Metal Gear Rex

solo

How about in a place you'd least expect such a monster like a tulip field or peaceful meadow.

iichiversii

How about in a place you'd least expect such a monster like a tulip field or peaceful meadow.

and paint the Rex pink and have flower power logos stencilled on the body

sh00ks

@ Liam: you know your MGS-stuff Have thouht of making a MG Ray one day, so maybe someday a nice MG stand off render will be reality.

As for your setting proposal: I'm game! The hangar has crossed my mind and already looked up some examples of weapons storage/launching facilities.
An exterior part of Shadow Moses also is a great idea, but I think Rex would look better in an enclosed envrioment...

As for your offer to help me: that would be great! And I can wait a month After all, I'm not in a hurry with this project and wan't to make it a masterpiece. What better then to collaborate with a master
Just let me know when you're up for it.

@ Solo: Never thought of that, but the huge contrast between object and enviroment in your proposal could work out epic! I will keep it in mind, maybe it would be a good starting point for me to learn instancing in TheaRender. Thx for your input!

@ iichiversii:
You never know, it could look absurdly awesome

olishea

@sh00ks said:

maybe it would be a good starting point for me to learn instancing in TheaRender.)

I can't tell you how easy it is. Just a couple of clicks and it's done!!

sh00ks

@ Oli: Gave it a try the other day and it's fairly easy indeed!

Finaly round up the fine lining and rounding corners
Spent some times applying materials in TR and come to discover that I had to properly set the UV's to use the more detailed textures.

So made some renders with basic/even materials

Still looking for the right textures and learning texture-techniquse to get them applied correctly with the help of SketchUV and Roadkill.

Also started working on the enviroment a bit already, starting of with an interior scene,kinda of a large military storage/resupply room. Have some nice ideas on this one

What you think?

Bryan K

Incredible!

I noticed you are showing pivot points and sliders. Are you creating this with SU Physics or something like it?

sh00ks

Thx dude!

As for the pivotpoints:
I made them with the intention to make this model a dynamic one.

I played with SketchyPhysics some time ago, but found it realy unstable, cause it crashed on me a lot. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or it's just real buggy.

But I don't realy know if there is another program that could do the same trick. When the time arrives, I'll have to dig into that.

It could take up to a year before making it dynamic, though. I started this model with the intention to learn stuff I didn't use/know yet, like (static) animation, detailed texturing/material use and, in the end, making it dynamic

novena

wow sh00ks!!! amazing work here... what are u using to render this one???

sh00ks

Thx Novena!!

I'm using TheaRender

EscapeArtist

Good stuff!

liam887

I started mocking up a hanger last night so will have some more this weekend.

Looking good

sh00ks

I started with one already, oh impatient me

Had some time on my hands the last couple of days and made some progress already.
So before you go modeling like crazy please check my progress

Just let me know what you think!

liam887

Right ok no point me starting I am far behind.

Send me the mode and I will take a section, maybe the roof and doors and work on them?

sh00ks

I just have to finish some ideas I have and then I'll send it your way, inlcuding some reference photo's from wich I'm working off.

Just judge the whole model then and improve what you think that could be better

liam887

@sh00ks said:

:thumb:

I just have to finish some ideas I have and then I'll send it your way, inlcuding some reference photo's from wich I'm working off.

Just judge the whole model then and improve what you think that could be better

sounds good

sh00ks

A quick post of the progress:

As you could see, I started with the Mech Hangar. Thought it would be a quick job, but it turned out as a project on it's own

Because I don't have a clear thought on the camera angles I want the shot to render from, I build almost every seeable corner in quite some detail.
Also because I'm a perfectionist and don't know when enough is enough, especialy regarding detailing

But we keep on learning and in this model it is UV-mapping, texture and material usage and , dirtmapping and lighting.
The last one is still a conundrum to me, but I'm starting to see the light

Here some build shots

And here some UV-mapping and texturing results

It's is starting to look something when rendering
Just hoping the filesize won't bite me in the arse when nearing the end...I'm at 30% and filesize is 37 mb already

adamovita

Wow! The Metal Gear Rex looks awesome, and the Hangar's looking good as well. Keep 'em coming.

sh00ks

Thx Adamovita!

The project is at it’s end

The Hangar is finished

I had some more ideas on the hangar, but file size and the more frequent appearance of SU bugs in the model (draw a line > bug > wtf) hold me back
Nevertheless, I’m pretty damn happy with the outcome!

See the gallery for the renders with Rex Click Me

Thank you all for your feedback on this WIP!

Bryan K

The hanger scenes are looking great.