WIP: M3A1 Tank for 1944: D-Day

[hERd]

Hi. My current WIP is M3A1 Tank for 1944: D-Day
Working currently as trial member.

 

[Ravioli]

looks good, but a bit Low-Poly, but thats good so you get good framerates, i always tend to make stuff to high poly so i cant import it to games.

Im sure its going to be a great model!

 

[Useful Dave]

M3 Sux (Models Good though ).. ..What about the Churchill AVRE? , The Crocodile? , The Sherman DD? , The DUKW?!

 

[hERd]

M5, M53, T26E3, M24 will follow

 

[hERd]

Update:

 

[crackhead]

nice. where can you find references for tanks?

 

[hERd]

Dunno. The blueprint was scanned from the book.

 

[crackhead]

what book?

 

[hERd]

Dunno mate, some encyclopedia I quess. It was scanned by some researcher in the team.

 

[crackhead]

oh right ok.

 

[mindless_moder]

tank blueprint arent that hard to find ... are you looking for one in particular?

 

[crackhead]

yes. a sexy one.

 

[Useful Dave]

Why none of Hobarts Funnys?!

 

[crackhead]

please translate that into a language i can understand

 

[Useful Dave]

....-.-...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hobart's_Funnies

 

[Dodo]

http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/tank/M1.gif
reference !

-dodo

 

[hERd]

2 Useful Dave
Nice link, thx.

 

[mindless_moder]

meh ... http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1a1-line.gif

 

[crackhead]

great refence mindless.

 

[armanguy]

the model looks great!

 

[mikeandike22]

i think the reference mindless has is for a newer tank...since this is a ww2 mod im assuming the tank is an m1 sherman tank that pic is wat i think is a m1a1 tank introduced around the time of desert storm i could be wrong but just w/e.

 

[armanguy]

thats exaclty what i was thinkin y would they be givin him modern day tanks?

 

[crackhead]

he was giving it to me. and i just wanted a tank not neccercerily a ww2 tank. i want to model a tank.

 

[mindless_moder]

i was just trying to match dodo's sugestion with a better ref. i realise that it isnt a ww2 tank.

 

[hERd]

Moving toward the end:

 

[Ravioli]

Looks good! What program are you using?

 

[armanguy]

wow that looks awesome!

 

[hERd]

Looks good! What program are you using?

3dsmax 8

 

[crackhead]

whats the poly count?

 

[Ravioli]

3dsmax 8

Cool, i have MAX7, because my school uses 7 so i cant use 8

As the other dude, asked, whats the poly count? Are you gona add materials urself to it?

 

[mindless_moder]

Cool, i have MAX7, because my school uses 7 so i cant use 8

As the other dude, asked, whats the poly count? Are you gona add materials urself to it?

max 8 is backwards compatible i.e you can still open the maxfiles from school at home . however max 7 will not recognise max 8 .max scenes but if its only the max7-max8 recognition thats stopping you there is no need to worry.

 

[crackhead]

even so you could export them as .3ds etc

 

[hERd]

Ehm, its high a bit now =) Its aroudn 20 000 =)) But i gonna reduce it to 10 000, cos its the target polycount.

 

[mindless_moder]

did you use boolean cuts by any chance? i like the amount of detail you have there it would be a shame to have to make drastic changes to it.. if you used boolean cuts you could probably shave off a bit of the poly count by doing the subtraction manually. also the cyllinders are really smooth ... i would approach those 2 areas before optimising any of the other detailed pieces. just a tip.
edit: ermm....YAY !!!!!!!

 

[hERd]

I never use bolens cos they suck. The model is unoptimized, there many unseen polys that could be deleted + many vertixels could be welden as well.

 

[crackhead]

booleens ahhhhh!!!! booleens scare me more than um something really scary.

 

[hungryduck]

looks great, even though its low poly, bumpmapping can take care of the rest right?

 

[crackhead]

low poly? 20,000 isnt low poly in my books.

 

[hERd]

It will be 10 000 tris, so its lowpoly for next gen games.

 

[crackhead]

i dont agree that 10,000 polys is low poly.