1937-1938 EMC E1

[jpetersjr]

Some more progress, almost have the body finished and making good progress on the trucks.

EMC E1 Progress 19 A.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 19 C.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 19 E.jpg

Like they say, a blast from the past, 76 years ago to be exact.

[5292nate]

Looks awesome!

[jpetersjr]

Started the slow progress of texturing the wheels.

EMC E1 Progress 20 A.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 20 B.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 20 C.jpg

[CSX2057]

Nice detail....Can't wait to see it on the tracks!

[jpetersjr]

Starting the work on the vents for on the side of the body, by the way, the vents are full 3d.

EMC E1 Progress 21 A.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 B.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 C.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 D.jpg

Also, the vents and all the wall switches inside the cab will be 3d.

[buzz456]

Take your time JP. She looks beautiful so far.

[5292nate]

N-I-C-E!!!!

[CSX2057]

WHOA!!!!!

[jpetersjr]

Use paint bucket to texture the wheels from the side than use paint brush to paint the silver on the side. easy, simple, takes one minute

Already been doing that, it takes forever to crop on the shiny silver on the wheel's edge where the wheel meets the track.

Of course, what I mean is I'm using the UV-Mapping and the paint brush.

[mrennie]

Starting the work on the vents for on the side of the body, by the way, the vents are full 3d.

EMC E1 Progress 21 A.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 B.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 C.jpg

EMC E1 Progress 21 D.jpg

Also, the vents and all the wall switches inside the cab will be 3d.

Very nice indeed

[mrennie]

Use paint bucket to texture the wheels from the side than use paint brush to paint the silver on the side. easy, simple, takes one minute

Aaaarrggh! Paint bucket ... noooooo!

There's a big problem with the paint bucket in 3DC. It will UV map some surfaces using a single straight line, not a polygon. That translates into a slightly odd texture with TSX on, but with TSX off, it means the surface will appear totally black! I know this because I made the mistake of using the paint bucket in an early version of the Consolidation (never again!). You must use the paint bruush, or do it the even harder way and use the UV mapping tool. There's no shortcut.

On the other hand, the paint bucket is fine for doing a quick 1-minute texturing for the sole purpose of being able to export the model into RW quickly just to see how the geometry looks. But if you do it, use a bright colour like red so that you can see what you textured with the paint bucket (and that way you can see what needs to be textured correctly for the final model).

[jpetersjr]

Working on another one of the vents, haven't yet added the inner parts to this one yet.

EMC E1 Progress 22.jpg

[jpetersjr]

Most of RSC locomotives are actually just as much detailed, I've seen some payware engines with vents.

There is a difference though because I'm modeling it in only 3d Crafter and no sketchup.

[jpetersjr]

Please point out where rsc used this and ill have a closer look and see what they actualy did. rsc has ways of making things look polly heavy with one single polly

I'm strongly thinking about removing the vents now.

It's a simple fix, but unfortunately with less detail.

Also on the class 66 engine they had what looked like 3d vents.

[jpetersjr]

I don't buy there forign models. what about an american loco? I can teach you anything about their amerinan locos

What I'll try first is removing alot of the fonds, at least half of them out of the vent to make it a lot better on polygon level, and if that don't work I'll remove them all together.

I figure if I remove a ton of fonds out of the vents they'll be much better on polygon level and not 7,400 poly each.


....Edit....



Alright, good news, I deleted half of the fonds and I got it down to 348 polygon.

Here's the new edited vent.

EMC E1 Progress 23.jpg

Also I think it looks better this way.