Mobile 3D Work

1magus

Well I have been looking for a team who is working on a game and I'm currently great at mobile work, super low polygon models and texturing them.

I was hoping you all could give me some feedback on some models I made for a simple iphone/ android game:

I'm not sure if I should be posting high resolution renders here or not? These are just previews is it ok if I show a ton of renders on one thread?

MikeF

first of all, post some wireframe vieport grabs, that way we can get a better idea of the optimization.

next it looks kind of like you're using a normal map or bump map of some sort, most mobile engines dont suport this, so you might want to remove that.

the textures in general are pretty weak, low spec work will always benefit from handpainted textures versus photosourcing. You really need to take advantage of every single pixel at your disposal

also, alpha maps tend to really weigh heavy on mobile platforms, in the case of your railings you may actually be better off substituting for individual planes

1magus

Ok so you want final renders and wireframe of each model? Fine
Also the people I was working for really did not want me doing anything that meant more triangles than we needed I could of sword the latest iphones could do normal maps? But oh well lesson learned. The Wireframe only is kind of hard to see but I will try.

MikeF

your best bet is to just have the model selected in the viewport of your modeling app so its still solid with a wireframe overlay, then just do a printscreen

like i said, normal maps arnt unheard of, its just very dependant on the engine thats being used on the mobile device in question

1magus

Is this better?

1magus

As for the textures I'm not much of a 2D artist I would much rather work with photo realistic textures but I guess they don't work well on mobile games.

1magus

Here is a gas station I modeled for the game, each model had to be made for a top down view port.

1magus

Here are some more apartments, I had a lot of fun making these

1magus

A Simple Stoplight used in the game as well, 256x256 Texture.

gilesruscoe

you need to focus on texturing, at the moment none of the materials are reading very well, hand painting will really help sell low spec assets, you should try it.

1magus

Hand painting in photoshop? Any suggestions? I really have not don't much drawing or painting at all.