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

renderhjs

Another OTTTD sketchfab upload, this time it is the first level of the game. The ground texture uses a Render TO Texture (RTT) to bake the gore bits and shadows straight into the ground to speed up performance on the mobile platforms.

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Packed Texture with PackerPro. A lot of the elements have different Texel Densities (bad example I guess) - but that can be normalised in PackerPro as well.

Shiv

That star fish texel density is so high XD

KassEscoe

Low poly Mountain i made for practice

KassEscoe

renderhjs im having way to much fun looking at your sketchfab scene. great job!

kinyz

some dreams about mobile games graphic

ANTROPO

KassEscoe wrote: »

renderhjs im having way to much fun looking at your sketchfab scene. great job!

Great scene indeed @renderhjs

Sparr

A plant!

Does anyone know how to make some kind of cel-shaded shader in Unity that is also effected by lighting? I have a scene with various things that look like this, but I have them with flat lamberts etc. so they don't look nearly as vibrant as the image above. I didn't notice any cel-shaded stuff with light properties in Unity and wasn't sure how to add it in. If I make all my plants etc. bright like that they basically glow in the dark when the sun goes down.

Wackimation

Hey! There's a project I've been planning a while and I recently started work on it. It's a 3d beat 'em up, and I modeled the main menu/title screen. Here it is, weighing in at 610 triangles, the one, the only, cubicle...


It may be hard to see but there are 7 separate objects in the scene:

Desktop: 106 tris
Coffee Mug: 128 tris
Keyboard: 76 tris
Pencil: 48 tris
Notepad: 32 tris
Phone: 144 tris
Desk: 76 tris

(Yes, the game will be office themed, if it wasn't apparent.)

KassEscoe

ok heres today's low poly practice, i decided to do it early


and i decided to make a scene from another i model made

Geti

kinyz wrote: »

some dreams about mobile games graphic

Awesome, can we see some flats or is it just for oogling?


@Sparr : you could whip something up pretty quickly using a step/posterisation function on the lighting - would be easiest using something like shader forge for sure.

Armageddon

chronos78 wrote: »

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.

That works beautifully, is there a way to get a texture to tile without stretching it over the whole screen? The whole screen thing works well for gradient textures and achieves the effect I want even though if the screen resolution is too big the gradient textures are not large enough and become really banded. But I also want to use small tiling textures to create cloth patterns and such. I'm not a programmer so I definitely don't know about shaders.

kinyz

Geti wrote: »

Awesome, can we see some flats or is it just for oogling?

what it means "flats"?

chronos78

Armageddon wrote: »

That works beautifully, is there a way to get a texture to tile without stretching it over the whole screen?

Yes there is. Just modify the frag function to look like the following and you will have tiling & offset ability.

            fixed4 frag(v2f i) : COLOR
            {
                float2 uv = (i.scrPos.xy / i.scrPos.w);
                [SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkOrange]uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(uv, _MainTex);[/COLOR][/SIZE]
                fixed4 c = tex2D(_MainTex, uv);
                return c;
            }

Goooooooodtimes

First post! This is the thread that recently got me into 3d modeling:).

Delko

KassEscoe

Goooooooodtimes wrote: »

First post! This is the thread that recently got me into 3d modeling:).

very cool. is this from a game that you're working on or is it just a scene that you made for fun?

Mototok

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNX0Y1k6g8Y"]PBR test - YouTube[/ame]

nevermind

More school work and learning lowpoly modeling and handpainting... still work in progress but I'm really getting into this.

ActionDawg

Mototok wrote: »

PBR test - YouTube

nice job but definitely wrong thread :P

Goooooooodtimes

KassEscoe wrote: »

very cool. is this from a game that you're working on or is it just a scene that you made for fun?

Thank you, and yes it's for a game I'm currently working on.

Fenyce

A sword

jonbro

A little diorama I did for you are carrying



All just vert painted. Not the best modeling, but I was trying to get it done in under an hour.

nevermind

Finished up for the deadline on this project. Still have plenty to learn, but really enjoy this style.

Greythought

Critiques please, 1060 Tri, 512 Texture

Xelioth

Beginnings of my first video game project. I needed a style I could make entirely on my own, and now I've settled on something. Churning out some textures to practice the look before I move on to actually doing the objects!

Shimmergloom

A scene to work out a style for my wizard's lair.

Obscura

Shimmergloom wrote: »

A scene to work out a style for my wizard's lair.

Looking really nice!

Goooooooodtimes

@Shimmergloom Wow, it looks amazing!

KassEscoe

@Shimmergloom im loving the mood, great colors also

Wendy de Boer

That looks rad, Shimmergloom! Are you making a game?

Shimmergloom

Thanks Obscura, Goooooooodtimes, KassEscoe and DemonPrincess.

I'm really glad people like it, I'm planning to make an android game (dual analog devices specifically) but now it's in Unity I'm having a 'Now what?' moment. It started as a loveletter to Lands of Lore 2, haha.

Love the minecraft texture pack by the way DemonPrincess.

Sweetangel0467

Fenyce wrote: »

A sword

Killah!! Like it a lot

Maximum-Dev

Hi guys

I'm not very experienced, What do you think?

Christian Cunningham

Did this awhile ago. I am learning how to hand paint textures and such. Its low poly xD

Shimmergloom

Hah, two DAE students on one page. :P
Sounds like the start of a bad joke about sleep deprivation.

Sweetangel0467

Shimmergloom wrote: »

Hah, two DAE students on one page. :P
Sounds like the start of a bad joke about sleep deprivation.

What's your name? Funny I found you on here

qwerty

Hi all!
I had the idea to convert pixel sprite from my old game to 3d.
And it became my first 3d model
Here is the result.

Calv!n

That is super sick qwerty! It reminds me of Metal Gear Solid GBC converted to 3D!



Make more!

qwerty

Calv!n wrote: »

That is super sick qwerty! It reminds me of Metal Gear Solid GBC converted to 3D!
Make more!

yeah, it is! I made a demake of Metal Gear for one game jam a some time ago. This truck's sprite was there.

Ok!

jerryjr261

Some weapons

Torch

Hey Jerry, those look really nice! I would say the middle one could use some tweaking though, personally I would go for a skull more akin to Darksiders to fit with the chunky style you have: http://i.imgur.com/fKMiw.jpg

Also I think the handle could be a bit larger as the other ones look really beefy and it suits the style. Nice work

jerryjr261

Torch wrote: »

Hey Jerry, those look really nice! I would say the middle one could use some tweaking though, personally I would go for a skull more akin to Darksiders to fit with the chunky style you have: http://i.imgur.com/fKMiw.jpg

Also I think the handle could be a bit larger as the other ones look really beefy and it suits the style. Nice work

Hell yeah, that would look awesome! I will work on that and I also appreciate the kind words! Thank ya!

havenisle

hey guys, still panhandlin that feedback. just a 3D busker, buskin in the wind...

here is an icon.



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still plugging away. kickstarter coming soon...

Calvin

Hey guys, I wanted to share the art test that I recently did for World of Warcraft.

qwerty

Littlenorwegians

First stab at some proper low poly and texturing in a long while. Was fun. Hopefully something I can do more. I wanna get better at it.
But this is a start, eh?

jerryjr261

Calvin wrote: »

Hey guys, I wanted to share the art test that I recently did for World of Warcraft.

Sharp looking portfolio Calvin! Very nice work!

Calvin

Thanks, man

qwerty

Bunnirobotcat

Making objects for a low poly room
Trying to use very little maps (maybe normals eventually here or there)
Let me know if you have any feedback

(pig concept i believe actually came from polycount...forgot the original link >.> )