Building Latern for Game - Scene

mobpapst

Hello guys,

i want to build a Latern in the style you see on the pictue below for a game scene. I dont know how to build this in the best and most efficient way. Please tell me how you would build this to get a good looking and low poly result.



Greetz

AtticusMars

I'd model and bake the grating part completely flat then just apply the normals to a round low poly.

You could also just model the whole thing flat then bend it into a cylinder.

sargentcrunch

n/a

mobpapst

For the cross-pattern, would you model one piece and they dupilcate it just often and after bend it to a cylindric form?

AtticusMars

Yes. No sense modeling the same thing a hundred times...

throttlekitty

mobpapst wrote: »

For the cross-pattern, would you model one piece and they dupilcate it just often and after bend it to a cylindric form?

It's easier to model things like this as one big flat surface, and roll it up with a bend modifier. And yes, you could only model out one square or diamond for dupication as the others say.

mobpapst

So guys,

i build now these pattern for the cage of my latern. how shall i get the pattern on my low poly and how it is possible to get the holes so that its able to look through them?

sargentcrunch

n/a