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also, add poly's, and take alot away from the hands. You don't need the fingers modeled if its supposed to be low-poly.... Also, just lower the count in general...
also, make the neck thinner
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and also, soften your edges...
otherwise it looks pretty cool
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I'm sorry but i have to disagree.Originally posted by Joopson
the skirt segments should be closer together, I think
also, add poly's, and take alot away from the hands. You don't need the fingers modeled if its supposed to be low-poly.... Also, just lower the count in general...
also, make the neck thinner
Sure he could take away some poly's in the hand but what is wrong with modeling the fingers?
I think low poly for games has come pretty far from the mittens characters used to have for hands and have delved into the mystical world of five fingers.
The crit that i would have is that the hands are to small. In the ref they are quite large and stylized. Possibly you also need to make the feet a bit smaller.
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Maya i ask how to soften the edges :? without adding more polygons :?
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hold down shift,
hold down right click,
and somewhere in the menu is soften/harden edges (near the bottom right corner) and you just select soften edge
if you can't find it then in the polygon menu set go Normals > soften/harden > soften edge (i think... i know the option is in the Normals menu, i haven't used that menu for a long long time)
you can also change the display of edges too, Display > show > soft/hard edges
(i think... i know it's somewhere in the display menu)
hard edges will be shown in full lines, soft edges will be dotted lines
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Originally posted by Some Guy
I'm sorry but i have to disagree.
Sure he could take away some poly's in the hand but what is wrong with modeling the fingers?
I think low poly for games has come pretty far from the mittens characters used to have for hands and have delved into the mystical world of five fingers.
Why model the fingers and leave the feet (much bigger) blocky? its illogical. You would probably never see the hands close up anyway. The feet, though, are always completely in view, and they distract quite a bit.
The rule is, the bigger the detail, the more polys it should have. the feet are huge...
Just my 2 cents
(also, games now-a-days aren't low-poly really anyway
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next up, his gun - right?
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some of those edges you can keep hard because some of those faces you want to stay the same colour for the entire face
so like the broom on top of his helmet, i think you can keep some of the edges hard so that the colours don't go all crazy like that
i'd screen shot you what i mean, but i'm at work on a mac, there isn't a paint program...
otherwise you made some great improvements!
nice gun
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