Blizzard Orc Building..

Warotic

Hey everyone, so i wanted to work on my textures and all that jazz but i need to get my modeling mastered first. i have a couple of questions concerning. Tri's and (i dont know how to word this) but how the uv's are set up? or diff style of uv's? i have picture examples. picture 2 is a barrel and the uv's are all right next to each other, in square shapes. Then theres pic 3 that the uv's are just laid out in a square in empty space. I think that blizzard uses the (barrels) pic 2s "uv set up". my question is how do you do the uv's, texturing, cubical, blizzlike as shown? sorry if i made that more complicated then it needed to be.. the question about tri's is do you guys think that 2348 tri's for the full mesh is acceptable? also i have never made chains before and in one chain link (loop) its 72 tri's. and to me i think that is alot more then it should be. thanks for all your help!





ps. barrel is not mine

Rhoutermans

I think the number of tris is more then acceptable nowadays for a model like this. Blizzard is currently using more detailed models then they did before, I think I saw some chains all modelled out in Orgrimmar recently, instead of the alpha plain they used to have. Just optimize the hell out of it without it looking too low poly, you can never go wrong.

I probably would've added some wood beam around the entrance too (get it? ;P ) Just keep at it and it'll look great

CandyStripes05

my thoughts are the barrel simply has more to uv thus it takes up most of the space (and since you cant see the actual uv's you dont know how much of that texture is being used for edge padding) as for the weapon its much smaller, so there wasn't much really to include in the uv

so im guessing there is no special "blizz like" uv method, it just depends how well you can set up your uv's to best fill the space

Warotic

alright thanks guys. ill have more up soon

Warotic

biggest building ill probably have.

Paunescu.Daniel

Cool i love blizzard's art style, your models and textures look nice and blizz-ish, but I'd add some more sharper or edgy lines to the runes instead of curved ones.

Warotic

will do thank you

Cheese_Shinobi

Good start, will be keeping an eye on this