Amoeba - summer challenge
 

I decided to join since it would be good practices for a newbie to maya like me. :)
I'm part of an Astronomy club, so I see it fitting to model a telescope...and of course, 'abandon' it for a few years. (Reference to summer challenge).

I'll upload 1 or 2 images of the "reference"-telescope tomorrow.
:)

OK, here is one of my reference images (please excuse he fact that it is night, and the room is poorly lit...)
Anyway, I lowered the quality so I can upload it here (don't have an accounts on image-uploading sites.)

and that you forgot to flip it? :p

you have a telescope... dude, you are awesome :bow:

^I acctually flipped it, but preview (a mac proram, the windows equivelant is Windows FAX viewer (I believe thats what it is called)) didn't save it that way. I still have to install GIMP (moved computers) so I couldn't really have better quality then this...

Oh, and the telescope is my familys...we where interested in stars & planets, and in the end that got me in astronomy club.
:)

OK, here is a pic of the progress...was busy with homework, so I only get satrted on the leg so far.

Detail...

A bit more progress...

looking good :)

what happened to that screw from the prior post?

Oops...
When I took this screenshot, I forgot to un-hide the screws layer (since one of them has a lot of polys, so the comp wouldn't lag very early in the process.)
:blush:
Thanks for the compliment though!
:)

ah right,

so how you putting it all together if your computer complains when you show the screw layer?

Putting it together is not a problem...
the problem is, one of the screws uses WAY too many poly spheres that have flattend...I was going a bit, "over-the-top".
im goin to redo the screw once I finished the batch render currently running...
;)
'
PS: Will you join the summer challenge too, Chirone?

the screw is just a series of flattened spheres?

maybe you should have lofted something out of some curves, might reduced your poly count?

Ok, I'll do that once the last 80 frames have been renderd! :)
Chirone, are you joining the challenge?

i got scared off from Joopson's rapid progress, and BennyK's fridge! :p

i may still join in though... wont be as fancy as their work though :eek:

amoeba try a helix for your screws, just adjust the attributes and it can easily look like a screw but with a lot less polys.

Chirone , don't be scared to enter.No one is going to laugh and it's really about the experience you gain from taking part, I always learn something when I take part in a challenge.

Quick render...

is it me or is the cross thingy a bit thin?
i'm talking about the thing that connects the tripod legs... i should probably know the name but i dont...

Matches my refs...
It's exactly the width of one of the wooden beams connected to it.
;)

i just thought the center should be more fatter...

meh... it looks like it's coming along really nicely :)

oh an, love the new look (your avatar picture)

Mmm..I just checked out some of the pics of other telescopes, and you are right, some of them really have a fatter middle. Matches the one Im modeling now, but thanks for the heads up!

BTW, do you know what my avatar is?
(I know, random question, but I was just wondering if you acctually know 'it')

hehe... no... no idea what it is, it looked like an amoeba though :p

or is it a lens of some sort?

I'm not sure but it reminds me somewhat of Terminator...
Nice work on the model ;) What's your poly count?
Benny

Poly count is unberably big... :(
im at 113741 because of those stupid screws... :(
It's going to get lower towards the end when I change them.And the avatar is HAL 9000, look on wikipedia.
;)

i'm no expert on poly count but i say thats abnormally high for what you have there ;)

oh well.. make evry poly count i say!

you should post a wire :)

and i was right about the thing being a lens, although i didn't know where its from, i know now :alien:

Wires:

Is there any way to attach more than 1 image per post?
Anyway, here is the polycount-problem:
:(

113,741 ????? !!!!! OMG :eek: :confused:
is it faces? That's unbelievably high...
How much do you have without the screws?
And I thought I have a high poly count... Mine's ~7,600 faces
Definitely post a wireframe
Benny

EDIT: 1 minute late... You can use an image hosting site such as imageshack.us

i think you can post more than one pic at a time if you have a website or an image depositing site like what BennyK has with image shack
then you can just use the IMG button when you make a post

anyway, that screw's wire looks uber dense...

looks more dense than it needs to be i think (again i'm no expert on poly counts)

and yeah, is that poly count counting from the triangles or faces?

Try using a cylinder with a bump map instead of your screw.
the details are to small to be visible anyway.
based on the wireframe this should send you ~20,000 faces back per screw
Hope it helps,
Benny

How can you make so accurate guesses?
Its 23000 tris.

:eek:

Ok, now it 46000 tris...still alot to change...

it doubled in half an hour?

nice job so far. :)

Thanks arran! :)

And chirone, that was meant per screw, not the whole model.
;)

oh right...
WOW :eek:
bennyK was pretty close....

still too much for the screws..... will you even see the detail of the screw? if not just texture it on, or bump-map it

I believe I've already mentioned that...

How about some progress???
(That goes for you too, Joopson. I haven't seen any since the deleted bloom version in Oblivion)

BTW, What's tris anyway?

tris = triangles

OpenGL creates things in triangles. Tirangle strips, fans, and all sorts of other things

one face, provided it's only got 4 edges, has two triangles to it

Posting progress soon...
been a bit busy with other stuff....
:)

aww, i thought there were updates to the model posted!
oh well, i know how it is to be busy >_<