Female Zombie Game Character

mucsiattila · 20-01-2010, 04:40 PM

Hi! My name is Attila. I want to create a female zombie character for HL2 source. It may has 4000 triangles, becouse there will be a lot of them on screen.

#1 - First I thought to crearte the basic mesh in max with its 4k tris (~2k quad), put it into ZBrush for sculpting a high res version to create maps, than lower subdiv level to basics, and triangulate to finish it.

#2 - Than I asked some people, who suggested me to make a high res character, and with the help of it build an other low res triangulated one, and bake textures, like this one:
http://vimeo.com/5734031

#3 - This looks hard for me, so I was thinking on building a base, detailing in ZB, and lower the res with decimation master plugin.

So wich way is better/best?
Will be max and ZB ok for this work?

please do advice...

thx in advance

Attila

here is the "pre" stage with 3328 triangles

poopipe · 21-01-2010, 01:11 AM

option 2

there are a lot of reasons for this, the main one is that you get a lot more freedom when sculpting

View Poll Results: Wich way to use?
#1 - low poly (4k triangle) -> ZB -> low poly (4k)	1	50.00%
#2 - ZB -> recreate low poly + bake textures	1	50.00%
#3 - low poly base -> ZB -> decimation master	0	0%
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20-01-2010, 04:40 PM	#1
mucsiattila Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Szeged, Hungary (EU) Posts: 66 Thanks: 9 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Female Zombie Game Character Hi! My name is Attila. I want to create a female zombie character for HL2 source. It may has 4000 triangles, becouse there will be a lot of them on screen. #1 - First I thought to crearte the basic mesh in max with its 4k tris (~2k quad), put it into ZBrush for sculpting a high res version to create maps, than lower subdiv level to basics, and triangulate to finish it. #2 - Than I asked some people, who suggested me to make a high res character, and with the help of it build an other low res triangulated one, and bake textures, like this one: http://vimeo.com/5734031 #3 - This looks hard for me, so I was thinking on building a base, detailing in ZB, and lower the res with decimation master plugin. So wich way is better/best? Will be max and ZB ok for this work? please do advice... thx in advance Attila here is the "pre" stage with 3328 triangles __________________ There is no real life! There is only AFK! (away from keyboard) Female Base Character - WIP (nudity) My Deviantart

21-01-2010, 01:11 AM	#2
poopipe conscientious objector Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cambridge, uk Posts: 4,235 Thanks: 3 Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 9	option 2 there are a lot of reasons for this, the main one is that you get a lot more freedom when sculpting __________________ work pigs!! http://johnsarthole.blogspot.com/

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