Fighting Knife - Low Poly

echofourpapa · Dec 2015

It's up on Sketchfab now.

https://sketchfab.com/models/784c076251c345bbbb3ce22ebf5492c8

*CURRENT PROGRESS*

Texturing is done, I'm happy with it for now. I still want to lower the poly-count a bit, but it's time to move on.

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen23.png

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen17.png

*First Update*

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Hi Polycounters!

I've started a small knife to practice with and I could use some feedback.

Here's reference(all photos taken by me so they may not be the best):

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KnifeRef.png

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_20151108_091007.jpg

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_20151108_090844.jpg

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_20151108_090643.jpg

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_20151108_090648.jpg

Here's my current progress, most work was done in 3DS Max(A little ZBrush on the cord wrap, and a little Blender for retopo):

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/hilow.png

My plan is to use the UV mapping on the spline for the cord to wrap a good braided cord texture on it and bake that out to the low poly. The high is about 600k tris, and the low is a but under 2000 tris. I could probably go a either little higher or lower on the low-poly, but I'm happy with it for now. I left the "tail" as tubes still, I think I'm going to make the knots as solid geo to bake onto rather than leaving them.

PyrZern · Dec 2015

I feel you could clean up the lowpoly a lot more, but if you're happy with it...

Joopson · Dec 2015

The edges on the high-poly won't bake down well at all, they're far too sharp. Softening those up will help it read well. Otherwise, looks fine. There are some places you could cut down on the polycount of the low (notably, the rope lanyard), but nothing too crazy.

echofourpapa · Dec 2015

@PyrZern and @JoopsonThanks! Yeah, the poly count can go much lower. The "tail" and knots are more than the rest of the knife(blade and handle wrap combined), which I need to take down. I was thinking about leaving it and moving on and hoping that it wouldn't bug me, but now it is. I'll fix it in a bit.

As far as the edges not reading well... I suppose I could use to soften them up a little, but they seem to read well enough as is. Here's the results in 3DO:

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen01.png

And a quick bump map on the cord wrap:

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen03.png

Even from a distance it does break down, but so does the whole model:

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen02.png

I'm going to start texturing it for now, see how it turns out.

echofourpapa · Dec 2015

Here's the normal map:

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Knife2_normals_combined.jpg

echofourpapa · Dec 2015

Starting to texture it, using Quixel Suite 2.0, Unity 5 Metallic workflow. Assigned basic materials to start with, The speckle in metal will be interesting, as will the ware. I played around with a few of the presets, here are the results(surprisingly fun):

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen05.png

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen01-1.png

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen03-1.png

Image: http://www.markpetroart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen04.png

Now that I got that out of my system, time to start some real texturing.

echofourpapa · Dec 2015

Alright! I think it's done for now!

Fighting Knife - Low Poly

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