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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Liberator on July 11, 2004, 04:07:37 pm

Title: My latest effort
Post by: Liberator on July 11, 2004, 04:07:37 pm: I was screwing around this afternoon and made these:
(http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/LOWPOLYcykehel.jpg)

What do you think?
They need texturing(they're not UVed because I don't know how to do that), but I think they would do well for the higher poly Helios and Cyclops. If someone wants to take a crack at texturing them go ahead, their in the same dxf file which should be openable by every thing, or PM me for a specific format. I can probably coax a COB or 3DS out of 3dex.

http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/LOWPOLYcykehel.dxf
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Liberator on July 11, 2004, 06:59:08 pm: anybody?
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 11, 2004, 07:03:59 pm: Those are great hi poly bombs, and I would texture em if I could, but I'm still trying to figure out modeling :)
Title: My latest effort
Post by: aldo_14 on July 11, 2004, 07:11:49 pm: Seems a bit excessive, poly wise, to me........nice enough design, tho, but IMO more render than game models.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Liberator on July 11, 2004, 10:31:55 pm: Not really, I raytraced those. Both of them together come to 608 verts and 1208 faces and I think the Cyclops got a few more than the Helios. If I had wanted to make(and I still might if I can find someone to UV/Texture them) render models I'd gone for about 2000 per bomb, probably more and modeled the intricate details that are in the ANIs.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Nuke on July 11, 2004, 10:55:14 pm: you really dont see weapons models in the game unless they are really slow. i have made many of them but never wanted to go overboard on the polycouts just because they would go boomb before you could admire them.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Knight Templar on July 11, 2004, 10:59:57 pm: Way too many polies for missiles IMO. No need, even if we can handle it.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Bobboau on July 11, 2004, 11:06:38 pm: even with HTL that's too many polys, if it was a fighter or bomber it'd be fine, but that's waisting polys there. try to keep it below 100 polys for bombs, they do after all just go boom.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Liberator on July 11, 2004, 11:17:40 pm: I started with a 20 vertice circle for both of them, should I use something like a ten, bear in mind they only have 5 sides right now and look like crap.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Raptor on July 12, 2004, 03:35:30 am: Looks like my turf is under attack... j/k;)

I made a hi-poly Helios a while ago, but have never got round to finishing it. LODs are done, just needs UVmapping + texturing.

Screenies, old and new LOD0 (copy shortcut, paste)

http://angelfire.com/space2/raptorsnest/Helios1.jpg
http://angelfire.com/space2/raptorsnest/Helios2.jpg

361 polys on that one.
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Bobboau on July 12, 2004, 03:55:59 am: I'd say 12, but don't go overboard on the extrusions, I'd say you could easily make a model with more than enough polies withough going over 50
Title: My latest effort
Post by: karajorma on July 12, 2004, 04:53:41 am: Nice work the pair of you but I think I prefer Raptor's somewhat :)
Title: My latest effort
Post by: Liberator on July 12, 2004, 11:29:27 am: Whe I get some time, maybe I crank out a better HP Helios, suitable for rendering. I messed around last night with a 10 vert circle and ended up with 160 faces, maybe this could be lowered somemore, but there's a minimum quality level that I'm unwilling to go below.