Rocks again

pilou · 28 Sept 2010, 10:53

Dreaming island

ken28875 · 28 Sept 2010, 11:45

Really nice rock, Michalis!

You mentioned you rendered it in Sketchup with Podium, right? How did you import the textured model back to Sketchup?

Have a great day!

_KN

michaliszissiou · 28 Sept 2010, 18:00

@richard: another reason to visit terra incognita
@ross macintosh, thanks, diver is a good idea but not the right scale I'm afraid. Here's my version, I'm not sure he'll survive
@Pilou Merci Pilou
@ken thanks, imported as 3ds, use any app you like. Just have in mind to name the textures with less than eight letters! and have them in same dir with the ***.3ds file. Unfortunately 64k tris is the limit for a single mesh. Blender for example exports a very clean 3ds and never had a problem. In fact SU can handle these models easier than some of its own. I have a theory on this but I'm not sure. Bad topology leads to messed UVs...
http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/blender-to-sketchup-a-workaround-for-texturing-organic-shapes/

mateo soletic · 28 Sept 2010, 18:42

Great work Michalis.

Richard · 28 Sept 2010, 22:52

@michaliszissiou said:

In fact SU can handle these models easier than some of its own. I have a theory on this but I'm not sure. Bad topology leads to messed UVs...

Hmmm? Now that's something interesting!

michaliszissiou · 29 Sept 2010, 11:27

OK, you have permissions to use this Low poly rock as you wish. Have fun.
I made some improvement on textures, I baked some AO. Lo-poly rocks aren't easy.
@richard
Multiply it as many times, rotate resize etc, do some scene and notice the performance of SU.

lodef_rock.skp.zip

Richard · 29 Sept 2010, 14:20

Wow mate I think your theory might well have some strong basis! Over 100 copies all over the place and all still nearly fine while naving!

teofas · 29 Sept 2010, 14:24

Heres my try, thx very much for sharing this great rocks, i love them!!!
about the tree i know it dosent looks good, ill take it away..(thx michalis for the feedback)

michaliszissiou · 29 Sept 2010, 14:38

WOW, is these my rocks?
Thanks teofilo. Sprays are too much for this calm water, they should look more as a line, you know.
@Richard: 100 copies? wow. I may be right, I really don't know, just noticed this. The use of 1024x1024 tex does help here. A 2048x2048 is heavier but 4096 ? . Square textures you see. It helps too.

Update for kerky and thea lovers
Use this map as "tangent normal map", you all know how, don't you? Please NEVER convert it to B&W bump, it doesn't work like this.
Update#2
If you like to use displacement here's the map. Its not working as a bump!

solo · 29 Sept 2010, 21:41

Cool stuff as always mate.

Quick render with tree

pilou · 30 Sept 2010, 17:45

Another Gaudi style

michaliszissiou · 30 Sept 2010, 21:04

@pete: how did this tree grow up there? LOL
Nice render, you could use some displacement on the rock.
@pilou: it looks good, its too small. The only way to hack texture is from edit texture palette due to UVs. These particular UVs aren't seamless though, lot of islands. Zbrush - UVmaster plugin can produce a one island non-stretching almost seamless UV map. I didn't use it here trying to avoid a 2048x2048 map. Uvs using 3DCoat here as sculpture, topology and tex painting.

michaliszissiou · 2 Oct 2010, 14:31

Some improvement in rocks modeling, I suppose so.
No pp, conversion from hdr to jpg only. A raw podium v2 export 1.30 min.

michaliszissiou · 2 Oct 2010, 17:25

beautiful scene ross !!! Similar ideas here LOL
You need a higher definition model though, and a 2048x2048 version of the rock texture. I'm thinking to start a series of people by the sea, not so easy for low poly versions. Easier than the rocks. My last one is the first that doesn't look smooth

EarthMover · 2 Oct 2010, 17:30

Michalis, I would love to see you make a Landscape Boulder collection. These are just great!!

Ross Macintosh · 2 Oct 2010, 17:42

Thanks Michalis for sharing the lowdef rock. I had fun playing with it. My image features Alan Fraser's little girl from the FormFonts collection and is rendered using the beta of the new Render[In] plugin. Its sky generator is one of its best features.

Regards, Ross

EarthMover · 2 Oct 2010, 19:50

Thanks Michalis! Unfortunately Mediafire won't spit out the download file for me. I click the download link and just get a bunch of pop up ads, but no prompt to save a file. I'll try in a different browser and see if that helps.

EDIT - Working with Google Chrome. Thanks again!

pilou · 2 Oct 2010, 19:57

@Michalis Thx for explanations

michaliszissiou · 2 Oct 2010, 20:45

Thanks earthmother
If you like to download it try this. Its a free model of course, use it as you like.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2eaeln7e7rc9vmc

michaliszissiou · 2 Oct 2010, 20:45

I updated the link, please try again, sorry.