FragMe, I'm curious; how did you go about making the window-thing?

duplicate the polys, scale them down a bit, duplicate again and move inwards a i suppose.

Nothing so elaborate, select the polies for the windows, extract and keep.
On the extracted polmesh, select lines for the windows
Bevel components, adjust the inset to what looks good. Click on maintain ortho. Then went a bit overboard and set the splt number (can't remember name it is on the second table though) to 3. Then selected the polies of the actual window bits and deleted them.
So it is a mesh sitting on the original mesh.

This can also be done by selecting the polies and while in one of the windows right click and select Inset Polygons and adjust to your liking, and then once again delete the window polygons if you want.

Edit

A comparison of the 2 methods


The lower one (thicker) is the inset polygon method, the other is the bevel method.
The original on the model was bevel, I have now changed it to inset. As you can see it is a lot cleaner on the joints and will be easier to UV.

@Labj, FragMe!: Nice models guys.

@Labj: realy nice work
@FragMe: wow, this is awesome, i love the window
and thanks for the picture, now i realy understand this

Star Fox 64 Landmaster: If someone does not remember, here is a video of a Landmaster-level out Star Fox 64:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8966JNoZv2Q

Can't wait to see it ingame!

A rather quick(about 1h) model of a helmet design I had in mind for some days. I dont like the visor that much though... Its at 8.8 million tris right now(after 4 times SubD preview).
Wireframe if someones interested(beware its a bit messy):

ANDEWEGET wrote:

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A rather quick(about 1h) model of a helmet design I had in mind for some days. I dont like the visor that much though... Its at 8.8 million tris right now(after 4 times SubD preview).
Wireframe if someones interested(beware its a bit messy):

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WOW!

Now THAT'S impressive!
(of course that's coming from someone who hasn't been able to figure out the basics of modeling to a person who has been doing this for who knows how long and models are basically fantasticallyawesomesauce....

So, ya...)

looks awesome
kinda reminds me of the original master chief helmet from halo CE without the cap thing ofc

@Redline: Awesome! Nice work.
@ANDEWEGET: Wow. Just wow. Amazing.

Redline , nice work .
ANDEWEGET , it is just excellent my friend .

Hmmm now im thinking Aqua trooper with that..or arial...or pilot maybe...anyway its an extremely nice helm!

@ANDE

8.8 mm...m.m..mmm.m.MILLION TRI

Daaaaaaaaaaaang. It looks good but, that could never go in any game. We should really have a seperate Non-SWBF Seried Model Showcase thread for this kind of thing.

lol a basic (flash) grenade. no textures yet lol really basic...

THEWULFMAN wrote:@ANDE

8.8 mm...m.m..mmm.m.MILLION TRI

Daaaaaaaaaaaang. It looks good but, that could never go in any game. We should really have a seperate Non-SWBF Seried Model Showcase thread for this kind of thing.

That kind of model would be used to bake detail down to a severely poly reduced model. It's fine to post this kind of stuff in this thread anyway. It's slow enough already as is.

@ ANDEWEGET: wow, thats what i call a detailed model, awesome work
@ Redline: nice, looks cool . one question, will it have animated treads (like Snail Tank)?
@ bamdur123: great work, love it, but you need a new animation for it(remove safety-ring)

i´m back with a new model here on this thread
it is the Nubian J-Type Diplomatic Barge from Ep2 ATOC and wireframe of course still working on texture, landingramp and feets will be add too

As i told you on xfire , it is an excellent model .

@naru1305

Nice looking model, still a wip? Just asking because I was wondering why you'd triangulate the model if you are still working on it, makes it harder to work on imoa.

FragMe! wrote:@naru1305

Nice looking model, still a wip? Just asking because I was wondering why you'd triangulate the model if you are still working on it, makes it harder to work on imoa.

it is WIP, but not triangulate, i haven´t done this yet, why do you mean i do this?