Low-poly modelling intended for handheld games.

Patackular

Hello all,
Noob here, with a first time attempt at some low-poly modelling. Want to create a mad scientist, bio warfare creation character intended for the Nintendo DS. I’ve drawn out a basic design which I’ll build off from and any advice on improving it would be much appreciated. I’d ask you to be kind but I won’t learn anything that way. 617 triangles so far.

Emil Mujanovic

Moved this from Contest and Challenges, as it belongs in Pimping and Previews.

cholden

Your approach is incorrect for DS modeling. Vert counts must kept extremely low so more details come from creativity and texturing. For example, the red extruded in eyes is a waste of polygons. Stuff like that isn't going to cut it.

With that,Ii'm going to direct you to the low poly thread and madpxl's web site for inspiration.
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=41232
http://www.madpxl.com/

achillesian

reminds me of the dopefish, if you dont know what the dopefish is, get out.

Patackular

I know what Dopefish is now! Incredibly helpful stuff cholden, much appreciated.

Patackular

Thought I'd post up the characters I completed for this project.





Criticism welcome.

easterislandnick

Only done a very little amount of DS but it can only handle something like 2000 faces (not tris I think?) on screen at once so I think you need to push nore geometry into the texture, the gun for example. Am I right on the DS specs anyone?

d2king10

I don't think he needs to push more geometry, if anything he could probably cut down some on the little mucus guys.

Plus, if they are going to be as small as the mockup picture shows, then more geometry isn't going to make much of a difference.

9skulls

@Patackular You could shave a lot of tris off by changing that green blob's minigun so that there would be only one big cylinder instead of 6. You could then texture that big cylinder to look like it had 6 barrels and it'd work perfectly, because you can't really tell the difference from such a small screen.

And the second character, does he appear on a small screen aswell? Because as cool as those individual fingers look, they eat almost the same amount of tris as the main body does :F And again, I think most of that detail will get lost when viewed from a small screen.


Apart from that, your models look fairly good so far

easterislandnick wrote: »

Only done a very little amount of DS but it can only handle something like 2000 faces (not tris I think?) on screen at once ...

Correct http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=40563

Patackular

Awesome, thanks for the feedback guys. :thumbup: