by Sethanye on Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:24 pm
Well you can definitely texture the 4 buttons on the sides, if you do a properly shaded texture it will be almost unnoticeable that they aren't actual 3d, thatll save you quite some faces, since you used quite a lot of faces on them, then, try to rid of extras like see how you done the very tip as a cone gets into a doughnut shape, remove that, leave the cone though, rose will smooth it enough for it to look proper and emulate the ring with a texture. Same goes for the bubbles on the blade, texture texture texture lol, if you want a realistic looking texture you can for example texture them in max, render and move to photoshop later, i sometimes do that, easier than to emulate 3d lighting in photoshop. umm reduce the side count on the handle quite a lot, just do a bare minimum, like 8 or something, cos players will almost not see it, cos it'll be covered by the hand. That should save you quite some in total, maybe itll be enough.
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