First Model

[AncientMan]

Well on my path to being a modeling genius (cough), I have to start somewhere. I've made a few random things before like a chess pawn and a round table, but I need to learn how to do things via editable polys (how you model weapons and vehicles), so this is my first creation using that technique. I present, "A Simple Pen".

http://users.on.net/~cryde/Piccies/a_simple_pen.png

Used this random pen that I had sitting on my desk at the time as a reference.

http://users.on.net/~cryde/Piccies/DSCN2891.jpg

Not exactly perfect, but I think it's good enough for a 3ds max n00b and 3 hours worth of effort.

Tris: 778
Polys: 365

Might use this as a learning model, maybe figure out how to UV map, skin from scratch, import into BF2 as a weapon (oh yeah, a pen as a knife :P), and stuff like that.

[Retribunator]

bloody good start mate.

[Tubby]

Ancient, get a load of this mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNYnO2m560
Friggin awesome!

[Jim]

Now that is a graphic artist!!


Nice work there Ancient.

[GruAncH]

Nice work halfway towards building a torpedo :P

[Slavak]

tordedo? torpedo :P

[Marduk]

That's pretty cool Ancient.

[Shotgun]

not bad keep it up

[CDN-SMOKEJUMPER]

Nice one, I love how everyone is getting right into it!

Well done boys.

[Danthesandman]

Ancient, get a load of this mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNYnO2m560
Friggin awesome!

wow, I want a tablet now.

[Chuc]

Actually he did it with a mouse.. D: Nevertheless, I'd like a wacom tablet, not an ancient one from 1998 with no pressure sensitivity from some no name company that's probably under the water.

[Danthesandman]

hes inhuman, spent a couple of months and has compolsive disorder if he did that with just with a mouse. but ya i once was bout 3 secs away from a tablet. would help with the modeling (getn bak on track, i can see a post comn) and re-skinning of some things.

[AncientMan]

Yeah, I want a tablet, would be great. Just that good ones are expensive, and the cheaper ones are crap, so you need to go for the good ones really.

[Ablack77]

well here's my first model except for my lovely chess piece :P

http://img116.imageshack.us /img116/6782/missilecy3.png

random generic missile, a little rough but yeah.....

[+SiN+headhunter345]

well here's my first model except for my lovely chess piece :P

http://img116.imageshack.us /img116/6782/missilecy3.png

random generic missile, a little rough but yeah.....
dude the rounded edge's are really really good

[Shotgun]

nice missile!

bah fools road...

[Psyrus]

well here's my first model except for my lovely chess piece :P

random generic missile, a little rough but yeah.....

Did you lathe it or was it built with polys? I can't remember where I heard it but I recall that lathing adds far too many "tri"s or polys or something. Not a modeller but I did do the chess tutorial and it was fun :)

[Bahlye]

Blacky...thats a lovely missile...Nice...:)

[Ablack77]

thanks chaps - built with polys Psyrus

it looks pretty simple aye but phew did i spend some hours on that
(no not telling it's embarrassing)

prolly just cause i'm such a n00b at modeling, but i'll get there
"try try again" and all that crap ;)

[+SiN+headhunter345]

can i have a go??
i have spare time cause i live on my own

Were is the instructi0nz

[AncientMan]

Google has instructi0nz...

Smooth groups is how he makes it so round. What was the poly/tri count blacky?

[Ablack77]

polys = 800

tris = 1,248