Cerbera

Very nice. The Intergalactic Quad Police award you a Gold Star. Although you could iron or smooth brush the center polys for nicer distribution ;)

Actually all of the control panels have annoyed me. Not only in their '70's idea of the future' and boxy, external, unflowing design, but also in their total impracticality for the user. How is DV meant to see any of the settings or lights or controls on any of his panels while he's wearing a mask that won't let him look down ? not only that, but the 2 modules on his belt are the same in mirror image for some reason, and there are no labels on any of the controls, which must feel identical, and be extremely difficult to distinguish or operate whilst wearing thick leather gloves and not being able to see ! But they're still quite nice shapes to model, so swings and roundabouts, hey ? :)

To be fair, the R18 and older cloner tools also do a reasonable job of greeble-like distribution with the right settings and effectors, but as OP said, no library support, which is really what makes Greebler so helpful. Having said that, of course you could store all your greebles in a scene file or as objects in the C4D content browser so you could easily add them to cloner or hair systems in the future...

Ah OK - that makes sense. And yes, you do mean joints, which is what they are called in C4D.

Just out of interest - what is there about a star destroyer that possibly requires bones ?! (I assume you mean 'joints').

I'm quite impressed by whoever modelled that death star and star destroyer ! But as my cafe contemporaries have pointed out, lasers and space in general are best done elsewhere, although it can be done well in C4D provided you are prepared to throw a lot of render time at it while you perfect your spacescape. The single biggest tip I can give you RE making things more film quality is 'backlighting'. Make sure that you have precisely placed rim lights behind your models to make things seems large. Also, no depth of field, and when you do get to AFX, don't go mental with lens flares ;) CBR

Yeah, it's dodgy for me too, but was working well yesterday !

No, I don't know of an alternative, and also feel the loss. If you do write one I'm interested !

You're not wrong, my friend. That'll be fixed in round 3 of the texturings :) Main scratch layers are going to be dialled back, but I'm going to add some reverse AO 'edge wear' as well, and work a bit harder on contrasting ultra-shininess with more subtle 'worn sheen' that you get with frequent over-polishing. I imagine some poor Imperial orderly would be tasked with its maintenance, and would be in constant paralyzing fear of DV noticing his helmet isn't shiny enough, and probably goes at it with an anti-static cloth and some isopropyl alcohol every morning like his life depends on it, little realising the risks of over-polishing... :) But there aren't any fingerprints or smudges on the helmet, because everyone that ever touches it is wearing gloves.

No no - never give up :) Just accept 3D takes a long time to be good at, and don't beat yourself up too much for having lofty ambitions, and optimistic timescales. As I would have said to your lecturer - "I have all the time in the world to think about what I'm trying to say - but I am busy learning the technical skills to be able to make it happen when I've decided". I got the impression that you enjoyed working in C4D, and were starting to really appreciate the joy of edge flow. So it's great shame if you quit now, because in a way you are over the hardest bit - the initially steep learning curve, the realisation that 3D is actually quite hard to do well, and you were just about to get over the basics and into the really interesting sides of the application. CBR

OK - I had a look, and it's all fine except the boole :)

Yeah I couldn't enter it - people don't want that sort of heart this time of year.

Hmmm. Mine doesn't do that for some reason. My + and - buttons do work across everything together, but don't ever give me levels of rotation I can't control whatever I set them to. Perhaps this is one that is worth asking 3DConnexion themselves about, because I am not aware of a way to only affect the speed of one property.

Thanks dude. Scratch layers are part of the material in c4d, though I made the map(s) in photoshop.

Gotta have the awards !!!

Round 2 of the helmet textures... This took half an hour to render (physical, adaptive, AO, no GI) ...and his top half nearly done (except arms)... If anyone could tell me why my Irwan reflectance is doing that moire discoloration thing on his right shoulder in that last render, I'd like to know ! Thanks CBR

3DConnexion make lots of different controllers. On mine, the space explorer, I have 2 buttons labelled + and - that alter reaction time. Does yours not have those ?

Well - there's more lines in that suit control panel than you'd think... not finished yet, but I gotta sleep sometime.

I can't give you modelling advice without seeing a wireframe render so I can see your topology. But I'm not seeing any problems in the render....

Pffffft :) I bought my drummer some drum sticks like that last year, which looked amazing, but lasted for just under 30 seconds of professional drumming ! Yours might last longer than that if you don't eat anything too hot or spicy with them. But they are cool, no doubt about it :)

Thanks. Looking good :)