[Liberator]

I was screwing around this afternoon and made these:


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

[Liberator]

anybody?

[Jetmech Jr.]

Those are great hi poly bombs, and I would texture em if I could, but I'm still trying to figure out modeling

[aldo_14]

Seems a bit excessive, poly wise, to me........nice enough design, tho, but IMO more render than game models.

[Liberator]

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.

[Nuke]

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.

[Knight Templar]

Way too many polies for missiles IMO. No need, even if we can handle it.

[Bobboau]

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.

[Liberator]

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.

[Raptor]

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.

[Bobboau]

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

[karajorma]

Nice work the pair of you but I think I prefer Raptor's somewhat

[Liberator]

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.