Sci Fi Boiler

Alex3d

Hi, I'm new to polycount and decided to share my latest project.
This is a futuristic boiler that powers a ship. My focus was to make it lowpoly, yet retaining all the good looks. I've used a ton of normal maps in this project and still have some stuff to improve. I know I could have used less polygons (9,109 polys), but everybody improves on mistakes. Feel free to comment or give suggestions

Alex3d

Planning to run it through UDK, is it too high in polycount for that?

Alex3d

There was a long approval bug, but anyway I plan to run it through UDK, is it too high in polycount?

Tea Monster

That is nice. I like the iron-like appearance of the metal. Really good stuff. I'm not an unreal mapper, but based on some other maps I've seen, I think you are within the limit.

gsokol

19k tris isnt really too high of a polycount..your fine.

Jeff Parrott

Looks pretty nice. Push the spec a bit more.

The complementary lighting is nice. It feels a bit too orange in the back though. Maybe tone that down a smidge.

fearian

Looks really nice! I agree with Jeffro, you could bring out the spec a bit more - I look forward to seeing this in UDK!

Alex3d

Thanks for the input guys! I was worried that if I push specs too much, it would look weird on some heavy machinery industrial room. But I`ll try and see what I get, I`ll post results a bit later (working on my new project right now).

passerby

ya well within the limit some of epics maps have much more dense meshes in them and it still runs smooth.

Urbanmelon

Next-gen characters alone can have a 10k-20k tricount, so you are well within limits. For games like Crysis or Gears, there can be 2-3 milion polygons on-screen at times, so I think you're fine ;D.

If you're new to UDK, I recommend you take a look at Chris Albeluhn's tutorials.

Alex3d

I am new to UDK, thanks melon! Great stuff