Finished Textures/Model in all her glory

[acoustic fossil]

Interior?

[sage rapids]

no

I don't got the brainpower to model a interior lmao

[lilac imp]

LODs?

[sage rapids]

Still working on that, LOD 0 only has 120k vertices/faces, so I’m going to shoot for maybe 5-6 LODs

[pastel tree]

looks great !

[acoustic fossil]

not me

[toxic shuttle]

God damnit, quoted the wrong person LOL

[toxic shuttle]

modelled yourself or bought?

[sage rapids]

Bought

[hard harbor]

I demand an easter egg on the model of schmidt

https://tenor.com/view/schmidt-schmidtstorm-schmidt-meme-schmidtstorm-meme-gif-7101818641996051459

[sage rapids]

Ooo, I can do that

[hard harbor]

Sounds good

[faint hare]

From where ?

[hard harbor]

IIRC he said cgtrader

[sage rapids]

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/military/military-vehicle/3-coatings-of-usa-army-m10-booker-combat-vehicle-light-tank

The only thing I’m not using is the textures, as they just don’t look that good in the workbench

[faint hare]

Can you show us the textured ones in game ?

[sage rapids]

like the original textures the file came with?

If that's the case, I cant since I've done a lot of general mesh editing to get the poly count from 320k to 125k

[faint hare]

But you have original model ?

[sage rapids]

yeah, just don't want to go through the process of setting it up just for some screenshots

[toxic shuttle]

OG textures would still work. If you cut things down and messed with the UVs then youd need to hp to rebake it. Doubt you have that seeing as 99.8% of the time sellers do not provide that so if that is the case then you used the LP model to bake onto the new LP then your new textures would be meh at best.

[sage rapids]

I understood like 50% of that, I'm just using substance painter and starting from scratch, the OG textures/UV map encompassed the whole vehicle, so even with the textures at 4k resolution it still looked pretty low-res in the workbench. I've split the turret and hull into two separate UV maps, and that's working fine so far.

[sage rapids]

@hollow light

[hollow light]

what is 320k? The cgtrader model says it's 58k vert / 52k polies

[hollow light]

yeah thanks

[sage rapids]

idk why, but reforger listed it as such

If I check the ploycount for the original file in blender, it gives me ~180k

[hollow light]

weird. What does the 3d software of your choice says\

[hollow light]

is that triangles ?

[sage rapids]

could be the import from MAX that is giving me extra poly

[sage rapids]

ye

[hollow light]

as a max user, 100% not

[sage rapids]

yeah, just opened the original FBX file in blender, 58k verts exactly. weiiiird, I must've done something a couple months ago when I originally bought the file.

[hollow light]

that sounds weird, it never happend to me before

[toxic shuttle]

I still would like to see the OG textures on it. if you didn't move around any UV islands it would still apply correctly. No matter how many times youve split the UV.

[sage rapids]

yeah, I moved around the UV islands. If i get a bit of time, I'll get the original file/textures into enfusion and send some screenshots.

switched the light grey edge damage to a more dark grey, made it look like 10x nicer and less noisy

[toxic shuttle]

Little too much height on these dirt/rust spots. Maybe tone it down just a little.

[sage rapids]

So, after doing some UV packing, this is the new new final texture

Added a good bit more dirt to all the recessed areas to give it a feeling of it actually seeing some kind of field use and not being hot off the factory floor.

If anyone can help me with getting the windows on the turret/hull to be more reflective and not be a matte texture, DM me pls.

[swift nimbus]

You are doing gods work brother

[sage rapids]

Here's the og textures in reforger, looks pretty good from a distance

But (imo) gets too pixilated/blury once you try and focus on the details.

The og modeler put everything onto a massive UV map, just couldn't get the amount of detail i would like out of the og texture set/fbx files

[old umbra]

Try substence painter to make, a bett

better UV map n stuff like that

[sage rapids]

indeed, that's what i'm already doing

[old umbra]

That applies an looks better, can also preset some camos an stuff

Are you going to do the intrior?

[sage rapids]

there's a part of me that wants to model a interior after seeing what RHS did, but then there's another part of me that wants to get it on the workshop in a working state then worry about an interior

idk what i'm going to do

[old umbra]

Well, I think the main concern when it comes to the inside, is view ports for realism server, that dont have 3rd person, But its also not a mod braking addtion either. really depends on how far you go with it, im sure RHS may help you with the screens if you asked

[sage rapids]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/m1-abrams-tank-3d-model-with-interior-e19ca1af4a254914ae2ba35b46e990a3

found a M1 abrams interior, gonna modify it extensively to more mimic what I would expect the booker interiors to look like, but most of the hard work is done, so do expect a interior on release.

[old umbra]

Might work very well, ill ask around on reddit maybe i can find someone with pictures!

[sage rapids]

still need to add paint, colors, and decals, but otherwise the 3d model for the interior is finished

[pastel tree]

awesome 👍

[old umbra]

Looks great!

[hard harbor]

You're not going to find interior m10 booker pictures lol

[old umbra]

Whys that?

[floral kestrel]

Because it's new and everyone focuses on it doing cool tank things not the interior

[sage rapids]

More like the interior configuration is classified

[floral kestrel]

Oh wait is it?

[sage rapids]

Indeed