Reality Factory

but the tutorial says to model it in halves!
I used the cs girl tutorial.
What exactly are smoothing groups.

weld the middle verts if you already havent. in the groups tab there are smoothing group options. group the two halves together then press 1 in smoothing groups and assign

ok, i will try that next.
here is a more complete version i made today.

Looking good! Only thing is that the center of the face seems too pointy. Great work overall though!

Lighting or color tone of the ear skin does not fir the rest of the face but starting to look good indeed!

tea, the ear is a photo, the rest is a generated texture.
eventually it will all be pictures.

IMPROVED Torso!
Just look at the old one to see what i mean. needs a back to it but I haven't got the time right now.

You're doing good!

That looks nice man! How many polys does it have so far?

only 1451 triangles
Is that too much for such an incomplete model?

Well, I guess it depends on what kind of game you are making, but for, let's say a FPS, it's a bit too much for RF to handle I think.

MAN that sucks!
What is an acceptable range of poly's for a rf game?
how many does th Virgil model have?
I thought they looked pretty similar.

Virgil has 828 polygons in total. 1451 is wayyy too much for just the head and a partial torso. I guess that would be OK in more modern engines but not RF. When modeling a character I try to go for 500-700 polygons and always ask myself "do I REALLY need this polygon here? Can the player even see this?".

Excellent texture, though. If I were you I'd cut down the polygon count a lot and draw the details in the texture instead.

You should be aiming for around 1000 - 1500 for a human character like that, but it depends on how many you have on screen at any one time. The less number of pawns the more poly's you can afford within reason, otherwise the frame rate will suffer.
Virgil has 828 poly's. Nadia has 805 poly's. Univeral woman has about 1190 poly's. Universal man has about 1128 poly's. That's the area you should be aiming for.

EDIT: Sorry juutis we cross posted.

You can save polys on the eyes i think. There seem to be a lot of unseen polys.

I really like the model. Finish the model with this detail, you can always downsample the model afterwards. (That's better than making one half with much detail, and the other half without much detail) Maybe LODs are an option?

(Side note: I really look forward to the D3D9 driver)