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Tornado GR-4
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Tornado GR-4 // Work in Progress
Post by Weevil // Dec 7, 2008, 12:21pm
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Well my "abandoned" WIP is going no-where, so while I'm waiting for divine inspiration, have another plane
I decided to do the Torndo. They're the native jet and on occassion come flying over the house, and now I've also taken the chance to get a little experimental with it and try to add a unique texture instead of my usual procedural material bodge jobbing I did for the Hornet.
Panelling (the bump map currently applied) turned out quite well, about an hour or so with a line tool and paintshop pro does wonders to an object
still got to do Landing gear and Cockpit
(Mistakes, Hopefully this list won't get longer)
1)Lights on both sides are green, forgot I used the copy tool
2) Panelling on the wings and seem to have vanished thanks to dodgy lighting
Enjoy, I will be updating this space as I do new things
As always, made in Truespace 6.6 |
Post by DesignDevil // Dec 7, 2008, 12:50pm
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Looks pretty cool - i like it. |
Post by tahnoak // Dec 7, 2008, 2:16pm
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Looks great Weevil. Not much more I can say about it. |
Post by RAYMAN // Dec 7, 2008, 2:52pm
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Thats realy cool and shows what could be done in Ts6.6 !:) |
Post by noko // Dec 7, 2008, 4:25pm
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Very awesome looking so far! |
Post by zwilson // Dec 7, 2008, 5:06pm
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Wow! Great model. |
Post by Nez // Dec 7, 2008, 10:58pm
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Looks great, as usual - I've always been a big Tornado fan and had a model kit of one years back which I eventually repainted in a Saudi desert colour scheme which looked pretty cool. Personally, I like the ADV (fighter) variant better as it looks a little sleeker than the Gr versions, but that's just me....
I know what you mean about using the line tool in PSP - I did the same thing for my MMC plane months back - difficulty is getting the right amplitude to make sure it doesn't look silly and making sure your maps don't distort too much so the lines end up where you want them!
Did you ever finish off the F4? |
Post by Weevil // Dec 8, 2008, 3:47am
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Alas Nez that fell on the backburner, it was just an uphill struggle from thereon in, as I made it as a tutorial I just didn't know what to do from there. But I've learned a trick or two from this plane so I'll hopefully start it back up. Maybe a "quick fix on making aircraft paintschemes"
thanks for all the feedback from everyone |
Post by parva // Dec 8, 2008, 4:40am
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really great modeled, I like it :) |
Post by MadMouse // Dec 8, 2008, 6:08am
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Very nice modelling Weevil. Now for some very nice textures eh??? |
Post by Weevil // Dec 8, 2008, 7:01am
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You know it, to start with I'll play around with a custom paintjob, and what I'll do to cheat is slam it on top of my Hornet texture, although the more parts the worse because it just takes so long.
Basica outline done, I can even add Noseart onto it
(nose art copyright Schattendorn)
I've now got to increase the image resolution so we can get in close to this thing without aliasing. And adding the decals, grime, dirt etc.
Enjoy |
Post by DblQt // Dec 8, 2008, 10:28am
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Nice. I'd love to see a wireframe. |
Post by Breech Block // Dec 8, 2008, 11:22am
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Great stuff, as usual, Weevil. |
Post by Weevil // Dec 8, 2008, 11:35am
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Thanks breech, got more done tonight, I can see where Madmouse gets his love of textures from, it's just so fun (until it gets boring, tweaking different places)
So here it is, and as per request, here's a wireframe (hidden line rendered so you can maek heads or tails of it)
Thanks to schattendorn again for the tail insignia, looking to use that in a couple of places, what I'v egot left to do is grubby up both the wings and transfer the hornet materials over, then make a cockpit so it doesn't look so shoddy.
Starting to look more like what its supposed to be eh?. 20,000 rivets flying in perfect formation |
Post by Weevil // Dec 8, 2008, 1:52pm
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One more quick update before I go to bed. Added my "hornet" material to the texture
Tricky parts left to do now, landing gear and cockpit. Should be interesting, and then I'll probably stop spamming left right and centre...
...then give it a week or two it'll appear in the gallery:rolleyes:
enjoy |
Post by TomG // Dec 9, 2008, 2:07am
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Looking good! Fun to see this one, I remember being out hill walking and one of these tearing overhead supersonic at low altitude, so that the shape of it flashed by before the awful noise roared in, and of course just generally seeing them now and again fly along valleys on the west coast of Scotland. Thanks for sharing the progress!
Tom |
Post by Weevil // Dec 9, 2008, 1:43pm
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Finals are up in the image gallery
enjoy, and thanks tom |
Post by Weevil // Dec 17, 2008, 11:32am
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Editing for a new paint scheme, doing a little more justice to the UV map and the artwork of the tail insignia and noseart kindly lent by schattendorn.
My odd choice of the Luftwaffe "forest" scheme (I don't know the official name, anyone please correct me) over the RAF is pretty simple, both RAF and Luftwaffe have this scheme (and the stock grey one) but I chose Luftwaffe because the base colour was nicer, and I'm getting the practice in for future planes. As we, the british don't have crazy things like this:
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/paintschemeref.jpg
This paint scheme also better shows the cockpit, and as a confession I still haven't got around to texturing a single one of them as can be seen from the rear view |
Post by tahnoak // Dec 17, 2008, 11:55am
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As always Weevil, superb job. Amazing... not really more I can say about it. |
Post by spyfrog // Dec 18, 2008, 11:36am
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I have a question - how do you texture such a complicated object as this?
I can't even get the texture right on my much simplier train that I made for a MMC for some months ago.
How do you do? Do you have any 3rd party plugins? |
Post by Weevil // Dec 18, 2008, 11:45am
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Stay Tuned spyfrog, I'll whip up something to show you, while it may not be a train, it should help |
Post by Dragneye // Dec 18, 2008, 12:20pm
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GReat job Weevil! |
Post by spyfrog // Dec 20, 2008, 1:23pm
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Stay Tuned spyfrog, I'll whip up something to show you, while it may not be a train, it should help
Wow Weevil - that sounds really interesting. I have never grasped how you do UV mapping and texturing in TS. :) |
Post by Weevil // Dec 20, 2008, 1:32pm
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hope this helps, second maprt will be the actual material itself (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?p=88881#post88881)
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=7389 |
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