Warhammer 40k Buildings
polycounter lvl 17
Ok so after the last few weeks working on my anatomy and being chewed a new arse im blowing shits the size of small nurf footballs out I decided to take my much necessary advice and continue to work on anatomy slowly and back to the routes, so Im buying my freedom of teach figuring this week so in the mean time I figured to not let my skills get rusty and hit into doing some good old envrionment work. I decided to work on 2 buildings for my warhammer 40k dawn of war biker guys (way old thread at this point) So I figured much like my big mech cyngar guy I made I wanna put them in a little scene of some sort, I actually planned out this scene this time unlike before (thanks to johny constantly reminding me to not make things so boring looking) So I decided to do 2 buildings a thermo plasma generator thats more dark angel influnced and a Gauss cannon station right next to it.
So anyway its just a start its all going to be aimed towards dawn of war specs so im figuring around 2.5 k polys should be the max I hit or maybe even lower depending (2.1-2.2?) Anyway heres were im at right now
what im planing on making
and what I got
So anyway its just a start its all going to be aimed towards dawn of war specs so im figuring around 2.5 k polys should be the max I hit or maybe even lower depending (2.1-2.2?) Anyway heres were im at right now
what im planing on making
and what I got
Replies
- The tiny edge trim detail on the arches makes me think this is the high poly version? But other parts seem to indicate this model is the low poly? Like Johny said if this is the low, do most of that tiny kind of detail with a texture.
- The arches stick out too far, making them look tacked on instead of structural.
- the big blocks around the upper cylinders are going to be normal mapped to include the smaller blocks? Normal maps are great and all, but they are NOT miracle workers. The edges where those smaller blocks would stick out and break the silhouette if they where modeled, won't on the normal map. It will look odd and fake. They really won't add that much to the poly count, and you can repeat the texture. You should add big details like those blocks before thinking about poly modeling tiny surface details like around the arches.
- The 4 sided pipes coming out of the upper cylinders are screaming to be smoothed out. The ref has some really interesting elbow jointed pipes, it would be worth it to invest a few more polys and help that kind of detail along. Again this kind of detail should take precedence over some of the smaller details that have already been modeled.
it wouldn't be unprecedented to let it reach 3k polys
no crits that haven't been covered. looking forward to this.
sectaurs: so 3k is a good number estimate to look at?
vig: this will be all hand painted textures no normal maps or anything the only other map I will use is a glow asside from diffuse
I'll go back and add more to the arches once I get the upper area placed in
unfortanetly my poly count jumped to 3242 polys in the end, meh
Also you have suck a high polycount because you have lots of wasted polys.
Q: How many sides should a cylinder have?
A: The least number of sides to make it look round.
You have enough triangles/polys to nail down the big details properly but aren't.
<font color="red">RED:</font>
Look at the silhouette of the building, and look at yours. You've modeled the arches too far and away, they look tacked on as an after thought not built into the structure. The point of an arch is to bear weight and transfer the load to the support beams, not float and do nothing.
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Another indication that the arches should not stick out that far. On the ref, the arch sticks out about as far as the micro detail you modeled, but on the model its 4x that.
<font color="yellow">YELLOW:</font>
This gap is doing very little for the detail of the model. Since you modeled all those little micro details why not put them to good use and have them cover up some of the big bland space?
Seriously, do more with less, make the most out of what you have. Get rid of the micro details and use those polys in a much more productive way.
going back getting rid of more of the micro modeling stuff once im done texturing things to see what can be delted versus saved (Alot of them were ovelayed textures so clean up wont be harsh)
figured to post some progress...damn holiday and family and friends wont leave me alone a blasted moment to work on my stuff!
I STILL NEED TO DO ONE MORE NEXT GEN SCENE TO FINISH BEFORE FEB! GRRR!
Anywho enough worlds most smallest violen stories and heres some of the goods
I know its not alot but figure to show something as oppose to nothing
and honestly I just wanted to see how well Im painting