3DYet Another Stargate...

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• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #2

  uh...I posted this in the wrong thread. Can a mod move it into WIP? sorry I thought I was in WIP section, but I'm not. Thanks
• Guerrilla795 HelsinkiPosts: 2,867Administrator

  October 2009 #3

  

  Moving to 3d WIP.

  Comco: i entered it manually in the back end
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• homerpalooza67228 Posts: 1,891Member

  October 2009 #4

  

  nice start, still a ways to go
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #5

  
  
  Not completely done with it (the new ****, obviously I'm not done with the gate itself). I still need to make it bend better to match the main hull and then I'll carve out the indentation for it in the hull.
• nhall171 Posts: 0Member

  October 2009 #6

  

  Looking good so far -- I gotta ask -- when are you going to subdivide the ring more to get rid of that crazy segmentation? Other than the segmentation -- your gate is coming along perfectly! :thumb:
  
  Cheers,
  Nick
  
  PS - You stole my thread title, bro. j/k
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #7

  ^
  Now =P
  I subdiv it and made the indentations for the cosmetic ****. 360 of them (without chevron cutout)...crazy ass designers. I would hate to be the one to make those on the actual prop gate that works.
  
  This way a real PAIN! I had to go in and redo the cosmetic ****. It was really annoying. Hopefully this new one came out alot better than the previous one.
  
  
• nhall171 Posts: 0Member

  October 2009 #8

  

  Mmmm - I dig it! Looks much better now. How did you get the outer-ring details in there? Did you use a template, radial array it, apply the stenciling, and then do your boolean operations for the cutouts around the chevrons?
  
  At any rate, now that you've subdivided it, your gate looks tip-top. I can't wait to see more.
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #9

  I use edge loop and rings to make the cut out. I then deleted the faces and use edge extrude to make the indentation. I then go back and remake the faces and move the pattern into the cutout.
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #10

  Progressing along with this one.
  
  
  
  Just got bored and rendered this one. The ground Material and effect are horrible on my part, sorry. Yeah, the bottom is suppose to be a reflection.
  
• nhall171 Posts: 0Member

  October 2009 #11

  

  Dude... awesome. O.O Simply awesome! :thumb:
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  October 2009 #12

  the detail on the negraveings and so on on that gate is EXCELLENT! brilliant job keep it coming
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  November 2009 #13

  It's been about a week or 2 since I had time to work on it. I had exams for end of grading period last week and have a mock exam for english this week so I don't have alot of free time right now.
  
  Anyways, I decided to find easy details to add in and fix a few minor inaccuracies. Things left to do are glyphs, the very inner details, the back replacement for the inner ring and outer blocky details.
  
  
  
  For those wondering, the tris count is about 8.2 million with turbosmooth on (1 iteration). yes it's quite high, but it'll give the gate a nice smooth and non-pointed edges (in some areas) when done & it gives a nice weathered effect to it.
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  January 2010 #14

  
  
  Had time to work on it during the winter break. got 15 of the glyphs done. Almost done. Can't w8.
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  July 2010 #15

  I'm calling it done. I might go back later on and add some stuff, but for the most part, it's finish.
  
  special thanks to Neuro for Rendering.
  
  
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  July 2010 #16

  very nice I only did bump maps for the back inner ring. THat is pretty to see it modeled.
  Are you going to use propper greebles for the naquida ring? Or texture like i did? I found having that modeled just added way to many polys...
• [Deleted User]2 Posts: 3Member

  July 2010 #17

  That prob might even double the poly count depending on how small they are/how many there would be. I think I'll leave it in the texture.
  
  I would have never modeled the back inner ring if it wasn't for the bend tool in 3ds max. Making it in a perfect line really makes that difference. finish a section, duplicate/copy the design, then bend it 360 degrees into a circle
• Aresius359 Posts: 4,171Member

  July 2010 #18

  

  sweet details here, very nice.
• PerfectAgent007331 Posts: 0Member

  July 2010 #19

  

  Hey Shinigami, fantastic work on the modeling. Love how clean it is. I feel like a true ass for coming in this late to point out an error but when I made my fifth generation 'gate I came across the link below for a reference and found out that the pointed boxes just inside those looped etchings weren't that at all. They're more like criss-crossing waves. The same is true on the inner set between the glyph track and the inner-most loop etchings. http://www.sg1archive.com/wallpaper/images/chevron_closeup_1280_1024.jpg
  
  Still, nice work! :thumb:
• eds0 Posts: 0Member

  July 2010 #20

  very nice work, about theese box's everyone does them like that on every stargate model i have seen, to me that would increase the poly count considerably
• PerfectAgent007331 Posts: 0Member

  July 2010 #21

  

  Eds you are quite right, the poly count does go up especially since this is a heavily repeated detail. I just put the reference in because it came as something of a revelation to me and I thought I'd share it with anyone who was making a Stargate just for the sake of having an accuracy option.