Zen there is one major problem with your optimizing idea and its that if you decrease the polycount of the model(which means deleting polys)you lose UV maps which are 40% of the modeling job.
So unable to test my Luna in game I had a sad, then was like ZZzzzzAAAAAP! (dazzle must me nearby) and an idea for crystal maiden popped into my head. 40's style! \
Another animation today - This one only took about 40 minutes. Gun shot hit & knockback. (50 frames) [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7wkativ6GU"]gunShotHitAnimation - YouTube[/ame]
I got FF Lineage 2 and Aion music on my music player.. yes its underrated. its hardly been 40 years since the start of the games industry things will change..
@Tadpole The main critique I have on your model is proportion. It's meant to be something like 40 feet tall, but your hand rails make it seem like it's around 10 feet tall.
This is probably old, but I found this as well for the noisemaker: [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DVdcMVtJFY"]Novedge Webinar #45: Taking a Closer Look into ZBrush4R3 - YouTube[/ame] at around 40:00
its because all player pawns are naturally given 40 ambient lighting so they are visible in complete darkness, which means they look like bright pieces of shit in any lighting situation.
They're more like snowgoggles than sunglasses. There are aproximately 40 bazillion different designs you could choose from. I'm sure you could find something appropriately sexy/tacky.
anyone have a torrent up or anything? I'll try the mirrors now.. I got another 40 min to wait for stupid freaking file planet that doesn't use torrents for public downloads..