#animc2

[ephirae]

I’m really proud of my progress today!

It took some time to figure out how to fix all the different glitches when porting the maya fbx file over to substance painter (shout out to past me for writing out the ways I fixed the original cab way back when otherwise it would’ve taken a whole lot longer!), and even texturing the truck took a while between making masks for all the different pieces (there are a lot of pieces). But I managed to get a basic colour done up, then added some detail.

The main truck cab isn’t as shiny as I would’ve liked it, but I think I might move over to putting this cab into the Unreal Engine so I can try out that part of the workflow.

I reckon once I finally finish everything, I’ll pop this into sketchfab because I’m pretty proud of it

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I spent most of today re-prepping this mesh and doing up some ‘combined’ UV Maps since the latest maya file I had for this project decided to corrupt itself. -.-

For some reason all the red pieces (everything in the first pic) scaled small enough that I could actually fiddle around with the placements of things, but for the second and third sections, I was having a bunch of trouble getting all the pieces to fit, so I had to rely on the automatic layout maya gave me.

I’m ready to put this truck into Substance Painter now, and get it painted! Hopefully I’ll be able to get that done tonight or early tomorrow so I can then stick it into the Unreal Engine!

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My truck progress for today! [whole truck view up the top + close-ups of the handle, bumpers, and lights & radiator]

I managed to push through and finish these last few details! Well, there’s a few more things I could add, but if I stopped here and moved on to UV mapping, I’d be pretty okay with that!

Everything was pretty straight-forward for these bits. I learned how to extrude along curve to make the bumpers + handle, which took a little bit of fiddling, but nothing I couldn’t handle!

I am going to specifically mention the radiator, however, because, oh man, I had so so much trouble with the radiator! For some reason, creating half the edge-loops for it just didn’t work for some reason. At first I thought all my problems came from the fact that I didn’t extrude the faces properly the first time around, so I deleted it and tried again. However, even after testing that the extrusion worked, when I tried to use the multi-cut tool to manually make the edge loops (because for some reason the bevelling wasn’t working?), it would only cut some of the mesh. I ended up just leaving it alone since even after working on it for an hour, nothing was working. Therefore the edges after smoothing aren’t as ‘crisp’ as everything else (which is also why you can’t see much in the ‘whole truck’ picture).

I’m going to start making the UV maps for everything from here on out. I’m ‘technically’ behind schedule with making everything -- this mesh was meant to be done two weeks ago -- so I can only hope the Unreal Engine part of the workflow won’t take too long, and I can quickly whip up some UV maps for this truck.

Fingers crossed!

[ephirae]

I did some more work on the truck today!

I added the four wheels, two axels, and two mirrors near the windows! I’ve highlighted the new bits in green in the second picture.

It’s really looking like a truck now, and I’m officially halfway through the mesh! All the ‘main’ parts are done now, it’s just details such as the bumpers, headlights, door handles, etc. left to go! I reckon the entire mesh should be done by the end of the week!

I also forwent doing up the UV maps for what I’ve done, as I decided getting the mesh done was more important. Also, most of my shapes are ‘simple’ compared to the truck cab, so the UV maps shouldn’t be too much of a hassle (which I guess now practically guarantees them to be otherwise, since I’ve said it).

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(low poly vs. mid poly vs. high poly; click for high-res)

I managed to get all these pesky wood pieces done! 

At first it was a struggle to figure out how I was going to do the low poly and high poly meshes while making sure they were going to keep the same world-space for texture baking (do I do one board as a low/high poly, then duplicate a bunch of times? do I duplicate a low poly a bunch of times but have them possibly not aligned properly, then go and put inconsistent edge loops on everything?). In the end, I just used a bunch of mirroring to make sure everything was the same in the low poly meshes, then duplicated everything and applied a mass bevel to get those crisp edges for high poly.

This truck is really beginning to take shape! I think after I get the wheels done I’ll start working on the UV maps for the pieces I’ve done so far, just so I don’t fall behind.

(+ bonus whole truck progress pic)

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Model Truck Milestone (Cab) by Ephirae on Sketchfab

A sketchfab embed of the truck! (feel free to look around)

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I textured up the truck cab a bit!

I want to go for a slightly older kind of look for the truck -- the paint thinning, a few bumps and whatnot from wear, etc. I was going to add some scratches to the windows but I was having trouble with the generator for that one. I might also add some rust at some point, but I also don’t want the truck to look too uncared for. 

Some reference pics:

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Truck Milestone Workflow Checklist

Maya:

Asset List

Low Poly Mesh

UV Map LPM

Prep LPM for smoothing

High Poly Mesh

Prep HPM for Texture Bake

Substance Painter:

FBX Export (LPM)

FBX Export (HPM)

Texture Baking

Texture Painting

Export PBR Texture Maps

Milestone: submitted