Models for upcoming project - looking for feedback

[SerenityInFire]

I've started a new project that deals with robots and I've started making models in Maya 8. I currently do not have a means by which to convert them to .mdx, but that's not important right now.

The first model I'm working on is for a character named Magna. The body's pretty much done. I just need to do the head and shoulder pads. And then UV mapping, texturing and animating.

So here are some previews of Magna's body. I'm at exactly 1200 triangles so far. Questions? Comments?

 

[PROXY]

Not bad not bad... but you know (as far as I know) you can't convert models from maya to mdx.

 

[Maker]

Looks fine.

But I don't like the hands, I hate the blocky hands of WC3. Back in the day, it was alright when computers had less processing power. Nowadays, blocky hands should be avoided.

 

[PROXY]

The problem is, "unblocky" hands are in need of much poligons, thus, wc3 has a poly limit, regardless if you have a new pc or not.

 

[Maker]

A polygon limit? Never heard of that. How much is it then, and what happens if it is exceeded?

 

[PROXY]

Nah, there is no real poly limit itself, but the more polies you have in a model, the bigger is it, and battlenet maps can only take 8 mb. the more bigger it is, the more it botheres the engine too.

Don't take it too serious though, the differences aren't that big. And also, there is nearly no difference if you have 5 small fingers on a wc3 modle or just a box hand, from the normal game view, you can't see the difference anyway.

(excuse me if I'm wrong.)

 

[Tr!KzZ]

Looks pretty good for now.. Let's see what you'll do with the head

But I also have some suggestions:
- I don't like the block-hands, too. Do something with it, No need to add all 5 fingers, but something more than just a formed square would be cool.
- I don't like his feet.. they're looking more like hooves, but it's ok if it's ment to be so, but else you need to extent (extrude) them to make them look more like shoes, not like hooves..

Move on! Want to see the finished model

Oh and yeah, heared of that, too. There's no exporter for mdx for Maya, but maybe you can export it to some free program, like Gmax or Milkshape for further edits and Wc3 use..

Beside of that Wc3 don't has any restrictions in PolyCounts.. you could just add some Model with thousands of polies. The only Problem here will be your PC, the more polies it has the more laggs it can cause.. and therefore you need a high-end PC to still play smoothly.. To pretend something like that, you should only use high poly models once In the Game, like a Building or Boss that normally gets in use once.. Massing with such units in TD's would be very stupid

 

[Goolygot]

The model looks good this far, and I agree that the feets looks like hooves.

Oh and yeah, heared of that, too. There's no exporter for mdx for Maya, but maybe you can export it to some free program, like Gmax or Milkshape for further edits and Wc3 use..

By the way, milkshape isn't free.

 

[Tr!KzZ]

You're right.. totally forgot about this (so instead oinkerwinkel's tools will do it or gmax), but at least you can use the 30-day trial or get a key.. isn't that expensive

 

[Goolygot]

Well then you can use the 3ds max 30-day trial to. Only it takes a lot of time downloading.

 

[SerenityInFire]

I just finished the head this morning. I worked pretty fast but it still took a couple hours because of how complex it is, but it was well worth it! The shoulders and his gun should go much quicker. I also made the hands look more like hands and I made the feet bigger and extruded them a bit too, and they do look much better.

Close-up 1

Close-up 2