This is a feature which we will be seeing in the Game development industry. Game consoles like PS3, Xbox 360 or your highedge PC will come up a new highly quality game. As the Character in the cinematics always looks realistic and highbloody detail now you will be able to see this high quality detail fitted in a low polygons with just amount of 5,000 triangles in a realtime game!.

This is possible because of the new game engine has released like Unreal. Also In Alias Maya Version 7 comes the new baking feature for texture maps. There foreinstead of using Bump maps there is a new map which gives more detail which we call Normal maps. Normal maps comes from a high poly model and bake it to form a computed based texture. Now you have a low polygon model thats looks more as deadly as the highres. Aside from these it would be more realistic if you could also generate a light map that ill follow the bending contours of light giving the low model to have the realistic feeling.



comparison of use of normal mapping and bump texture.

How to Make a normal map and a light map:

Requirements:

1. Low polygon model (around 5,000- 8,000 triangles per character) with UV coordinates.

2. High polygon model (around more than 100,000 triangles per character).

3. High-performance graphics card (im using Inno 3D Geforce 6600 ).

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