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Published: 2007-07-23 05:08:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1170; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 0
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This here is the tank that will be featured in the final render with my War Fish . I started this tank last October but never added the final touches until now. This model is based on a Renault FT-17 M1917 military tank.I understand that it's not entirely accurate, that's due to the poor refs I used at the time and because of that, some of the mechanical pieces were guess-work. However, pending strong suggestions, I don't intend to change anything else on the model as I am personally satisfied with the end result.
Modeled and rendered in XSI. Next up: the final piece!
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gotta love that duel tone shaded detail,
I can tell from experience, that this would have been hell to model, especially the non-Ctrl pasted parts that would probably take hours to fit together , I assume there was boolaens involved?
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No booleans. I'm not fond of how they tend to screw up the topology of a mesh. And you're right, some aspects of this tank were definitely a pain in the butt... Things like the tank treads and making all the little rivets were tedious 
P.S. Nice signature
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well, the topology thing can be bypassed if the program you're using can remap meshes, My models nowadays are almost entirely made using boolaens.
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Interesting 
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I think it looks pretty awesome myself. Are you planing on texturing it? Can't wait to see that.
Great work!!
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Thanks, I think it looks pretty cool too
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very nice, that would look really cool with a wire frame blend...
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Blending this with the wireframe would be a pain in the arse too 
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Thanks for taking the time to check out my gallery
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good job on those rivets man. how does it feel not having to set up a GI dome? looking forward to seeing everything put together.
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It's a relief not having to use light generators, or manually setting up a fake GI setup. Although there's really no GI in the scene, per se. The material for the tank is a simple Phong material, but using the rendertree I have it set up that the diffuse part is actually an Ambient Occlusion node. Combined with a three-point light setup and Final Gathering, it really illuminates the details on models well.
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Thanks. Gonna be a fair bit before I get the final render going though.
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