Modeling a Character in 3DS Max, 2nd Edition

Load Callisto37.max if you want to check over the final mesh, but

that does it for the optimization process. Hopefully I’ve not left you

scratching your head in a daze! I’ve spent a lot of pages on optimiza

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tion because in the end, it really is the heart of low-poly modeling

for characters. Why? Because as you model, you should constantly

be asking yourself where you could save a few faces. Unless there

is a definite need or use for a high-poly version, do your best to

optimize as you go and crunch the mesh down even further at the

end to meet your target face count.

Too often I see a mesh or a game that has models in it that could

have been optimized ...