CosmoGuy needs help

jibowski

Hi,
I'm trying to make a lowpoly normal mapped version of this 3D model, but because it is one of my first try, i'd like to know what do you think about the polyflow of the lowres version.


before going further, I wanted to know if i made some noob mistakes ..:o

thx!

HonkyPunch

As far as I know, it looks fine, but i'm pretty much a noob too.
maybe some more divisions in the arms?

Astrofra

Hmmm, maybe if I were you, I would add some extra polygons, where the normal map won't be enough to define the volumes and silhouette :



But someone else might have a different opinion. Anyone ?

jibowski

thx very much for your advices !
I will modify the low res version and maybe add some features on the hi version, I find some areas pretty empty actually..

because the character will be pretty far from the camera I don't want to had to much details on the model and put more details on the normal map.

here is a screen cap of a quick test of the low version + normalmap and a little ao on the diffuse map.



crits are welcome!

Astrofra

Heya, nice !!! I'm not fond of the modeling itself, but the baking seems very very clean !
The high poly itself would deserve more control points, and more evenly spaced patterns.

jibowski

thx fra! actually, the baking and the uvset should be cleaner, but I didn't spend so much time on it since it was just a test

well after the last baking I finally decide to add/modify some details on the hi poly version. here is the updated version of the hipoly.

dom

this model would look really cool celshaded. I like the style. good job.