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Underwater vehicle W.I.P.
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rrateme95 262 posts08 Aug 2008Here is the W.I.P of the idea I mentiond in the 3DS MAX section... basically, it is just an underwater vehicle with wings to move it and a tail..... welll I have no idea why theres a tail =), but anyways.... Im planning for it to have a similar theme/feel of the Omnidroid robot from the incredibles, although im not sure if the flaps (as in the stretchey material inbetween the spike/horn looking things) should or should not maybe have a translucent reptile/amphibious texture.... any crits
will be appreciated =D
Concept
Progress so far
Id also like it if anybody could help me with some tips for making the flaps more realistic (as in using cloth simulations because now they are just straight) -
08 Aug 2008
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rrateme95 262 posts08 Aug 2008Thanks for the crits Zachm
here is the wireframe version (im not sure if I did it right but oh well 
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Oh and about the pinched edges.... I was planning to make the pinched edges quite flat then put a razor end but I'm not too ssure if it will work out so I might abandon it. -
08 Aug 2008Yeah man, that's fine to see. I think though the shape is fine, you could get that same shape with a less dense mesh and do smoothing at rendertime to save yourself some cpu's in the viewport, because once you start getting to the points where you have a lot of detail, you're going to want those areas to have a slightly higher poly count. Right now it looks like it's at around 2500 polys, rough guess, i'm willing to bet you could easily bring it back down to around under 1000. Early on in the modeling stage, I think it's a good idea to just start out with rough shapes, keeping detail to a minimum, just so you get your proportions right, and then once you are happy with that, you can start going in and adding detail where needed.
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rrateme95 262 posts10 Aug 2008Hey Zach, ermm I'm not too sure what you mean by that..... in the viewports I turn off all/most of the mesh-smoothing.... heres a pic of how it looks now (sorry for the blurry edges...not sure why that happened)
Im gonna attach them later on to the body in this way I designed that will mean the wings can rotate 360 degrees (in the direction that would make it flip) and also allow them to move further out and moove up and down..... would post the design now but in a rush since im going on holiday in a few hours, which also reminds me I cant give any updates for the next 3 weeks since im on holiday
, I'd appreciate some more crits and advice.... THANKS IN ADVANCE
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