Rubik's Cube- 4x4
 

So I was bored the day before school and I hadn't made any graphics for a long time and I haven't tried anything isometric for a long time either. I tried a new style of shading and I am not sure it worked out but I would like some opinions anyway.

Please do not be like "Eww it sucks". If you are going to post give some critique as well, you can say it sucks as much as you want and I won't care unless you tell me how to fix it.

The shading was something I read about on an isometric website and it was kind of different but I am not sure if it worked. I wasn't sure how to shade an entire cube with individual segments in it so if you know how to do that please post it.

It sucks, fix it.

Didnt he say no eww it sucks? as in this sucks? Anyways not bad i guess :)

Wow dude... just wow. Did you even read my post you dumb bastard?

These forums weren't blessed with the ability to comprehend sarcasm.

Seriously.

But anyways I think its nice, I wouldn't be able to make anything better. Only thing I don't like is the shade of colors, but what do I know. ^^

ewww, it sucks! but you can fix it by making it not suck! :Dgood job, 3/5

You applied the shading to each cube, as if it were the only cube. Don't forget they're part of a whole.

Yeah, you also might want to not use black outlines. Typically an isometric cube would look something like this:
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...xas/isobox.gif
Except...you know...good.

Actually, that's not a cube! :p

Lol its a Square ;)

A square is two dimensional, fool.

It's a cuboid, I think =o

It's a circle and we're just at a bad angle.

Lol

Sorry forgot how to read sarcasm(Sarcasm)

I tried shading it as a whole and it just looked awkward, coreys cube looks good but when you divide it into little square it looks really weird. This is what I was asking about in my post.

I will work on the outlines although if you have ever looked at a rubiks cube there are black spaces in between each cube. The black outlines were also helpful in the fact that whichever color I chose to go over them looked like there was more of that color in the general scheme of the cube.


If I could get some more help on how to shade a cube as a whole even when there are little divided sections that would be much appreciated. I will work on it some more.

You can't outline each section in black, that's all - because in real life these are defined by shade differences, not big black floating lines.

Looks very nice, but seems too much of something ... not sure what. Boxy or uniform, something like that. The little tiles don't look like tiles enough; they look like they're all connected versus having space in between.

Besides that, very nice!

Technically, the black lines SHOULD be there but they seem odd and out of place.

http://www.funstuffnow.com/images/rubiks-cube.jpg

the lines are quite small and when you zoom it out they will disappear eventually, I took a picture of my rubik's cube and then zoomed it far out on fireworks and it eventually vanished. :/

Ya, you have to think of the resolution. In his pixel one pixel(which the black line would be made of is equivalent) is equivalent to 1/4 the size of the small cubes in a rubic's cube. In his case darker outlines may give the feeling of black lines, while doing justice to the resolution.

I tried getting rid of the black lines and it just looks like a green square side, there is no difference in the cube sections. I also tried the lines in Dark green and it just looks like black.

This is a simple problem, and I'm afraid the solution is equally simple. I can think of two off hand.

The squares look to round and they don't shine, like hard, smooth plastic.