3DThe Rodger Young (Starship Troopers stuff)

Chris2005

I'm blown away as always. I haven't got the patience to model anything with this much detail, certainly not for free. lol However, I'm always honored and grateful to those whom create, release/share such amazing content.

srspicer

R2D2....like on the mother ship from Close Encounters?

japetus

Worked on more greeble areas and nooks and crannies. Ever closer! For real..i can feel it. Spent a bit of time today moving areas around cuz I zoomed out for once and realized things were out of proportion. Think it's about as close as it's gonna get w/o me dying.

japetus

Some more WIP renders...

JES

Excellent work!

I've always found it odd that a lot of the Rodger Young's weaponry seems to only be able to pivot up and down. I wonder if they are supposed to be some sort of guided weapons? Then again, the faction that used them didn't seem to be experts in tactics to begin with, since the obvious tactic would have been to glass Klendathu from orbit. Did they really want to colonize that bug planet after the dust settled? It's not like they were planning to make peace with the bugs after kicking their exoskeletal butts, if the propo was any indication.

ashleytinger

So freaking amazing. You're doing great work on this!

japetus

Finished up more greebles in the back that probably no one will notice when it flys by, there there were a lot of litle parts! Added most of the rest of the windows and did a flyby test. Very temp lighting and it's washing out a lot of detail...

Chris2005

That thing must be a beast to render...

BolianAdmiral

japetus wrote: »

The lighting in this one looks legit straight out of the movie. Great job.

japetus

More texture work...real thing is actually a green color scheme, they made 3 different colors for the different branches of military. Tricky color to get right.

Warp Propulsion Laboratory

Fantastic. Feels like it has a lot of weight to it.

Chris2005

I expect to see the bug bomb scene from the movie soon. :P

omnipotent

Amazing work!

japetus

Messed with materials and textures a bit more...

japetus

After working a lot with the material and redoing it a few times... i did a light rig render test to see how it reacts. Tricky to get nice reflective panels w/o getting them to blow out. What do people think?

japetus

Some of the guys on the discord channel gave me some more tips that improved it some more...

japetus

Did some more textures and material work. Need to make the bridge interior next I guess. Drop ship i

s maybe 1/3 done too, just havent posted it yet.

Brandenberg

Looking super nice Mike. Amazing model.

BolianAdmiral

Very nice.

japetus

Hoping to finish the dropship modeling this week. Definately a few areas where I'm kinda making it up...not much out there for this one!

Lentowsky

In the 14 years I've known you, you've never failed to impress with your skills. You were friggen awesome back then, and you've only gotten better.

japetus

Lentowsky wrote: »

In the 14 years I've known you, you've never failed to impress with your skills. You were friggen awesome back then, and you've only gotten better.

Ha! Thanks man that means a lot. I definitely have tried to improve and try new things. It's definitely not easy!

japetus

Dropship getting pretty close, mostly texturing left to do:

ashleytinger

"We're going in first wave! S'alright. Means more bugs for us to kill!"

Such great work on this

Chris2005

I expect to see a full on drop ship sequence at the end of this. :P

Mustang13Camaro68

I've been meaning to ask - What are you using for engine exhausts on the Roger Young?

japetus

Mustang13Camaro68 wrote: »

I've been meaning to ask - What are you using for engine exhausts on the Roger Young?

Thanks. It's actually pretty easy. Howie Day gave me a tip. It uses a push modifier to move the vertices in and out really fast about twice a frame so that the motion blur smooth out the mesh. The fiery bits are just gradient opacity with animated noise texture

Mustang13Camaro68

japetus wrote: »

Thanks. It's actually pretty easy. Howie Day gave me a tip. It uses a push modifier to move the vertices in and out really fast about twice a frame so that the motion blur smooth out the mesh. The fiery bits are just gradient opacity with animated noise texture

Interesting. Never would have thought of that.

japetus

Mustang13Camaro68 wrote: »

japetus wrote: »

Thanks. It's actually pretty easy. Howie Day gave me a tip. It uses a push modifier to move the vertices in and out really fast about twice a frame so that the motion blur smooth out the mesh. The fiery bits are just gradient opacity with animated noise texture

Interesting. Never would have thought of that.

Me neithet....its pretty effective. I could fire sim it....but I wanted something I had to manage less, at least for now

japetus

Think the dropship is pretty much done, will tweak it a bit more I think, but pretty happy overall. And a fire test (which revealed a severe VRay 5/ Phoenix 4 bug )