First Post - A Box

Skummel

Thats right I made a box for my first Polycount post It helped me get more comfortable with modeling and mapping and baking normals. Been following the forums for a long time and thought it was about time to join em and post, even if it is just a box. I'll have more interesting works in the future.





Thats all, thanks for looking :thumbup:

Computron

Welcome to polycount.

Nice Box, but its a little hard to see with the red backgreound.

Wombatinahat

Nice texturing, theres a lot of wasted polys mainly in the handle and down the sides that aren't adding to the shape and you probably don't need that extra edge on the chamfered edges but its definitely a good start.

ladyknowles

Looks great! I agree with Wombatinahat (Amazing username), you should download the trial of marmoset, it would be great to show of an asset like this:

http://www.8monkeylabs.com/toolbag

megalmn2000

Welcome to Polycount!
Looks pretty good. I would delete some edges on the handle : half of them don't contribute that much on the shape of the handle.

theslingshot

Just did a quick patching to show you how you could clean your mesh, the main problem is really the side cause it doesn't affect the shape at all like Wombatinahat said, you'll save a lot of tris on that. The rest is mainly about lowering the resolution of the handle. (And anyone correct me if I'm wrong plz )

But anyway, your box still comes out looking very good

theslingshot

Oh and if you're in 3ds Max, you can clean all of this by only checking the preserve UVs in the edit poly modifier panel and everything should be fine when deleting and connecting stuff together.

Skummel

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm using 3ds max 2011, preserve UV's worked rather well thanks for that but I seem to have gotten a bug or something when I started deleting edge loops all was well but after a while some of my faces turned black or oddly shaded. Almost as if their normals had been reversed and smoothing groups crapped out. I didn't take a screenshot but it looked more or less like this:



I made sure the verts got deleted with the edges and the wire frame looked fine but the shading got messed up, even when I rendered it was still the same. Any ideas?

theslingshot

A screenshot would really help

Ghostscape

If you start removing edgeloops you will need to rebake most likely as removing the edgeloops will change the way it smooths and normal maps are tied to how the mesh smooths.