I think the vampires are in a pretty good place for a test bake. There's always more I could do, but I'm eager to take the second race of Project Nova out of Zbrush and into UE5. I've imported the human lowpoly as a starting point for retopo. Have a great week!
It doesn't look like I did much last week, but I did a fair amount of research and experimentation with hair, and have ultimately landed on sort of this stylized hair. I was going to go with haircards, even making some custom zbrush brushes for it, but that led down a rabbit hole, and I've deemed it outside of the scope of…
Every time I think I'm ready for the next step, I see areas that can be improved upon. Especially so after adding polypaint, which revealed a lot of flaws. Waking up in the morning with fresh eyes and opening Zbrush for the first time of the day also really helps in revealing flaws. When you work on something for hours on…
I've decided on PBR instead of handpainted, as normal maps are required for certain height based terrain materials that I want in game. Aesthetics is determined by function, never the other way around. I went back and reworked the basemesh for better compatibility with PBR, as well as literally everything else; from UV…