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    • david_hD Offline
      david_h
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      ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

      If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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        paul j
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        %(#0000BF)[Thanks Paul for posting your style - just downloaded it and will give it a go shortly.
        A bit of experimenting and hopefully get the same effect

        Thanks again]

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          tomislavm
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          Only one word Respect!
          This is the best collection I have ever seen, beautiful!

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            shareck
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            The texturing of King Tiger has started. Here's a sneak preview of what its going to be.
            textured.jpg

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              Phil Rader AIA
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              Speechless...these tanks are awesome. Sketchup and the talents of it's users never ceases to amaze me.

              http://www.philrader.com

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                remus
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                A quick clay render of the ford 3 ton:

                http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3435/3348939773_b0a08878e6.jpg

                Im a sucker for clay renders of good models.

                http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                • Bryan KB Offline
                  Bryan K
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                  Uh...uh.... ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                  See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                    shareck
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                    The King Tiger is now textured completely. I will post some renders later. For the moment have a look at partially finished model rendered in kerkythea. The bump map needs a lot of tweaking cos it looks crappy.
                    king 4.jpg

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                      tomislavm
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                      How did You made this texture!

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                        shareck
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                        Hello again. Thanks for the kind words. The texture for king tiger i painted in photoshop. I used the right RAL colours that has been used on these panzers from 1944. Paintbrushed green and red/brown patches over the dark yellow base. Then added some darkening where needed and lots of dirt using some dirt brushes found on deviantart. i made texture for left side, right side, top of the hull, top of the turret, rear of the tank, front of it, bottom hull sides, bottom of the tank and the gun barrel. These textures were projected on to apropriate parts of the tank. the most dificult part was to match the top texture to the side texture. I'm gonna make these proper renders soon but for now you can see some SU renders ๐Ÿ˜„
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                          oalexis
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                          really nice texturing

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                            Teezer
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                            You're a man with a lot of patience and an eye for detail, sir. I salute you!Salute.gifNot Worthy.gif

                            Real life is just another website, albeit a rather boring one.

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                              tomislavm
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                              Me again!
                              How big texture You use?
                              How big tank model is?
                              Thanks!

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                                shareck
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                                texture size ranged from 1200 pixels wide to 2400 pixels wide. the model without textures with copied components weights 7mb. with the textures and many of the components exploded its 26 mb.

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                                  edmund
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                                  Opened and just hit the render button using Podium.


                                  20090313133933_3m48s.jpg

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                                    free agent
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                                    amazing amazing amazing, dont know why i didnt click on this thread sooner, i want to see a hardcore scene with that Panzer that Silvershadow was talking about... brilliant ๐Ÿ‘

                                    http:i167.photobucket.comalbumsu143FreeAgent84bug.gif

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                                      rombout
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                                      @shareck said:

                                      Thanks for all the comments.
                                      The lowest poly model here would be the T-34 with 290175 edges and 113783 faces. I was aiming at small file size which is only 2,8mb. The king tiger so far has 850214 edges and 338435 faces.
                                      It's not difficult to make these track links. Each link is quite simple in shape and than you just need to copy it along a path.
                                      I only use standard SU tools. Only plugins i have installed are Sketchyphysics and Kerkythea exporter. The only plugin i'd wish to use is subdivide&smooth by smustard.
                                      All these models are done by me just as a hobby. I'm not a military enthusiast, i was just learning sketchup and i couldn't find an interesting topic. I came across some tank model in the 3d warehouse and wanted to do a tank myself. Before i finished my first one i already knew that i'll be doing another one. I find some strange joy in these machines.
                                      If anyone wants to use these models for rendering, animations, texturing or anything they're in the 3d warehouse (all except KV1 and King Tiger). Just search for the tag "shareck".
                                      There is only one pic of Abrams in the first post so i'm posting some more below:
                                      [attachment=5:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia5 -->abram1.jpg<!-- ia5 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]
                                      [attachment=4:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia4 -->abram2.jpg<!-- ia4 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]
                                      [attachment=3:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia3 -->abram3.jpg<!-- ia3 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]
                                      [attachment=2:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia2 -->abram4.jpg<!-- ia2 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]
                                      [attachment=1:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia1 -->abram5.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]
                                      [attachment=0:1ap85rzk]<!-- ia0 -->abram6.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1ap85rzk]

                                      how in gods name did you made those surfaces without any plugin... thats hardly undo able

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                                        tomislavm
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                                        What computer did You have for that big model?

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                                          shareck
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                                          Well. The only surfaces that are hard to make without any plugin would be the shapes of the cast turrets (t-34, t-62, sherman). Those are kinda organic shapes that cannot be done with the follow me tool and this is why they're either low poly or non accurate. Everything else is quite easy to achieve. It's mostly straight lines and "follow me".
                                          I'm not working in design studio or anything like that so my computer at work is a simple, dated office pc - P4, integrated video card, 480mb RAM ๐Ÿ˜„. So you can see that i must have some patience. At home it's not much better. Still pentium4, 2gb ram and a proper graphic card. But i'm ok with that as long as i hide the layers i'm not working on.

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                                            silver_shadow
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                                            looks like i'm back in the production line of comments again (been a bit busy). First things first, great job on the models (10 stars), you really got a sharp eye for detail. Seems like you are starting your own virtual war hee hee. I always wanted to build a tank, even if it was only a plastic model.Now one can be inspired by these models if they want to build a tank one day and use these as reference images. This is truly inspiring to those who think Sketchup is still a light weight box building tool only to be used for Google earth. I see more and more heavy duty artists creep out of their shell and show off the capabilities of Sketchup. IDEA: You should build a scene, where a tank stands in the debris, ruined buildings and lots of loose and blown up stuff lying around. Could be really fun. But again, well done, it is truly something beautiful to look at.

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