Satan - 3D Sketchbook

[satan]

I thought what the heck, I might have one as well.

Here's something I've been working on for the last 2 days:





I decided to make highpoly only for the roof for baking (which isn't shown here). I'll texture it soon enough.

Edit: And it's 6000 tris.

[Shatter]

So the roof is supposed to be low-poly? =/

I guess it is a little steep for normal mapping but may be you could use parallax?

[satan]

LOL ... yeah. I tried making a flatter roof, but it was taking away the grace Chinese roofs have.

And ofcourse there will be LODs. But I don't know. Maybe you guys can suggest me something.

[fabiodan]

yesh, very nice roof, with a high triangle count though.

You can keep the volume there, for a single edgeloop then make it flat from there until the places where the roof intersects with the structure and use NORM to fill the details in the remaining area

[satan]

An interesting tip there Fabiodan. That didn't cross my mind. I'll try it out sometime. Thanks a lot.

[satan]

Not too much of a progress. But I tried doing what Fabiodan told me. I was able to pull it down to almost at 4K tris. Now let's see if it works with normal map which will be coming up shortly.

[SebastianK]

Looks very cool. Do you need that slight bevel on the bottom of every one of those beams by the roof though? Seems like something extremely minor. I realize it won't matter too much but eh, if you want to keep it low poly it'll save a few triangles.

[satan]

Well it's almost 18 feet high model. Genre is FPS. So yeah, I kind of have to keep it.

[SebastianK]

Ah alright then.

[Shatter]

You could save a lot of polys here