Create a low poly sphere

defecticon001 · Dec 2010

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 · Dec 2010

Should be in tech talk but here ya go.

Had an example sitting around.

You pretty much want to collapse the small edges.

defecticon001 · Dec 2010

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 · Dec 2010

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 · Dec 2010

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 · Dec 2010

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

Create a low poly sphere

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