Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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Game vehicle - speeder bike
So taking influences from the imperial speeder bike from Star Wars ep6, a Ducati 1000 and the 'Ghost' vehicle from Halo... This is what i'm building (...and yes i know the concept is simple :p)
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I have pretty much done the hand controls now to where I want them, might still have a tweak or two : > I'll post more pics when I have the wings done - I decided to do that next
Because I'm new to game art as well as modelling, i also hope someone can help me out - How many seperate peices of geometry is the norm for vehicles? And how will that affect UV mapping? Any other tips are also welcome and probably somewhat required
Oh also, the challenge limit i was given is 30,000 polys, but to be honest that sounds way high for the kind of game I could see this vehicle in - anyone have any idea what kind of limit would be appropriate for an engine like Quake 4 or HalfLife2?
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I'll continue working on the wings for a bit then I'll start piecing it togther with the bottom section hull, if anyone has any suggestions; creative or critical, input is welcome!
Edit : If anyone knows of any really fast & simple render / lighting setups, could you point me in the right direction so I can show you better renders!
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Still a bit unsure how to end the wings on the far tips... hmm.
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I was going to smooth the hull, but I'm still unsure of what a decent polycount would be for a doom3/quake4/halflife type of engine. If anyone knows anything about this sort of stuff, can you please set me a limit... the smooth option looks great on it but adds a rather hefty polycount...
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In PGR2 the car models were comprised of 10,000 polygons, but with the next generation hardware's power Bizarre's modellers have been able to put as many as 105,000 polygons worth of detail into the cars, although most cars comprise of 80,000- with 40,000 of those being spent on the exterior and the remaining 40,000 on the interior.
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For my vehicle i'd like it to have a polycount that would suit a battlefield 2 style of gameplay (large open maps, lots of people per side, 1st person shooter) on a newer engine like doom3. Hope thats a bit clearer.
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Thats brilliant, ta mate. I'll go for a max of 10k then cheers, as i know level of detail is at least used in bf2 and quake4.Originally posted by DJbLAZER
Then I would go up to 10k polys. It really depends heavily on how the game is designed. If there are some kind of speed up techniques like level of detail you could use a 50k model when the model is close and 1k if it's very far away. But around 3-10k for a vehicle is pretty normal for games developed the last couple of years.
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