RA's works in progress.

[Kodama]

Yeah... go ahead and cut the knot ra :poorme: ;(

Let's keep the menpo for now.

I think the helmet bowl could have a lot of polys removed.

[ra5946]

Okay, if I get rid of the knot and the little gold bumps on the helmet, I can get it to around 8000- is that good?

[Beremat]

Well, daedric bracers are 7.6k faces so you should be OK

[Kodama]

Yeah i think that's good :check:

Beremat, are the bracers really that much? Can you check out some other armor pieces, like the cuirass?

[Beremat]

Daedric Boots- 2726 faces, 1620 vertices
Daedric Cuirass- 1112 faces, 688 vertices
Daedric Gauntlets- 9954 faces, 4924 vertices
Daedric Greaves- 2579 faces, 1384 vertices
Daedric Helmet- 2841 faces, 1464 vertices
Daedric Shield- 1211 faces, 848 vertices

Before, by Bracers I meant gauntlets. Also, before, I didn't have SI installed, and now I do (I re-installed), and the number increased... strange.

[Kodama]

Ok thanks, i think we should try to keep it under 10.000 polys.

[ra5946]

Okay- here's what I'll do-

I'll make one just as is, if you wanna put it in the game cool, if not that's cool too. I reallylike the know so maybe we can put just one in the game.

I'll also make one as is, but remove the face (menpo?) so beast races can wear it. (Should I keep the know on this one or would the beast faces get in the way?)

Then I'll make 2 versions or the lower poly helmet one with menpo, one without

[llamaranger]

RA what program do you use to model?

And if blockiness is a problem you could try using a smoothing group (i think thats what its called)

Edd

[Kodama]

Originally posted by ra5946
Okay- here's what I'll do-

I'll make one just as is, if you wanna put it in the game cool, if not that's cool too. I reallylike the know so maybe we can put just one in the game.

I'll also make one as is, but remove the face (menpo?) so beast races can wear it. (Should I keep the know on this one or would the beast faces get in the way?)

Then I'll make 2 versions or the lower poly helmet one with menpo, one without

It all sounds like a good plan to me, and yes, keep the knot for the beast races :yes:

[ra5946]

Okay here is the link for the helmets. They are in 3DS format. I can't run Oblivion, so I can't test them out. Hopefully one of you guys can get them in game. I also didn't make normal maps for them because I usually like to see how the texture looks in game before I mess around with the normals. Plus I didn't know if you (Kodama), wanted certain areas shiny.

Anyways- there are four versions
1. Full- has everything- highpoly
2. FullNoMask- same as above, but no mask part
3. Low- Low poly- knot is removed and helmet bumps are replaced with texture.
4. LowNoMask- same as 3 but no mask

#1 has 18000 polys and #4 has 7000

Here is a pic- poly count lowers from left to right


Here is file- let me know how things go

Helmet Download