The Dwarf

[Skorpio]

I'm preparing thecubber's dwarf from Opengameart for OD now. I've already joined all the different parts, combined the textures into one (baking worked surprisingly well) and tested him in-game. He looks good, but the basic test animations that I made didn't work, probably because the model has two armatures. I'm not sure if there's a way to export them both.

Also, the normal map has lost some sharpness during the baking process and I'll have to see if I can get a better result or increase the intensity of the nor map in PS.

[Julius]

Ahh, yes I was also thinking about using retopo and texture baking to make something more usable out of those nice models at some point (after I realized that poly-reduction would only get you close but not quite within a sensible game range).
The GIMP or PS filter can increase the strengh/bumpiness of the normalmap, otherwise hand modifying the individual color channels and normalizing them with the filter afterwards works surprisingly well.

Edit: no screenshots?

[Danimal]

yeah, i wanna see some screeny too

[Skorpio]

I haven't retopoed the model, so there's no big difference besides some slight texture changes. Retopo, reunwrapping and reskinning would have been a pain in the ass. I've attached a short video of the walk cycle (just a quick OpenGL render).

[Julius]

Hmm, ok. What was the tris & vertex count of that mesh again? I just remember that the elf hat something like 16k tris, which I assume the dwarf is not so much different?

[Skorpio]

7079 verts and 12278 tris, but some polys could be cut out to reduce the number a little.