Rollerblades

Utility · Nov 2015

Howdy y'all,

I'm making a set of rollerblades to go with my last project (Shorty Shotty as seen here: http://polycount.com/discussion/155091/shorty-shotty#latest) , gonna make a small environment for both of them afterwards. Anyway, I'm just about to texture but would like any pointers as far as the model goes, specifically poly density and flow - this is a more organic shape than I usually model so I feel a little unsure if it's on point.

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/bladewires1.png

Poly count: 6447 quads (per rollerblade).

Utility · Nov 2015

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/bladesprogresswhatever.png

IT BEGINS!!! Viewport render looked neat, so here's a quick update. I also wanted to say that I'm going to go for some street style with the texturing. I've been thinking a lot about Jet Set Radio. Let's see how fast I can get this puppy textured.

Maxilator · Nov 2015

What is going on with the smoothing?

Utility · Nov 2015

Ahhh yeah, I had just uploaded that last one 'cause it looked neat with just the normal map applied - though there's some smoothing issues I'm aware of.
**Edit**

Fixed.

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/bladenormalsfixed.png

Utility · Nov 2015

Update: Normals done (for the most part, gonna see if I can get what I want with dDO).

Seriously though, any clue why my OBJ from Maya worked when my OBJ from Max wouldn't? I spent a good hour struggling to get dDO/3DO to show this gorram thing. (Struggle thread here: http://polycount.com/discussion/160582/)

Wayfray · Nov 2015

Not sure if this is related, but I found that substance painter will not preserve edge orientation when importing obj files, so I import my low poly meshes in fbx format.

Also, your boots seem to have lots of components in the low poly. You could look into baking down some of the buckle parts and other details on the boot.

Utility · Nov 2015

Update:

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/bladesTextureProg1.png

^Texture progress. Quixel is crashing a LOT, so ... this is as far as I'm going today (sanity reasons). The colour of the shell's going to be changed, but it's a kind of happy accident that it took the curvature map and did that.

Wayfray, thanks for the suggestion. I'm too far along to go back now, but I'll keep that in mind for next time. Generally I like to model stuff out and then only bake down things that eat up a LOT of polys. Since it's for showing off I'm not trying to keep the count too low- if it was something for a game I'd definitely optimize that kind of stuff.

Utility · Nov 2015

Small update- grungy graphics thing test:

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/BladesTextureProg2.png

pixelpatron · Nov 2015

Was diggin this till your last update. not a fan of the sticker or decal you've goton there atm. I guess I wanted these to stay somewhat high tech lookin'.

Utility · Nov 2015

Updateroony:

Plain colour:

With mud and graphics:

I'm thinking of keeping #2 here. I'm gonna work on a funky coloured one WITH STICKERS because that's how I roll.

Utility · Nov 2015

Third colour option - I just had fun with it, and matched the colour to go with my shotgun. I'm going to make a scene that has both models in it next, so we'll see how they look in it. (Shotgun thread: http://polycount.com/discussion/155091/shorty-shotty#latest)

Textures and Wires:

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4766301/BladesWiresAndTextures.png

Utility · Nov 2015

Also a sketchfab link if you wanna manipulate the model- haven't quite figured out the materials for it so they don't look as snazzy as my 3DO renders.

https://skfb.ly/Iv6W

Sketchfab · Nov 2015

The site update broke our integration here on Polycount, but it should be fixed soon. We'll provide updates here:

http://polycount.com/discussion/160887/sketchfab-integration-on-polycount-is-broken#latest

^bart

Rollerblades

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