i've got a 3d card wich exels at just pushing raw polycount, it runs pretty smooth, and like it said, my high res "cage" (special low poly), is not that much. its damn wel alot more than your regular "normal" poly model, but its not like 100.000 yet
in any case, the whole process of making it all isnt really hardware-intensive. since it's all raw geometry, no fancy textures, multi-pass shades, pixelshaders, displacement mapping, whatever technical stuff you see in games, it's got no extra load displaying it. (that's when you don't have edged faces on, since that actually adds plenty to be calculated along with the mesh itself)
in short, even you can do it.
told you the lama mackz fail.Originally Posted by lamanoob
Also, was it really worth it to model those tiny details on the tubes? Can't you just do that with a normal map? Yes I know, geometry is always better, but still...
I wanted to do more work on it, but i decided to slack off with dano instead.
also, his mom's battery is dead or something. :awesome:
ill do more work tonight.
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kay.
tonight's work. not much, but meh, every bit counts.
had a lot of problems with this piece, because the concept sucks, 2D =/= acurate
that's also why the foot is so incomplete, the drawing im working from just has some bits floating there, now that might be fine on a concept drawing, but it leaves me to come up with a system that can actually move those pieces around
same goes for that piece of arm. at the top it's right in the middle,but at the bottom, it's aligned with the side of the other bits. and it's slimmer too, so bah, spent a while trying to get that to work, but it worked out in the end i guess.
also, now that i've added some things to it, and get to see the bigger picture, and scale of things, i'm wondering why i put so much effort into SUCH small details you'll never see anyway, it'll be like 1 pixel on the normalmap
wasted effort ftl.
moar tomorrow.
another edit:
the new bit actually has some nice grooves on it, but it diceded not to show up on this
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