WIP 5th centry Korea cavalry

Gorillajin

Hello

I have been modeling high poly models, and this is my first low poly modeling. I have made the same thread on different forum, but I think this website gets more replies and advice. My purpose making this character is to understand and study low poly game modeling.
All though I am not a fan of sculpting details, and go for realistic, I think this is a good project for me to study game modeling.

I am finding difficulties on baking and textuering for game characters, and now I know how hard is to create good game models.

The general is about 8500 polys and the horse is about 5000. Currently I applied spec, diffuse, normal, and bump maps on blin shader in Maya.
I need to tweak and add textures.

Any advice from experts or more experienced game modelers, would be great.

Thank you.

Gorillajin

While I was checking other people's thread, I realized that wireframes are triangulated? Is this necessary? Can anyone tell me the reasons of it?

Thank you.

BobtheGreatII

In general game engines tend to work in triangles rather than quads. So we usually do low poly meshes in tri's to both: 1. Show that we know what we're doing when making a low poly, and 2. For accurate representation of how it may look in game.

At least that's why I do it.

respawnrt

Gorillajin wrote: »

While I was checking other people's thread, I realized that wireframes are triangulated? Is this necessary? Can anyone tell me the reasons of it?

Thank you.

Because they are taking the screens in a game engine which triangulates everything, or marmoset which does the same.You should post untriangulated if you can as well in portfolio ( not counting optimisation triangulation you do or other things)from your 3d app of choice.

Gorillajin

Thank you for all the replies.
Is 8500 poly on one character considered low poly?
I know next gen game character model is around 12000 polys?

Gorillajin

I usually do not use typical 3 points light setup for high poly models. I am wondering whether it's ok with low poly modeing?
This is 3 points light setup that I tried to make for the model.
Is this better than the first images that I posted?
Thank you.

Gorillajin

Ok, I updated a bit of my work.
Please give me some critiques and advice.
Thank you.