Pipekit

[Fingernail]

 

Rough textures on length especially...and how can I make the normalmaps make them look rounder? I generated a normalmap from a much denser cylinder, but it still looks faceted. Anyway, the joints look quite good.

 

What you can see is 3 parts: the length, the joint and the bend. I think it looks quite good.

 

Still in progress: the T-joint, + joint, valves, spouts and gears/taps.

 

And after that I'll do some wiring (wires and switchboards and such.

 

All textures handpainted. TM

[DeepOmega]

Not sure how to do it in LW, but you want to smooth those faceted sides. In 3DS, you apply a smoothing group to them. Talk to someone who knows what they're doing in LW, tho.

 

Also, you may want to add some distortion to both the normal map and the spec map to coincide with rust - will add a TON to the textures.

[Fingernail]

yeah, I had some better normalmaps but scrapped them in favour of trying to get them smoother.

 

I didn't realise smoothing translated to D3, I'll add that then.

 

I'm getting pretty confortable with Lightwave now...it just has some weird names for stuff. Like cylinder = disc ???

[oDDity]

Just set smooting to 180 in the surface editor, and make sure the points are all welded.

[oDDity]

Well, the disc tool isn't just a cylinder. You can make a cylinder with the disc tool, but I virtually never do. 95% of the time I use the disc tool to make a disc as a start point for beveling or extending.

[Fingernail]

meh...I always make a cylinder and bevel from there, or just resize/move one of the ends.

[_Atti_]

personally i think the bent parts are looking good with that smooth pref.

[Fingernail]

Here we go: smoother (and with a funky particle steam FX...woo)

 

[Fingernail]

now to sort out the textures and normalmaps...

[sparhawk]

Here we go: smoother (and with a funky particle steam FX...woo)

Looks cool. And these are all seperate parts you can combine together as you like, like building blocks?

[Fingernail]

Yes, it's 3 parts so far finished: a 90 degree bend, a single length and a joint which goes between the two.

[oDDity]

THat's a good idea. I suppose you could build them in your 3d app, it's be pretty tricky trying to manipulate them into place in DoomEdit.

[Fingernail]

you just load the three objects and start lego!

[sparhawk]

I just thought about that. When you create this pipes, don't forget to also create various endparts. Some open, some with grills and some simply broken or burst open. Also for the pipes itselfe, there can be also damaged ones.

[Fingernail]

 

T-bend is now fully functional

 

There are still some texture issues with the other pipes though (I may do one set of skins with rust and one without...)

[Springheel]

What are those little gold bits? If they're supposed to be rust they're too regular at the moment.

[sparhawk]

 

T-bend is now fully functional

 

There are still some texture issues with the other pipes though (I may do one set of skins with rust and one without...)

Looks good. You should also do some wheels and such. You know what I mean? Big ones and small ones that can be connected to them. I guess three should be enough. One small enough to fit in the hand, one middle sized and on big one. Maybe you can also do broken ones. Shouldn't be to hard when you are at it.

[Fingernail]

 

there are your wheels.

Still the same unfinished textures with the rest, though.

[sparhawk]

there are your wheels.

Still the same unfinished textures with the rest, though.

Looks good. Now some broken wheels and pipes, and we have a pretty good and complete collection.

[Springheel]

Anyone else have a problem with the red paint? I think that's a fairly modern convention, painting the handles red. I'd rather see them just a regular metal colour, personally.

[sparhawk]

You are right. I guess they should fit the other parts.

[_Atti_]

Great pack of pipes! Fm authors will surely appreciate that they have so much to choose from:)

[Fingernail]

Anyone else have a problem with the red paint? I think that's a fairly modern convention, painting the handles red. I'd rather see them just a regular metal colour, personally.

Alright, I can change that...but I'll probably provide 2 skins nonetheless...they were red in T2 after all.

[Fingernail]

 

now everything has the same, gritty metal texture with rusty bits. Is it too brown??? It's certainly less cartoony and obviously 'these are pipes' than the others.

[BlackThief]

hm, I'd make a darker specularmap in general and especially the rust parts shouldn't reflect at all. the rest looks good !