BA-64B Soviet Armored Car

[Chuggi]

Thx

I'm discovering the power of ambient oclusion in max
It gives deep to the models and make's it look nice
plus other tricks - like paint scratches and dirt (made with grunge brushes) and my textures looks better than year ago

I'm going to have to look for this ambient occlusion, I've never heard of it before. I've only really used feathered and solid brushes in Photoshop, so I'll have to experiment and try out some of the others.

Also, I agree with strategy that it might be a little dark in the first screenshot. It might not be the texture though, it could be the material properties or the lighting in the NIF.

This is what I always use for the material properties for custom units:

The material properties don't usually export well from 3ds Max, so I change it in Scene Viewer afterwards.

 

[asioasioasio]

Thx for hint

Yes i also think it's a matter of light rather than texture
Thx for hint - I'll use it in the future.

About ambient occlusion - it gives nice and mild shades, and more deep on the texture (i now unwrap model an than render AO to texture) that i would normally would try to paint (i paint only when i want to accent something more - the AO is good base to make it)

I used this tutorial
http://everflow.com/support/tutorials/AO/Everflow_AmbientOcclusion1.html

I discover this option recently, but i'm using it a lot right now

 

[Chuggi]

Cool, thanks it might save some time in texturing. I've heard about people "baking" the light onto the texture, so this is probably a similar thing. I'll try the tutorial out and get back to you.

 

[asioasioasio]

Yeah it's similliar thing.
I tried to bake also shadows. Tough i didn't figured out well light and shadow yet (the result isn't fully what i want to get ), so i draw overall shadow and lights by hand. But with good setup it would save some time too and would give exrta specularity/3D/shadows

 

[Chuggi]

I got some good results on my explorers, and some of my spearmen.

There is one thing though, when I skinned the models I mirrored parts of the uvw to save room on the texture, but it messes up where the shadows are supposed to go.

 

[asioasioasio]

Yeah I have sometimes this problem - the first one it was with BA-64B - it has light only on the right side of the car. When i made in first attempt mirrored - the trace of lamp was also available on the side wich should be clear . The minus of AO is that it uses more space on the texture, but i think it's worthy of it

Can you show the screenshots before and after?

 

[Chuggi]

This one probably turned out the best:

 

[asioasioasio]

Yeah it looks nicer now (more 3D) - it gives nice result

 

[Chuggi]

Behind the cape especially pity you can't see it much though.

 

[TheJopa]

Nice model, I especially like the Cyrillic writings on it - Za Stalina!

 

[asioasioasio]

Behind the cape especially pity you can't see it much though.

lol

Nice model, I especially like the Cyrillic writings on it - Za Stalina!

Thanx

 

[General Tso]

Thanks asioasioasio, for the great unit. It just what I was looking for.

 

[Healz]

What about reskinning it to a captured German version. As far as I remember the Germans tended to use a lot of different equipment captured from various sources as well as what they produced themselves. Therefore it could be interesting to have a German version of this as I do remember seeing it somewhere. I would reskin if I could but I can't. A reskinned version would be good for a WWII scenario. Any chance that with a script you can give the player some limited control over what equipment gets turned into German equipment... Ie. linked to the enemy technology and yours, so that you would need a tech like 1942-43 tanks to be able to get a captured T-34 in German markings. Should be a menu like Build Cue to give you some limited control over what equipment you get. Should be much more limited in case of US and Britain and perhaps Russia as I have only come across about 2 examples of captured equipment as opposed to a lot for Germany and the Axis...