[boewolf]

ok i resorected my nemisis jug for a mining station.  but i need to get the poly cound down.  but i don't know how to do it.  any advice would be appreciated.  thanks all.



I give u all a look at the GTI Gem (name in progress)

[Knight Templar]

Perspectve view?

[Unknown Target]

I'm sorry, I'm no texturer, but that texture job...sends me into spasms of pain.

[Knight Templar]

I'd like to see more views of the ship before I comment on the textures...

[boewolf]

who sayed anything about textures.  the poly count is what i am trying to get down.  it is too high for me to convert.  i can work on textures and what not later.  the texturing can be changed.  but i realy need to get the poly count down.  i can post some extra screens soonish.

[DragonClaw]

Well if you want people ot help you with polycount, you're just hurting yourself by posting pictures with textures; we can't even see the individual polygons like that. Lose the textures and post screens.

[boewolf]

the extra pics that were requested.

[Knight Templar]

Centered, closer, and without textures, and we would be able to see the polies.. other wise the best I can give you is optimizing..

[Unknown Target]

EDIT: Removed.

[boewolf]

the non textured ones as well

[Unknown Target]

Poly wasting spheres, poly wasting blocky pointy things, poly wasting spire thingies.


You go nuts with the extrusion tool?

[Woolie Wool]

Ugh! There must be thousands of polys in those spires, spheres, and weird twisty things. You've really gone overboard with the round bits.

[KARMA]

ahhh c'mon the spheres aren't that overdetailed for an htl engine and considering their size.
you should see my in progress moncalamari if you want to see some true overdetailing in rounded parts:)
nonetheless there seem to be some polywasting here and there, and expecially on the docking (?) spikes.
plus there are some intersections (not much a problem in theory) and I'm a bit perplex from the spiral spikes that are  odd

[Killfrenzy]

I think the 'smooth quad divide' button got pressed somewhere!

[mikhael]

At 5k poly, you're perfectly safe, I'd say. However, there's a lot of work that can be done to optimise those over detailed spikes coming out of the right side. I don't know how you'd go about doing anything in Truespace though. I do all my optomising in Lightwave.

[boewolf]

ok i have managed to lower the poly count a lot but the gas tanks don't look as good.  but here it is again

[Nico]

Originally posted by KARMA
ahhh c'mon the spheres aren't that overdetailed for an htl engine and considering their size.
you should see my in progress moncalamari if you want to see some true overdetailing in rounded parts:)
nonetheless there seem to be some polywasting here and there, and expecially on the docking (?) spikes.
plus there are some intersections (not much a problem in theory) and I'm a bit perplex from the spiral spikes that are  odd

it's not coz you can that you must
optimizing will make a cleaner mesh, and save more polys for additional details. There's many useless polys there that you could get rid of, w/o altering the look of the thing. Don't go the Microsoft way, optimize

[KARMA]

ehy, I still clean my meshes:)...I'm just more rude than before when deciding how many details I want to add and how many edges I'll use for smoothed  parts (a lot:p)

[boewolf]

i like the way it is at the moment exept the gas tanks.  I gotts change them to something

[boewolf]

After fixing the gas tanks i have thrown on some skins just for testing perposes and managed to get it to convert this time.  i haven't got much details on it, that is if i do put more details on it at all.  anyway here it is.