Click to view attachmentHello everyone! I am VERY new to this site , as membership wise goes. I have been coming here very often though to read up on the News. The other day I saw that someone had made a 3d model of the Lava Harvester in SketchUP (LOVE that program), and it was amazing!!. I am a "designer" at my company, so I thought I would give it a go!! The modeling was done in AutoCAD2007, and the renders done in 3dMax. The modeling took about 12 hours or so (Kept changing things) and the renders took about 15 minutes per. I would appreciate your thoughts and comments. I know some of it is not extreemly accurate, but I based my 3d model off of the one Jagex sent to this site, and since it is kind of "iffy"(blurry), i just improvised. I greatly apreciate any advise!!

thblackghost (Name on here and RS)

PICS!!

Hmm i can not seem to find a way to show pics in here so I will post this with an attachment and hope it works....
EDIT: I think i got it!! The reason mine is so nice is....Jagex just bought it from the factory :D Thanks for all views and posts!!

Awesome work! You've put a lot of detail into it. I don't think Jagex need to bother modeling it themselves anymore...

And, welcome to MSW.

Edit: What's the polycount btw?

One word; wow. I really like it. if you want to post pictures, just upload to tinypic.com/imageshack.us/photobucket/other sites, and use the forum code.

Wow, I really like that. One of the main areas of difference between your one and Jagex's is the style. Their Lava Harvester is very run down and battered, and looks like it needs a good clean, whereas yours is sparkly and new. Perhaps this is what it looks like brand new from the factory.

Are you going to have a go at the Mech which they feature in their GFX team logo?

Which one is it your refering to? Thanks for comment as well :D

I'm talking about:


The image on the left and right of that Jagex GFX Team Logo are for FunOrb and RuneScape respectively, so we believe the Mech in the centre is for MechScape. Alyx did a render inspired by it and I turned it into a wallpaper.

Note: I've added your render to the gallery page.

@Ren - I don't think he should model it again... If he decides to create another, it should be done on something that hasn't been modeled before IMO.

Hmm, how about the two ships in the poster. Now *that* would be cool.

There is also the Icould vehicle:

next I will do the two ships :D I am looking at the poster now :D

Poly Count=37,076

wow that is sweeet man I'm excited for this game.

That's very nice

Good work!

Thank you all!!

anyone have anything that shows at least 2 views of something? Preferably a ship or something? Its very hard to do this with single views.....also Id love to do something "New" that hasnt been done befor (Fan work wise) THANKS ALL!

Haha this looks like crap because i didnt size the textures, and did a fast render...but i present you with!!!.....

That's brilliantly done, both the pristine condition and the run down one. Nice work! :)

As for something else to do, there's This 'mining vehicle' concept art that has 2 views, though it is rather similar to the Harvester you've already done.

Darren B's gallery also has a few images with multiple views, such as the weird Pliigi stuff]. I don't think anybody has done renders of his stuff (besides Jagex). In the gallery you can click an image to get a larger version.

That's professional stuff!


Well, that's not as bad as it could be. But I guess it's more for eye-candy, not in-game rendering.

Man... With all these models, we could put together our own MechScape!

Well Done!!! Well Done!!!

I still see a magnet and frog for some reason though, like the other one... either I am wierd or just have a big imagination... anyone else see it?

wow. these are really good! are these done on sketchup? cuz if they are then could you make a small tutorial on how to do stuff like that, because you seem very good at it.

"The modeling was done in AutoCAD2007, and the renders done in 3dMax."

no these are done in AutoCAD 2007. However I cann't find a reason why this could not be done in SketchUP, because your "viewres" and "facetres" (AutoCAD commands setting the "smoothness" of shapes) can be achieved in a 3rd party rendering software. I will redraw this or another model this weekend in sketchup and if you all like it will do the tutorial....what will I draw....a surprise!! However a lot of people find this to be difficult, or too time consuming. I will tell you that I am 21 and already have a college degree in Design Tech.....so as you can tell dfesign is my life...i love it. I do it for a living and fun :D It took many-a-classes though to learn it all. All in all I had about 9 classes in AutoCAD, everything from "whats this program do" to "Advanced AutoCAD programing." .....sorry about the life story, regardless, I will draw something this weekend and render it keeping screen shots of what i do, and then I will make a guide. If you have any specific questions please feel free to ask me. I know any program from Autodesk (CAD, 3dMax, maya...etc) inside and out, and SketchUp very well. Thank you so much every one for all the feedback on what Ive done so far!!

Wow, Freakin Awsome

That is very nice

Thank you very much, I hope to get a LOT more on here

I see a magnet yeah the main body, however even quinting.....I see no frog

I see the frog. The lava vacuum is one leg, the thruster is the other leg, and the body of the harvester is the body of the frog.

Man u have some talent, hope to see more things u can 3Dafy lol

thanks for the info and the offer to make a tutorial. That would be very helpful
I love designing stuff, but i only program i currently have is sketchup and im not good at it.

Wow, I always wanted to get good at 3D MAX, it's really hard to me.

A bit off topic, but the Pliigi stuff looks like Bellum from Phantom Hourglass o.O

Anyhow, that is one pro model xD Keep it up :)

Do you know Inventor?

If so, it would be freaking awesome if you did your next model in Inventor 2009. I'd even continue to wet myself if you did it in inventor, then shared all the files with us on the forum. It would probably take you way too much time though.

Amazing, just amazing!

A lot more? Man, I can't wait!

And I definitely prefer it rusty.

Great job on it! I like both of you vehicles. I like the run down one the most though. I would love to see more concept arts drawn in 3D. 3D art is so hard but when you are done you at least can get several images out of it. :D

Awesome again.

Very nice!

haha yah bud im very good at Inventor :) one of my favorite programs for 3d models of mechanical parts!! I prefer it over CAD for mechanical parts, I shall give it a try ;)

Great job. I can't wait to see more in the future.

nice!!

Wow, they are simply stunningly superb!! Well Done, the rusted lava harvester is pure class, I really like it. Now to cut the babbling, you say you model for a company, so how long have you modelled for and what stuff do you do normally?



Do it!

haha well it will be 1 year here in May about, and i do 3d layouts (And 2d) of fire impasse systems for high rise buildings....very fun stuff :D

Heh, I would never have guessed that from the skill displayed there. I thought it would be something more like product design/modeling for nifty little hi-tech products and cool things like that. Kind of like concept models.
Ah well, for someone who has been modeling for less than a year you do have skill! Keep it up!

Looks super nice! Can I know what program you used? (Probably that 3000$ Program!)

I use AutoCAD 2007...the new 2009 versions are like 6 grand

Wow, those are great! I love that first one, looks very cool!

I already am, in theory. The only way is if I could get these models in Project Utopia's engine. Then you could actually see what it looks like in-game. I would have been willing to do it sooner, but until now our object system was upside down.

Very good Ive tried game modeling befor and its very hard, i could only just about put together a house. I think i'll stick with web design and graphics