Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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If anyone's looking for some reference pics to do house, this might be a pretty good place to start. And if your house(s) look better than mine, well, nothing would make me more proud.
They said as long as it wasn't for commercial purposes or making money and that I posted a link to their site, all's good.
Unless I take a break from the Summer Challenge, I won't have any updates until early-mid August. I have a feeling though that I'll end up modeling a couple before then.
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As you can see I started playing around with paint brushes (flowers). I had to convert them to poly's in order for them to render. I'm rendering with MentalRay with Raytrace shadows and caustics turned on in the globals (just one directional light). I'll focus on rendering quality more when I have enough houses to make the neighborhood. Hopefully my computer will be able to handle grass (might not create grass until much later...we'll see).
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I need to learn how to do better textures, and I need to get a better graphics card, haha.
Keep up the good work, would love to see this neighborhood.
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As far as textures for the houses, nothing special. Everything is just blinn colors. I found pictures of siding, roof tiles, and grass on the internet which I applied as textures. Used planar mapping and scaled. I spent less than 30 minutes total adding all the colors and textures. Once I get enough to make the neighborhood, I'll probably try and find someone to do the texturing who can do it justice. I'll most likely ask njon to the lighting.
Anyway, here's the house I started yesterday.
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note: I did the walls before the roof even though I posted the roof wire first.
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Only crit that I have is to make a texture forthe grass rarther than the procedural/repreated one that youve got, maybe wqait tillthe end then texture it in photoshop to make a seamless version
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gster123: Yea, the grass is pretty lame. It's just to help me with the visual. I'll try out the grass texture that Jr. Who posted. In the end, I hope to use the grass paint brushes to create geometry. I'll have to put all the landscaping in different layers because of the huge polycounts. The last house I modeled is 40,000 polys so far but after adding flowers and bushes it can shoot up to 1 million polys real quick.
In fact, to keep poly count from getting too high, I'm not adding alot of detail. In the end, depending on where the camera locations will be, I may replace some geo with higher detailed geo for anything close to the camera.
I also learned (the hard way) that because I'm modeling each house in a different file, I can't name items the same because then I can't import because of same name violations. I spent 2 hours renaming everything for House#3. I'll have to go rename everything for House#1 and 2 next (not looking forward to it).
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