(First Attempt) M1911a1, looking for some critique!

extrasunny

Taken me a few months to get this far, total noob when it comes to this stuff (this is my first blender project). Before I go on with texturing it I thought I'd ask for some suggestions on how to make it look better (I'm blown away by some of the stuff that I see on this forum lol). Tell me what you think!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Is this the low poly or high poly?

extrasunny

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Is this the low poly or high poly?

High poly. It currently has about 15k tris, is that a lot?

CrackRockSteady

extrasunny said:

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Is this the low poly or high poly?

High poly. It currently has about 15k tris, is that a lot?

As long as you're only using the high poly model to bake a normal map it doesn't matter how many polys it is.  go hog wild.

Brian "Panda" Choi

N-Gons are also okay, just to be clear.  As long as it looks good, it's a valid high poly model.

You got some hard edges going on, which scan be resolved with subdivision modeling or having high-level bevels at the hard edges of the gun.

extrasunny

CrackRockSteady said:

extrasunny said:

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Is this the low poly or high poly?

High poly. It currently has about 15k tris, is that a lot?

As long as you're only using the high poly model to bake a normal map it doesn't matter how many polys it is.  go hog wild.

How much would you say is a healthy amount of polys for a game model?

Brian "Panda" Choi

It varies.

Just make it as pretty as possible.

If you're concerned about polycount that much, if you build it in such a way removing edge loops is easy, you can optimize quickly.

Just, for this, 1 million tris is going to be overkill for sure.  You can prolly nail this in 20k or under for a nice looking model.