Low Poly Sword

Nilltris

Greetings Everyone,

I am new in the World of modeling and game development. I got maya trough a friend at school and started reading on how model. I tryed to create a low-poly sword, and it came out pretty well (as far as I know). One question though, how can I reduce the polycount on the handle. If I set the axis divisions lower, it gets less polygons, but it also lose's it's round shape. Is there any ways to work around this?
Oh, and sorry for the pretty big image

arrangemonk

much to much polys for a simple sword,

Nilltris

Heh, okay. I really need to learn how i can get as low poly's as possible. Is there anything that can save me poly's right off the bat?

Japhir

make a plane with an alpha map and the diffuse applied to it

Baddcog

You have the correct idea for the handle. Low poly objects are not known for their 'roundness'. at most for a low poly sword you need 6-8 sides for that handle. You have somewhere around 20.

The smooth modifier (or whatever maya calls it) will make it render smoother than it is.


Also, you could get by with only 1 edge segment on the sword, you have 2.

I think the hand guard is much too blocky.

MLinderholm

Remove fans on the grip, and you could remove all the faces on the grip that is inside the hand guard.

Nilltris

I did not save my old sword project. So i re-started and tryed to follow the tips you guys gave me. this is the result:



Is this any better?

bounchfx

why are there the first two lines of edges on the blade itself? until the blade starts thinning near the tip I don't think you would need them, it looks pretty much straight anyway that no one would notice.

also, I can't tell by looking at this one like the other, but make sure you delete the faces at the top of the handle if you haven't already (the ones in the hilt)

rooster

something odd about the sword tip, it seems very smooth for a low poly model. can I see it triangulated?

SHEPEIRO

mm looks like nurbs or subD which is giving you a false tri/poly count

hawken

low poly, this is not.

is it really based on a sword? looks like lego.

My advice is to do a few maya tutorials in low poly modelling, really find out the difference between nurbs, quads and so on.