In this 2nd part of LOD discussion I will show you how we make scene efficient assets, though im a Modo user (Luxology LLC) and the steps we will follow is from the software I will use, you can also try this with Maya and other 3d package, but tools to use may differ from my version here so this will just serve as a guidelines for those who don’t use Modo.

Making the low poly version

I did a simple cylinder …

Many times we encounter projects with a great scale of scene, assets within contains are numerous and numerous means giga polycount like city blocks, community area or most common are game contents. How do we tradeoff performance and quality? The answer is LOD.

Level of Detail (LOD) is important to maintain interactivity and still getting 70-80% quality over high number of poly. With high poly contents in the scene it is the best way we impress ourselves in terms of details …