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Author Topic: pyramid - ziggurat  (Read 14144 times)

Dosser

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pyramid - ziggurat
« on: June 11, 2008, 06:57:00 am »
Hello all,
I just finished a model I've been working on. It's a Mayan-inspired pyramid. It has 992 points, 1572 faces. Like all my models, it might be used in a game (if I get around to it  :) ) so the faces are all triangles, and was trying to get it as low poly as possible.



Please criticise the crap out of it :D
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Tanzim

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Re: pyramid - ziggurat
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2008, 07:33:49 am »
OK, I will work my way up.
The background picture insults your pyramid (I see it as a temple), it's better to get a plane and add a texture, it wont look so blurred.
The stairs in the middle are too blurred, why not actually make some instead of getting a texture?
And the bit at the top has nothing inside it, what did you do, extrude a cube?
Hope I wasn't too harsh.
But I like how you added the green at the bottom to look like moss so as to add age to the building.
*sniff sniff* uh, criticized too hard!
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mcheccyb

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Re: pyramid - ziggurat
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2008, 01:53:01 pm »
why is it in tri's?

quads are much better.
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spicy

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Re: pyramid - ziggurat
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2008, 01:55:19 pm »
Yeah i agree with Tanzim with mostly everything there except for the:
Quote from: Tanzim on June 11, 2008, 07:33:49 am
OK, I will work my way up.
*sniff sniff* uh, criticized too hard!
That made me laugh! But i am fimilar with these temples and you have done a good job! just a little more work on the textures and your away! Lovely model though!
-spicy
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lynn22

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Re: pyramid - ziggurat
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2008, 03:03:42 pm »
Overall it looks nice, except for the background - Tanzim's solution would look better - and the cube (temple ?) on the top looks a bit small compared to the size of the bannister at the top of the stairs.
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Re: pyramid - ziggurat
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2008, 07:27:22 pm »
That's a nice start.  I agree that you should have some sort of ground.  If you have one, you can also cast shadows which could greatly improve the realism of the scene.
Here's a tutorial I wrote for using shadows: http://hihosilver.anim8or.org/Tutorials/rendering-tutorial/rendering_tut_final.html
That's a good start though.
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