starkiller

[Milamber]

 

Gif showing what I mean

[ChalklYne]

lmao

blowin kisses

 

 

 

[Milamber]

Got skype/xfire? Would be easier to have this back and forth thing live xD

[ChalklYne]

azchalk   skype

 

 

hey ashura... wake up n help me with this torso it has too many folds and for some reason the scale of the texture and contrast are different so im screwing it up lol

 

its really throwing off my vibe

 

look at the poor thing dude  =(

 

and i just noticed for some reason my rivets shifted. sucky. ill fix it

[Tempust85]

Top of the head should be thinner to match those refs.

[ChalklYne]

milambers helping me tune this dude in... heres some progress

 

 

 

[ChalklYne]

re-assessing his smoothing

it was looking like crap

 

 

 

[minilogoguy18]

Doesn't look like Sam at all.

[ChalklYne]

ahh itll survive. 

 

some more texturing.

 

probably get a fresh look at it tomorrow...

 

 

 

 

looks like his eyes are looking pretty bland without eyelids or anything.. probably try and texture those next

[AshuraDX]

looks a little..... fat o.o

sorta reminds me of

 

 

 

 

 

but that might be the flat textures

[ChalklYne]

omg

 

i have 2 screens...

 

and i set the resoulution to one of em a little smaller than usual so i can read the text from mycouch... but i retardedly use it to mod and forget to change the resolution lol

 

milamber n i went thru this the other day lmfao  he was like u need to squash the face i was like duuuude.. i cant squash it anymore than it is... then common sense took over and i realized my resolution was off.. now that i look at that pic on the right screen im somewhat ashamed  =( 

[ChalklYne]

progress

 

 

 

[Milamber]

You're back to a circle shaped head mate, starkiller's got more of a long square head, use your reference for what it's worth  

 

 

 

 

Do the line stuff

[minilogoguy18]

 

 

 

Like that?

[ChalklYne]

[eezstreet]

Closer. The forehead still needs some work, and it needs to be less "flat" overall. But it's getting there.

[Tempust85]

Here's a sculpt someone did:

 

http://www.artbymanny.com/gallery/starwars/meshes/starkillersculpt.jpg

 

Good ref.

[ChalklYne]

thats an amazing ref dude thanks

[minilogoguy18]

^That was by the original artist for the game, if you search on polycount you can find the thread.

 

Softimage ftw, game models were done for TFU with it.

[ChalklYne]

yeah i noticed manny llamas was using softimage lol kikass

[ChalklYne]

hey so somebody gimme a poly limit on this guy... he just has so much detail and i dont wanna half ass him so what are we looking at in the way of polies? i know 1000 verts per surface over 500 no shading... but besides that like overall count? im pretty good at not wasting verts so i wanna make sure i can pack a lot into this one... and heres that read mini was commenting on it really is a good read and the ref pics couldnt get any better... notice the program 

 

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62063

[minilogoguy18]

There is no real limit, I always just aim as low as possible while still having detail where it counts, I tend to go a little higher than base models but not by a whole lot, I also make LOD's which helps with performance A LOT.

[Hirmanator]

There is no real limit, I always just aim as low as possible while still having detail where it counts, I tend to go a little higher than base models but not by a whole lot, I also make LOD's which helps with performance A LOT.

 

LODs do help. I think if you were to keep it like the game. a 4000-5000 count. for more detail 6000 and LODs. Look up the how-to's in the tut section if ya don't know.

http://psyko3d.50webs.com/tutorials/lods.htm

[Milamber]

You can get something that looks like him with an insanely low poly count, the point is just getting the vertecies right You should focus on that still Add more loops once you gotten the ones you have working.

[Tempust85]

Keep under 2,000 tris per mesh object, or carcass will spit chips and not the yummy kind....