CyberMonkey's Star Wars stuff

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• Viper1686 Posts: 717Administrator

  March 2019 #2

  

  Welcome! Is the intention to do the Rogue One version? If I remember correctly, that one has a rounder appearance on the front. I also see a few mesh errors that you might want to look at. Not a bad start though!

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• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  March 2019 #3

  Cheers! I'm doing the original Knights of the old Republic version, the ship in which you play the first mission, probably one of my all time favourite designs. In search for reference material I havent seen any one else do it, so I thought that might be a fun first spaceship project.
  Yeah I assume the errors are because of how some edges go, havent figured that out entirely yet^^
• Viper1686 Posts: 717Administrator

  March 2019 #4

  

  Ah, yes. How could I forget, heh. KOTOR is one of my top games of all time Good choice. Anyway, post a few wireframes, maybe I can help you figure out the errors.

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• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  March 2019 #5

  Oh yes it is, fun fact, my laptop as a kid couldnt run the first game, so for the longest time I played a bootleg version of the second^^ Anyway, thanks a lot!
  The third one is the whole model with the Maya smoothing applied.
  

  
  
  
  
• [Deleted User]190 Posts: 0

  March 2019 #6

  Looks like a good start.
  
  In Lightwave I use the function "rounder" (didn´t know if a Function with this name exists in Maya). I use the chamfer function just for splitting edges. It´s possible to round edges with chamfer, but I guess that is not it´s primary job.
• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  March 2019 #7

  Thanks ulimann! Yeah I'm doing that with the bevel modifier, it adds edges to either side of the... edge.
  Now I've run into the problem of adding indentations into the curved hull, not sure what causes the problem, I attached two images below.

  
  
• Viper1686 Posts: 717Administrator

  March 2019 #8

  

  So here are a few comments. I would add the green edge loops and remove the red ones. That should improve a lot of the shading issues. You do have a problem in the orange edge though as the faces adjacent aren't planar. That tends to create shading errors, especially when you are this low poly. If they have to be non planar, you'll need to create some kind of transition using chamfer for instance, or assigning them different smoothing groups. Not sure how to do that in Maya though.
  
  
  
  

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• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  April 2019 #9

  Thought I'd update this post. I took a break from modelling and decided to move into some animation and compositing stuff. Inspired by Howard Days amazing recreation of the original Star Wars look I set out to do some experimenting as well.
  My first start was to take Ansels amazing Star Destroyer model and set it up in Arnold, adding some basic grunge textures and doing some shader stuff to bring out the edges and creases. I then I used Red Giant film emulation to get most of the way to the original film negative look, images in the spoilers (to not clutter the post).

  
  
  
  Also did the same thing to the Acclamator class, also found on SciFi 3D.
  
  
  

  
  There is still room for improvement, the engines for example use emission from a shader, which is quite bad in terms of getting clean result, for actual good renderings I'll exchange those with mesh lights.
  
  I've also been working on an animation, recreating the intro shot of Return of the Jedi, it is 4 hours into rendering as I write this, so should be done in 10 hours or so
  
  But I did do a comp test yesterday and while Howard still has the crown on the look, I think I'm getting close!
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• Howard Day632 Posts: 434Member

  April 2019 #10

  

  Duuuude, that's looking badass! Excellent work. I dunno if it's useful for you, but I posted a method of doing nibbled star wars panels in an automated way on my blog - www.hedfiles.net might help speed you on your way!
• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  April 2019 #11

  Thanks, means a lot! And I'll check it out, help is always appreciated
• CyberMonkey3 Posts: 9Member

  April 2019 #12

  Alright, put the video together now, all in all it took more than 20 hours to render, ignore the beginning for now, gotta smooth that out and still add a planet in the distance. I've also made a simple Lut of my grade if anyone wants to play around with it, I advise to use curves before the lut since it'll wash out the whites for that film look, hope you find it useful somehow
  
  Also Youtube just destroyed the quality, gonna try uploading with a different codec once I get to the final stage.
  
  
  
  

  SW_Lut.zip 1.5M

  
• BlueNeumann631 Posts: 1,287Member

  April 2019 #13

  

  Verrrrrry cool.