my first render with blender Thread

after playing around with blender for awhile i was able to make an AK-47. I don't really know how to control the lights.

Edited by: -hp-

Hey thats not too bad man, little low on detail, but I give you props for tackling your first render with blender (man that makes your mouth feel weird.)

thanks. how can i check how many polys it has.

i made a monkey for my first render

then a house

then a shotgun

I fail at modeling programs now

Hey not too bad! Kicks chis's ak47 anyday

thanks for all these comments

can anyone tell me how I can find out how many polys something has on blender?

You could try going into Object mode and hitting the Editing button, and check the number by "Decimator:" (it's counted in triangles, btw)

it says 1844 on mine. The max for HL2 is 3000 right? What about HL1?

the max HL1 can do is 4096 triangles on one material. To get around this for HL1 you must split sections of the model into seperate meshes.

Max for HL2 isn't really specified but the usual budget is 4000-5000 on characters, 8000 on REAL IMPORTANT characters (Alyx and Gman are the highest poly models in hl2), and about 1200 on a weapon.

thanks that clears things up now.

hey no problem!

even though i didnt post anythign here before, i just felt like being nice and saying so

edit:
yes you may call me spamminator....

Edited by: TheRambo

that doesnt make much sense

ImTheDarkcyde wrote: i made a monkey for my first render...

lolz I just caught that

doesnt blender come with a monkey lol

yes

btw, most important chars are high poly?

GORDON FREEMAN WAS LIKE 2.

u dont see gordon ingame

Im sure ive seen a relatively low poly gordon model floating around in the SDK somewhere, it mightve been the info_player_start one though, if it was, my bad.

whyyyy whyy did you bump a topic that was over a month old?

There's no Gordon in the SDK, just a combine and some rebles. Gordon wasn't ever modeled for HL2, they just recycled his older HL1 player model, and colored it black, mainly so he can't see his own reflection on reflective surfaces at any circumstance (they say having the player see himself or hearing the player interact kills immersion). It was also completely unanimated. Unsurprisingly, it's since been this way since the e3 alpha.