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Like this?Hah, funny this came up... Have a look at my photobucket http://s36.photobucket.com/user/Killerx20/library/Minecraft%20Midgar
Experimenting with the lights.. Sadly I don't really have much time to do this stuff anymore..
Oh my oh my...I use an old quake III mapping program called GTKRadiant to model in, then import the model into 3ds max and touch it up a bit and to render with. Your train station models are far better then mine, you got it down to spec, I modeled mine by eye.
That's why it looks so familiar
Wonder which app you use for modeling, we could do some exchanging...
So far from my mobile it looks good at first glance
Hey Killerx20,Woah hey I'm sorry I forgot to come on and check this in such a long time. I would be glad to render out some images for you to make a panoramic view, just supply me with the information of where you want it to be rendered and such.
Just got an idea which could spice up my scenes a little bit: given that your Midgar model is fairly advanced, I was wondering if you could make a bunch of renders in order to build up a panoramic image (360 degrees) that we could use in our scenes as HDR lighting. Would be really neat. I would like to be able to use something like that for the scenes I'm making in sector 5 (thus, that's where from the panoramic view would need to be based, rather at ground level). I think the hurdles would be for you to 1/populate the slums with random junk 2/ find background images for ground and sky, for your own pictures.
Do you think that would be doable? It doesn't have to be right now. I also believe other people would benefit of this concept (for instance, I don't know if SpooX intended to use something like this for making environment lighting of the first fields of the Bombing mission).
Very niceCurrently I am at 970,000 polys with everything you see in the video. I have rendered something on here that was 15,000,000 before and it handled rather well so I don't think polys will be an issue, I can be very conservative and optimize things. I just need more motivation haha.Great job on your first animation!
I'm a bit curious about the poly count you have on that model - if you wish to include the slums and so on, won't that become an issue? Besides, I'm guessing a complex lighting will be pretty demanding in terms of computing resources. What kind of powerhouse of a computer do you rely on?
Glad to see you around, it's been a whileYeah this view is from sector 6 and I do want to include everything that is in Midgar like the wall market, the sector 7 slums and so on. Also I have done a render that took 15 hours today.. Its a basic animation that only lasts 30 seconds at 1080p. This scene has no actual lights placed, everything that creates light is from VRay Light Materials, there are no special effects in the scene and I do know I need to light up the plates with lamps and such. Enjoy, its the first time I ever made an animation.
Good job on the underside of the Plate! The view is from the Sector 6, right (then are there plans to include wall market sceneries? That would be very heavy...)? I'm looking forward to seeing your progress!
Rev-amping the reactors again. No more floating geometry! Except the english 05/xx/xx/xx etc.... I'll fix that later.It may be large, but if it was fully recreated in sandbox it would be beyond epic. Let me reprhase that.. It would be beyond EPICCCCC!!!
Midgar is simply too large for a sandbox creation, although.... Noen, Killerx20 and I have successfully gotten our Midgars in the CryEngine 3, yes... It was very fun to walk around.
I know that feeling, working on a 6 year old laptop doesn't make things fast either, the more I add the slower it gets....Looks really good, and you are right about sector 8 being the only different plate. The way I see it is, sectors 1-3 are mainly industrial, sectors 4 and 5 are residential and 7-8 are commercial.
Still, my colleagues call it a 'blade-server'
Thanks for the feedback, always welcome and motivating
Some more details:
Theatre is closed
Evening stroll at Midgar's
Might have a slight problem I would like your opinions of....
Right now I'm building Sector 8 mostly based upon the intro movie, this version is different then on the whole Midgar scenes, in that one the theatre etc is not there, basically there are some houses stuffed on the basic plates. Now every plate is more or less industrial, no houses or anything. That doesn't seem quite logical....
Any ideas or suggestions on that?
Let me join the competition with some details....Looks good man! I like how you are copying ALL the buildings.
Welcome to Midgars Entertainment
enjoy.
Wow! That's certainly impressive... good job!Thanks for the feedback, they are two separate modeling works. We just help each other out with ideas and stuff.
However, I am a little confused... are you and Sapphire sharing assets or are these 2 different, separate modelling works?
errm... chinese characters....UGH whatever it is!! It could be Shinra language for all I care hahah
I know the japanese characters have their origin in chinese, but I was under the impression they are japanese characters. kanji
But of course I'm no expert....
You may want to look at that again buddyYour right about one thing, they aren't logos they are Chinese characters that represent numbers yes, I worded it wrong. I have been modeling midgar for the past 10 years. The picture I quoted and that the other person posted was incorrect. See where sector 1 is? The Chinese number to the left of it shows number 8 when the one on the right shows number 1. Think of the intro, when you zoom into the sector 1 train station you see the reactor on the left your about to bomb, notice the number on it? Its incorrect from the one shown in the picture.
Those aren't logos, they are Chinese characters. The Arabic numbers are showing the plates, the Chinese numbers are showing the reactors. Reactor 1 is to the right of plate 1, not the left, you read it clockwise, not counterclockwise.
and for a schematic view:Hah I like how even square got the schematic wrong, thats from Crisis Core right? Notice how the number 1 reactor shows the number 8 logo. Actually all the reactors logos are wrong =P
I'm usually very good with maps and orientation but in FF7 i have a lot of problems to situate myself on the map, so this put, where is located the scenes spoox made, that zone with the clock where we bump into Aeris, where we jump into the train, etc? In a lower part of the plate?And the lower part of the plate is in sector 4.
The good thing about the modeling of final fantasy is that i can finally understand midgar to the detail
I wanna say it was Spoox who mentioned it, but I can't find where it was. Anyways, I'd say if you're up to the point of filling in the plates, it does seem like all the plates in the original FF7 were essentially the same. The camera angles never really permit for an up close shot of an entire sector, and that's how Square got away with it.They are all the same, have a look at this hi rez image http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e33/Killerx20/k3VhV.jpg
For my 2 cents, I think an efficient way of doing it would be to work on one sector plate, and once you're satisfied, copy it for the other 6 plates, and then vary some things from plate to plate to make it less obvious. This is assuming you are at the point of filling in the plates and not still tweaking other stuff. That being said, it's looking awesome.
Oh wow I have missed so much! I have returned once again!!Wow warren, I never thought I'd see you again how have you been?
My reactors still need some work to them too, IMO they're the most difficult pieces of geometry i've had to deal with, though i'm quite delighted to see i'm not the only one needing several versions and minor ajustments and optimisations here ;3.
I'm gonna continue work on it ASAP!
Of course we are not all doing the same thing......All my reactors are finished and i'm not going to tweak them anymore. I've spent too much time optimizing them although it helped with the render times.
We're all just working on different reactors....3 done....5 to go
All of the currently released stuff is over on moddb.com page but is released in nif form for Fallout.I know I have an attachment to mine... it will be hard giving it away one day but its for the better right? Better then nothing ever happening to it.
The last release Tempus intends to release as part of the MakoDawn project will be a public release of all the resource files in an organised package. The reason for delay is probably because he has alot of stuff that needs to be sifted through and organised.
I know modellers/artists can have attachment to their stuff, I have been there and I am sure Neon has his own reason for not wanting to release it but its just really sad that we nobody gets to explore such a wonderful model. When I look at some of those screens from his port to the cry engine, defo sad panda. I had planned on contacting him but with my ties to the MakoDawn mod, I thought it might give the wrong impression.
Talking about Midgar, remodeling and other modelers, do you know the guys who made this?Oh yeah I remember that, some little team who was getting into working with the UDK wanted to show off what they could do, just a demo. Although their shinra tower model is wayyy far off of being correct looking and its facing the wrong way since that is the sector 1 train station the tower's back should be showing and not the front. It would have been nice if they continued on that project though as it would be nice to play it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FVUv6H374
The face of Cloud model is better than most of the ones i've see in qhimm, at least better than the one made by Millenia.
Also Tifa is somewhat nicely modeled.
Awe that is a bit sad, his model was amazing. I certainly have not forgottenI'm going to ask him what really happened and if he will ever release it. I can understand why he wouldn't want to share it though and he has told me in that past somethings why he wouldn't. BTW how is that resource pack coming? I may find some things in there useful
Just for reference, Tempus' model as a whole is about 8-9k tris IIRC but that is with alot of optimisations. I hope that my inquires haven't started a cascading effect of people worry about tri counts.
Here the wires and missing components in the previous render.I see how yours is low poly now, it looks good though. I'll post a new render up after I get back home. I really cleaned a lot up and stuff but it still needs more optimization.
(Rear exhausts, and the entrance, the walkbridge in front, I don't consider it being a part of the reactor)
So it's more like 4500 polys.
