Fee Co. Rail Engine
Hi there,
I've decided to model the Fee Co. Rail Engine, from Abe's Exoddus, for a portfolio piece. I'll update this thread with my progress as I make it. Latest progress: |
Watch, this will go unfinished.
Good luck anyways. |
I look forward to proving you wrong ;)
If anyone knows of any other people who have modelled or attempted to model this train, a link to the thread would be appreciated :) |
No one who has posted their progress but I think there are images, please don't tell me you need help?
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Na, I scanned the relevant pages from the art book.
I was just curious to see if anyone else had tried modelling it, based on the first response I got to this thread ;) |
FC has a terrible history of unfinished projects.
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It sadly does. Let's see if you can be a first.
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that will be pretty tricky :) good luck
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So here's the concept art and a render of what I have done so far. I can see a few things I need to fix, and there's obviously a fair bit missing.
I seem to have caught a cold, and spent most of the day next to a heater, so I didn't get much done... Hopefully I'll make decent progress tomorrow. This is going to be a lot of work... :D CHECK OP FOR UPDATES |
If you got this far, I doubt it will go unfinished.
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Yay +1 internets :D
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looks really good. I'm a bit envy because my high poly modelling skills suck :P
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Wait... if you're using it for a portfolio, doesn't it kinda require you to have original art?
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Depends on the line of work, but in the case of a 3D modelling portfolio it's probably more the technical proficiency that's being showcased.
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What's original these days, anyway? As far as unoriginal originality, Oddworld is as original as you can get... As for progress on the model, I was a bit slack today, and the phallus on the head of the thing was giving me grief. |
I was thinking in terms of copyright and such... But what do I know... X_x
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It's non-profit so it should be fine, so long as he acknowledges all the sources.
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Updated the OP with the latest progress. I might power into this tomorrow and get the modelling finished. Then the fun of the low poly and texturing begins... :/
Ready to start on something else. I'm thinking about making part of the Fee Co. Depot next. Will be a good scene to show off the train in. |
What a sexy model, keep it up man!
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This is looking pretty good so far.
please please PLEASE finish it. |
So, boy have I been slack these last few days...
I've put up my latest progress, and I'm just about done with the high poly. Just need to add the last of the details and then a lot more rivets and bolts etc and then I can finally move on! |
Damn, that looks pretty good!
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Wow, this looks great so far. It looks very accurate compared to the original concept art, good luck in finishing it.
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I have basically finished the high poly, but it was 30 million tris (that's a lot), so I've been optimising it and I have it down to about 10 million. 2x turbosmooth might be nice for a gun or something, but definitely not something of this scale :P
EDIT: So there you go. High poly done, well as much as I'm prepared to do, and that my computer can handle... Now for the low poly and texturing... This has taken longer than I thought it would. |
really great work skibur :D looking forward to the textured version
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If you're going all out crazy you might want to make a platform as well!!!
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Ha! I've thought about making both, but I haven't even finished this thing completely yet, and when I do I will probably be quite over it ;)
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I can understand that.
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Very nice work!! Going to make an excellent portfolio piece. Would you mind uploading a wireframe of the model?
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I'm just finishing off the last part of the low poly and unwrapping now. I'll post everything, including wires, when I finish the texturing.
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Looks like I can't edit the OP any more, so I'll post the latest right here!
Here's a shot of the low poly with normal and ambient occlusion maps, the same with wireframe overlay, and the beginnings of a diffuse texture! The wires show that quite a few parts aren't as optimised as they could be, but I see this as probably being a pretty important part of a game environment, the player might even ride on it at some point, so I think the detail is necessary. Normal and AO map need some manual fixing, and the diffuse is going to need a lot of love, but I'm excited to get this finished and looking great! I'm loving this thing so much. :D |
That is incredible! Oddworld should hire you for there HD Remakes. :)
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Nice job. Edge flow looks fine to. Perhaps those doors could have been as stand alone objects instead of cutouts in the actual main body? Unless you want them to open ofcourse :). Looking forward to seeing the final texture.
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Could you give some highpoly wireframes?
Btw. I see some baking errors on normal maps :P |
The doors are stand alone and yes, there are unfortunately plenty of baking errors that I need to fix up...
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Wow, though. It's looking amazing.
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Looking great! Keep it up!
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That... That's pretty damn awesome looking.
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Looking good! :D
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