[WIP] CGC Challenge #2 – Vehicles – Kaj Suominen

[Thibault Caradec]

Wow… As a beginner, I’m super impressed, and I’m wondering why I’m even here in this contest…

[smurfmier1985]

@otowa to get inspired by your fellow participants, have fun, learn something, improve your skills and to talk with the rest of us 3D loving people 😊

[Kaj Suominen]

@otowa What Miranda said. and ofcourse, if there is something you are wondering how its made, just ask, i can show and tell how those things are made. technical and design.

[Jake Korosi]

That is excellent work so far Kaj!

[smurfmier1985]

@jakeblended I second that 😎

[Kaj Suominen]

had to take weekend off. and only did minor cleanup during that time. mainly naming stuff and moving stuff into collections. 

this evening did the main fuselage unwrap. tomorrow is landing gear and searchlights left. also getting rid of all the bevels and sub-ds. its down to a 40k tris.not bad considering still lot of curved stuff there.

the landing gear is something i need to address on how the lowpoly will be. so most likely wont be over 50k.

here’s the blob 😀

[spikeyxxx]

@louhikarme Cool!

Can’t wait to see this textured and shaded.

The wing connections still seem a bit off, as you will probably be aware of. 

Keep going, I’m sure the final result will be fantastic!

[Matthew Fricker]

This is coming along great man 🙂 Especially now that the details are going in, that is my favorite part of the modelling journey. 

Good luck! 

[Kaj Suominen]

@spikeyxxx hopefully it will make more sense when there are materials and other stuff to show what is mechanical. the wing basically is same than the tail visible hexapod, but decided that i hide that on the wings.

[Kaj Suominen]

@frikkr i should just proplly kept this high poly and not go game assets. but. decisions made. 🙂

and now its more in the substance painter to paint all the normal details.

[smurfmier1985]

@louhikarme Everything should be a game asset always 😛 love the blob 😊

[Kaj Suominen]

hah, made it to substance. still need few tweaks to fit with the semihighpoly. otherwise pretty much there. will see how well bake i get just single 4k map and then downsized to 2k. if good then i wont separate. but if its crap, then i need put landing gear and all the greebles on separate map. which will be easy and fast when using shotpacker. awesome addon for uvpacking,

oh and need to add triangulate modifier on every high poly object so the exporter wont die. Always remember with game assets, triangles are your friend. this is non quad territory. 😀

[Kaj Suominen]

lot of tweaking tonight. forgot couple important lessons. when creating linked objects. always apply the bloody scale. that will affect everything when unwrapping. second, disable all mirrors on objects you inted to share the uv:s. otherwise the bakes will overlap and you get really nasty artifacts.

so, lot fiddling around with objects and hiding those i don’t need. like i only need one tire. one wing rotor etc. anything that is something you cant see on other side is going to be sharing uvs.

pretty happy with the bake sofar. though i still need to fix few places, that are too obvious and will show even after all the other textures applied.

[Kaj Suominen]

finally into texturing. cutting corners really works.. so fixed all the bake issues. but now there is cleaner bakes and if i have to go back and change something rebaking wont be a problem.

first pass on normal details. rivets, panels etc. hopefully tomorrow gettin into actual textures.

[Kaj Suominen]

well had to rest friday evening. but woke up early on saturday and finished texturing and brought everything in ue4. couple shots while i rethink what i need to do. riggin i still need todo to give it bit more different flavour on the mechanical parts.

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