Fokker Dr1 - ‘Remember Me?’ (Part 2) - Page 2

Becco_UK · 1 July 2008, 05:10 AM

ManfredL & Sreiko

Attention turns once more to the cowl. For some reason I've found this part to be the most challenging - probably because I didn't know how the real thing was made and secured. Having got some more info' for these Fokker DR1 cowls I have done some reworking of the cowl mesh and added some more detail.

Becco_UK · 1 July 2008, 05:11 AM

The revised cowl with some plain materials - this will be painted with the fuselage parts.

womenfly2 · 1 July 2008, 05:37 AM

Awesome, just awesome!

Nice job on the cowling too.

Q: When done will it be animated to fly around, shoot guns and such?

WF2

Becco_UK · 3 July 2008, 05:20 PM

womenfly2: Thank you. I have no plans at present to do animations with this particular model. My computer groans enough churning out these still preview renders. The model is well over half a million polygons at present which is not good for acceptable render times when it comes to animation. I had it flying in my modelling softwares' OpenGL screen though!

This update is with some tidying up of some parts so that the painting of the fuselage can finally get underway. The main work done is out of sight but time was spent on the upper fusulage metal paneling (don't know the correct name) - splitting into seperate panels and adding some thickness.

Becco_UK · 9 July 2008, 04:01 AM

Slowly the model is getting closer to completion.

I'm going to use a seperate texture map for most of the fuselage parts so all those components have now been connected into a single mesh. A total of 156 polygon selections were created with these parts - should make creating the UV map quicker (hopefully!).

Becco_UK · 11 July 2008, 02:59 PM

Painting the fuselage gets underway. Seen here with some base colours and a baked ambient occlusion used as a dirt mask. The new parts have been split according to material type - dirty alloy, painted alloy, painted steel and cloth surfaces.

Becco_UK · 14 July 2008, 05:28 PM

Back to this one, I painted the wing streaks using 'Painter' but have thought for some time they could be better. So, with the fuselage I've tried doing the streaked paint effect with BodyPaint and I like this version much better. The wings will redone in BodyPaint too and use Painter for some blending work. This update also includes the first bit of dirt to be added.

Becco_UK · 16 July 2008, 04:14 AM

Second go at streaking the wings.

gipsymoth236k · 16 July 2008, 05:26 AM

A minor correction needed here: there was actually only ONE foot step, and it was located on the LEFT side of the fuselage. You need to remove your right-side foot step. However, you correctly show the two left and right rear fuselage lift handles.

GREAT job so far!

Regards, Gary Sewall

Becco_UK · 16 July 2008, 08:28 AM

gipsymoth236k: Thanks for pointing the step error out. I will delete the extra one