The random model thread!

    Mmm, in fact you prolly already compromised the silhoete more than you should. You should remove as much surface poligon detail as possible, and keep the silhouette polys.

    Painted as red where you should get rid of those polis, the normal map should sufice for these small details.

    Painted as blue where you should add some extra loops, so it keeps the silhouete

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    There aren't many loops around that area really anyway, it just looks very dense in the screengrab. But I took out the loops to see what the normal map looks like. Next stage is unwrapping... But should I carry on posting here or make a new thread? I feel bad for posting so much in this thread, but if I made my own thread nobody would comment lol.

    So how would you go about unwrapping the cylinder parts on the roof? I imagine they'd take up so much room on the UV map, and I cant exactly fit many cylinders into a UV map. Hmm.

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    So how would you go about unwrapping the cylinder parts on the roof? I imagine they'd take up so much room on the UV map, and I cant exactly fit many cylinders into a UV map. Hmm.tiling segments! You should really start over imo, just model and bake one segment, then make it all circular afterwards. It will save you time, and you'll end up with a better looking more efficiently built asset.

    What happened to my post? lol. I didn't put that bit at the end!

    Haha no worries man.

    So you'd just start this again from scratch? I'm trying to find some kind of tutorial about the technique you mentioned, but can't really find anything. Arrrgh! I'm so confused

    Héhé, one of my teacher said he prefer throw it peanuts instead of be scary :roll: i finish it today, need to open unreal for a good shot so not for today. I will make some animation next week.

    Hey man, welcome to the core!

    That's pretty cool, but you could get rid of those rivets and have that on the normal map instead!

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    ":1gbutk01]Hey man, welcome to the core! That's pretty cool, but you could get rid of those rivets and have that on the normal map instead!

    Thanks :3

    I did think of that, but it would look awfully flat imho.. Since there's barely anything going on with small details those bolts make it more finishing I think

    Lol @ normalmaps, Helder you really got brainwashed at the techtek

    Keep the rivets, use normal maps only where they really work/are needed.

    And welcome to the core

    lol, what? Shut up, my point remains. It's a rivet with a chamfer on it ffs, a normal map is more than enough to sell the idea of rivets, sometimes even better cos you wont have the hard edges.

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    Lol @ normalmaps, Helder you really got brainwashed at the techtek

    Don't worry HP! We're gonna normal map the normal map!!

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