How to make a cylindrical low poly shape look round in texture

Leavur · Feb 2017

I don't know if the title is accurate enough, therefore I've added some images where my problem is shown.
I just want that the edge of the golden material goes around in a circle instead of a 8 sided polygon.
The mesh is low poly and I've baked several maps with the high poly in Substance Painter.
Thanks in advance.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/vf/2o2425925cly.png

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Leavur · Feb 2017

Sure. And, I dont know if that's important, but the first two screenshot are from Substance Painter and the rest from Maya.

Add3r · Feb 2017

Only way you are going to sell that shape is with more polygons. The normals you are baking down look to be good in the provided screenshots (IMO). Really just comes down to the low tri-count in your low poly displaying the normals.

Drew++ · Feb 2017

Maybe something like this?

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8510078/ShareX/2017/02/2017-02-10_12-34-02.png

Leavur · Feb 2017

@Add3r: Mhn, alright. I just wanted to get into low poly modeling for games so I try to kept the poly count fairly low.
@Drew++: That might work, I just have to figure out how to connect the 16 edges to the surrounding big surface, maybe just with some triangles too? I'll try that.
Thank you guys very much already.

poopipe · Feb 2017

use a bigger cage so the metal ring bakes onto the wooden part

Quack! · Feb 2017

Do as people said above.
You could also make sure that the overshot parts of the material share the same values as the underlying surface. You could also just remove the Geo, and bake those details onto the handle.

In modern game dev, for console/pc, using anything less than 16 sides to a cylinder for something like this is a fools errand, as triangles are cheap as hell.

huffer · Feb 2017

Make a wood mask on the cylinder too, so the outer polygonal edges will get a wood material in Painter, not gold. There might be some texture seams, but it won't be near as noticeable.

How to make a cylindrical low poly shape look round in texture

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