Manmade Enviromental Props

Fr0stguard

Here are some High poly models of Props for a village type enviroment. I would like your C&C to help make the props even better. Please also tell me about any other things that would be in a modern day village enviroment that you would like me to make.

Here is a High Poly Barrel
Polys: 395,264
Vertices: 197,638

Moosey_G

Well you haven't really made anything yet. Also why 400k polys for a barrel? Modern day village seems a little oxymoronic, but maybe you could model a well?

Fr0stguard

Moosey_G: its 400k because it going to be used for the Normal map not ingame the low-poly is at around 800 polys. The villlage enviroment im kinda going for is the map Laguna Presa from battlefield Bad Company 2 just with my own style added in.

Moosey_G

Okay I see. I don't think anything about 50k polys on that barrel is going to make the normals any better. About the environment, I would definitely go for scaffolding scattered around the edge of the scene.

Fr0stguard

Fixed the Barrel it now sits a 75,000 polys for the high poly. It sounded wrong in my head when i looked at the poly count in MAX but i thought i might hve changed it myself but my friend added 3 extra turbosmooth modifiers last time she came over to my house.

Mime

Fr0stguard wrote: »

but my friend added 3 extra turbosmooth modifiers last time she came over to my house.

What ?
Of all the things i do in my friends houses , adding turbosmooth on a barrel is not one of them..

Seriously weird..

ZacD

Really the polycount on the highpoly doesn't matter as long as its not slowing down the viewport or anything. If anything, the barrel looks a bit too skinny, but there isn't much to comment on or critique.

@Mime its fun to subdivide people stuff till their computer slows down to a crawl or crashes :P

Fr0stguard

Mime: She likes to mess around with the things i make besides the fact she has no idea what the things do.

ZacD: It isnt as skinny as it seems because i applyed an extra filter in photoshop while adjusting the hue of the saved render.

Here is a rough 2x4
(sorry about it beeing so hardto see the details. saved the render to small.)

Ott

Please provide reference of a 2x4 that looks like the one you posted.

I think that your time could be better spent somewhere other than sculpting a 2x4 if your goal is to create an entire village environment.

Grey

Yeah, think broad strokes if youre making an entire village. Ott is dead on here.

Fr0stguard

Here is a textured low poly Wooden Crate.

Noodle!

I'm mostly a lurker and don't post much on this particular forum, but if you're making a village I would take heed of what Grey and Ott said. Do you have the village all planned out? I think you're running the risk of making many props and no village.

As for the crate, right now you have seams that are no aligning an make little sense. I don't have photoshop installed right now, but they're on the corners in the outer wooden panels.

If you're going to make an entire village, which is a huge undertaking, I'd recommend planning it out carefully and getting some concepts up. Know exactly what you need to model and how much you need to do.