Downrange Tomahawk

BI0PREDAT0R

Hey PC just posting my progress of a new project I'm doing, its a Gerber downrange tomahawk. Trying the get familiar with 3ds Max as I used Maya throughout my school years so I decided to work on something simple for now. Learned a lot so far and this is what I have done.



Critiques are always welcome

BI0PREDAT0R

Progress so far on my low poly and my normal map

Snader

That's an incredibly wasteful lowpoly. So many loops that don't do anything for the shape.

Nosslak

The pattern on the grip is too small as you can easily see the aliasing problems as the grip gets further away from the camera. The bottom edge of the blade needs a few more edges as well as it looks kind of jagged at the moment. Gotta agree with Snader that the model could be optimized a lot without any visible degradation.

BI0PREDAT0R

Okay cool thanks guys I'm going back to make those changes

BI0PREDAT0R

Update: Okay so far I was able to get the model down to 654 tri and fix the bottom of the blade, it turned out my high was creating that issue.

here the end result let me know if you guys see anything so i can go back and tweak more.

Nosslak

That's a lot better. There is still room for for optimization on some of the flat parts, but I'd say that this is acceptable. The bottom edge of the blade could be a little rounder right before it meets the cutting edge as you can see that it's a bit jagged if you look closely.

BI0PREDAT0R

Alright keeping me busy :P so this is the final revisions I made off your suggestions, a lot happier with this version compared to the old so thanks a lot for the advice guys, ill move onto to the grip texture I had before but pay attention to the aliasing so I wont have the issue like before.