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Finally, yesterday I found time to finish retopo. I'm also almost done with peparation of bake cages, so I will be posting a baked result shortly. :)

I will be baking normal map to a 8k texture, but target resolution will probably be 4k, with 8k being used for painting only.

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Thanks Gary. I reduced retopo mesh to about 56k tris. Anything less would probably lead to surface loosing its smoothness. I had to apply thickness to some of the objects, like battery compartment doors or undercarriage

metal covers to name a just a few, so it effectively doubled their polycount.

There are also many elements inside the battery compartment.

It is true that light bulbs have it's significant share in polycount (8k tris in total). this is because of very irregular shape of their stems. I left it in the mesh because I might want to render the bulbs with with refraction and physical lighting in Mantra sometime in the future. I can always remove the stems anytime, as they use up very little UV space.

Anyway, the starship is a "hero" model that needs to keep its relatively smooth curvature on close ups, so I can't really reduce its polycount further without triangle hunting. :)

PS. Regarding distribution of light bulbs, I had to cheat my way through in Houdini because the process in 3DC was too convoluted and buggy. I would have to spend hours on something I did in five minutes. http://3dcoat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19177

PPS. Sorry for any mistakes. I was typing this on a phone.

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AJ that is a very interesting angle indeed.  What are you using to render?

 

I finally uploaded my tin toy to sketchfab but I had to merge my painted layers in order for this to work.  In the process of doing so I lost the metal edging for some reason.  anyways I will work on figuring out why this is at a later date and upload a 2.0 version.  But for now this is what I have.

https://sketchfab.com/models/3a1d51afc73a4e71b4c968f841c2f151

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AJ that is a very interesting angle indeed. What are you using to render?

I'm using Marmoset Toolbag.

I finally uploaded my tin toy to sketchfab but I had to merge my painted layers in order for this to work. In the process of doing so I lost the metal edging for some reason. anyways I will work on figuring out why this is at a later date and upload a 2.0 version. But for now this is what I have.

https://sketchfab.com/models/3a1d51afc73a4e71b4c968f841c2f151

Oh boy, what an excellent work! Good show! :clapping:  Did you recreate those decals from scratch or did you "salvage" them from photos? Decals are the next step on my checklist.

Why exactly did you have to merge your paint layers?

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I'm halfway through creating base materials and some masks:

 

apollo_wip_texturing2.jpg?dl=1

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AJ the decals were all hand painted in 3d coat.  They were pretty simple shapes so I used things like the circle, spline, and rectangle lasso to fill in the decals. I then layered the different layers of paint and color according to my reference image.  My Tin Toy just made Staff PIck on Sketchfab. That's pretty cool and unexpected.  I still need to figure out why my metals are not responding properly on export but overall I'm pretty happy with the result. 

 

AJ your render looks like I could reach in and grab it.  I am super impressed with how realistic and detailed your model is.  Great Work!

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Thanks for your kind words, Blaster. :)
I'm not sure what exactly problem you're facing with the metallic map, but if it somehow is related to exporting textures then try the new Export Constructor that ships with 4.5.35. You can pack your channels however you want, just like in Substance Painter. It rocks!

Congratulations on receiving a Staff Pick award! Awesome news! :drinks:

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Yeah baby! "Spacewalker's" body is done. Please don't pay attention to his head as it is still a work-in-progress. Of course there are no dust, dirt and oxidation layers yet.

 

apollo_wip_texturing3.jpg?dl=1

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Thanks for your kind words, Blaster. :)

I'm not sure what exactly problem you're facing with the metallic map, but if it somehow is related to exporting textures then try the new Export Constructor that ships with 4.5.35. You can pack your channels however you want, just like in Substance Painter. It rocks!

Congratulations on receiving a Staff Pick award! Awesome news! :drinks:

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Yeah baby! "Spacewalker's" body is done. Please don't pay attention to his head as it is still a work-in-progress. Of course there are no dust, dirt and oxidation layers yet.

 

apollo_wip_texturing3.jpg?dl=1

 

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@Blaster, I've noticed that you managed to fix those problems with your metallic layer in Sketchfab. Good show! Now it's perfect!

 

I'm finishing up the decals on the model now, and tomorrow I'll be wrapping it up so I might be posting some final renders by the evening.

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Emailed him allready haahhaahahahahahhhaahaahh

BTW, Masudaya, the creator of the tin toy I'm curently modelling, seems to be a real legend in the toy market. According to Wikipedia, this Japanese company is a "leading builder of mechanical and battery operated toys in the post WWII era. Unlike most of their competitors, this company has managed to survive to this day, in part due to their involvement in the early days of the airsoft boom, during the early 1980s.". Cool.

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Thats awsome that they are still in business.   I was looking for some information on my tin toy but I could not find anything with some quick google searching.  I will dig in deeper when I get some more time.    I'm Looking forward to seeing your final render.  Keep up the good work.

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Is it possible to embed Marmoset Viewer scene into a gallery?

Not atm, sorry

but...

 

Embedding on Your Website

Marmoset Viewer content can be added to your website or portfolio as well; however, this will require a bit of HTML knowledge and full FTP access to your web server.

The easiest way to add Marmoset Viewer to your website is with an iframe tag which allows you to link to a separate .html file, in this case a page that contains your Marmoset Viewer scene. When exporting your scene, make sure that .html export is on, and that Full Frame is enabled, to ensure that Marmoset Viewer will fill the space of your iframe.

After you’ve exported your .mview and .html files, upload them to your website via FTP. Then copy the following bit of code into your page, replace yourscene1.html with the url to your .html file, set the height and width, and you’re done.

<iframe src=”yourscene1.html” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”432” width=”720”></iframe>

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Not atm, sorry

but...

 

Embedding on Your Website

Marmoset Viewer content can be added to your website or portfolio as well; however, this will require a bit of HTML knowledge and full FTP access to your web server.

The easiest way to add Marmoset Viewer to your website is with an iframe tag which allows you to link to a separate .html file, in this case a page that contains your Marmoset Viewer scene. When exporting your scene, make sure that .html export is on, and that Full Frame is enabled, to ensure that Marmoset Viewer will fill the space of your iframe.

After you’ve exported your .mview and .html files, upload them to your website via FTP. Then copy the following bit of code into your page, replace yourscene1.html with the url to your .html file, set the height and width, and you’re done.

<iframe src=”yourscene1.html” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”432” width=”720”></iframe>

Yeah, it can be embedded into virtually any site. Our team uses it with DokuWiki, for example.

I think it would greatly benefit 3D-Coat's gallery if it supported Marmoset Viewer.

 

That's some stunning final images. Good work.

Hey thanks, Gary.

I think I overdid the post in PS and lost some of the details, so I'm not too happy about the final images, but I don't have any steam left to work on this asset anymore. I'm currently rendering several angles in a path-tracer and the next thing I will do is to burn the project's directory on a BRD and put it in on a shelf. :D

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