That's looking good! keep it up!

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Looking real good man, cant wait to see updates.

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AWSOME! Great Species of lizzard to pic, looks almost like a dragon! I cant wait to see the whole thing!

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MuS@shiROth

There was a time here in texas where you could find them everywhere. Not much any more.

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there are a few ones in Mexico, but they are sold as pets in the markets, it´s a shame

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Everything has some beauty but not everyone is able to see it (Confucius)

new updates

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Everything has some beauty but not everyone is able to see it (Confucius)

OMG! Amazing detail!

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MuS@shiROth

hey buddies, i was wondering if it will be better to map it using pelt
what do you think?

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Everything has some beauty but not everyone is able to see it (Confucius)

Pelt mapping works really well. especially if you want to hand paint textures in photoshop. If you have z-brush this kindof creature is crying for a good displacement map. I find texturing in zbrush to be the most pleasurable experience plus you can do displacements and normal maps using the same uvs. in fact doing both is probably the ideal situation. you can have your max uvs on mapping channel 2 and mix a few maps together. Of course if you havent used z-brush before theres a significant learning curve.

Another option is to map him procedurally. Ie: use procedural maps like noise and cellular. You could do things like use a falloff map set to towards away with the falloff direction set to world z-axis to mix two materials together. this would make one texture on the surfaces facing up and the other on the surfaces facing down

heres a maxfile to demonstrate what I mean.

[Link to rapidshare.com]

Then when all the mapping is done you can use render to texture and bake all the procedural maps into bitmaps using automatic flatten or use your pelt mapped uvs. if you used the pelt uvs in this way you could go and paint more detail into the maps and use the procedural stuff as a kind of base layer.

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Adding to the pelt unwrap comment: render uvs to image file for mask painting in photoshop. Multiple masks for total control of procedural materials.

The power of procedural materials and photographs!
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Wow, that's a very creative material! Very lizard like!

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MuS@shiROth

x2!

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Hey Tyson, thanks for the file man¡¡¡¡
yea, i´m gonna detail further this model, but i don´t have Zbrush, i have mudbox, both are pretty much the same, the cellular maps are a good idea too.
I think i´m gonna use pelt mapping because i want to make the textures in photoshop, anyway, i´ve heard pretty good commetaries of texturing in Zbrush so i´ll try to get the program.














































DAMN, sorry for the big space up, my mouse went crazy

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Everything has some beauty but not everyone is able to see it (Confucius)

That's looking really great. Organic shapes can be very difficult but you're doing great so far. Keep us posted!

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But the lock ness monster DOES exist!! lol

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