The random model thread!

That's one tough exercise dude, making a lowpoly model out of a simple stylized character like that.

What's important here is to respect the global masses and the dynamic lines of your character :

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Try to understand how it works in a global way before starting any detailing, i've drawn in red the masses and in blue the dynamic lines.

Be also very careful of the animation, add some edge lines at the articulations. And do not make them straight, make them follow the volume

I hope it helps and that it's not too late :x

Snow pine for dead be for xmas.

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Now that is one well made tree!!

Wow that's really good tomdon. I don't think I've ever seen a good snow tree before.

Thanks chaps, its a real pain doing snow branches, thats about the third revision I made over lunch. Its not perfect but its the best of a bad batch lol.

It does look weird from underneath, tho, but it looks really well from the outside.

Looks great, you really sold the weight of the snow on the branches.

Yeah it does look really cool, volumes work well, some slight baked shadows in the diffuse on the trunk would help too, but maybe you made it tile ?

Yeah the trunks tiling.

Make a nice tillable texture of a trunk tree with some branch shadows then

whoa that's really cool, the branches look a little glowy underneath but it really looks nice overall. I love how you got the weight of the snow to come across.

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a model of a sort of flying thing i made for my mod.

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Needs some kind of legs, like for when it lands. It looks neat but odd without some kind of landing gear.

Making a model for coulianos' new hl2 map

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1240 polys and 1024 diffuse normal and spec.

I absolutely LOVE that texture, especially the spec! great job man! Love the mix between toonish and real, for some reason..

one thing to point out tho, your bake came out fucked.

Which is pretty normal for cilindrical shapes, It's (almost) impossible to avoid so what you need to do is retouch the normal map in photoshop, check this:

http://wiki.polycount.net/Normal_Map#he ... b02def61ff

Check out this thread:

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread. ... ant&page=2

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Good luck!

Cheers HP, I'm gonna give it a shot

Awesome bomb.

~16,000 polys with normal map and AO. Im using xoliul's viewport shader with a cubemap ambient source and one omni. The tread extrusions are built to be easily removable for a first LOD stage.

Holy dogshit! Looks solid, can't say more

Big fuck off diggers rock