Starting to put some color in. Currently it's just a bunch of flat colors (with an occlusion map) so I could figure out a good color scheme. I'll be putting the wear n' tear in soon. Crits and comments always welcome.
Bek - I'm using maya, I think with smoothing groups its either all hard or all soft for Maya. I always just soften em. And if I delete the edge down the middle it'll create n-gons.
High quality stuff, and also optimize them. If you're doing envo stuff, then save poly everywhere you can see. Only add poly if it will define shapes. Otherwise get rid of it. It's ok to use Tris, but no n-gon.
You don't even want to know what N-Sided will make it look like :P To summarize in 1 sentence or less: Model in quads, do your zbrushery, and then your final in-game optimized mesh can have tris in it.
Another thing is grabbing a anatomy book (like 10 bucks or so at barns n nobles) and giving it a quick read. once you understand the forms your mistakes pop at you more often than none. keep it up.
Thx for the advice smirnoffka, eliminated all the N-gons i could see. Also I beefed up the width a bit and added an indentation where the sight sits. Shaved off about 300 polys in the process, booya! :D
So, like, I was trying to get the "Run 'n Gun" achievement that required running down the street and shooting random people, except I got shot in the leg. No problem, it's a game, I can relo-- --ohshit. MY LEG!
True. But 3dc's other retopo tools are still available to clean up, i.e. blow the n-gons & tris and simply stroke or rebuild new loops or quads. I don't think auto-retopo was meant as an end all feature.
I'm at the point where I'd rather they just get on with the fucking story and stop beating around the bush with all these splintering off-shoot vignettes. its fun and cool, and lots of dramatic changes n such... but damnit, im getting bored :)
Sunshine was freakin awesome. Im also very excited to see this, but I have to agree with what others have said... there's something terribly familiar about this. Im sure its going to be well worth admission either way. -N!