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Modelling Eyes

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Can anybody give me some tips for modelling my character's eyes? This is my first WC3 character so I'm not sure what works and what doesn't. I was thinking about making a hole in the characters mesh and creating a seperate rounded surface underneath which could be controlled by a bone or something... Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. :)
 
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In my personal opinion, eyes on a warcraft model are a waste of polys

Now, on the portrait I might add eyes. But on the model, I'd just add a rounded surface or something and skin it on. You only have so many polys to work with, make the most out of them

I'm not terribly sure on the way the game models do it... I think they use a small plane that is just the pupil, with a bone behind it for moving
 
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start with a geosphere
eye_001.jpg


Set the segments to 2, and the base type to octa.

Convert to editable poly, and select 4 faces on one side
eye_002.jpg

Delete the selected faces, and select the vertices along the newly created hole. This is going to be the back of the eyeball, so the faces are not needed
eye_003.jpg

Scale the verts to about 140%, you want the sphere to always fill up the eye socket even when it rotates, and this will help.
eye_004.jpg

Target weld every other vertice on the next ring forward from the hole. This will reduce the poly's of this eye even further.
eye_005.jpg

Target weld the vert in the blue box, to the vert on the edge of the hole, designated by the blue arrow. The green box shows where the last vertice was before it was target welded. The resulting eye is 20 poly's.
if you want convert to editable mesh
Add an unwrap UVW modifier and select all the faces.
Make a planner map and set averaged normals.
Make the UV look like this.
eye_008.jpg

Skin the eye in a small about 80x80 px size at max and try to make it look something like this.
and final result
eye_026.jpg


I just have to give credits to a friend,poopinmymouth for showing me how to do eyes.
I hope this helped people...
~halo aka mr.staby
 
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