So I am new here, but not new to the modeling world . It's nice to see a place that's full of Maya users

I've worked on this some time ago, and it was for a small speed contest on another forum, I sketched/modeled/textured/UV Mapped in only a week so some parts were a bit rushed, so I decided that I should go back and work a bit more on the model. I think this model is pretty original and if who knows it may go to my portfolio if it's nice enough.

Do you like it? Give critics and comments

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Front View Render:


Front View Wire:


Back Render:


Back Wire:


The tri count is 2,8k and I will make use an alpha map for the part in the turbines.

Neat idea! Looks great, it just looks like the bottom wood planks of the wagon are a bit thick and unbroken, the surrounding wood planks are skinny and cracked and dont match up to the lower ones.

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Yay, not a freshman anymore!

:attn: :attn: I like it

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I see what you mean, you are right about being a bit thick, but I also though since it's a wagon it should carry a lot of weight even more with a Turbine in the back . If the woods were too skinny they could break. But I will make them slightly skinners and the ones from the sides a bit thicker.

Also (this is just a suggestion) it will make it look amazing adding some detail to the turbine. Such as the fan inside. Again this looks great!

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Yay, not a freshman anymore!

@kinddoggofwar; that's the part where I will Alpha Map, it's the part of the texture where I will need extra work.

This is the current progress of the texture, the back part is the part that really needs work, because when it was the contest I payed much more attention to the front part.




I'm using a 512^2 Diffuse map.
I tried to give an old look for the wood. Tell me what you think.

Hey Scionic
Welcome to Simply Maya.

This is a very refreshing piece of work to see. Perhaps you should try a hi res version with more detail especially around the engines etc. Nice job though overall

Cheers
Jay

Great Idea, looking forward to seeing it develop.

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"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

Thanks for the comments, I don't have yet much experience in creating huge detailed models, I would like to and I make some models with some details, the problem is when I start to detail things I want to add every single detail and my computer can't handle more than 150k tri's without having slow-downs... :headbang:

Anyways I worked on the back...


There's one small UV Map error on the turbines, easy to fix. I will see if I add a normal and specular map to bring some more details to it.

sweet idea!
I think the biggest area that needs improvement are the wood bits
Since that takes up the majority of your model I'd work on that first. At the moment with a 512 the grain of the wood doesn't read well. It's too blurry, so I'd say you should either increase the texturespace of that part or try to hide it with a different more linear pattern.

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I kinda see what I mean, but I really want to keep this with low-specs, also I think when I finish creating the normal map and the specular some details will pop-out more.

I made a render with a very soft normal and specular map to test.

Wow! interesting and i like it alot ... only crit is that you could try find some higher res textures so that it does not display stretch marks if you get what i mean,

I think the model looks great.
I hope you don't try to drive this thing.

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