Capt_Hotkill SandBags

Cap Hotkill

Hi guys, I wanted some Critics on this work.
the poly count 637 and the texture Size is 512x1024, there are no seams in the map.



PS: The gears of war logo is just a placeholder ^^

brandoom

Looks good to me, I don't really have any crits for you.

Mark Dygert

Looks pretty good, the shot is a little dark, hard to make out some of the details. Is that a render or a screen grab? Wires and texture sheets?

Cap Hotkill

Its a Screengrab from Modo, thats why it looks dark.

here are the wires and the textures.

Torrrtilla

The normals look great. I have no crits on the technical side, are you making this as a stand alone piece.

Cap Hotkill

Yeah, but i made everything in a way that i can make any shapes and any formations easily. each Bag is individual and they have a poly paint applied from were i get the base texture.

commander_keen

Looks good, but as Vig said the presentation doesnt look good. Needs to be brighter overall and have more contrast.

Barnstable

Looks great. Just curious about your process. How did you go about building that geometry? I don't know how I would do that all in one solid piece in Maya. Did you just build one sandbag, and delete polys and connect it to the next sandbag?

Cap Hotkill

I made a Base mesh for one Sandbag in Modo from a Box soo i had a box like UVmap, then i took it to Zbrush and sculpted and painted it, then I used Subtools to make the formation and then i pressed Remesh all in the Subtool Menu, when you get a good shape, you Decimate it and there you get your low poly. then its just about making a simple Pelt map for the UV. and Bake the Normals, Ambient Occlusion and Base texture, With Photoshop i made the different layers that gives the Diffuse the final look.

Barnstable

Thanks for the explanation Cap.

Cap Hotkill

You welcome, I forgot to say another tip about the workflow, with polypaint you need too many polygons to get a good resolution on the paint, and thats not usefull if you have to put 12 objects of 1 or 2 million polygons all together in a single file, so the best way to work with it is to Project the polypaint into a Texture and load it into a lower subdivision of the model. level 7 Subdivision of my bags is around 360k witch is ok to make the normal and AO map Bakes. I use Xnormal to Bake the Base texture to the low poly from High poly model Texture, thats the reason of why you need a proper mapped Level 0 Model when you start.