Polycrunchin' temples like a boss

j0nchron

Hey folks!

Gettin busy with the Polycruncher for the first time & the initial result looks awesome. Normal and AO maps were successfully baked, so the UVs and smoothing groups all seem fine:



But now the strange thing making me hesitate about moving forward is that once these base textures are applied, I wind up with some strange artifacts on a couple pieces. Its as if the triangles themselves are refusing this world class AO bake:



Now what baffles me is that these artifacts aren't entirely consistent with the wire frame:




But when I turn the diffuse color all the way to black it seems to render out OK:



Any guesses on what gives? I'd hate to keep moving forward only to find out that this .obj isn't pretty in the game engine.

Thanks!

j0nchron

Oh gosh, I think I am retarded for exporting an alpha channel on accident.

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keres

That is your low poly?

j0nchron

Nope, just preparing meshes for ZBrush Sculpt

j0nchron

Polycounting is kind of like a hair cut, you can always cut some off but hard to put it back!

The door frame thingy in the middle will probably end up being crunched down some more. What's a good number to shoot for this scene? 45,000 triangles?

Butthair

I'm not sure on poly amounts, but the trees might be the most of your polys in the scene. You should retopo that wall as well, there's a lot of waste of polygons there that could be better optimized. If you've taken this time to make this nice looking hi poly, take the time to make the low poly. The model is only suffering from a better silhouette and geometric flow without one.

sltrOlsson

Your sculpt look good but you texture is undefined and kinda dull.

Having that entrance piece just crunched makes no sense at all. It's such an easy piece to model out in proper lowpoly. Stone and stone walls and what not, sure. But you can get this down to under 500-ish EASY..

Look at this. This is what I would have done.

RexM

The sculpts are great, but the texture isn't doing it for me.... it's too monotone. It needs other colors that would accentuate wear mixed in, as well as some brighter highlights on the bricks either in the diffuse or with raising the intensity of the specular.

Stuff like this:

http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/rome-ir1090.jpg

http://www.lgfo.org/0154.jpg


Perhaps if you were going for moss, this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CrrjYgXWUIw/TK2kOaubPQI/AAAAAAAAAOk/0yddqACfLxE/s1600/The+Old+Mill.JPG

achillesian

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