ZacD - I swear by; http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/art/Z-PS-Brushes-V2-55088505 And I also used a mashup of Jaime Jones / Tom Scholes and a few others, deleting shit I dont want!
@ ZacD, bounchfx and teaandcigarettes: whoa thanks for the positive comments ! makes me feel like the time was not wasted ;D turpedo, awesome conversion into 3d - i'm totally loving all the strong colors you used in the scene !
ZacD: Yeah I've been wanting to work in some golds throughout the entire process, but it's hard to make it look good without a nice shader and I haven't gotten my items into game yet to see how the finals shaders will look... I'll try some more like Copper, that's a good idea. Thinking of the actual materials rather than…
ZacD, here : http://born-robotic.net/stuff/kamdo_05back.jpg (haven't cleaned up the AO there yet), but they are as low as I want them to be and keep the bake and shape looking ok. I think it's important to keep small details like this with denser tricount, to give the overall model credibility (this model could actually…
MaD: Cylinders hold up pretty well under lower polygon counts, and you can always save shit-tons of tris on them. I usually make mine 5-sided, which is the lowest really cylindrical equivalent, and optimise to 3-sided if need be. edit: also, collapsing the inside of a bend usually doesn't make much of a different to the…