Monsters

[MalikDrako offline]

heres a few renders of my (unfinished) megatank



it would help if someone could find some good refrence pics, showing more of the inside and both sides of the ring

edit: i'm changing the title to "Monsters", since I'll be posting renders of the rest of the monsters as I make them, currently working on the Block

[Chad Rains offline]

theres a few I managed to grab from episode 6.

[kindpastor offline]

Hey, what program are you using to make this?

BTW:

http://idisk.mac.com/patrick_gendre/Pub ... 2_0014.jpg

[MalikDrako offline]

thanks, once my animation finishes rendering (safety animation for FIRST competition) i'll try to finish

i'm using 3DS Max 7

[Chad Rains offline]

may I ask a totally off the topic question? what school do you go to? just curious if its the same one I went to.

[MalikDrako offline]

a little update, might redo inside, dont really like how it turned out

may I ask a totally off the topic question? what school do you go to? just curious if its the same one I went to.

Chaminade HS

[Chad Rains offline]

actually, the inside looks good from my point of view. the only suggestions I can make are 1) maybe texture the red peices on the inside (check the closeup pics i posted above) and 2) increase the faces on the center ring.

[kindpastor offline]

I saw that most of the tank images were at angles, I found a straight-one ffull frontal shot here: http://www.codelyoko.fr/files/goodies/g ... nafini.gif

[MalikDrako offline]

Picture of it firing


update:
close up of red part


charging (ignore the red spots on the bars, i'm not sure how to make the glow not reflect)

[MalikDrako offline]

another update:
video of it opening and firing

[Darkborn offline]

hahaha wow that's really well done. ^.^

[MalikDrako offline]

Think i should just remove the reflection on the entire thing? It doesnt really look like the actual megatank reflects anything in the pictures

[JeremyHopper offline]

OMG YOUR 3D SKILLS ARE AWSOME AND FANTASTIC! I've had some experience in 3d animating and modleing, and I know how hard it is. You could seriously work for antefilms. BTW, if your trying to make it look exactly like in the show, they use raytracing, which costs a lot of money to buy a plugin. hey, I have a question, some of the people on this board and I are working on a project where your skills would REALLY help. You can check out the thread for the project here, and you can check out the forum for our progress here.

The 3d modle of the megatank is amazing! I know how hard it would be to modle the inside with all the red goo and you did a wonderful job!

P:S:. the megatanks black outer shell does sorta reflect a little light.

[MalikDrako offline]

the stuff inside was actually very simple, I just created two half spheres, extruded and beveled the flat side a few times, then created round sections on each sphere and bridged them

as far as I know, raytracer comes with 3DS Max
I'm using a raytrace material with a fallof map for reflections right now

[Chad Rains offline]

One other thing I can suggest is to lighten up the black of the two megatank halves and texture them as well (the galvanized metal map in 3dsmax comes to mind). Other than that, it looks good.

On a more technical note, whats the poly count up to so far?

[MalikDrako offline]

without reflections

polygon count is currently 11686

update:
testing new material for shell

[Blue Armor Boy offline]

Dont forget when it opens, a bunch of xana symbols pop out on the shell

[MalikDrako offline]

Dont forget when it opens, a bunch of xana symbols pop out on the shell

just added them, but they are always out (not open, just out, they open frames 15-25), and they dont sync with the rest of the animation yet


I managed to capture some video from the first episode yesterday, and realized the "charge rings" were the wrong color, i'll fix it soon

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

*Stares*
Oh my gaad.
You are my 3D IDOL!
This stuff is amazing!
Learn french and move to paris, because you have got to teach some people over at Antescoop not to keep messing up!

[Lyokofreak offline]

Drako, you would make a VERY NICE modeler. Are you familiar with Autodesk 3Dsmax?
If you make a megatank model with it let me know!
You should be on the w3 map team!

[Chad Rains offline]

Drako, you would make a VERY NICE modeler. Are you familiar with Autodesk 3Dsmax?
If you make a megatank model with it let me know!
You should be on the w3 map team!

i'm using 3DS Max 7

[dr xana offline]

man that looks dang professional! are you xana in disquise?

[dr xana offline]

i can barely tell the diference between your copy and the real thing you should try to make a lyoko charecter so they can fight lol

[MalikDrako offline]

the characters are so much harder than monsters, the megatank was mostly primitives, the block I'm working on will probly be mostly slightly modified primitives

[dr xana offline]

maby you could also try making a tower i dont know how hard that would be tho