Create a low poly sphere

defecticon001

I know it sounds stupid but hear me out.

I want to know if there's a trick to creating a sphere with textures or making a really low poly sphere appear to be smooth and round.

I'm building a character who has multiple spheres that make up each arm (kinda like Vectorman) and want to keep the count as low as possible.

I've considered doing the ol' two-plane cross section but I don't feel I need to go that low.

Any words of wisdom are appreciated

Muzzoid

Should be in tech talk but here ya go.

Had an example sitting around.

You pretty much want to collapse the small edges.

defecticon001

Thanks for the info. I'll give the route a go.

I tried to look for the best fitting section but I guess I didn't dig deep enough. I'll take my newb stamp for the day

defecticon001

I was able to get the 80 tris down to 60, as in the example, but not the from 48 (8 segment sphere) down to 40.

Snader

Regular sphere sucks, subdivcube is easy to texture, manual optimization is a good compromise between texturing/usability/polycount, geosphere is lowest polycount.


If you want to go even lower, a 2-segmented icosa-based geosphere will run only 80 triangles, a 3-segmented octa-based one takes only 72 triangles and a 2 segmented octa-based geosphere will cost only you 32 tris. No editing required, just fiddling a bit with the geosphere settings.

defecticon001

Thanks for the advice. I think I'm going to use ao combo of the icosa-based and manually optomized as needed.