first attempt

andylt1

hi there

im currently working on a game character (my first as the title suggests) and im looking for some C&C on well.. everything.

tho what im really after some technical knowledge. for instance..
should this all be one mesh?
are the cloth items, the sleeves the tabbard ok as a plane (1 vertex thick)?
should i connect the head and arms to verticies on the clothes or leave them floating inside the clothes?
are normals an issue in the game engine?
stuff like that

any way im currently at the modeling stage and hopefully looking to start the uv's

any way dont hold back...











thanks

zenarion

You should connect the cloth to the body, since unseen geometry underneath the clothes will be a bitch to rig.
The vertex weights might differ a bit, and you might get clipping in-game. Which is bad.

Also.. is that a Jedi Knight?

animatr

cloth doesnt need to be connected, but the verts underneath should match the geometry of the cloth to get around clipping. then just way them the same.