Cheers Snader. Yeah that pose looks cool. The chain is difficult. I've barely got any tri's left in the budget (20 currently, could possibly squeeze another 40 or so) and would really be limited to planes only. I tried looping the chain round him with bent planes but as soon as they get outside the silhouette of the…
Haha, yeah 20 polies ain't no chain. You could save some (about 75 or so?) tris by collapsing the dense edgeloops on the forehead but even then it'd just be enough for 5 modeled shackles. On the other hand, if you were to use a bunch of tetrahedrons you could get further. This would get you a chain with 4 polies per link,…
Hm I thought I replied to this, but my PC must have lost power while posting or smth. Anyway, I made some chains a while ago: each shackle uses 20 polies, and the alpha'd strips are 16 polies per 6 shackles. You could also connect some verts on the character and extrude those polies, but that wouldn't be a good solution at…