ChiefBrex's WIPs List - Current Projects: Rigel Class & TOS Pack (03.05.17)

[mckinneyc]

She looks great but does need some ventral phaser coverage

[Darkthunder]

I'd say, go for adding the nacelle pylon phasers. The aft portion of the ship is rather lacking in terms of phaser coverage. Overall, great job Brex

[Centurus]

Add them.

[MarkyD]

Very nice work mate, looks like a good mesh 

[ChiefBrex]

Okay, here she is, the completed mesh. Comments are welcome. Unwrapping is the next step. Roughly 18K in polies.

[FarShot]

I like the pylon details.  I see that you decided against additional phasers?

[ChiefBrex]

No, the phasers are on there....

They look pretty obvious in the shots.

[moed]

Very well done Brex!

I look forward to seeing the textures on this beauty.

Cookie.

[FarShot]

No, the phasers are on there....

They look pretty obvious in the shots.

*facepalm*

[ChiefBrex]

*facepalm*

*pats farshot on the back* it's ok. You had a long day.

[mckinneyc]

Love the ship Brex! The nacelles are my favourite part

[Captain_D]

Love the ship Brex! The nacelles are my favourite part

Same here, she has turned out real nice. Great job. 

[ChiefBrex]

Any know any good UVW Unwrap tutorials? blaXXer's has all the pictures missing, and MarkyD's video has been deleted from the provided URL in his tutorial.

The reason I ask, is, I'm trying to find a way to make the RCS thrusters on my saucer planar so I can properly texture in the thruster assemblies without them looking distorted, stretched, or misaligned. If I have to, I can make them separate, mappable objects for this, but I'd rather not do that as it does complicate things later on. Not to mention, they'd have to have their own separate texture map, and I wouldn't want to do that either.

All help would be appreciated.

[CyAn1d3]

Any know any good UVW Unwrap tutorials? blaXXer's has all the pictures missing, and MarkyD's video has been deleted from the provided URL in his tutorial.

The reason I ask, is, I'm trying to find a way to make the RCS thrusters on my saucer planar so I can properly texture in the thruster assemblies without them looking distorted, stretched, or misaligned. If I have to, I can make them separate, mappable objects for this, but I'd rather not do that as it does complicate things later on. Not to mention, they'd have to have their own separate texture map, and I wouldn't want to do that either.

All help would be appreciated.

message adonis, him and DJ taught me everything i know on that subject.

OR go to my WIP thread where DJ basically breaks it down to me on how to prep the model:
http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,5987.80.html

[ChiefBrex]

hmm, I forgot to the the XForm Reset before I started unwrapping the saucer. That might explain why I'm having issues with getting the RCS Thrusters to planar map properly with the saucer as a single object. So, going to have to redo the unwrap. And since I don't have a pre-unwrapped mesh anymore, I'm gonna have to literally clear the Unwrap and start over 

[Adonis]

hmm, I forgot to the the XForm Reset before I started unwrapping the saucer. That might explain why I'm having issues with getting the RCS Thrusters to planar map properly with the saucer as a single object. So, going to have to redo the unwrap. And since I don't have a pre-unwrapped mesh anymore, I'm gonna have to literally clear the Unwrap and start over 

You know dude, once upon a time I did show you how to map parts of a mesh separately into the same map ;)

[ChiefBrex]

You did. But then we had a falling out, and then I stopped modelling for awhile. Then I tried to block BCC from my mind. Yeah. Stuff got forgotted. But, I'm relearning now. My question now is, if I split the ship up into sections, like DJ and you do, and then reintegrate them later on, the UVW mapping coordinates remain the same yes? Even if I were to combine maps in order to save on the number of textures? For example, if I did the saucer into top and bottom, mapped them, and then re-integrated them to combine the total Unwrap, the coordinates would still be saved yes?

[CyAn1d3]

You did. But then we had a falling out, and then I stopped modelling for awhile. Then I tried to block BCC from my mind. Yeah. Stuff got forgotted. But, I'm relearning now. My question now is, if I split the ship up into sections, like DJ and you do, and then reintegrate them later on, the UVW mapping coordinates remain the same yes? Even if I were to combine maps in order to save on the number of textures? For example, if I did the saucer into top and bottom, mapped them, and then re-integrated them to combine the total Unwrap, the coordinates would still be saved yes?

you can even collapse the stack and make subtle changes to the mesh, then apply another unwrap and the coordinates will remain the same. i has to do this for the spacedock

its how im doing two separate models, but technically only mapping one

[Adonis]

You did. But then we had a falling out, and then I stopped modelling for awhile. Then I tried to block BCC from my mind. Yeah. Stuff got forgotted. But, I'm relearning now. My question now is, if I split the ship up into sections, like DJ and you do, and then reintegrate them later on, the UVW mapping coordinates remain the same yes? Even if I were to combine maps in order to save on the number of textures? For example, if I did the saucer into top and bottom, mapped them, and then re-integrated them to combine the total Unwrap, the coordinates would still be saved yes?

As long as you keep the material assignment correct to the way you mapped and put everything together, yes.

[ChiefBrex]

Okay, so, when it bring sup that dialog box asking me about Material IDs, which option should I select?