A clock

rockguy

Hi, got some free time so I modeled this pendulum clock , This is the high poly done, I will start doing the low poly after work.

Crits welcomed.





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rockguy

Started the low poly, still needs some work though.

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MattyWS

Did you base this off any references? It's hard to tell what you're aiming for so it's hard to critique.

Soldier63

could you show us a wireframe off the high poly model? As I'm very interested on how you modelled the numbers on the clock

rockguy

MattyWS : O damn forgot to post the reference, sorry for that , I will post it after work.



Soldier63 : Sure I will have some pics of the wire and the numbers. Is very easy i just used the text in shape tools turned in splines cleaned unnecessary vertex then turned to poly.

Thanks for the comments

rockguy

So here is the reference I used

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Soldier63 : Here is the low poly numbers , really I just used the text of the shape menu turned into splines cleaned up and then turned into polys.

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Also I been working on the low poly

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LaserLeviathan

Looks good, but the low-poly looks like it has a few unnecessary edge loops, mainly on the inside of the arch-shaped border, and at the bottom.

Soldier63

Thank you! Looks pretty decent!

rockguy

Thanks for the commnets

LaserLeviathan : I agree , I will have that optimized


LaserLeviathan : you are welcomed

MattyWS

I think the pattern along the top of your high poly could be a bit fatter but otherwise good I think

rockguy

MattyWS : Thanks for the comment,yeah I think you are right , checking that after work.

rockguy

Just a small update , sadly didnt have much time today , still working on the the low poly.

Really dont like the idea of micro updates so next time I will post significant progress.

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rockguy

Low poly done

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DWalker

You're using roughly a third of your polygon budget on the hands & pendulum; a simple alpha masked quad would work well for the hands.

The clock face is really unnecessary - the normal map will show the rings without the cost.

rockguy

DWalker : I completly forgot about using alphas dammit thanks fro the advice , mmm Im not so sure about making the clock face just a normal due to the space between the pendulum mmmmmmm , I gonna try both ways and see if it works.

Thanks for the feedback.

JordanN

Would this be a clock where a character in a game can walk up to it and zoom in?

You can save yourself a lot of effort (and triangles) by only modeling the shapes that you will always see in a game. Of course, don't go crazy and make it look like a clock that came out of a PS1 game but ask yourself "is this really crucial to the silhouette I'm aiming for?"

I also think you have way too many edge loops for the frame outside of the clock face. Again, based on where the camera is, from a distance it would look identical with less geometry.

JoshWilkinson

Careful with alphas. An alpha is roughly half the file size of the texture map, which can sometimes be heavy. So take a look at which is more data; more polygons or an alpha. Most game engines like polys more than additional textures anyway.

MattyWS

BringMeASunkist wrote: »

Careful with alphas. An alpha is roughly half the file size of the texture map, which can sometimes be heavy. So take a look at which is more data; more polygons or an alpha. Most game engines like polys more than additional textures anyway.

In cases like this one, it may be better to have two textures, a small alpha'd texture for things that are small and detailed like the clock hands and other similar parts and a larger, non-alpha'd texture for the rest of it.

Of course it also depends on the game engine and how textures are compressed for the build and also what platform you're on. mobile devices usually hate the use of alphas (it's getting better, especially with iOS8 and it's graphics update) but for a PC game it's probably fine.

It also does depend on how close up you're going to see this thing too.

JoshWilkinson

^valid point