Hi! My very first item (or 3d model) lol
So I've been playing dota since forever and recently stumbled on a dota 2 item tutorial on youtube. Although I didn't understand anything that the guy was doing, it looked fun as hell and I decided to give it a shot! So after 10 days of watching tutorials and what not I have somehow managed to complete something which is beginning to remotely resemble a dota 2 item. lol.
Here is the link :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=207730113
Feel free to critique/make suggestions or just bash away. I'm still learning a lot everyday and I know I've probably made a million mistakes.
[IMG][/img]
Here is the link :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=207730113
Feel free to critique/make suggestions or just bash away. I'm still learning a lot everyday and I know I've probably made a million mistakes.
[IMG][/img]
Replies
It is rather big now that I think about it lol. I will scale it down a bit. Thanks for the input!
Hmm I noticed something. When I use a blank template for normal maps (128 128 255) ... I don't see any changes in my model in the portrait view. The model looks exactly the same as before lol. And you gave me another idea. Perhaps I can make each leaf stick out a little at different elevations in the high poly model? And hopefully create some normals that actually show it lol. I haven't even started on mask1 and mask2 which is where I'm guessing the light factor will come into play. Thanks for the idea!
Well if your normal are acting funky, the best way for us to help is to post them up here. A blank normal sheet wont really do you any good unless you are just trying to pop your wep in engine. Which program did you use to bake the normals?
It's generally a good practice to fix all problems before shipping, or atleast understand why they are broke.
Lol ... I guess I was overexcited to hit that publish button :poly142:. I've been reading a little bit on normals and found out about tangent space and object space. I don't know which one Dota 2 uses or even which ones I have but I think the problem is that I put too little detail in the high poly version of my model.
I used xNormal to create the maps since that's what the guy whose tutorial I was following did too. Here is a screenshot. I created 2 versions of the maps. One was sized 256x128 and the second one at 1024x512. I used the first one for the item directly in game since I thought it'll be better to directly use a low resolution map than to have valve shrink the high resolution map.
You're right. The normal map is barely doing anything. Going to reshape the model and then sculpt it again. Hopefully better this time. By cage do you mean the UV's? This is my first time for everything hence the mistakes. Thanks for helping!
When I import either of these normals into dota 2, I don't see any difference at all. I think it's because the number of polygons used in the wing is too low. I mean you can see each polygon on the wing. If that is not the case please let me know so I can fix it.