I just looked at hi-res version of this on your site and noticed some texture seaming issues on the towers.
What was your overall polycount and could we get a few wiresshots?
Did you make this for the sake of making it, or is it meant to be an in game set-piece?
This is my wireframe, I did it for the sake of making it but I did get graded for it in my portfolio class. It is normal mapped but I was't planning on putting it in game. The polycount is ok but I can definetly take some polys out on the spikes on the top of the domes.
There are a lot of poly flow/build issues in the model.
Then again, it's hard to tell what this is for. Is it meant to be a game asset? If so, there's a LOT of optimizations that could/should be done. If it's a CG model piece, you could have used a heck of a lot more polygonal detail.
If it's for a game, then you'll want to lose the t-junctions so the vert lighting is done correctly... even if it's a per-pixel based lighting solution, you'll still want to do the fixes to reduce the polygon count and seal the model anyway.
Namely the sections above the windows, those verts should all be welded into the corners. This way the vert lighting will match from the top of the window to the structure, otherwise it's going to look a little weird (not to mention light can (and will) bleed through into unwanted areas.
The cylinder caps (the tops of the segments on the towers) need to be manually triangulated. Don't rely on an exporter to fix your problems, you will most likely end up with all the polys mashing into 1 vert instead of nice horizontal strips. Alternatively you can add a vert into the middle and triangulate them in a pizza slice fashion.
Not sure what your texture resolution details are... but if you could put some dirt or whatever into it, it'd really help with the realism.
Wow, I want to thank you guys for the helpful suggestions. I'm never going to put this building in-game but I do want to make it look like it can go in-game, so I'm going to work at the issues that were pointed out.
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i saw that on prison break ! nice job eheh...
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lolol. me too.
What was your overall polycount and could we get a few wiresshots?
Did you make this for the sake of making it, or is it meant to be an in game set-piece?
-caseyjones
Then again, it's hard to tell what this is for. Is it meant to be a game asset? If so, there's a LOT of optimizations that could/should be done. If it's a CG model piece, you could have used a heck of a lot more polygonal detail.
Namely the sections above the windows, those verts should all be welded into the corners. This way the vert lighting will match from the top of the window to the structure, otherwise it's going to look a little weird (not to mention light can (and will) bleed through into unwanted areas.
The cylinder caps (the tops of the segments on the towers) need to be manually triangulated. Don't rely on an exporter to fix your problems, you will most likely end up with all the polys mashing into 1 vert instead of nice horizontal strips. Alternatively you can add a vert into the middle and triangulate them in a pizza slice fashion.
Not sure what your texture resolution details are... but if you could put some dirt or whatever into it, it'd really help with the realism.
Again, thank you for everything.