[doncha_magoso]

if you have two or more layers active it will say that u need to select 4points polys... I think...

[doncha_magoso]

another pic...

[doncha_magoso]

and another one...

[doncha_magoso]

I used bandshaw on this model a lot man... I divided the long part of the head with six lines ath the bandshaw blank... and made them uniform, then I deleted the intermediate three polys so I can get them together creating a poly petween them... and then bandshaw the inner polys so the edge can look sharp as it should... finally I added a nice wood texture and activated glossines and that stuff... here come the wires...

[doncha_magoso]

the wires...

[Bendezium]

thats really nice, sorry i didnt reply so soon. I didnt get an email notificiation. I think Mine would look more similar to that except that my neck is connected to the head, and the back of the neck goes from a rounded area there, to a flat area on the head. I am really not pleased with the head but so far I like the other stuff.

I'm including some new pics my teacher asked for. They are my first attempts at renders... ever and for some reason I could only get one light to effect the model. I'm thinking about redoing the head if you have any suggestions. Also there are some other modeling issues i have to clear up, most noteably the tuning keys, but also minor details such as the entrance of the strings into the nut and into the body. Also its mostly untextured.



Anyway to get that bridge to look smoother without actually creating a subpatched version?







Here is a link to my guitar object incase anyone wants to check it out



By the way I dig that texture you used, is that procedural?

I'm going to E3 in LA for a few days so I wont be back for about a week to check on this thread, but I look forward to suggestions.

[Mark]

That's really starting to take shape now. Well done.

In order to get your surfaces looking smoother, you can switch on smoothing for the surfaces in the Surface Editor panel (it's a checkbox towards the bottom of the panel).

If a surface is smoothed too much, then you can lower the max smoothing angle in here too so that only edges that meet within that space are smoothed.

[Techi]

if you have an object that takes a long time to render but need to see if a crease gets ironed out, cut surounding polygons, paste them in a new object and render that tiny area, its a good way to test stuff quick, i tend to export to dx but that is the nature of the stuff i work on.

[doncha_magoso]

Well... I got the texture from the web man... it´s easy to get free textures from there... so...
Why don´t turn glossines and that stuff beforeyou render? might look a bit nicer man...

Doing great dude... but I couldn´t download your .lwo....

Read you later!!!!

[Bendezium]

Hey guys... here are a few more images. I think I'm pretty much done the modeling. I noticed a few things after I rendered that I need to change... shouldnt take much more than 20 minutes but here ya go.

PS: these are all saved for the web which I wish I didn't do now, at 70%



There is a funky shadow in that hole there. I don't know where its coming from



I was thinking about putting a bumb mapped floral pattern on the metal part where the gears are, but I think what I used temperarily came out pretty nice.

I do have to fix the tuning keys though... they arent reflective enough.


And my last one.

I wanted to get some stronger close ups but when I dolly my camera in my model starts disappearing even if it doesnt seem to close.

How do you guys feel about the wood textures? I kinda of like how the neck, sides, and back of the guitar came out but I'm thinking of changeing the texture on the face, and will most definatly changed what I used for the inside.

I'm also going to add a design around the hole of the guitar and in the center of the head, but I'm having trouble using a texture with a alpha channel. trouble is I dont know how. There is a thread explaining it in the textureing forum.

Any other suggestions?

[Mark]

What can I say, apart from well done? This has really come together now and is looking really good.

Don't worry about your model disappearing in layout when you dolly the camera in - this is something to do with the openGL fixed clip plane - the model should render OK. This thread should help to explain it: http://forum.simplylightwave.com/sho...ghlight=opengl

[Bendezium]

Thanks but its still feeling a little flat to me.

Mabye because I could only get the default spot light to work and it is just floating in a black bachground.

Also that shadow on the inside is bugging me. It looks like it is a shadow of the frets inside the edge of the guitar, and then the cresent is from the hole in the guitar.

[Mark]

Make sure that there aren't any gaps in your mesh allowing light through. Also make sure that none of your objects are excluded from the spotlight - since this will make the shadows funky.