[Krallis]

Autodesk Softimage XSI Mod Tool

A fantastic bit of kit that I think surpasses Max.
Mind you I learnt modelling with XSI so max is kind of different for me.

[Nuke]

Mav I know 7's free
 
3 just feels right, I supplement it with lithwrap. I model all the major features and use max to 'polish it off' one day I may even release something.

i think the best turespace was 6.5. 7 seemed too slow, too bloated, and didnt really add anything useful for modeling. it also had a pretty good uv editor (though not as good as the one in max). you could also uv map in ts4, but it was hard as hell.

[ragingloli]

Cinema 4d R11 with Bodypaint 3d and Photoshop.

[skygunner58203]

I tend to use Truespace 3.2 and Blender.  Tho i'm still learning blender, and i can't UV map or texture to save my life.  But i'm great at low poly models.  Its just the other stuff i have trouble with.  btw, any help on that kind of stuff is greatly appreciated.

[Mav]

Mav I know 7's free
 
3 just feels right, I supplement it with lithwrap. I model all the major features and use max to 'polish it off' one day I may even release something.

i think the best turespace was 6.5. 7 seemed too slow, too bloated, and didnt really add anything useful for modeling. it also had a pretty good uv editor (though not as good as the one in max). you could also uv map in ts4, but it was hard as hell.

Well, at least I got the impression that the Booleans work better in tS7 workspace... though one has to take care not loosing textures by switching between model- and workspace + booleanizing , if one already does have textures applied.

I also recently started re-doing my Jalkehi's uv-map in tS7, and so far it works nice... though my try at uvmapping the Aurora got ground to a halt because of the way I modeled it's cockpit made it somewhat impractical to be uvmapped ... I'll have to try again another time, though.

[Nuke]

booleaning is a cheap way of doing stuff. i dont even use them in max. in max you can attach, and if desired, clean up the seam manually (and sometimes theres no point and it would just add polies).

[Thaeris]

Boolean operations aren't necessarily cheap, but they do require one thing: tact.

Every program is different, and the performance of the boolean operations for each are imaginably unique to the respective program. I find the most effective operation in AC3D to be the "knife" operation whilst making a backup of the original cut section so as to ensure the accuracy of the new cut. Then it's a matter of cleaning up the cut area: re-combining surfaces, deleting extraneous verticies, etc. When I'm done, the results are perfect, but it takes a little effort to get there. Personally, I like booleans as they enable my perfectionism to work, albeit with maybe just a bit more effort.

Practically applying subdivisions, now, is an art!

[pecenipicek]

Practically applying subdivisions, now, is an art!

THE TRUTH!





****ing sudivisions...

[Thaeris]

I actually did that for the first time with that "chocolate chunk of DEATH" I uploaded to the "Sandwich" thread. As I've said, "upping" the organic curvature with subdivisions, committing the subdivision, and then reducing that curvature with a polygon reducing tool can work wonders if done properly. Then, spend a few minutes cleaning the mesh up, and you can have a pretty cool result. Apply subdivisions again, and you'll have a beautifully organic model.

 

[pecenipicek]

i think its easier with a "crumple" tool, basically, you select some vertices, hit the crumple, and it randomizes each vertex position in relation to its current position and the position of the polygon object itself.

[Thaeris]

Depends on the program you have. AC3D might have such a feature, but I'm not aware of it if it does.

[pecenipicek]

Cinema4D


also... that model of yours sucks

as a basic shape from which to extrapolete further, its fine, however, its rather horridly... overpolied so to say.



[edit] here's a quickie. made from a very crumpled crapheap of a model (67k polys), rendered out to a normal map with xNormal, and applied to a 72 polygon sphere.





yes, and i am very much aware that it looks more like a crumpled ****ball than anything else.

[Thaeris]

Wow!... 

That was a bit rude, I must say.

Which one? There were two models in there. I'm aware there wasn't too much effort put into those, but it is a space cookie... of doom. 

[pecenipicek]

as i said, the shape of your chocolate chip was ok, but it needed much more optimisation and less polies.


and the ****ball comment was at how mine looked.





and... LET LOOSE THE SPACE COOKIES OF DOOM!

[Thaeris]

Maybe it's one of those Frech truffle things? 

[pecenipicek]

nothing is flaking off of it, but it could be, it could be xD