oh man... I almost searched the entire net. All I had was that picture I posted with the name step4.jpg. But as my google skills are amazing I managed to find where it came from. Unfortunately I remembered wrong as it wasn't from a tutorial. It was from a WIP, http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.p...=14089;start=0

Too bad,, I got my panties all in a bunch waiting for your reply.. Guess I got to wait to see if someone will try to make it. :(

can you show a wire of his back please.

aww that sucks. appreciate the effort though. :D

ah dang :(

anyway, sorry I'm taking so long... I didn't get anything done all weekend because of other papers and projects for my Uni classes. So I know the neck to the shoulders are rough.

Here's what I have so far on the bumpmap (painted in Photoshop, rendered in Max simply because I know it better and it's faster for me to test things)

[edit: mc-fleury: I was planning on going into Sub-D for the back so the topology isn't all that great, but I'll post one up tomorrow if I can]

Wow man that is so freaken sweet. Awesome work.:beer:

oh man, that is friggin awesome! You think you can render the same thing out again without the bump map? I'd like to see when bump maps are used. :D

R-Tillery: Thanks :)

Anhslaught: Thanks, here's the render without bumpmap... more or less the same as the model i showed on the first page... I modeled it in Sub-D but I decided that I prefer the bumpmap over the Sub-D.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...c_semidone.jpg


mc-fleury: there's the back wire... far from perfect, but it should work for this project.

it looks really cool, but the bump makes it amazing. Is bump map just a blackand white image, where the white is the bump right?

Anhslaught: yes, the bumpmap is just a greyscale map where the white is up and black is down

here's the facial portion of the bumpmap

thanx a lot Funky Bunnies your character look awsome. keep up the good work!

I'm really digging the bump map, can/t wait to see some color on him.;)

what material are you using...sss ?

Hey FB

Thats a serious bump map LOL. Very good, I look forward to the color map if this is how cool the bump is

Cheers
Jay

Thanks Jay, mc-fleury, and R-Tillery

mc-fleury: I was just using a ramp shader of sorts to fake the translucency a little bit, but it was just to make the bumptest render look a small bit nicer.

sorry I don't have much of an update, I just started it back up last night. Started on the color map and did a test render of Mi SSS fastskin. This is the second time I've used an SSS shader so I'm still learning the ropes.