My Shielding Attempt

[3rgytr54]

Well, I have made Wooden Fences doodads before, so I thought I should just make an attachment and, well, This is it--

It uses UI\Glues\BattleNet\BattlenetChatGlue\CenterPanel01.blp

 

[LordOglog]

Are you sure this is the right section.
If this is a submission it should probably be uploaded in the models section.
Warcraft III Models

 

[3rgytr54]

I don't want to submit this yet, just wondering what people think of it

(2000+ polys haven't optimized yet)

 

[Devine]

The left side doesnt have borders D:

 

[Ghost765]

the point looks abit out of place.
and it kinda looks like a bible. the wood are the pages, and the silver stuff is the binding, while the pointy thing...i dunno.

 

[3rgytr54]

The left side doesnt have borders D:

I did that, when it goes into the point and merges, it looks very stretched and mushed

the point looks abit out of place.
and it kinda looks like a bible. the wood are the pages, and the silver stuff is the binding, while the pointy thing...i dunno.

The point, I don't know, I felt like making a weird pointy thing on my shield--

 

[Ghost765]

well. put the point on the middle of the shield, so when you do a shield bash, you can impale your enemy as well.

 

[Archangel_Tidusx]

Check out my shields in the pending models section. They should be able to help you a bit. You should really get rid of those polies though... it should be somewhere around >100 polies

 

[3rgytr54]

well. put the point on the middle of the shield, so when you do a shield bash, you can impale your enemy as well.

Sounds like a good idea, will try.

You should really get rid of those polies though... it should be somewhere around >100 polies

Haven't optimized yet.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

How the hell can you even cram 2k polies into that. Its just a super simple shape.

 

[Hawkwing]

That's way too much. You could do that in like 20 or less polies.

The shapes a bit weird. A square that suddenly goes into a point at the bottom. Make it start to come to a point more gradually.

 

[3rgytr54]

Here is the point in the middle -

(Fear the the full-screen picture)

 

[CombatTheWombat]

But rlly, just imagining in my mind how i would make that I cant imagine it being over 20 polies.

 

[Ghost765]

hmm, make those iron edges around the top/bot (or sides?).

 

[TDR]

please show a wireframe of that (screenshot of the model from the viewport with edged faces turned on!!!!! So that's F4, not F3!), I really can't imagine how that thing can have 2k polygons....

 

[3rgytr54]

I animated the shield(1)

and added a camera so it could be used as an item, Camera 01 (2)

Wire frame for TDR (3) (the box is a 8x8x8 box i believe, and the points are the faces pushed together (pain in the butt))

 

[donut3.5]

This is only one side:

Still, that shouldn't add up to 2k tris.. you might have duplicated some triangles over itself and stacked them? Who knows.
In any case, you can easily reduce the main face to 2 tris if you want it to be flat, or 4 if you want a curve in it. Also with the border you could probably reduce to 2 on each side, maybe 2 at each corner.
--donut3.5--

 

[TDR]

That's a disaster man! It has tons and tons of useless polygons! Not to mention that it's enormously thick for a shield, could you imagine carrying a shield that thick? It must weight around 80Kg or more...And why does it have such rounded edges...they're useless.

Here's how this shield should have looked. It took me one whole minute and it's more suitable for wc3, due to it's low polycount...If I were you I'd start over again, it'll be too much work to optimize all that you have now.

 

[Hawkwing]

Agreed, if you submit this it will NOT get approved unless it's under, imo, 30 polys.