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Published: 2015-03-30 16:32:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 331; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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That thing is the reason I m so inactive lately. It s a mechanical mantis-monster for a project at university. i m planning to rig and animate that thing. Colors and materials are all a work in progress. I just like the combination of black and red. Anyways, that thing is highpoly, I still don t know how to properly render. Tris? around 100000.Still needs a bunch of work, I just wanted to showcase what I m working on.
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Okay, den schnall ich jetzt nich XD !
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._. echt net?!
;A; Damit war aber dein Mantis gemeint, weil er auch was von einem Ninja hat...bisschen ^^
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Ne, weil das Teil das krasse Gegenteil von nem Ninja is, da konnte ich net die parallele ziehen XD !
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Oh! ^^ Ich aber schon! XD
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Naja, es ist gedacht, laut und ungelenk zu sein. Deshalb find ich, des passt net XD !
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Kann es ja, ich meine aus mehr vom aussehen her!
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beautifully done, my dear!
your project is described as an animated mechanical mantis?!
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Yup. Wasn t my idea. Actually, I wanted to make a spaceship, but it didn t fit into the project. So I had to do some sort of mechanical monster and that s how this thing happened!
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it's beautiful nonetheless! although for mechanical monsters, I would have modelled a creature like big daddy from the bioshock series.
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Yeah, that s also something I had in mind. But the rest of the team voted against something humanoid. So, insects it is!
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of course, modelling detailed humanoid creatures is much more difficult than it seems. on the other hand, insect monsters can be quite terrific to look at!
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Hahaha, I noticed that! Insects are always nice. They make great monsters.
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quite so! there are many ways to turn insects into monsters. starting from scaling them a hundred times!
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Hahaha, couldn t have described it any better!
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100000 tris ?!!! what are you doing ?!!! you can make the same model with 15000 !!!
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Yop. I used a helix to make those coils. Forgot to turn down the subdevisions, so yeah, those things are very tri-heavy. Also the hexagons on the "blade-thingies": It s all geometry, so not a little normalmap-trick. And well, this adds up. I may clean up that darn helixes a bit to save performance!
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remember , too much detail will result in your game lagging ( or at least reducing its performance ) . if you were going for high poly , good job !!! but if the model's gonna be used in a game , i suggest you lower those tris , they're speed breakers !!!
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Oh no, this isn t an ingame-model! I also have a lowpoly-version of this with only a small part of the tris there. But well: The highpoly looks way more impressive to render than the blocky lowpoly!
I know, for a game I reached the upper border in case of tris. But that thing is gonna be used in a render-sequence, so everything s cool. We already saved a PC-slot at uni for a week so we can render that thing nicely!
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oh i see , nice !!!
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I only did the highpoly-thing so I got something to bake to pimp up my lowpoly! (and because it s our current task!)
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oh ok . seriously , since you're a good artist , if you want to work in game development , you should learn to draw textures . they'll save you A LOT of trouble !!! there are 2 reasons i don't use them :
1 ) i suck as an artist !!!
2 ) my lenny's not powerful enough to stand a whole lot of UVW modifiers .
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Working on it! - We got the new Quixel-Suite for texturing at uni (really neat photoshop-add-on), what makes texturing a lot easier. Can t wait for Megascans to be up and ready.
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well congrats !!! soon i'll be able to dump the stupid UV guy , and ask YOU for help !!!
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Ha yeah, why not 
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because i upload a lot of crap , and you're already busy with your own work !!!
how's THE collab going btw ?!!!
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Hey, given the time, this shouldn t be that much of a problem!
Standing still. But in 2 weeks, I will learn how to rig stuff (because project) and from there on I should be able to finish this soon!
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i'll be doing the modelling , you'll be doing the UVs , the mapping , and the background . you think it's worth it ? cuz i don't !!!
oh ok then . but can you rig a mesh ?
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Well, I m trying! Next week we will get some rigging-lectures. I can t promise anything, but I will try my best!
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i know you will , and even if you don't , i'm sure the results will be fabulous !!!
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Thank you
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see that you do !!! THAT single model , took me and Gu an awfully long time to make !!!
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Yeah, i will ask Steve for help. He s our rigging-guru at university. That s pretty much all he does. Right now, he s quite busy, but I will ask him to help us out a bit.
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ok then , and if he refuses ............ an email address will be enough to ruin SOMEBODY's day !!!
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Hahaha, I will remember this! He showed me how to rig last week - though shit to make it right! - But what s awesome: He wrote some scripts to make it easier and he even shares them with us!
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cool !!! start rigging then , NOOOOOOOOW !!!
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Yo, whenever I got the time! Still need to work on my project for uni!
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do it , or you'll be punished by 10 minutes of " LEOOOOOON , HEEEEEEEEEEELP " !!!
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Everything, but not this! D:
My brain can t stand this!
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ok then , 5 minutes of me tickling your feet !!!
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Chances are high you re getting your face kicked in by accident XD !
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oh i know !!! but i'm Gu's friend , i'm used to being kicked in the face !!!
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Well, that s one way to deal with the situation!
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my face has lost all feelings by now !!!
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Now this actually sounds pretty sad!
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....... on second thought , it is !!!
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Now don t make me depressed over here XD ! - Weather is finally turning out fine! It s bbq-time again!
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OOOH BBQ , i love bbq !!! what will you guys be making ?!!!
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Depends what they re offering. We wanted to grill some corn for sure (Su s a vegetarian). Right now, we re planning to go bbqing after lecture next friday (we would have gone this friday, but we have lectures from 9-17, so it s already late. And I still need 2 hours to get home :/ )
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cool !!! remember to take the photos !!!
wait , Su is a vegetarian ?!!! so your group " Gu, Shu and Su " has 2 vegetarians in it ?!!!
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