HD ODST helmet

[Cobbatron]

At user request, I made an HD ODST helmet.
I worked on it for about a month. It includes, I think, the most HD visor out of all the helmets I've seen, it includes all the indents, all neck area details, and a bunch of other great things!

That was the visor around day 2

That is the helmet at about the end of week 1

This is the helmet around the end of week 3

Here is the finished helmet, unfolded by my good friend Zero2o2
http://www.4shared.com/file/lPZAwm_a/Rhinocs_ODST_Helmet_Zero2o2.html

Hope you all like the helmet, I had alot of fun making it.

Peace,
Rhinoc

 

[Zero2o2]

Hey Rhinoc thanks to started this thread and i must say BEAUTIFULL MODEL the helmet is one of the best from 405th and the way you make it is unbelievable.
It was a hard Job to unfold it and shows me that my work on the unfolds can be better but after 3 days fun with this great 3D model. I must say YOU`RE one of THE BEST MODELERS i see and all what you use is blender and this is the best result when you work with blender.

WE ARE ODST

Thanks to you Rhinoc, Zero2o2

 

[kupokitty]

Ooooh, shiny. Nice work, Rhinoc!

 

[rundown]

I'm sorry to say this but that would be near impossible to build in pep...
Using a subsurf isn't the wisesd option for pepakura in blender...
I don't think anybody would actually have the time/nerves to make this. To high poly count in the face.
You gotta lower the poly level extremely in some areas. Oh can you show your wireframe? I think you might have some traingles in there.

 

[Cobbatron]

Actually, the subsurf was only for the pictures! the poly count is a little more than the poly count for your ODST.
And yes there are some triangles, but only where it was necessary (in my opinion at least)

 

[rundown]

I think its a still a mess :/ Looked at your 3d data from the pep and it defenatly needs a buge cleanup before its pepable.

This really has to mutch small poly's that would need a toothpick to fold :/

 

[Cobbatron]

What the what?!
When I made it there werent that many verts and edges! I seriously have no idea how the hell that all happened!
Hmmmm...

 

[phixix]

Did you apply a poly or mesh smoothing option to it..? That can sometimes multiply the poly count. Also you should always model in either quads or tri's, never both, pepakura doesn't like it ><

-Phi

 

[Hugh Holder]

Hey Rhinoc! Great job!

It looks like whatever program you exported it out of triangulated the mesh. If it was blender it's probably because of how the program handles objects on a component level. There are tools that can help you fix this. I know Maya's quadrangulate (hurray for made up words) tool works if you really read into it's settings. Also, Zbrush will allow you to fix the mesh and re-export. The problem is in order for a quadrangulate function to work the mesh needs to have been divided evenly into triangles. And looking at your mesh, that's not the case :/

What I mean is every square (or quad) needs to have been split evenly, giving you six edge intersections or 6 star clusters. With your mesh however, I'm seeing 8 and 9+ edge star clusters. That makes it super confusing for a program to fix!

In any case, you have a great model and with a little cleanup it can be ready to go in no time

It looks like we modeled from the same reference! When I was checking your model out I noticed it was at the exact same axis and rotation as mine lol

 

[Road Kill]

nice work man, but they're right it is kinda a mess but it is really good

 

[Cobbatron]

@Hugh Holder- I did use the same reference as you! I actually got it from your thread, i hope that was alright...

@everyone- I am going to clean the model up sometime soon and re-release it so that it wont have as many... tabs, when you put it in pep.

ETRR- 2 days

 

[Hugh Holder]

No it's great. That's why I made it available, I'm glad there are people out there putting it to use! Once again, great job sir

 

[Cobbatron]

Thank god! I was really worried about that when I was making it.

Also I need to change the ETRR (estimated time of re-release) to a few weeks from now because I do not have the file at this moment! OOPPS!!

 

[Peagis01]

First off this is truly amazing work on both of your parts! Secondly Is this fixed to use? I download it and it looked okay to me but I'm new to the Pep stuff so...

 

[Cobbatron]

OK I made a promise and I will keep it.

http://www.4shared.com/file/1WnUuEVF/HD_ODST_helmet.html

There (finally) is a much improved ODST helmet, I have found an unfolder for it (I think) and he will start it soon. Hope you guys like!!

 

[Peagis01]

Thanks for all your hard work Rhinoc!

 

[gurgle528]

how do i get this as a 3d model without buying pepakura?

 

[Ral Partha]

how do i get this as a 3d model without buying pepakura?

Have you even downloaded the file?