Tweetytunes Sept/Oct Ruins

# 1 02-09-2007 , 02:15 AM

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Well going to do this one and bloody finnish it. I sick of not finnishing these things, but with a new job (not in cg :hug: ) and life sorting itself out a little - I have the idea and the time for this one.

Going to do a church with a tower that has been hit my a space craft. The idea is that this was first contact with a alien race sent here to crush us. Going to base it of the church here in Dartford as it will be great ref

https://www.dartford.gov.uk/images/church_dartford.jpg

(but going to change it abit as I dont want them coming after me like they did to sony and insomniac over Resistance: Fall of Man on the ps3)

and I love the idea of killing off a church.

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# 2 02-09-2007 , 02:24 AM

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https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils_sec/ruins/ref.jpg
https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils_sec/ruins/ref2.jpg

heres a quick ref to the shape I`m going for.
will be building around this temp building

Taken some photos of the chruch but cant find my lead for the camera.

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# 3 10-09-2007 , 05:14 PM

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small update - going to build the whole thing then start to rip it to peices, abit like what i did with the tower

https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils...s/ruins1_1.jpg

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# 4 10-09-2007 , 05:23 PM

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That looks pretty sweet! How do you go about cutting those holes into the mesh?
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# 5 11-09-2007 , 01:51 AM

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Good to see more progress on this tweety! user added image

Looking might fine!

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# 6 11-09-2007 , 06:30 PM

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cheers dudes

https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils...s/ruins2_1.jpg

got the uv`s and some basic textures on the tower to try and see how little modeled detail I can get away with.

need to delete some of the frame and the flooring but will do that once i have more of a scene. Also want to add a clock and some bells on the top of tower.

The holes are just drawn out using the split poly tool and then delete faces and then apend poly tool any holes. I don`t trust the boolean tools as they make a mess.

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# 7 11-09-2007 , 08:05 PM

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yeah - this is already looking very nice.... it'd be cool to see some rubble and debris...

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# 8 11-09-2007 , 08:13 PM

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wow this is going to be pretty good. I'm with you on the church thing. Looking pretty cool.

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# 9 12-09-2007 , 09:15 AM

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https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils...s/ruins3_1.jpg

The rubble and debris will come after everything is done.

Cut away parts of the floor and added the bell house on the top.

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# 10 12-09-2007 , 03:44 PM

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looking nice

but im real tidy when i model no matter what it is i always use quads

do u think that using multi-sides makes a differece when doing a flat surface such as this

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# 11 12-09-2007 , 03:59 PM

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i don't see how - if it's not going to deform or if it doesn't affect how it looks.

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# 12 12-09-2007 , 04:11 PM

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normally I only use quads but getting the shape of the hole would have meant adding silly amounts of polys on a simply shape.

I need the multi-sides as there is a hole so you can see the inside and the walls are not flat and therefore would look wrong.

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# 13 12-09-2007 , 04:25 PM

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Not realy PB man. Only if your going to smooth or animate it.

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# 14 12-09-2007 , 07:52 PM

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Well I think I`m done with the modelering of the main tower.
As I have said before small details like rubble and debris will be added after. I also have to build some bells and a ladder for the inside, but still have lots of time - just want to start work on the main building.

I also have to uv map and texture some parts of the tower (the side bricks and the detail on top of the roof) which I`ll do now but no need for a image update for that.

I`m loving how this is turning out so far

https://www.ravage3d.com/images/neils...s/ruins3_2.jpg