Bmx

[switch]

Still unfinished (I would'nt class anything I have done so far as finished, I am still learning and hate tutorials )

Anyway, any help on optomising it, general improvements and other comments are welcome.



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One thing I would like to know is; for a game model do all verts need to be welded? or is intersecting ok? I tried the model into polybump (some crytech model/bump map viewer) to see it rendered real-time and the parts where cylinders intersected (were just going into parts of the model and not welded) were flickering, would this how it would be in game?

Thanks..

 

[Glo]

i love this
though the texture of the outer metalic ring inside the wheel doesnt look right

 

[craig]

One thing I would like to know is; for a game model do all verts need to be welded? or is intersecting ok? I tried the model into polybump (some crytech model/bump map viewer) to see it rendered real-time and the parts where cylinders intersected (were just going into parts of the model and not welded) were flickering, would this how it would be in game?

Thanks..

Pretty good model.

I asume you mean intersecting geometry and not vertices? Some engines dont seem to mind it, whereas others seem to have strict rules about geometry overlaping (UT2003? being one I think).

Battlefield 1942 is the main engine ive modded and every mod for that has models with geometry that overlaps.

 

[random.hero]

looks pretty good, the polycount is a bit high, and looks kinda simple to lower, but that would lose you some of your detail. just curious, how did you make the tyres ? the spacing seems very irregular between the sections, kinda as if...you made them by extruding a cylinder.

 

[switch]

Thanks for the comments so far,

how did you make the tyres ? the spacing seems very irregular between the sections, kinda as if...you made them by extruding a cylinder.

Heh, well i forgot the modifyer to bend it around, or just couldnt use the bend modifier so I just made a cylinder with 30 segments, drew up a circle and some lines going from the centre out to guide me and rearanged verts.

I've removed some of the uneeded details and done lots of welding;

and here is a view of places where the most detail is, if anyone has any improvements please post.

 

[Dalamari]

Put the seat down more.

 

[clarky003]

awsome, the most origional thing ive seen on the modelling forums in ages.

 

[Matthias]

Improvements? How about some breaks, someone could really hurt themselves. Seriously though, it looks pretty good but I think the seat is an area that could be improved upon. It looks a little too angular IMO, it ought to be possible to use just a few more polys.

 

[switch]

I think the seat is an area that could be improved upon. It looks a little too angular IMO, it ought to be possible to use just a few more polys.

Yeh, I agree, I'll go have a look at the saddle on my brothers bmx tomorrow morning. Its always better to see things in real life than in references i suppose

 

[ItchyFish]

Pretty boring model, looks quite standard but it does look aight.

iF.