Duke Nukem model

[edithegodfather]

Hey, who said that duke's dead :

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1853/...dheadmodel.png
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3135/frtitlu.png

This is what i've been doin' for the past month. I hope i'll be able to pull this off and get duke nukem in ut3 .

[lordlonelobo]

Looks good dude.

[edithegodfather]

Why thank you .
Here's what i manage to do today:


Still very uncut but at least it's a progress .

[gamerfreak]

Keep going pal! Those picture models are excellent. Two thumbs up!

[lordlonelobo]

Duke's got PECS OF STEEL.

That's Max, right?

[The Commander]

Looks like Max to me.

[edithegodfather]

yeah, sure, thank for all the support guys. Here's what i managed to do today



Just finished the naked torso and started the tank top.

Yeah, i'm using 3ds max for modelling.

[edithegodfather]

Just finished the tank top and started the suspenders. They're in a very early stage and look pretty rough and have no pouches or pipe bombs. Also they're not welded to the torso (the tank top is) and the belt is not welded to the suspenders, but i'm getting to that .

[lordlonelobo]

I can't wait to see this finished and in UT3 (in Hollywood Holocaust? Lol)

[edithegodfather]

Yeah .

[marioman360]

I'm impressed! can't wait to see it, When It's Done.

[edithegodfather]

I just hope to finish the model as quick as possible cuz there's a lot of stuff i don't have a clue about and i have to learn from scratch (like rigging or texturing or even creating normal maps) and then i'm not even in vacation yet :| , otherwise i'm working as mouch as i can on it every day, all i do is modelling and tf2 modelling and tf2 , and it's a lot of little detail work involved. 90% of what i do is rotating the mesh a thousand times and looking at it from as many angles and then tweaking a couple of vertices.

[edithegodfather]

From the last update I extruded the suspenders, made that ring you see on the back and aligned all the vertices so they fit on the torso. I know, it's not mouch but i'm too tired right now, i'm waiting for the weekend to get more progress daily.

[edithegodfather]

Sorry guys, i was too tired today, didn't manage to do mouch progress .

[edithegodfather]

I finally made it bounding the suspenders on the torso guys, didn't post any screenshot though cuz there ain't mouch to see. Next i'll add the pouches, the grenades and the buckle and with that i'll wrap the torso area (after assuring that i didn't went too mouch over the vertices count ~800).
Next i'll go for the arms which i hope will actually be easier than the torso cuz i said that the torso would be easier than the head and i ended up scratching my eyes about it .

[lordlonelobo]

800 verts on a UT3 model?

Is that good? I don't know much about modelling, but aren't new game engines supposed to be infinitely better?

Anyway, what you've posted so far is pretty cool. Keep going!

[DerricktheW]

Only for UT3, or are you planning to port it elsewhere, like Source?

Looking good so far.

[edithegodfather]

I don't really know source so it's gonna be only in ut3 :-/ .

@lordlonelobo: That's only on the torso, and then i don't really know the exact vertices limit i only looked at the ut3 male model (the one they give us for free on UDN ) and he had 800 vertices on the torso, in total i think the limit is around 3600 vertices again based on the ut3 male model. Or from what i heard some place else the vertices limit doesn't count but only the triangles count which has to be to a maximum of 20.000 triangles.
But what the hell, i'll keep concentrated on my reference ut3 model, too many number from what i care .

[gamerfreak]

You go dude.

[edithegodfather]

Here're some screenshots:

[DerricktheW]

I'm gonna take a guess that arms are a pretty hard thing to do? Since they have to give off the allusion they aren't made of geometry, which usually has all this pointed edges and stuff.

[Tormentor]

Looks like the Duke Nukem model from Time To Kill, nice work dude

[lordlonelobo]

Originally Posted by DerricktheW

I'm gonna take a guess that arms are a pretty hard thing to do? Since they have to give off the allusion they aren't made of geometry, which usually has all this pointed edges and stuff.

Also, they have to give the impression that he's the steroid junkie that he is. Although some of that might be texturing too.

[edithegodfather]

Yeah well, it all comes to texturing and making normal maps when bringing it to life, i don't think modelling arms is a too mouch of a big deal. Remember the torso, it took me quite a short time before i finished the complete naked model then i started to add all those "layers", to say so, the tank top, the suspenders, pouches etc, which was a real pain in the ass cuz i had to align everything up, when at the arms there are no layers, they're just naked.

[edithegodfather]

Just finished the straps from which the pipe bombs hang on. Check it out:

[gamerfreak]

Looking good dude. Keep up the good work.

[edithegodfather]

Yeah, i'm thinking things are gonna go nice and smooth till i get to the rigging, texturing, normal mapping part. Then i'll have to start do some learning.

[edithegodfather]

Here's how the model looking so far guys:



Yeah, i know, he got a little bit fat over the last 24 hours . I just happened to look againg at the ut3 reference model and the skeletong and saw that my model had nothing to do with them so i had to do some scaling and realigning.
I scaled the model to match it with the reference, the i went deleting the neck area and getting back from the head cuz it got altered along the way. Then i went and detach the belt cuz it has to be part of the thights not the torso. Then i had to remodel the pipe bombs and their straps because in my torso scaling action i eventually ****** up the pipe bombs , now they're pretty good and hope they'll stay that way . And in the end i made a couple o' boxex which i welded to the suspenders :P .

[lordlonelobo]

It's not fat, it's muscle!

[edithegodfather]

Yeah . Right now he's in (another) very early stage and he looks a bit strange to say the least but i'm workin' to that .

[edithegodfather]

I done some tweaking to the torso guys, i know he looked a bit not too sexy for his shirt last time so today i exclusively took care of his physique. Here's what i got to:



I know it's probably not too mouch or no visible progress but i have to take care of all the little details brfore going further.
I'll probably do some more fine tuning in the next couple o' days, add some smooth groups and with that i'll wrap the torso and head to the arms #:-o .

[LadiesAndGentlemen]

Nice tits.

[edithegodfather]

Ok guys, here's the final smoothed version of the duke nukem torso. Be sure to leave any comments you might wanna add or improovements suggestions you'd have .



With that i'll start modeling the arms which i hope i'll finish quicker.

[marioman360]

looks fantastic IMO. good job

[edithegodfather]

Thnx . Also i just started out the arms, i'll be giving some progress screenshots when i do some .

[edithegodfather]

Here're the screenshots i promised:

[lordlonelobo]

He's been lifting!

[gamerfreak]

He has no hands!!! He lopped them off!!! LMAO

[lordlonelobo]

Duke Nukem doesn't need hands to kick your ass.

[gamerfreak]

that's right he has a mighty foot.