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>>483363

>Where did you waste all those poly?

A lot of its on the railings, with SL you get a lot of people who tend to get out of joint if they can make out the polygons easy. believe it or not each of those boogies is about 5k tri's each, barely a 3rd of the weight.

>t the moment the textures look like you baked in ambient occlusion and plain colour

You are indeed correct, but I keep it simple because these are wholesale, the people who buy them often come to me for the gimp's and keeping it simple tends to make it simple for the customer to make the changes they want.

As for the shiny/normals - they are there, but it doesn't stand out a lot in the mid-day lighting, though I think I should have tried to add a bit more noise to the normal map before blending with the x normal baked one.

pic related, its what you get up close and with different lighting.