AshuraDX

Maybe a little too much yellow.

might be dDo's lighting system , HDR Image-based Lighting and I can't load custom images in there so the lighting will allways be tinted , for the next shots I'll leave the background in

EDIT : Just one of my retarded Ideas.... there's an Astromech tag for the Xwing , right ? that bolts an astromech model to the Xwing , correct ?

what if we create an ST-Pilot and set him up like an Astromech and then bolt him to the ST via the Astromech tag ?

That way we could porbably achieve what @@Archangel35757 asked for

Fed the model and my maps to dDo , 20 minutes of messing around gave me this :

noticed major flaws in my current (probably 6th or 7th) AO bake... so back to baking AGAIN

I'd call this done , running out of ideas and reference material for details

yup , the new JA reborns could work pretty well I think , due to their bulky bodys , I think the generic JO reborn might be too skinny to match Skeletor

Calling the center piece done , don't see any purpose in adding more detail as this piece is rarely seen anyway

if you don't like the wires @@minilogoguy18 let me know and I'll remove them , but I think they add nicely to the model

EDIT :

@@minilogoguy18 , mind if I add a few 4 sided wires to the mesh ?  I'll make sure that weighting them wont be too much work and they'll stay a sepperate object you can just import in your scene

skinning wires like this seriously doesn't look good . they'll total at around 8 wires some might be made as alpha mapped planes

Anyway here's the current update

EDIT : added the wires/tubes

they currently use a single 128² texture and add 248 vertices to the model , including the 2 extra wires, not seen in this image, that are attached to the pilot cabin

Progress for today

it's a change that could be applied while keeping 99% oft the UV layout the same though , you could even use the existing topology and just by shrinking/moving a few edgeloops get the suggested shape

then just relax the UV chunk for the blaster and voila - i'll only commit those changes if @@minilogoguy18 likes the idea

Mesh changes are up to mini - I only take care of the texturing work

probably the eyes are a little too wide aswell

Work will be halted for this weekend, gf coming over

AT-ST Pilot Cabin by ashuradx on Sketchfab

a couple small adjustments , I'll call the cabin done

Got the Blasters & Cannons done

I also fixed some wierd noisy areas in my normal map resulting in smoother surfaces in some areas

I love substance designer, did I mention that before ?

calling the main cabin done - time to work at the guns

@@DT85 , I think @@Archangel35757 refers to the visible mirror effect in his ponytail

Shameless Doubleposting to bring you an update

Finished the top of the cabin and got some AO & curvature in the diffuse channel for now - will tackle the bottom tommorow , or actually today , afternoon.

Please note that the AO bake has some errors due to mirroring and such I didn't consider yet , so I got some cleaning up to do here and there

Mini got me to texture his AT-ST

here are some current WIP shots of the pilot cabin , so far I'm only working at a normal map in Substance Designer & Photoshop

Nope lacked the time to get to it , started that generic base mesh though but it didn't come very far

@ *phew* allready was afraid I was misstaken XD

must have been the angle , nice work !

But I think the nose mgiht need some slight adjustments there :

@ , where are you buddy ? Wasn't your Username on Gamefront Xu'an ?

@@Milamber, @@Scooper, @@DT85, @@Psyk0Sith:

 

According to Rich Whitehouse, "...GLM as a format only stores vertex normals... ...by default Noesis will only write per-vertex normals." "...Everything would be converted to vertex normals [from Noesis] when targeting GLM as the concept of smoothing groups doesn't exist in the [GLM] format itself."

 

So for now @@Milamber... use the vertex normals option. I honestly never looked into this area of the original source code-- as it didn't seem broken. @@DT85 (to my knowledge) has not had any issues with getting his models and normal maps looking proper in-game.

 

I will look into this area of the code to see what it is doing-- and if necessary... create an option to export vertex normals respecting smoothing groups (which it could be doing already and just mis-labeled).

 

Please post here to describe your issue, post screenshots of model and export options, etc. Thanks!!!

neither had I but I "explode" my smoothing groups before exporting , actually before rigging for Jedi Academy

something wierd is going on with that ear O.o , may I see the sculpt or get a better view of that ear (without hair) ?

ah I see , building OJK with rend2 atm - so far nothing exploded as expected I'll report any problems I run into that I can't fix with a quick search here

Did anybody write a guide on how to setup and use rend2 yet ?

couldn't find anything on my quick search and while I'm sure there have been posts containing pieces of information all over the place

would anybody mind writing a quick guide and post it under tutorials ?