blog 7

A3D blog 7

Continuingon from where I stopped previously, left with the uv’s I reopened Maya

I selected the helmet decorations  

Because of the simple shape I used the automatic mapping option so it came out like this

I then decided to work on the decoration on the knee pads

For the front and back I selected the faces and click on the planar mapping and set it on z, to get these results

I selected all the faces around it

I click on the automatic mapping option because it would be quicker and more effective than selecting the faces and angles individually

I then reposition then

I then went onto the chest decoration 

Because the shape isn’t too complex I decided to use automatic mapping 

I then place them as so

Now that the armour and head was done I now had to do the body, so I started off with the waist

 I clicked on the cylindrical mapping option and placed it in the uv editor

After I this I then went on to do the legs

I decided to do the legs in small sections so I selected the top part first

When selecting the top part I used cylindrical mapping

I then moved on to the calves

I used the same process as I did with the other legs

After I selected the parts I could not use the same method

For these I used automatic mapping to get this

 I then started on the lower parts of the legs

For this I used cylindrical mapping

Going onto the parts I could not cylindrical unwrap

Instead I used automatic mapping

I then went on with the feet

For then I just used automatic mapping

I then placed them like so

To finish off the uv’s I went onto the arms

To complete this I used automatic mapping

I then placed all the uv’s I had created into the uv graph

To finish the model off I selected the mesh and clicked on mesh smooth

I then decided to create an AO map by first going into hyper shade and creating a new lambert  

I then selected the mesh

I then went onto baking and clicked on assign new texture set

I set it onto occlusion and set the rays to 64

I then went onto bake batch

Here was the result

Reflection

I found that modelling a character was a very good way of improving my modelling skills as I learnt a lot about modelling characters and unwrapping them. I also found that it was a very much trial and error process and that keeping files of every change you did was very useful and saved time as instead of trying to solve a problem over and over again. I am going to use this character in my rigging show reel.