Experimenting for the Extra Lowpoly Contest

[Tigga]

This thread started out as a progress thread for some experiments for the Extra-Lowpoly Contest. However, due to lack of time, I could'nt even finish the first experiment. But I will finish it as soon as I have some time.

So... I've been trying out some modelling for the Extra Lowpoly Contest. Just to try to get a feel for these limits I thought I'd start with a Lamborghini Countach. This will NOT be my final entry!

This is what I came up with, it's the Lamborghini Countach LP5000 Concept:



This is around 1550 polygons. I tried out something different for the wheelarches. I got the inspiration for this whenI played GT4.



The wheelarches are done with an opacity map, making for smooth arches with few polies.

Texturing is in progress.

So... commemts?

[NightEye]

I think you captured the Countach shape very well with this few polies! Will you be texturing this further, too? If so, I can't wait
Bloody marvellous

[Tigga]

Originally Posted by NightEye

I think you captured the Countach shape very well with this few polies! Will you be texturing this further, too? If so, I can't wait
Bloody marvellous

Thanks

Yep, I'll texture it further. Shouldn't be all that much work on this one, considering the car is rather simple

[Johnas]

Bloody marvellous work you got there

Nice idea with the wheelarchs, You save quite a many polies there

[clix101]

looks great! cant wait to see this textured

[Silent][Moebius]

great idea with the wheel arches but actually i think a really lowpoly edgy car needs lowpoly edgy wheelarches since it's such a hard contrast between smooth round an hard edges. but this is just my oppinion.

[NightEye]

A real lowpoly car should have as smooth edges as possible, with as few polies. And that's exactly what he did

[multimediaman]

not to beat a dead horse, but if you're gonna go with the opacity map technique, be extra-sure to delete any polies that exist where there's nothing but completely transparent mapping. You've got some areas within the wheel wells where the polys there serve no purpose (that I can see)

[Tigga]

Yes, multimediaman, you're right. There are some polies in the transparent areas that are not needed. I'll delete them.

However, I'm relly short on time at the moment and I don't know if I will have time to finish a new car for the contest as I originally planned. This may have to be my final entry if I can't find more time. I'm not really comfortable with that, as I feel that this car is too easily modelled to enter it in the contest. :/