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

ptoing

You did well, Squiggly_P, you did well.

EDIT: Just been looking at the wires in SF. Those faces you got at the back right of the NES don't seem to be needed. You could just weld those verts over to the side and safe 6 tris. Unless I am missing something.

Squiggly_P

Huh... You're right. How the hell did I miss those?

Thanks, fixed in my file now. I found a misaligned face as well. Just when you think you're done you find ten things to fix :P

ptoing

Always the case, right? It is easy to go to Sketchfab and click Re_upload under the orange gear menu. You can just up the zip again with the new model and UVs and keep all the stats and such.

Also, those small indents in the carts could be done with seperate non-connected geometry. Could safe quite a few tris there too.

Graphicalgeek

Just trying out Sketchfab. This is Guy from my game Revolt.

[sketchfab]df06910e9ff84df98f558edd84e67dbe[/sketchfab]
Soldier by Explosive on Sketchfab

Graphicalgeek

Here's another character from the game, one of the enemies.

[sketchfab]7a6cad7d7a0343cf90b8a49cac078d4d[/sketchfab]
Assault Platform by Explosive on Sketchfab


Here's the URL for the game if anyone wants to check it out. Its only a buck.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/revolt/id399345188?mt=8

Mr_Knesh

The assault platform is phenomenal! Most modeling I have done has been highly influenced by games like mechwarrior and earthsiege. Keep up the good work.

mcunha98

InnerSanctumgm

Hello everyone.

I'm new to the Polycount forums, and have been going through the brilliant low poly models in this thread.

I just felt compelled to post mine too

Below is a weapon I am currently working on, and is part of an Indie weapons pack I am releasing on 2nd July 2014.




For more info please visit: http://innersanctumgames.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/full-weapons-list-and-further-details.html

Many Thanks!
InnerSanctum Games

havenisle

sketchfab is awesome.

here's another icon for my browsing program. we've been able to cram about a five to ten thousand of these low-poly objects into the Android build before it starts slowing down, so I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. i'd like to make some better materials, but we've been working at a break-neck pace for a while now. these are essentially place-holders for something better to come along down the line.

Anyhow, would really love some feedback!





[SKETCHFAB]06683804f1a449f6a6d174756d39f85e[/SKETCHFAB]

ANTROPO

Finally something to share from CARTONEROS.
We were looking for a base color scheme here:










Launching a Kickstarter for this game REALLY SOON by the way... Like, Tomorrow.
http://cartoneros.co/kickstarter/

Delko

vvheris

@Delko: Aw yiss, turbo run!

Snader

Also I'm noticing all the sketchfab things run just fine on my nexus, so hurrah for html5.

4s4

Squiggly_P wrote: »

Made this morning.
System = 150 tris - 64x64 texture
Controller = 78 tris - 32x32 texture
Cart = 74 tris - 32x32 texture

I got too lazy to make wires :P

I made something similar last year



Unity Player:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14109231/NESMUSICBOX.html

Luri

Hello. New guy here. I made a Japanese stone lantern.



352 polys with 256 diff and normal. I have to say it looks a lot better if you double the texture size but i didn't want to risk breaking the thread rules

KassEscoe

here are some lowpoly gifs of things that i made for a project that im working on

a low poly room


and a low poly city street

MattQ86

Delko wrote: »

I am so glad to see you're working on this again. Damn it looks so rad.

DRungelrath

Delko wrote: »

Does this mean you're turning those hella sweet cars into an actual game? Oh boy! That looks damn nice.

KassEscoe
Very nice. I really dig the flickering light, reminds me of oldschool point and click adventures for some reason!

thatanimator

the sickest part is where the highlights are actual highlights and not just painted into the texture

ptoing

That looks really nice, Delko.
The only thing that is putting me off is the endless one part guard rails.

Delko

KassEscoe, that lighting and mood in that scene is great, though tht lap top seems a bit wide.

Heres a new car, M1.




@chasepettit and I are working on an arcade racer called Drift Stage. Its sort of an evolution of what Turbo Run would have been.

wizo

them colors and car models! everything flows with awesome. great job man!

POFFINGTON

New little Dagger from me. Can't get enough of Allods art!

Squiggly_P

Made over a few days when I had a free minute. 64x64 texture for the system, 32x32 for everything else. 220 tris in the scene. Alpha cards would have been more efficient. Kinda bugs me. I'll get over it, tho.

[sketchfab]db61c7d256e04df7b22b0f1f2509e4e6[/sketchfab]
Atari2600 Posed by squiggly_p on Sketchfab

EDIT: Updated to fix misaligned texture (wish I could catch this stuff the first time :P)

Dennispls

POFFINGTON wrote: »

New little Dagger from me. Can't get enough of Allods art!

Love the material definition! And I agree the handpainted art from Allods is pretty good

robschia

POFFINGTON wrote: »

New little Dagger from me. Can't get enough of Allods art!

I always find this kind of textures stunning! Amazing dagger!

Amatobahn

Been working on a clone of endless road for practice in coding:

Poribo

Just made a cute super deformed styled character

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Ra6ga5ka

The sword of my new character. Hope i will find the time soon
Polycount: 340 tri

btw Crits are welcome ;-)

nevermind

Viking Piggy!
My first attempt at handpainting.

612 tris 256 texture

darkmag07

Super cute, nightflarer!

Suba

Delko wrote: »

KassEscoe, that lighting and mood in that scene is great, though tht lap top seems a bit wide.

Heres a new car, M1.




@chasepettit and I are working on an arcade racer called Drift Stage. Its sort of an evolution of what Turbo Run would have been.

This project looks so awesome ! Would love to play it with some Betamaxx in the background

mcunha98

_exocet_

Some very low poly fun...

Digitalair

First time modelling rocks and using Ddo

Wackimation

Just a little Work-in-progress of a Master Sword thingy I made last night. May or may not paint it, as I'm not the best at it. It sits at 316 triangles. It's dangerous to go alone, take this!

Wackimation

Delko wrote: »

Heres a new car, M1.

I think I figured out how the windows work on these cars. Am I right in saying that you used reflection mapping rather than traditional UV mapping in the windows and mirrors exclusively, kind of like Metal Mario?

ImsumDave

Here you go

Delko wrote: »

Thanks guys, I'm glad you all like it. The original Lotus model I made way back in 2010 was my first 3D or pixel work in almost 3 years, so it really didn't come out the way I envisioned it, but was close enough for me at the time.

Here's the original for reference



Its a pretty simple material set-up in max, I based it off of what i could find on Google regarding reflections. It seems techniques like this are so outdated no one ever really bothered making any tutorials for it. It took me a few hours to work out since I'm not used to working with multiple maps and stuff, so this will probably seem pretty obvious to anyone who knows their way around max's material editor.

I circled the part that produces the anisotropic effect. You also need to have the masks textures' mode set to "Texture" instead of "Environ"

Armageddon

But how do you duplicate that in Unity?

Flow

sorry mistaken thread

Geti

Amatobahn wrote: »

Been working on a clone of endless road for practice in coding:

I like this a lot!

chronos78

Armageddon wrote: »

But how do you duplicate that in Unity?

As far as Unity shaders go this one is dead simple.

Shader "Screen Space Projection"
{
    Properties
    {
        _MainTex ("Base (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
    }
    
    SubShader
    {
        Pass
        {
            Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
            LOD 200
        
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            sampler2D _MainTex;
            float4 _MainTex_ST;

            struct v2f
            {
                float4  pos : SV_POSITION;
                float4  scrPos;
            };

            v2f vert(appdata_base v)
            {
                v2f o;
                o.pos = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, v.vertex);
                o.scrPos = ComputeScreenPos(o.pos);
                return o;
            }

            fixed4 frag(v2f i) : COLOR
            {
                float2 uv = (i.scrPos.xy / i.scrPos.w);
                fixed4 c = tex2D(_MainTex, uv);
                return c;
            }
        
            ENDCG
        } 
    }
        
    FallBack "Diffuse"
}

Which gives you something like.



Sorry my car is no where as cool as Delko's (which is awesome by the way) but it took longer to make the animated gif than the car and the shader combined.

ANTROPO

You guys have great lowpoly texturing techniques. I hope to be able to work with people like you on our game...

I've been further prototyping the desired rigging & texturing style for CARTONEROS today. This is what I've landed on:




The character has a body covered with various boxes. The rig is a standard humanoid rig with secondary bones for the boxes. All weights of the "armor" are skinned to these secondary bones. I hope to achieve a "shaky feel" for the character's boxes.

What do you guys think? THANKS.

I'll post prototype animations in an update to our kickstarter

nevermind

So I finished my first attempt at handpainted textures and did a material study on wood with the same UVs... piggy!

darkmag07

After the latest item design update article on the Kickstarter page, I can post another weapon I worked on for Churbles here.



And a gif. 'Cause the animation is pretty cool.

renderhjs

3 of the 6 main heroes for the game OTTTD.

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The characters were packed using PackerPro and grabbed straight out of the game running inside Unity. Here is a shot of the packed texture:



I'll upload some more 3d game shots soon

NowvaB

I was studying a model from one of my favorite games, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
I thought the hand was well made and clean, if anyone wanted to see for reference.


(un-triangulated by hand, might not be exact)

ANTROPO

renderhjs wrote: »

3 of the 6 main heroes for the game OTTTD.

I'll upload some more 3d game shots soon

Ah, OTTD, My kids favorite game Waiting for more.

ANTROPO

SO here is the promised CARTONEROS with a prototype-class animation
We'll be looking for an animator to work on this for about 9 months.
If you'd like to be a part of the development, you can visit the kickstarter page here

What do you think of the Character style? Thanks

Great texture packing @renderhjs!

ptoing

renderhjs wrote: »

3 of the 6 main heroes for the game OTTTD.

[SKETCHFAB]9947a1f3cc404652850ae7056b580e97[/SKETCHFAB]

The characters were packed using PackerPro and grabbed straight out of the game running inside Unity. Here is a shot of the packed texture:



I'll upload some more 3d game shots soon

Nice models. To me it looks like they would fare better without filtering on sketchfab. There are a lot of very obvious seams because of it.