Smoothing low poly

Red Deliallisi

Hello,

First of all... Are there no notifications on Polycount when someone replies to your post ? Anyway ...

Im being tested for a volunteer job for a game. They asked me to model a gun. I showed them the attached image and told them its not done yet ( because they said - low poly but not "blocky" ).

Now i should smooth it out. Smoothing groups give me bad results. Odd shading in viewport. I connect near the edges but still ...

I copied the low poly aside , began connecting and swift looping , added a meshsmooth and the result was great but 3300 poly.

Dont smoothing groups work the same as meshsmooth or turbosmooth ?

How do you go about creating a low poly object but that doesnt look so sharp ?

stevston89

No smoothing groups are not the same as a meshsmooth/trubosmooth. Smoothing groups affect the normal facing for the vertices of that face. A meshsmooth/trubosmooth subdivides your mesh.

Here is a rundown of how smoothing groups work:

Eric Chadwick

When they say low poly, you need to ask them what the triangle count should be. Otherwise you're shooting in the dark (so to speak).

Take a look around the forums, there are many examples of revolver gun models to look at, including wireframes. Should give you an idea of how to improve your model.

Red Deliallisi

Amazing illustration stevston89 , thanks