Iphone Biplane racing game -art test
For an aero gp racing game for the Iphone. Low poly for sure, was told 200 brought it in at 195 polys. They wanted patterns that would be readable on the small screen so no numbers, I tried to keep it to simple line work for the designs.
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If you had to make a smaller final texture, show that one instead, maybe..
Yeah, I was going to squeeze it down when I finally gave it to 'em, but I like to work big and later make it small if I have to.
Canards? :P
And yeah, this looks a bit off. Specially seeing as it's a racing plane - they rely really heavilly on manouverability, and I imagine manouverability would be significantly effected by.. you know.. having no elevators.
- smoothing groups (looks like rough model, without any finetuning like smoothing groups)
- gray shading in the texture (dark != black + blend mode multiply, instead blend something with the same color somewhat more dark and more color contrast)
- way to big texture and screenshots,- if you aim for the iPhone get used to that smaler screen and create textures and screenshots that fit within that world. (512² should be okay, but 256² might do the job as well with this simple model)
Also chalk another one up to not surfing over enough reference for an object I know only shit about.
Major fixes - went back and added elevators, and cut down the
polys elsewhere bringing it in at 191
- applied smoothing groups, if it still looks clunky it may be
because its reaaally low poly, I can post the wireframe if
you'd like.
- Resized the texture to 256 x 256 and painted some more
detail, especially with the wing flaps.
- Tried to tweak the UV's a little more so the didn't look so loose
Most of the color gradient on the red I drew from red and just upped the saturation and dropped the value. Unless you're talking about the AO I have baked on there. I'm posting on with AO and one without to be sure.
Thanks to you all again.
Just in case you wanted to see the ref
With AO
Without AO
With AO
Without AO
Also you should extend the wingspan of the plane, as right now your horizontal tail fin things are almost as wide as your front wings.
Thank you
From side to side or front to back? I figure you mean from side to side, though I just want to make sure.
Of course I can only guesstimate from looking at the screenshots. Hard to really know how much :P
cool, thank you
yeah it was hard on the ref hunt because all the different angles I found were of different planes. So I just frankensteined what I saw in those different angles, but yeah pulling out the nose and the wings is at least an easy fix
these are awesome, thank you! Will be sure to come in handy if I can land this since I'll need to make more
it should be more obvious now I hope
ooh, wow, I see what you're saying, much more vibrant
so that's all just tweaking with blend modes?
It helps to stop that deadening effect that simply multiplying an AO pass can give by stopping the shadows just going grey and black.
With smaller screen graphics that tend towards a cartoony style, it's often helpful to paint the shadows a contrasting colour as it helps the shapes read and keeps some life in the piece. Simply darkening them can easily make it appear murky and dull.
my advice, render out t that res and i think you will find that its too busy and a simpler design in the texture would read much better
Also drawing at 16 or 8 x res means that you wont have an optimised texture sheets, and all you straight lines will get horribly jaggy as they are diagonal across the tpage
Thank you very much for the info, not having done uber low poly before I'm still working out of a hi-poly work flow. But I'm curious are you talking about the 16 or 8 bit setting in photoshop? If neither are optimized which would be best.