Questions about the little things for sculpting a model.

[Princess Kiali]

Hi everyone.

I'm in the middle of my first model. I have been working on the body and I'm making progress. But I have a question about the hands for warcraft models. Most of the tutorials for Milkshape cover games other than Warcraft, and they all seem to make hands with opposable thumbs and all of that. Do you need to do that for a WC3 model? Or would a general hand-shaped block work better?

Also, what is a good number of vertices and triangles for a hero-type unit? I'm afraid I may be too high on the count at 900 triangles for the body without hands or head (but I must say it's a pretty model so far!).

 

[Bloody_Turds]

the average hand for wc3, is a cube.. if that answers your question
arthas is 530 faces, although i think 900 isnt to horrible if its a good model

 

[skrab]

Study the ingame models.

You can also post a screenshot of your model so we can give you tips and stuff...

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Yeah, but 900 polys, just for the body, is kinda big for a WC3 model, even if it is a Hero,

I think for a hero unit you could easely go up to 800~900 polys, but that would be for the complete mesh !!

T.

 

[Princess Kiali]

Well, this is my first model. I'm still not done with it yet, and the count of vertices and triangles is getting pretty large. But one of the tutorials has a section on how to reduce the poly count, so once I have my mesh the way I want it, I'll go to that part and knock out as many as I can.

I don't know if my model will be any good, but I'm sure I'll get better with time. It's still a bit overwhelming to me. So much work with fiddling and reshaping things, and I haven't even gotten to adding textures or skins or animations or anything yet!