Hi all, my firt post here!
Here's a turntable render of my last project, a Ford Focus WRC. Specs are 6600 polys, 2x512x512 textures (exterior, interior) and 3x256x256 textures (wheels, windows, lights.) C&c welcome, and take a peek at my site if you've got some time.
[URL]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/ffwrc.mov[/URL] 4.4 mb
[URL]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/ffwrc.avi[/URL] 3.8 mb
I was thinking of going in the current challenge, it would fit nicely into my portfolio.
no worries, cardinal rule of pimping noted.
[IMG]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/ffdirty1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/ffdirty2.jpg[/IMG]
codec for quicktime mov is sorenson 3
codec for windows avi is divx 4.03
Thanks, I agree the wheels are a bit dull, but they're the ones they use on loose surface stages. Here's a reference:
[URL]http://rally-net.20m.com/images/1.jpg[/URL]
Having said that I have taken some liberties with the decals etc so I guess it'd be okay to change the alloys too.[:p]
Here's the wire and texture sheet. Rendered with snotmonster.com's edgemap plugin and render to texture in Max.
[IMG]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/ffwire1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.jacobleetai.com/images/focus4.jpg[/IMG]
The mesh is quite dense in areas, I am going to make a damaged version soon, so the extra polys will help then.
I don't like most gun models either, unless they are paired to a nice character. I'm in Adelaide so it is appropriate for me to put cars in my portfolio [;)]. The texture has very few hand-painted elements (only dirt is really painted, the rest is path tools), most of the nice shading you see is from texture baking. Games like Colin Mcrae 3 use much more subtley baked textures than I have used here, to balance with realtime lighting.
The polycount is too high for games like GTA & The Getaway but only 1/2 to 1/3 of that of most current rally games (CMR3, WRCII Extreme etc). So I think with a polycount like this, there could be two on screen at once.
cheers!
Please post some stills, as I have not the time to wait for a 4 meg download on dial up, especially when I don't even know if I have the codec you have used for your compression.
Remember the cardinal rule of pimping, make it easy on people or they may not bother.
Pantmonger