hope you have time to do all these things, awesome model and texture :bow: :bow:

Very good! The pair togheter looks very nice. I don't remember to have problems with mirror skin weights. It's just decide the correct plane of simetry and check or not the box for x mirror. Before inserting IK handles though, you must verify if all your joints are 0 0 0 in rotation. If not, modify>freeze transformations will force them to go to a neutral rotation.

cheers clericuzzi :) I need to push on and get the textures finished now

thanks for the info jramauri :)
I've tried playing with the mirror settings but to no avail. If its related to not freezing the transformations then that could be the problem. While learning I cant remember if they were frozen or not :(
Things are deforming a little better now though, and I might have some time to play tonight :)

tidied the geometry around the horns slightly today
here's a quick play with a pose and a software render with raytracing on (I have no idea if it helps)

http://www.flash-fx.net/images/3D/samurai/pose2c.jpg

Nice work

cheers joed :)


right, here are the final textures for the models:
1 512x512 colormap for the dragon. Added a scaley effect on the skin to break up the uniform green. Added a horn. All hand-drawn except for the mottled effect on the wing membrane.

http://www.flash-fx.net/images/3D/sa...l_textures.jpg


1 512x512 colormap for the samurai. All hand-drawn except the symbols on his jacket (front and back), the japanese writing on the sheath and the blade which was modified from a reference image.

http://www.flash-fx.net/images/3D/sa...l_textures.jpg


A wireframe of the final model pose including number of tris.

http://www.flash-fx.net/images/3D/sa...rame_final.jpg


A smooth shaded version.

http://www.flash-fx.net/images/3D/sa...hade_final.jpg


and the final picture will be posted in the entries section soon!

Hey T1ck135! Your model turned out wonderfully. Under 3000 tris? You're crazy, dude!

Thank you for all your helpful insight and support!

Dave

I love it, great textureing and modeling. :beer:

Thanks swanky, I'm waiting for your final render with anticipation! :D

Cheers antiant, much appreciated :)

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice c & c, they were very muchly needed to keep going through the new areas that I needed to learn. Good luck to everyone and remember that no one's a loser as we all have groovy new models to show off!

:beer:

I think it kind of sucks that most people used high poly models, while you kept your character under 3000 tirs. It came out very well. I think it can compete with the other models just because you did keep it to a low poly count. Nice textures too. The process of your character creation was cool to check out.

cheers joe, much appreciated :)

I thought that too about 2/3rds of the way into the challenge. Maybe I should have done a high res model first (for cinematic scenes) and created normal maps to put onto a low poly version.
The thing is I enjoy low poly, keeping it on the edge with as little detail as possible and letting the textures do the work.
next time though... *evil cackle* ;)