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Yeah definately drop the polycount down... 2k is best for average comps.
Awesome model by the way, but yeah way to high for Source.
Thats a 3rd person model! wow...no wonder mods are running badly these days, that is more suited to a first person model, not a 3rd.
If that was a 3rd person model, I would take away the lens part you look into with the scope and make the impression that it actually has some depth to it, by using texturing methods, I would probably reduce the amount of overall polys, as the gun is super silky smooth, and is not necessary, especially for a 3rd person model, how many sides do those cyclinders have...like 30 or something...it should be something like 16 or less, and you'd get pretty much the same amount of detail in the roundedness.
I could go on and on, yes this gun looks fantastic, but this is a show gun, not a game gun, I don't want to play a game where pulling out a cool sniper rifle causes the game to run noticably slower.
Fair point , but a few things you are not aware of . The final polly count for the model is just over 4k , and the model was redesigned from a much higher model ( 12k ) which was being used for first person . Also the fact that there is ever only going to be one of these on screen and most importantly that its one of the main weapons in the game, If this was a enemy weapon then yes we would be working to a much lower quality . However this is one of the very few usable weapons and therefore not an area I feel we can skimp on .
Saying that , if we do have issues then it can always be simplified.
yup, well I admit I havent read anything on the game, so if the game was like a hitman style game, you may aswell model the whole interior and when you fire your killing shot, you could make a little sequence that goes inside your gun showing it's mechanics going off :p
Alright ...don't go that far, but that'd be cool.
I understand why it is so detailed now.
You'd be much, much better off using normal maps to get a lot of the same detail - the average Source player model is around 6k polys, so a 4k gun is overkill, no matter how important it may be...
Good points methinks, I'm just so used to high-poly stuff. I can easily knock down the polycount (especially in the scope, got a few too many sides on that thar scope) and as Ging says with normal mapping I can do those indented areas on the fore. Will need to re-unwrap it afterwards but that takes 5 minutes anyway :D
As ever, even when finished, my work is always WIP :P
ps. I personally blame the CSS community for the overall idea that high-poly = good. Not for me personally, I just stepped down from car modelling, to weapons and props. But some of those guys are putting together 10k+ triangulated models for PISTOLS. It's insane.