Hoplite Bumper Sticker: Skin Me!

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I looked at the uv map and it is not very optimized at all. It only looks great now because you have nothing to compare it to.

Yeah...I knew someone would see this once I released the bitmaps. I don't have a lot of experience skinning, and it shows with how I set everything up. One thing I have learned about it all, is that you have to decide how much detail is important and where. As you can see by the current skins, this is something that I have been a bit indecisive about.

So, like I said, you have the option to re-UV map it. If you want to do this, please let me know and I will send you to a completed model with all the nodes and markers.

[Bad Waffle]

Wow, this model has me extremely impressed. i opened up the max file to see if i could fix anything, but its so well designed and implemented that it just blows me away. This is the inspiration for Hunter aerospace tech, from this point on.

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Wow, this model has me extremely impressed. i opened up the max file to see if i could fix anything, but its so well designed and implemented that it just blows me away. This is the inspiration for Hunter aerospace tech, from this point on.

Thanks, WOL. I appreciate the good words. I have some ideas running around in my head so if you need a design/model man for Hunter Aerospace, just let me know and we can pull something together that falls into the style and design language you are looking for.

BTW, If you look close enough, there are still unneeded poly's...I sealed all of the objects in the beginning, not knowing if I was going to use them for the collision model. Some items could be left with open edges since they are on the GBX model only. I plan on doing one more clean up before I send her out into the world for good.

[dg]

Just checking, but did you post this at Gearbox as well? It might draw some more attention to it, just in case.

I'm just trying to check out the quality of what the Halo CE community can churn out for this gorgeous model. :-)



~dg945~

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Yeah, I made a post with the same title over at GBX with a link to this page. It floated with posts for a few days then fell back. I'll probably bump it here in a few days with a reminder how much time is left. If anyone wants to bump it for me, I would appreciate it.

I posted for an ad on lifepod as well.

I know what you mean dg945, I am really hoping a professional quality skin will come out of this...

Filefront indicates 39 downloads, but I am sure some of them where simply out of curiosity.

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Less than five days left! Please post all contest submissions here! I look forward to seeing what everyone came up with.

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I will be away from the internet for the remainder of the year so I am posting submission rules now.

- please submit at least three different rendered views of your skinning job in this thread.

- please put together a zip file containing your fully skinned model plus any bitmaps/shaders you created for the Hoplite.

- upload the zip file to a file server (such as file front) and post the link to your uploaded file.

All submissions are due by midnight on New Year's Eve.

Good Luck!

Hope everyone has a great holiday and stays safe.

[rossmum]

The remainder of the year is like... 2-3 days your time?

[Stormwing]

so yeah. um. no posts at all? isn't this the entry thread? >>

I think i'm late..as is everyone else. I don't have the three views, and i don't know how many entries were allowed anyway, but whatever...i hurriedly threw this up since i'm awfully late anyway.

Pic:

Link:
http://files.filefront.com/stormshop.../fileinfo.html

I think mixing and matching the two could produce a better result, but idk. The base skin and UV is still yours anyway, cause it's just so freakin awesome