Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Fighting games can have quite a few, as there are usually only 2 characters on the screen at once.
Something like a first person shooter may have 2000-3000 faces.
The game I'm currently working on has characters of 1500 faces.
In the polycount HUD option, you look at the face count. However, to get an accurate game-oriented face count, you have to triangulate the model.
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For anyone looking to get into game modeling, I'd recomend starting out very low. The first game models I did were in the 500 triangle range. Starting low definitely gets your head in the mindset of being as efficient as possible, which still needs to be done even for 6000 poly models.
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The new game "Far Cry" which looks really cool (demo is fun) has characters utilizing the "polybump" technology so they have characters of 1500 polys but they LOOK about twice that.
This is something my studio also uses (or a variation there-of) and I think most games are going to make use of until the next big technology breaks out, but even then, I can't see this getting much better.
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How is it implemented?
Also, I see quads in that model? I thought games convert all polys to tri's?
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It's implemented in a variety of ways, all of which that I know of needing some sort of plugin. The two main ways are creating a high-res mesh and a low res version of that same mesh. Then, using plugins you are able to bake the pixel information from the high res into the low res in the form of a texture known as a normal map.
The other way it's normally done is by simply converting created textures into normal maps by using b/w hieght maps using a photoshop plugin.
Games do convert all polys to triangles when they're in the engine. You do not necessarily have to triangulate the model in the 3D app, although it can be a good idea.
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. I've tried using ATI's normalmapper to create a normal map from a high poly model, haven't got it working yet though. I was wondering would there be much slowdown in frame rate though as per pixel calculations are very intensive. Or does the reduction in geometry compensate for that.
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