what do you think

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:45 am

so I've been messing with Blender, reading tutorials. I didn't know how fantastic this program really was. I suggest for everyone to use blender. Once you get used to the controls, its the best free 3d modellings program I have ever used. Also, its capabilities are amazing, especially for free. Like 3d animation, and render to AVI. and stuff like. I was just amazed. anyways heres my first model I have ever made, its unfinished.

Its a raccoon, it will be more noticeable once I texture it and add the eyes, Im still messing with the pixar looking eyes, i will add those later, This might be for a game, or a 3d animation.

NOTICE: I still need to clean it up a bit.

jam · Post by **jam** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:34 am

It's a very nice model.

area51 · Post by **area51** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:23 am

Yes very good.

I think it needs to be wielding a meaty looking Gatling gun.

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Racing dynamics

boboS · Post by **boboS** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:36 pm

Can you make it dance ?

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:32 pm

nice! it needs a cigar with that gatling gun

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:29 am

I'm having trouble texturing it... Is there anybody out there that would so kindly explain an easier way to texture this model. I finished it all except for the eyes, and, well I tried doing the UV MAPPING on it for texture, and well I realised, that this model is going to be incredible hard to texture with UV Mapping, any easier ways?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:31 am

oh yeah

Eternl Knight · Post by **Eternl Knight** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:33 am

I cannot think of any way EASIER than UV mapping for texturing myself. Given that you are already usinig Blender - why not try the LSCM uvmapping functionality? It may not make the best layout straight off, but it will make a decent one with a little effort. Like most things - the more effort applied to UV Mapping the object - the better the result. LSCM just makes it a little easier.

--EK

needforhint · Post by **needforhint** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:58 pm

unwrap might do

omaremad · Post by **omaremad** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:53 pm

nice model, i hope thats subdevide on becuase if that is the actual mesh with subdevide off then it would be too much polies

any way this is how i do it

enter blender and select uv face mode

select head polygons then click on the editing tab(f9 i think on the tool bar)
see the uv calc tab open it up

use spherical mapping for the head

cylinderical for the arms and legs

and lscm for the body

Blendolino · Post by **Blendolino** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:21 am

Hey Dude, if that is your first character i would say you got the hang of character moddeling. It has some "character" even untextured. But what about the polycount? Can you show us a wireframe?

About the uv-mapping. Cylindermap the limbs. For the head you pin some corner-uvs after cylindermapping and LSCM unwrap it subsequently. Then drag and scale for even spacing.
You prolly want a separate texture for the face. If you watched your polycount, you could use SYMBIONT BLENDER Darktree textures as procedurals and bake them via Python script uv-baker. They look really good on renderings but baking will need some tweaking.

Please post at least a picture when finished. Thumbs up!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:15 am

thanks, I appreciate the nice feedback, thanks for the uv mapping advice, I'm not exactly sure how many polys it has but it is low poly... It doesn't look good without subdivide on, So im probably going to make a small 3d animation in blender, I might shape the plain poly model for a small game with irrlicht. I'm not sure yet.

Welp, here it is...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:12 am

do any of you know, how I would add material to certain selected faced in an object, or can materials only be applied to the object as a whole...?

pfo · Post by **pfo** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:39 pm

a material can be applied to a mesh buffer, and that mesh buffer can contain any number of faces. Each mesh can contain any number of mesh buffers, so for each mesh you can only have 1 material for each mesh buffer. If you want a material on a certain face, you need a separate buffer for it.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:10 pm

sweet with those arms it's now a flying squrrel... erm racoon I mean yes thats it?

http://images.google.com/images?q=racco ... rch+Images