Week #9 - Little boat - Low Poly

[Tom-3DT]

Hi All,

So this time round we are going for this rather waterlogged boat
http://freetextures.3dtotal.com/index.php?iset=1725&pp=
The object is to make your render as close to the photos as possible, so water inside and some grass/ground to mount the model should be included. (dont worry about the river though ;))

BT-3dt has set the limits and will be judging this one too, 1000 tri limit, and a 512 texture sheet, any textures are cool, normals, specs etc to make it look as near to the photo as possible! As this is how they will be judged.

Please post your wire, clay, texture sheets and final render in this thread, wip and on topic chat is also fine here too, these challenges are supposed to be fun and we are not too strict on the rules. The prizes are a gold, silver and bronze awards handed out each week. http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1291&pictureid=10526http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1291&pictureid=10525http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1291&pictureid=10524

We will also post out a couple of t-shirts for 1st and 2nd places.

This one will run for 1 week and the deadline will be Wednesday 27th Jan 2011 at midday GMT

Also please note that one of the reasons for these challenges is to help grow our free resource libraries, so the model donations at some point in the future when our system is ready would make us very happy and give a new dimension to the free image library we are building up every week.

[MStandar]

Sweet Tom :)

This is going to be a tough one, but i will give it a try.

[needse]

yeah im in how

how do you set 3d max to display tri count rather than poly count ?

[MStandar]

which version of max?

i use max 2010, and there you go to viewport settings, statics, and at that page you can check show triangle count

[needse]

thanks m8 but sorry iam also using 2010 64bit wheres viewport settings ,because iam going to customize/pref/viewports but statics is not there ,sorry if im being a complete ....... just got poly count no tris count arrgghh

[MStandar]

Here you go, i made this.
Hope it works for you :)

just noticed that it goes a bit fast, just let it loop through a couple of times hopefully you catch all the text.

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8978/trianglecount2.gif

[needse]

arghh thanks MStandar there it is lol ,i can get started now top man:dance:

[rocneasta]

this will be my first low poly ever, hopefully it won't look horrible

[needse]

can we use nurbs subd in the scene as shown im new to all this so bare with me ill get the hang of it

[needse]

sorry i didnt convert it again to a mesh then check the count i get it now :wall:

[Slayer89]

I've got the rough shape of the boat done, will post a wip when I get back from campus.

@rocneasta - I'm sure you'll do fine.

@needse - I don't think nurbs subd is allowed as it isnt a polygon then. Not sure though so check with Tom

[needse]

is this legal ? 157 tris so far

ive never done low poly either so don't really understand it and to texture it do i have to attach all elements then unwrap like that ?

[McKronic]

I might give this one a try.

needse: you really only have to model the area of grass around the base of the boat to make some kind of base for the boat to sit on, no sense wasting tri's running geo all the way to the bg, but you can if you want. When it comes to unwrapping you do not need to attach all of your objects you can unwrap them all individually.

[h2k1]

I want to give it a try, it's been a long time I didn't participate in any challenge!!! :dance:

[Aemeath]

I will be in for sure, 1000 tris sound good. Right now I'm at work but I will start working on this once I'm home again.

[Nupsi]

I´m so looking forward to join one of these Challenges some day, but somehow time is always against me :( Good luck to all!

[TheBat]

Yes, I'll be in! Hopefully will start today and otherwise this weekend!

Cool!

[Tom-3DT]

any progress shots anyone?

[rocneasta]

having an audit from autodesk to deal with :( but here's to few hours left to spare during weekend...

[Aemeath]

I'll post some tonight. Curious what you guys have so far!

[Isaac_Felton]

Hi all, my first contest / post for this site. I had to join for this competition seeing after watching the last two from the sidelines ;)

Currently 486 tris and shaping the thing before cutting back. Nice choice for a model :D

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7779/progress1n.jpg

[Slayer89]

just got swamped with alot of work, might not be able to participate in this one. Time will tell though

[Tom-3DT]

great start and welcome

[Mr. Bluesummers-3DT]

Same situation as Slayer here, plus a friend visiting this weekend. :P

[McKronic]

Here's what I have so far. The model is a little heavy but I'll worry about that later.

[Paranoiac]

Hi, new here and here is my progress so far.

[QUAN]

Here is my first update. So far i have 978 tris. I think that I finished the modeling part, and i am working on the unwrap UV.

[Antor]

And i'm trying something.
Programs used: Softimage XSI
Geometry: 812 tris

[Paranoiac]

modeling almost done.

[Tom-3DT]

Lots of good work so far!

[McKronic]

Great work so far everyone. I'm at 956 tri's now, I might save the rest for the water and ground plane.

I have a question, do you have to use uv space for the water or can you just put a shader on it?

[Isaac_Felton]

Wow there's a lot of work being done here and it's looking good. Here's another update.

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/2931/progress3i.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1386/progress2y.jpg

Currently 856 tri's.

[VersionThirst]

Great stuff being made here; great to see it from a couple different approaches.

Here's my model so far. I have some extra tris for more grass and plants underneath it.

Time to texture.

[Mikleton]

So, I think it's time I stopped slyly skulking around and actually DO something here. And I shall make my introduction with a boat! I'm enjoying this one, and there's lots of good work from you lot too.

Just shy of the tri limit, but i'm about to re-do the rope.

[danghuynh]

cant wait

[McKronic]

does the texture for the ground need to be included in our 512 with the boat?

[Slayer89]

does the texture for the ground need to be included in our 512 with the boat?

Yes, the 512 is for everything

[VersionThirst]

Here is my final.
1000 tris.
512x512 diffuse/opacity/specular.
I had a lot of fun making this.

[Antor]

VersionThirst thanks for inspiration. Very nice indeed.

[Tom-3DT]

Shaping up really very nicely, I'm glad BT's going to be judging this one!

[needse]

nice work VersionThirst but why no bump ? would look alot better i think

[needse]

im still trying to figure out how to unwrap all textures for separate objects on 1 map lol

[Mikleton]

Not sure if it's the right way to do it, but you can just select all of your objects and apply the uv unwrap modifier. Then just unwrap as normal.

[needse]

hi guys this i my final it sucks i no but not to great on texturing had a lot of fun doing it and leartned a few bits so cheers

[rocneasta]

nicely done needse

i think i'll barely make it, probably cut in short due to the workload

[VersionThirst]

nice work VersionThirst but why no bump ? would look alot better i think

I agree, I just ran out of personal free time to work on it. If I can find some time between now and Wednesday, I might make one and resubmit.

[needse]

thought i better post another version of my one with bigger texture .thanks for comments everyone ,is this image enough for final or am i missing anything ?

[Antor]

Does anyone know why after seeing so bring texture model? It is very annoying. The rendering shown properly. Autodesk Softimage 2011 64-bit software is . needse does not look bad.

[McKronic]

Finally finished the uv mapping. Hopefully I get time to finish the texturing tomorrow.

[TheBat]

Awesome progress so far!

VersionFirst / Needse: great job!

Here is my WIP. Halfway through my tri's and i hope that i can spend some more time on it tonight / tomorrow morning and to finish it in time, i guess it will be tough. Then again, great to get started again and to shape up for some more competitions.

Cheers, TheBat

[Tom-3DT]

approx 24 hours to go!

[needse]

thanks thebat good to see a differant approch with the box modeling at least that looks like how u did it ,i used splines then cross sections and surface then convert to edit poly

[Aemeath]

This is what I have so far.

I'm at 900 tris and still have some foilage left and of course the railing at the back of the boat. Might work out done as alpha but I'll see if I model it and just cut some tris somewhere else.

It is unwrapped already and I started with the texturing yesterday so I should make it this time.

[Mikleton]

And ready to submit I am! Hoorah. Those dandelions just didn't look as pretty as I wanted them too..Pshaw. Had a lot of fun with this one though.

I've really gotta get better at packing those UVs together...bah.

[needse]

nice job Mikleton

[TheBat]

thanks thebat good to see a differant approch with the box modeling at least that looks like how u did it ,i used splines then cross sections and surface then convert to edit poly

Cool to hear about some different approach! Did you use some kind of camera mapping or did you just eyeball everything?

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the proportions right, so any suggestions for getting better proportions would be great as well!

Mikleton: Well done as well, looks quite convincing!

[Mikleton]

Thanks for the kind words, they make me happyful. :)

As for the proportions, I just set up a plane with the side on photo of the boat and modelled infront of that to get the basic size and shape. I modelled the rest by eye, looking back at the reference images a lot until it looked pretty!

[needse]

i personally eye balled it lol i didn't even realize there was a side shot of the boat i just used the one image on the forum post lol.what you should do is put the images in as your veiwport background so u can adjust the proportions to match that of the image hope this helps

[needse]

sorry Mikleton i didn't realize you had replied already:wall:

[Mikleton]

Don't worry, it reassures me that my advice is not quite complete gibberish!

[QUAN]

Finally, I finished.

[needse]

looks good, oh well that looks like me out lol no surprise there i must admit, cant wait for the next one well done everyone so far

[rocneasta]

needse don't count your chickens before they're hatched :)

for example i went shopping today, gotten home and opened my fridge.

Inside i had two cardboard packages of 12 eggs - one had 6 eggs in it, the other had 7. I also bought 12 eggs while shopping - so to save space i wanted to place 4 eggs with those 6 and place the remaining 3 on the door in the space holder for eggs.

In my efforts to do so, i ended up breaking 3 of those last eggs, since the package lost balance and flipped to the floor

Hence i had 27 eggs, and now i have 24...

(short proverb, long story :p)

p.s. @ Tom - isn't wednesday 26th?

[needse]

lol cheers for that i enjoyed that story, well that's it then, i am a winner

[rocneasta]

glad you have your "eggs" intact ;)

[DarkBoost]

It has been a while since entering a competition here and thought I would give this one a try. I must say that this was quite a tricky challenge, required almost organic modelling techniques and the photo angles was again quite challenging to make the texture maps.

Here is my submission... good luck everyone!

Edit: the final tri-count: 998

[TheBat]

Awesome entries so far!

I didn't manage to finish, but quite enjoyed this challenge! Here's what i made of it!

Hope i can join in for the next one as well!

Cheers!

[needse]

good luck everyone and well done some good entry's here ,gonna try and improve my uv unwraping i think for the next one :dance:

[Aemeath]

Not sure am I too late?
Had no time yesterday in the evening so I had to rush everything this morning.

Not too happy with the result now but it was fun nonetheless!

[Antor]

Finally.

[TheBat]

Good job all, some really good stuff! My next target will be to actually finish the next project as well.

Thanks for the advice!

[McKronic]

Finally finished!! congrats to everyone!

[McKronic]

wireframe

[McKronic]

clay

[needse]

hi guys any idea when they announce the winner i thought it finished at midday yesterday/today

[Tom-3DT]

hi guys any idea when they announce the winner i thought it finished at midday yesterday/today

Yeah very sorry, yesterday was manic! We will announce today, I'll pm bigT now to ask him to come join us.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

1st Place: McKronic
2nd Place: Antor
3rd Place: VersionThirst

Keep it up guys, you're making judging, viagra hard.

[Tom-3DT]

well done winners!! All 3 claim your icon awards and top 2 write to jo(a)3dtotal.com and sweet talk her a bit....tell what size 't' and your address too!

[rocneasta]

congrats to all that participated. well done fellas

[needse]

well done lads see ya in the next one gonna spend more time on it this time:dance:

[McKronic]

wow awesome! thanks big toe, and awesome job everyone who participated! can't wait for the next one.

[Mikleton]

Awh. Congrats guys. And by "congrats", I of course mean "dammit!".

I shall hone my skills for the next challenge!

[VersionThirst]

Great job participants, had lots of fun with this one.

[DarkBoost]

congratulations winners... well deserved!

[TheBat]

Great competition and great entries! Congrats to the winners!

Cheers, TheBat

[MStandar]

Great work everyone :)

Congrats to the winners.

[needse]

any ideas on when the next one starts ?

[Tom-3DT]

We have been so busy we haven't done much photography lately...so we don't have the sets at the moment...

[McKronic]

damn I need something to keep me out of trouble haha

[needse]

found anytime to put them photography skills to good use yet ? i want wanna them t's:dance:

[McKronic]

how long does it usually take for the awards to be processed? I also emailed jo@3dtotal.com and never heard anything back, are you guys just busy?

[Tom-3DT]

I've asked Jo (prizes) and Warin (awards) to look into it, but yeah extremely busy too!

[McKronic]

Ok no problem Tom, busy is good! haha

[Tom-3DT]

I remembered I took one other set of this nice church...
http://freetextures.3dtotal.com/index.php?iset=1447&pp=1
fancy this one?

[needse]

this should be called the monthly challenge

[McKronic]

Tom: the church seems pretty decent, what do you think an acceptable poly limit would be?

[needse]

yeah im up for this one 1024 tex this time ?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

what about a 1024 texture with a 1024 tri limit? See how I did that, used 1024 twice.

[rocneasta]

what about a 1024 texture with a 1024 tri limit? See how I did that, used 1024 twice.

creativity at it's best :)

[needse]

sounds good

[Tom-3DT]

Sorry guys haven't had chance to call in here for a few days, will try and get this up and running later tonight.