GUNDAM Plazma cannon

Yustas · 30-03-2004, 03:15 PM

For those of you familiar with Endless Waltz. This is the plazma cannon carried by the bad guys...

Nappa · 30-03-2004, 06:03 PM

No barrel ??? show ref pic's please

Yustas · 31-03-2004, 04:11 AM

NO ref pics...as always i'm doing this off of the plastic model. I could scan it.... this is WIP though... NO specific barrel, it's inside, and the weapon is shoulder fired like a bazooka.

Yustas · 04-04-2004, 07:10 PM

an update to it.

Daniel · 04-04-2004, 07:55 PM

nice, post the last picture in a lighter colored shader please, hard to see. Wire would be nice as well

Yustas · 12-04-2004, 01:18 PM

got some time to keep working on it... I'm not going to post the wires ... i do a lot of primitive and boolean modeling with help with mesh modeling.. so meshes are pretty confusing...

Yustas · 12-04-2004, 01:21 PM

hmm.. it doesn't look as dark when i render it...

asfalton · 12-04-2004, 01:23 PM

keep working gundam rules...

JHarford · 12-04-2004, 03:13 PM

any reason why you do it that way?. i assume your doing3 d as a hobby. and just to craete your favourite things.
id take the time to learn poly modelin for the whole things ,a s it will result in a much nicer final image.

Yustas · 13-04-2004, 03:49 AM

I don't really know why i do it like that. I've tried poly and spline modeling, but it seems that i don't have a very good spatial visualization.. if you can call it that... It seems much easier for me to find primitives in the shape.. and do so accordinly. For very complicated shapes i create a spline extrude it and later work on the mesh. For extremely complicated stuff like cutouts and things like that, i used to create bump maps, but it's time consuming

I guess i'll have to try again for something a bit more complicated, i'm planning to actually model a full blown gundam model. But here's the question. How would you create a nice round hole in a cube, like i have to do iun this model for inside of the barel without having to use the boolean?

Ironbuket · 13-04-2004, 05:24 AM

Hmm, ive seen a tutorial for exactly what you are asking about, but I cant remember where :\

Maybe someone else knows. It was showing how to make round holes in square/flat surfaces with lots of examples

From my fuzzy memory I think they did it something like this:

You have your flat poly. Delete that. Create your “hole” (In whatever way you want). Maybe spline extrude it or whatever. Position it where you want it to be and join it to your other object. Then build up the planes surface again manually (ie. Poly create and cutting). Its not a quick way to do it, but as I recall it gave the best results and you have total control as you are doing it yourself.

Yustas · 13-04-2004, 05:34 AM

I could give it a try.. i don't know where that tut is, i've tried couple of other but they didn't work for me. I also have another question for a thing that's been bothering me a lot... considering that a lot of things made of metal do not have the sharp angle corner look, i've never been able to nicely represent that rounded angle most of the weapons have with a sharp corner.. i've always done a minimal extrude-bevel of a poly which gave it a small rounding, but there's got to be a better way of doing it, and making it look.

Yustas · 13-04-2004, 04:32 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shoulder mounted weapons.....

Yustas · 14-04-2004, 04:51 PM

rerendered

Empy77 · 14-04-2004, 06:27 PM

throw some textures on it and I just might have sex with it! It's lookin pretty good

30-03-2004, 03:15 PM	#1
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	GUNDAM Plazma cannon For those of you familiar with Endless Waltz. This is the plazma cannon carried by the bad guys...

04-04-2004, 07:55 PM	#5
Daniel Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,153 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	nice, post the last picture in a lighter colored shader please, hard to see. Wire would be nice as well __________________ "There are no binding oaths between men and lions- wolves and lambs can enjoy no meeting of the minds- they are all bent on hating each other to the death." -Achilles "It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen." -Herodotus

12-04-2004, 03:13 PM	#9
JHarford Airship Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Lytham, England Posts: 2,596 Thanks: 1 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 11	any reason why you do it that way?. i assume your doing3 d as a hobby. and just to craete your favourite things. id take the time to learn poly modelin for the whole things ,a s it will result in a much nicer final image. __________________ Joseph Harford Character Artist Portfolio & Blog : http://www.josephharford.com Tracker Knife - NextGen asset production series Contact me by Mail

13-04-2004, 05:24 AM	#11
Ironbuket meri kurisumasu Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: London, England Ayu wa kawaii desu ne Posts: 753 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hmm, ive seen a tutorial for exactly what you are asking about, but I cant remember where :\ Maybe someone else knows. It was showing how to make round holes in square/flat surfaces with lots of examples From my fuzzy memory I think they did it something like this: You have your flat poly. Delete that. Create your “hole” (In whatever way you want). Maybe spline extrude it or whatever. Position it where you want it to be and join it to your other object. Then build up the planes surface again manually (ie. Poly create and cutting). Its not a quick way to do it, but as I recall it gave the best results and you have total control as you are doing it yourself. __________________ "If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and one backward glance when you are leaving, for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not always have. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind." - Major Michael Davis O'Donnell

14-04-2004, 06:27 PM	#15
Empy77 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Just north of Salt Lake City Posts: 56 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	mmmmmm...... throw some textures on it and I just might have sex with it! It's lookin pretty good __________________ ~You'll never know unless you try~ I have not failed, I have simply come across 10,000 possibilites that do not work... -Edison- Last edited by Empy77; 14-04-2004 at 07:43 PM..

30-03-2004, 06:03 PM	#2
Nappa WHat do you mean im fugly Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Joilet IL ,USA Posts: 639 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	No barrel ??? show ref pic's please

31-03-2004, 04:11 AM	#3
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	NO ref pics...as always i'm doing this off of the plastic model. I could scan it.... this is WIP though... NO specific barrel, it's inside, and the weapon is shoulder fired like a bazooka.

04-04-2004, 07:10 PM	#4
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	an update to it.

12-04-2004, 01:18 PM	#6
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	got some time to keep working on it... I'm not going to post the wires ... i do a lot of primitive and boolean modeling with help with mesh modeling.. so meshes are pretty confusing...

12-04-2004, 01:21 PM	#7
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	hmm.. it doesn't look as dark when i render it...

12-04-2004, 01:23 PM	#8
asfalton Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: now in Norway Posts: 133 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	keep working gundam rules...

13-04-2004, 03:49 AM	#10
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I don't really know why i do it like that. I've tried poly and spline modeling, but it seems that i don't have a very good spatial visualization.. if you can call it that... It seems much easier for me to find primitives in the shape.. and do so accordinly. For very complicated shapes i create a spline extrude it and later work on the mesh. For extremely complicated stuff like cutouts and things like that, i used to create bump maps, but it's time consuming I guess i'll have to try again for something a bit more complicated, i'm planning to actually model a full blown gundam model. But here's the question. How would you create a nice round hole in a cube, like i have to do iun this model for inside of the barel without having to use the boolean?

13-04-2004, 05:34 AM	#12
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I could give it a try.. i don't know where that tut is, i've tried couple of other but they didn't work for me. I also have another question for a thing that's been bothering me a lot... considering that a lot of things made of metal do not have the sharp angle corner look, i've never been able to nicely represent that rounded angle most of the weapons have with a sharp corner.. i've always done a minimal extrude-bevel of a poly which gave it a small rounding, but there's got to be a better way of doing it, and making it look.

13-04-2004, 04:32 PM	#13
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shoulder mounted weapons.....

14-04-2004, 04:51 PM	#14
Yustas Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 204 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	rerendered

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