them separately in Z-brush.

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# 56 18-09-2005 , 04:28 AM

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Hey Mayafreak3!

your ZBRUSHed textures are looking good! I particularly like the work you've done around the eye socket and lid ... very reptillian ... very cool.

Keep going!

Dave

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# 57 18-09-2005 , 04:33 AM

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Many Thanks Swankymonkey user added image

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# 58 02-10-2005 , 01:06 AM

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I'll be updating with some stuff soon....got busy with work and haven't had time to do anything.

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# 59 02-10-2005 , 01:22 AM

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some stuff I did a while back

heres what i've done so far in z-brush.

I cant reproduce it in mental ray unfortunately. This is rendered out of z-brush.. pre texture.. stuff I did a few weeks ago.

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