For real this time, this is the final UV map for my bot. I took a screen grab this time just to show how this fits in the editor.
The finished UV map. Still not terribly exciting.
I’m about half way through UVing my model. This isn’t pretty, and being half done it’s not even that interesting or useful, but I wanted to show that I’m still moving forward.
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Here’s the final High Poly version of the Bot. The smoothed wireframe looks like a mess, but it actually seems to work fine.
Here’s the final, triangulated low poly version of the bot. I managed to squeak in just under the 5,000 tri budget, while still getting all the detail I needed into it. I’m also trying something different with the rendering, I think it’s clearer and just looks nicer in general.
I should have the high poly version finished and posted some time later today.
Here’s the nearly completed model. At the moment it’s somewhere between a high and low poly, I need to strip another 900 or so tris out of it to hit the target. With all that’s happened this week, I’m a little behind, but overall I’m pretty happy with my progress.
Our assignment has changed, and the forklift has been pushed back (they really are preparing us for real life). Now we have this bot we’re doing from somewhat limited concept art. This is the body and part of the leg structure. It will make sense once I post the full bot on Friday.
I should have had some more progress to post last night, but real life intervened. While we were walking our dogs last night my wife and both dogs were hit by a car. I was about ten feet behind them at the time, so I was spared completely.
Laura is banged up but she’s fine, she managed to completely smash the car’s windshield without sustaining serious injury. She’s a strong woman in more ways than one. One of the dogs escaped with only scrapes and bruises, the other wasn’t so lucky. He’s alive and doing fine, but there’s a good chance he’ll lose his leg. We just don’t know right now.
The kid who was driving was being reckless, but it was just a mistake, and he did the right thing and waited there for the police while we rushed the dogs to the emergency vet, and my wife to the ER. A police report has been filed, so we’ll see what happens there.
Needless to say, I haven’t gotten any work done since class yesterday. Everything is settled down and the worst is over, so I will make it to class tonight, but only because Laura is insisting.