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Published: 2012-08-12 21:22:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 5539; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 0
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Modeling mostly finished (minus weapons and possible cloak). Please comment on armor design, before I start to unwrap & texture paint
Materials are still not finalized (chain-mail too)
Blender -- GIMP -- Octane
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The modelling is really awesome! Super detailed and historically acurate! I love german sallets!
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Thanks! I've re modeled the helmet a bit. I'll post the progress in a few days.
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Design looks good. Although the flexibility in the neck would be nill.
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Maybe I should make the neck & under-chin part more "loose"? I have difficulties to understand how much they moved the head anyway. I followed this real helmet design: [link] which seems quite limited too. Any suggestions?
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Well, armor was very limiting, and I know that you stayed faithful to that design, it's just that some others have a looser design. Also, there's something just slightly off about the curass.
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Maybe only the top part can be moved (a little) and the under-chin & neck part stays in place: [link] [link]
What do you think is off with the breastplate? (any feedback is useful
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Well, it wouldn't help a lot, but the top of the neck guard tucked in under the face plate could be drawn in a little. Also, something about the neck area makes it seem like it doesn't (I forget the word)but move where it's segmented.
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I see. Thanks for the feedback.
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This is really impressive modeling. Kudos for such detailed work.
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Wow, excellent modelling!
Could we see a wireframe?
Congratulations.
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Thanks! When I'm finished I'll post wireframe & textures
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Yep, a cloak & hood would give a bit more diversity. The leg armor goes a bit further up under the chain mail, so that it just aligns with those "side skirts".
Thanks for the feedback!
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np 
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Wow, really awsome work!
Only chainmail lookls odd, imho circles are too smal and they are wierd rotated on arms.
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Thanks! Yes, as I mentioned the chain mail is still the same mockup from previous renders and not finished.
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Very great job overall, it really feels like a captain's armor for the back, I propose you to put some simple white and black symbol (in reality they would have a christian cross for example) which wouldn't take you too much time, add some level of detail and remove this feeling of emptiness it's giving there.
Since it's a chainmail captain, an archery positioning would give a better idea of whether or not you have forgotten details or if there is a problem with it
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Thanks. Yeah, now I'll do some details, mainly on the empty regions of the breastplate.
You are right - rigging this and posing it (some battle stances / sitting position) would show design flaws. The problem is that this hihg-poly version is quite complex to rig and I'm a bit running out of time... A lowpoly char is easier to rig and something I'll have to do anyway.
btw, do you think I should vertically split those "side skirts" (or whatever are called the things defending the hips) in two parts down the middle, for better mobility? Right now they are one piece and I'm wondering if this would give problems sitting down (or on a horse).
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It depends greatly on your time. Actually, the current version kind of works, but in reality, some (a few) used slit armor with metalic extensions that would deploy when the slit was open.
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Curious, how would you texture paint from this?
Unless you meant that you would paint the diffuse of the low poly?
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I mean to paint some more details (diffuse, bump & material mixing mask) in GIMP. The lowpoly char will then have textures baked from this.
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hmm I see
How would I bake the textures on the high poly to the low poly however?
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You need to retopologize your hi-poly mesh, make it low-poly but with similar topology. You can then bake various passes (diffuse, AO, normal...) from high to low mesh.
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I'm familiar with baking AO and Normal, though there's a way to do it for diffuse?
forgive me for taking up your time DX
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Yes in Blender you have several baking modes, among them "textures" which you can use to bake diffuse texture data.
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aha I see :3
Even if the texture's of the high poly is merely materials?
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I suppose you mean if the material has no textures, just a color? Yes, it will bake your whole texture stack and even if you just set a basic color without textures.
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What?! This isn't textured yet? With all that detail you hardly need textures any more xD
It's a really great model, though the back of the body hasn't got a lot of detail compared to the rest of the armour..
Can't wait for the finished result!!
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Well, it still needs some engravings, material differentiation and wear & tear. I didn't bother with the back, because I planned to put a cloak, but now I'm not sure. Will see...
Thanks for the feedback!
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A cloak would look really cool, though maybe a bit out of place on a suit of armour
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