WIP Russian KV1

[crockett]

It's been a long time since I did any 3d work so I've decided to get back into it and I'm working on a new ww2 project. I know there is skinners and sound guys here but any 3D modelers?

This is the first model I've made in about 5 years. Spent yesterday learning Modo (3d modeling program). I still have a little more geometry detail to add, but the goal is to keep it under 6.5k polygons and then the rest of the detail will be added in using bump mapping. Any way it's a Russian KV-1 heavy tank.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV-1

[lyric1]

Cool more Russian stuff.

[Spikes]

Get a job at HTC

[Motherland]

Cool!

[DPQ5]

You should see some stuff a friend of mine(Tman24) who works with the Darkest Hour mod team for Red Orchestra, can make som good stuff in about a hour, and by the way nice work

[crockett]

You should see some stuff a friend of mine(Tman24) who works with the Darkest Hour mod team for Red Orchestra, can make som good stuff in about a hour, and by the way nice work

Yea, I've seen his on the RO forum. I actually posted this there as well. 

This one took me some time about 8 hours.  It was mainly because I hadn't touched a 3D program in 5 years and back then I was using 3DS Max. I did this one in Modo, so much of the time was learning the ins and outs of the program. I'm pretty sure now that I know the program fairly well I could redo this one in about a hour to two.

I'm working on a simple game myself, using a webplayer game engine kinda like what instandaction.com uses. I just needed a simple model so I could get it rigged up and start working on it.

[croduh]

Hi crockett,

I my self am a beginner at 3d (and have been for last few years I've tangled with it).You can make your own model and actually build it into your map, even substitute with a plane:

[crockett]

cool nice models

[Motherland]

What ship is that? Looks German.

[Jester]

What ship is that? Looks German.

One of the ADMIRAL HIPPER Class CA's

[jerkins]

Ive done alot of 3d modeling for engineering applications.  Dont know if there is much relation between graphical 3d modeling and technical 3d modeling.  I would imagine they would be similar.  What are the file outputs....IGS?

[spit16nooby]

Man I want to try that would it be possible for me a 13 year old to get and use a 3d modelling program.

[moot]

Man I want to try that would it be possible for me a 13 year old to get and use a 3d modelling program.

http://www.pixologic.com/

[crockett]

Man I want to try that would it be possible for me a 13 year old to get and use a 3d modelling program.

Check out 3dbuzz.com it's probably the best place online to learn for free. I went to school for 3d animation where Buzz used to teach in one of his courses, it's just been a while since I touched the stuff.

As far as getting something to learn with.. both XSI & Maya offer a free version of their software. Both are professional pices of software and are used in the game and movie industry.

Maya PLE http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525

XSI Mod Tool  http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/


As for my KV-1  I worked on it a bit more today and have the geomentry just about finished up. I'll post a updated pic a little later.

[Serenity]

For something REALLY cheap, that I started playing with (I dont know the comparative quality) use Google SketchUp. You can also download things people have already made and tinker with them from there.