This is looking great!!

Lokes Great
can't waith untill its released.Do you have a mounth or something?

Howdy!  Just to let you all know, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. 


Here is an update.  I'm now working on the pilot.  These screenshots are actually for the hi-poly figure.  I have a low poly version specifically for MSFS.  In Cinema 4D I have the ability to switch between high and low poly models.

It took me a while to figure out how to model the helmet.  There were absolutely no tutorials out there to teach one how to do this.  And when I get the chance I'll make one for all interested, because I'm sure there will be people asking how to make a flight helmet.  I'll tell you this, it's just all trial and error and manipulation of points and polygons till you get it right.

I found some great references for the helmet and mask that I modeled.  I am modeling a Vietnam USAF era HGU-33/P helmet and associated MBU 5/P oxygen Mask.  I also modeled the HGU 26 helmet and MBU 12 mask.

Famous aviation artist, Lou Drendell has a great illustration of a Vietnam era fighter pilot.  You can see some of his work here: http://www.aviation-art.net/gallery_two.htm

I used Cinema 4D's "Zygote" default human for the base model.  His clothing was blue jeans and a white shirt, so I just colored them a flight suit green.  I manipulated the poly's so that he has long sleeves, and the gloves are really just his hands, but modified with the standard green/grey texture to match actual flight gloves.  I will be modeling a kind of high/low poly harness, straps, and G suit for the pilot too.

Everything is still a Work in Progress, so at the moment there is no ribbing on the oxygen hose, and I still need to add the straps that attach to the mask itself.  Also I'll add pockets and pouches - for the low-poly version I'll do all this within the texture and bumpmap.

Enjoy!

Yeah this model showing is more high-poly than I would put in the flightsim model.  Like I said, I have two versions, a high and low poly.  I'll upload some shots of a lower poly version.  I just like the way the higher poly looks, hehe.  Yeah for the hose?  Most definitely bumpmapped. 

You could also try making a extremely high poly model(dropping in NURBS? in C4D??) and then render a texture from that, i remember reading something about that on gamasutra, kinda like the Zbrush approach.

djackson wrote on Jun 5^th, 2007 at 1:05am:



Yeah I actually have Zbrush, so I'm very interested to see if there's a way for me to do displacement mapping on the texturing.

This model will obviously have to be converted through 3ds Max, and I have a friend that will do that for me.

One of the best models I have ever seen. I signed up on your site but how do I beta test?