----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Sep 06, 2003 2:35 pm i drew this picture with.. ----------------------------------- uh.. a broken number 2 pencil... and ... uh, and my blood! yes, i'm that talented. feel free to bow before me :roll: :arrow: :wink: anyways, i felt it was about time i start posting my stuff here. hmm... now that i think of it i should start making stuff again. ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:01 pm ----------------------------------- its a good start... the sword lacks detail (low polycount) but that just needs practice. also, why is it suspended in the air? shouldn't it lie flat on the plane? ----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:09 pm ----------------------------------- since when is low poly a bad thing? in fact, i think this is actually too high poly (according to blender: 1743 faces, i'm not gonna go through and count). i should've mentioned that i intended to end up using it for a game, and just added the materials because i was bored. (i'll be going back and doing some UV mapping when i use it in the game). it's not supposed to look real, but it has many of the details you'd expect to find on a katana. as for air/ground positioning, clearly you haven't heard of the force. :wink: (sure, it's floating in the air, but who cares?) ----------------------------------- Blade Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:18 pm ----------------------------------- you're missing the clay on the blade :( ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:27 pm ----------------------------------- add a shine to it, so it looks asif its sharp :D ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:13 pm ----------------------------------- 1700 faces... =O isn't that a little bit too much to be used in a game that runs realtime ----------------------------------- Catalyst Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:18 pm ----------------------------------- Way too much for a sword, pretty good for a full character ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:38 pm ----------------------------------- I dont think its the real polycount number... you've got to go to utilities -> polycount to get a real number, face count is different. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:15 am ----------------------------------- you're missing the clay on the blade :( wha? correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure there isn't any clay on katanas. 1700 faces... =O isn't that a little bit too much to be used in a game that runs realtime thanks i... i din't know that :roll: I dont think its the real polycount number... you've got to go to utilities -> polycount to get a real number, face count is different. uh... yeah, i don't use 3DS Max (yet i have a copy of it...). this is made in blender. ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:01 pm ----------------------------------- 1 poly = 2 faces in most cases .. sometimes there will be a poly that's one face, but most are 2 ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Sep 07, 2003 10:01 pm ----------------------------------- are you sure that came out right, paddylong? :P a polygon would be a group of (connected) vertices. i think, 1 face would be equal to 1 polygon, except in some cases when the face is modelled as a quad and the engine renders it as 2 tris anyways. ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:34 pm ----------------------------------- in 3ds max usually the polys are made up of two triangular faces ... that's how max counts them any way ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:44 pm ----------------------------------- you sure? I think its the other way around. polygon is a single triangle... a face - which usually is a square is made up of two triangles(polygons) ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:04 am ----------------------------------- pretty sure yes I would check for sure but I don't have max installed right now