Beillzibub
01-06-2008, 02:30 PM
Hi Guys and Gals,
I hope you guys don't mind me asking a few questions, I tried finding the answers on existing posts but came up no dice.
I've been working in tv and print for a good few years now and am about to cross over into sets and props for games. Obviously the workflow and restrictions differ hugely from the two medias and I've started doing my homework before I start for real in a month or so.
(Normal mapping is just amazing by the way.)
Anyway, enough about me!
Thought I'd start on something simple to work out the kinks and hopefuly bring up some issues that I'm likely to come across and it worked. There are issues. (",)
I'm working on some verticle gas and water pipes with vales/hadles etc, and I've two main questions realy:
1. The pipes need to be between 500-1500 polys
Now I'm working in maya, and having never had a poly restriction I've never looked at the heads up poly counter. It shows faces and tri's but I'm not sure which of these constitutes as my poly count?
2. The pipes in real life would be cylindrical, now obviously the poly restriction would mean working on this somewhat. I've gone with the pipe cross-section being a hexagon, but even before thinking of normal mapping it I was wandering if this is too squared off? This is an opinion question I guess, and if I knew the answer to question 1 I'd probably be able to decide myself but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Long time listener, first time caller and all that. I hope you guys don't mind me asking all this.
Many thanks in advance.
I hope you guys don't mind me asking a few questions, I tried finding the answers on existing posts but came up no dice.
I've been working in tv and print for a good few years now and am about to cross over into sets and props for games. Obviously the workflow and restrictions differ hugely from the two medias and I've started doing my homework before I start for real in a month or so.
(Normal mapping is just amazing by the way.)
Anyway, enough about me!
Thought I'd start on something simple to work out the kinks and hopefuly bring up some issues that I'm likely to come across and it worked. There are issues. (",)
I'm working on some verticle gas and water pipes with vales/hadles etc, and I've two main questions realy:
1. The pipes need to be between 500-1500 polys
Now I'm working in maya, and having never had a poly restriction I've never looked at the heads up poly counter. It shows faces and tri's but I'm not sure which of these constitutes as my poly count?
2. The pipes in real life would be cylindrical, now obviously the poly restriction would mean working on this somewhat. I've gone with the pipe cross-section being a hexagon, but even before thinking of normal mapping it I was wandering if this is too squared off? This is an opinion question I guess, and if I knew the answer to question 1 I'd probably be able to decide myself but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Long time listener, first time caller and all that. I hope you guys don't mind me asking all this.
Many thanks in advance.