LOW-POLY ART

hawken

This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em!

Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:

• Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
• Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
  

Some dedicated low-poly modelling tools now exist that make this art style a lot easier to produce; Crocotile3D & Blockbench

Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide

Lexou

Millenia wrote: »

ITT: Cocks

You mean in every thread.

Free_Fall

Cocks you say?

Valandar

hawken wrote: »

actually I would say the cock starts up too high. The shaft is an inverted J shape that starts from behind the balls and hangs down, held to the pubic bone. In your model it looks like the cock is growing from his bladder.

I'd say that the part above it could be textured as pubic hair. Polygonal merkins FTW!

ceebee

One crit on it Snader are the hands, they look a little small. Could just be me, but they seem awfully small compared to the head.

Cap Hotkill

It seems that there comes a Cock wave in PC again, its probably this time of the year, who knows :P

Harry

Cap Hotkill wrote: »

Cock wave

lmfao

and lmfao @ capitalising "cock"

Razorb

hah yea wtf is with all the penis! :P mesh looks nice tho!

Millenia

Harry wrote: »

lmfao

and lmfao @ capitalising "cock"

Hey Harry remember that one time you and kitteh made a cock for CSS? I wanted to dl it but the linx were down ;_____;

Free_Fall

Cap Hotkill wrote: »

It seems that there comes a Cock wave in PC again, its probably this time of the year, who knows :P

Yup, it's that throbbing time of the year again.

krisCrash

ceebee wrote: »

One crit on it Snader are the hands, they look a little small. Could just be me, but they seem awfully small compared to the head.

Seconded, but also the head is too large.

Fewes

Decided to play around with an old model.



900 tris, 1x128x128 map used for both diffuse and specular.

Harry

total MGS style

Mr_Drayton

Fewes wrote: »

900 tris, 1x128x128 map used for both diffuse and specular.

Probably with all these tris you should better switch to a 256*256 map to emphatize the model.

Nice one tough!

hawken

ceebee wrote: »

One crit on it Snader are the hands, they look a little small. Could just be me, but they seem awfully small compared to the head.

how about the hand to cock ratio? It's very important. (especially when looking for a date)

How about a cock LPC? That I'll then become too busy to moderate or judge?

shaka

Thanks Harry for the feedback on the SCAR texture. I looked for your examples, and i got the picture. Really helped me.

Harry

Matroskin

Harry wrote: »

is there any reason why people model cocks? i know it's anatomically correct even though it'll never be seen but if that's the game we're playing why not model hearts and livers and spleens too?

....That's actually an awesome idea

Someone had anticipated your words
Well, not yet liver and heart, but already some never-seem inside content

gilesruscoe

one of two characters im doing, there will be an environment for them too, once i get round to unwrapping it!

ToothyMang

Fewes: That's badass. You've inspired me to make the gun I've always wanted to. Could you post some wires?

Harry: Wow! That's beautiful

gilesruscoe

LeafThief wrote: »

Hey there,
recently finished my medic. 495 tris, 128x128 diffuse map.
Also: first post, hurray.
Let me know what you think .

didnt wanna let this get burried on previous page without someone saying something about it! really nice work, the jacket details are interesting welcome to polycount!

Fewes

ToothyMang wrote: »

Fewes: That's badass. You've inspired me to make the gun I've always wanted to. Could you post some wires?

Sure. There are some unnecessary tris here and there, but I'm going to blame that on the model being old.



@Harry
I'm really interested in this game of yours. Love the style, and the proposed gameplay really speaks to me. Best of luck to you in development!

Cap Hotkill

gilesruscoe wrote: »

one of two characters im doing, there will be an environment for them too, once i get round to unwrapping it!

Omg, Medieval KF Fleshpound! xD

gilesruscoe

Yea i went for a mix of Fleshpound and this:


next character's guna have a large axe on a chain
heres a bit of progress on the environment:

Mr_Drayton

Harry wrote: »

Now that's a badass cockpit.

Will it be an iPhone game?

wonderboy

Viking (558 tris)

Harry

Mr_Drayton wrote: »

Now that's a badass cockpit.

Will it be an iPhone game?

we have a guy interested in porting it for us, so hopefully.
it's definitely possible seeing as our libraries are cross platform, apart from our TGA loader which could be swapped out

Ani

Screenshot taken in Unity, planning to get this thing driving around soon.

acarr

Ani wrote: »

Screenshot taken in Unity, planning to get this thing driving around soon.

I love these.

Freidenker

Oh yeah, nice colours, ani. I´m looking forward to see more of your unity-project.

hawken

Ani wrote: »

Screenshot taken in Unity, planning to get this thing driving around soon.

postman pat game?

Theres a handy setting in unity btw, you may have already found it - however it's per-texture - to turn off blending. Probably some scripts floating around to apply it globally.

rumblesushi

Harry, what's the average rendered polycount per frame in your game?

Ani

@acarr, @Freidenker - thanks!
@hawken - It's more like crush the parcels game now and yup I found the setting to turn the blending to the equivalent of nearest neighbour.

My first project got done today. Just a screenshot of it here but you can try the 'game' itself over here.



added a logo to the van too, woop.

Razorb

very cute Ani

willy-wilson

Awesome ani

MattQ86

Ani, your "game" reminds me of PixelJam's car-based games. Please develop this further and make a hojillion dollars popularizing low-poly Unity-based games on the web.

Lexou

You know, Ani, that could make a great iPhone app. The controls are perfect.

e-freak

for pc, please stick to local controls w always forward and s always rear. looks cool already!

Mique

Here's a ship I'm working on for an Ipad game.

Got some more texture work to do, and on the screen I forgot to sharpen the texture.
So once that I'm completely done, I'll post an update.

A_GAME

A small project I did. It's the Fire Stingray from F-Zero! 376 tris, 256 tex
edit: Cool project so far, Ani!

Squiggly_P

@Ani
I feel like an evil mailman who goes around running over people's packages instead of delivering them. Awesome style. I love boxy, minimal lowpoly stuff like that.

commander_keen

Ani wrote: »

@acarr, @Freidenker - thanks!
@hawken - It's more like crush the parcels game now and yup I found the setting to turn the blending to the equivalent of nearest neighbour.

My first project got done today. Just a screenshot of it here but you can try the 'game' itself over here.



added a logo to the van too, woop.

Thats cool. You could develop it a little more had have the truck driving around a city dodging traffic to pickup and drop off packages.

RAWTalent

Small area of a platformer/Spyro-esque type level, all textures hand painted

Ged

nice ani! but the controls as said are not what people usually expect :P

gilesruscoe

A boss for "Gilbert!" Iphone game;



Concept (by Max Grecke);



http://www.indiedb.com/games/gilbert

RAWTalent

gilesruscoe, loving the character and the silhouette is easily recognisable, but I can't help thinking he could use a little more definition in the texture, could be as simple as a contrast increase, also what happened to the wing-like protrusions? looking forward to the game though.

gilesruscoe

Yea, i seem to have that issue with all my hand painted stuff, hopefully once its got some lighting on it ingame it'll help, i'l have a play with the AO and contrast though

Mike Yevin

Ani - I am totally in love with what you have going on there, please keep at it. keen's suggestion is ace, please make it nao

hawken

Ani wrote: »

@acarr, @Freidenker - thanks!
@hawken - It's more like crush the parcels game now and yup I found the setting to turn the blending to the equivalent of nearest neighbour.

My first project got done today. Just a screenshot of it here but you can try the 'game' itself over here.

pretty amazing progress! I played that for way too long.

Ani

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions
I think the control thing is based on what people are used to, so I'll keep this in mind next time!

FreshDumbledore

got inspired by this little cargame:
retro rallyecar