T1 and T2 Endoskeleton Research Thread

[Too Much Garlic]

Cool.

Did a little more 3D scanning. I did these following pieces:

Ankle Joint - the very bottom of the shin section. It's drilled straight through, but in the T1 video it should be a ball joint piece, but I cannot wrap my head around how that would look on the inside.

Lower Arm - I scanned the piece that connects to the elbow and think it turned out decent.

Shoulder Connector - I scanned both left and right piece as the cable holes are not on the same side, but opposite between the two. And when looking at them front on, they are not straight from top to bottom, instead they angle a little to one side. Is that to give a more normal shoulder posture? I will have to check if that is accurate to the originals.

I'm going to use these scans and do a retopology pass in Blender for the complicated models and then clean things up and fix the grooves and details. Time to hit some youtube videos.

 

[The Terminator]

Cool.

Did a little more 3D scanning. I did these following pieces:

Ankle Joint - the very bottom of the shin section. It's drilled straight through, but in the T1 video it should be a ball joint piece, but I cannot wrap my head around how that would look on the inside.

Lower Arm - I scanned the piece that connects to the elbow and think it turned out decent.

Shoulder Connector - I scanned both left and right piece as the cable holes are not on the same side, but opposite between the two. And when looking at them front on, they are not straight from top to bottom, instead they angle a little to one side. Is that to give a more normal shoulder posture? I will have to check if that is accurate to the originals.

I'm going to use these scans and do a retopology pass in Blender for the complicated models and then clean things up and fix the grooves and details. Time to hit some youtube videos.

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Would love to get a raw scan of something of your choosing to play with and see if I can clean it up...

 

[Too Much Garlic]

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Haven't had the time to check whether the lower arms are the same on both arms or they are two separate pieces and how they differ. I only have two of the same, so if there are differences between left and right, we can just incorporate those differences to a mirrored version perhaps. Or something.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Checked my reference. They seem to have used the same sculpt for both arms, with minor detail differences.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Anyone following this thread who has a full scale endoskeleton from authentic sources could you check if the two forearm pieces are the same on both sides of your piece and sound off here with what you have?

 

[The Terminator]

Some quick modelling and boolean.
Way too symmetrical compared to the scanned model. But you still get something way better than if you simply model from a low resolution photo.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Great start. Already looks better than what I could do.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Did a little scanning today. It is not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Started work on the ankle model using the scan as reference. The LFS version has some key differences from the SWS version and I will try to replicate the screen used look. So, the hole in the middle will be filled and the cutout on the heel rod will not be added as that detail is LFS only.

 

[joberg]

Looking good

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Thanks.

Anyone know the owner of the Lightstorm Endoskeleton? Would they possibly be open for some areas being molded or scanned? Not the whole thing. Just select parts.

Picture posted by Gizmo earlier in the thread:

 

[gizmo]

Pretty sure that’s the lightstorm office’s/headquarters. Cameron has been photographed with it recently also. I’ll find the pics.

Ben

 

[gizmo]

Did a little scanning today. It is not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased.

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I love that you’re preserving these for future. It’s pieces of history right there.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Pretty sure that’s the lightstorm office’s/headquarters. Cameron has been photographed with it recently also. I’ll find the pics.

Ben

Yeah, I was just wondering if they may be open to get parts of their endoskeleton scanned. There are certain parts that available kits and licensed pieces do not have that this one has, which I would love to get as part of my scans.

Also found a Blender retopology tool I'm gonna test out today on a couple of scans, to make the polygons look much better.

If anyone has any other Blender tips on how to easily perfect scans into less dense, but still super detailed models I'd love to hear it.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Crap. The above posted video probably won't work for me anyway. Read the comments on his video and he already had a perfect quad mesh to begin with, so his video wasn't even showing retopology. Crap.

Gotta find something better to help me out before I learn how to do it myself.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Okay... guess this is better, but it's for an older version of Blender, so the shortcuts they use and tools may not be exactly the same in the new version.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Had to take a break from this for a while as it was burning me out. The scanner doesn't seem willing to capture sharp mechanical lines, but is AMAZING at organic surfaces, but right now, I need the mechanical sharpness... so I am saving up for the Shining Einstar scanner. I may have to sell the MakerPro Mule in order to fund the other one, as none of the other stuff I have listed for sale on other forums is selling.

 

[joberg]

Take a break/rest...you'll be better for it

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Thanks man. I'm just working a little on some scaled Vader stuff... regarding 3D printing, so it is also something that is beneficial to this project down the line.

 

[The Terminator]

Off topic post:
T-888 from The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Heavily redesigned, to say the least.