First go at a complete character!

laim1991

So here's my progress so far, thought i'd see what Polycount thought of it


















Since that sculpt the Jetpack has changed slightly, there is now A handle which attaches to the jets in a way that they can be controlled, the jets have also changed. I'll post these changes soon

chrisradsby

You should slow down before you go further, you still have major issues with the anatomy of your character. Look at the shoulders, and the area around the armpits. The hands, the hand wrists, the neck. All these areas need another look, in the end you'll be happy you did it

Elith2

I would second what chris says. I would maybe take another look at the thighs as well, maybe it's just me but the look far too thin and far apart.

It's a nice idea though, the pieces you have worked on for the clothing/equipment are nice.

laim1991

Thanks for the advice in terms of anatomy, I see what you're both saying and It's something I will look into. Sadly I can't address those problems just yet as this is for a university project due in 16 days and I've already 'signed off' the sculpting stage. I can have a look at the neck as I have yet to retop her head and neck but the rest will have to wait I'm afraid.

I guess I should have mentioned this in the first post but could I get some crits on the two pieces I have textured?

cdevens

Good start on the texture. It looks like the base piece of leather for the arm is much lower rez than the straps, you may want to adjust the UVs for that. Also, the seams for the bottles on that piece are showing, you should hide them on the side that face down toward the arm.

laim1991

Got a bit more done tonight. Thanks cdevens, now you mention it I see what you mean. I'll fix that next

laim1991

Modelled an american football helmet for her to wear, I'm beginning to push my tri limit however (13,000) and I was wondering if anyone had any tips to lower the tri count cage tubes?

Snader

The arms are sticking out rather spaghetti-like. Where are the latissimus dorsii? The shoulder could also do with a bit more defined shape. Be it a sharp ride because of the stitching (see image) or more defined muscle (especially bringing in the shoulder and adding a dimple above the triceps) - it needs some slight vertex tweaking. You should be able to get away with just moving them and keeping the current textures.




edit: for the helmet, drop the 7 sided tubes. 4 might be enough, 5 should be plenty. I'd also have a look at different types of spheres to cut a few polies off the helmet:


Lastly, I'd make the straps solid geometry instead of folded bands. Just a simple water drop shape, extruded. Paint the middle part black/dark.

edit of the edit:
you could also optimize other tubes on the character. The 8 sided arm-gas-flasks for instance are okay (could even be 9 or 10 perhaps) but the small tubes coming out of it shouldn't be 8 sided. 4,5 or maybe 6 - they seem to be about as thick as the helmet wires.

laim1991

Thanks for taking the time man! Took your advice for the helmet. Re modelled using geosphere and cut that from 360 to 122. Then made all of the tubes 4 sided. Took the whole thing from 1100 to 800

I hadn't thought to adjust the anatomy just by changing the low poly, I assumed I'd need to go back to the sculpt so I'll give that a go as well. Same goes for the rest of your advice, I'll give the whole thing a once over and see where it can be optimised

laim1991

Ruz

on the costume it looks to me that the normal map needs the y ( green channel) flipping.

laim1991

Thanks for pointing that out! Flipped and looks much better.

Snader

laim1991 wrote: »

I assumed I'd need to go back to the sculpt

If you want to do it proper, yes. Because pulling around vertices on the lowpoly will make it so the normal map doesn't have the right angles anymore (and of course you'll stretch the UV/texture a bit) so the normal map will technically be incorrect. But considering this is a organic shape, you can fudge things a bit, IMO.

Besides, you can always choose to not use the edited lowpoly if it looks very off.

Snader

laim1991 wrote: »

I assumed I'd need to go back to the sculpt

If you want to do it proper, yes. Because pulling around vertices on the lowpoly will make it so the normal map doesn't have the right angles anymore (and of course you'll stretch the UV/texture a bit) so the normal map will technically be incorrect. But considering this is a organic shape, you can fudge things a bit, IMO.

Besides, you can always choose to not use the edited lowpoly if it looks very off.

edit: if you've got some energy left I'd go back to the helmet again and make it around 200 tris - it looks rather blocky right now.

Perhaps you took the numbers in my image as a guideline for this specific helmet? They were not supposed to be, it's actually a 2 year old image just to show the relative polycounts for different sphere types.