The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (97)
Hey, I'm not taking part myself as I'm busy with another project 
but I like the HS prop and figured I might share my thoughts on in with others.
As the concept seems very basic and has a lot of blank spaces it looks like a nice opportunity to approach it in creative way and build one's own ideas on top. I'd try adding some elements that would follow the function of the device - conisder foldable legs within black bottom part (might be interesting if they overlap the middle section), a handle for picking it up(it could be a reccess not to change silhouette), control panels, plugs, diodes etc. Look up pictures of how similiar devices are used to better understand what placement of elements would be convenient
Hope this helps
@Arahnoid if you're using blender I'd suggest to try using modifiers for non destructive modelling in such cases, you just need bevel controlled by weight that you can adjust per edge and weighted normals so that you can keep your editable wireframe simple
but I like the HS prop and figured I might share my thoughts on in with others.As the concept seems very basic and has a lot of blank spaces it looks like a nice opportunity to approach it in creative way and build one's own ideas on top. I'd try adding some elements that would follow the function of the device - conisder foldable legs within black bottom part (might be interesting if they overlap the middle section), a handle for picking it up(it could be a reccess not to change silhouette), control panels, plugs, diodes etc. Look up pictures of how similiar devices are used to better understand what placement of elements would be convenient
Hope this helps@Arahnoid if you're using blender I'd suggest to try using modifiers for non destructive modelling in such cases, you just need bevel controlled by weight that you can adjust per edge and weighted normals so that you can keep your editable wireframe simple
Łukasz
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (97)
i decided to make the stylised prop model, i couldnt figure out lighting for the hardsurface one. the texture painting in blender was very fun to make
Charlie_Temerald
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (97)
Cool stuff! although the mechanism seems to me to be overly intrusive as you need to lift the whole lightsource to reach buttons, a practical solution that comes to mind would be foldable screens in cameras 
Łukasz
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Re: [Baking Error] Having Hard Seam Line
Hi! Props for attaching files :-B
Taking a look at the lowpoly, I'd say with beveled edges and the resulting mesh shading, hard edges become redundant. While hard edges need UV splits (when baking a normal map), not every edge along a UV split needs to be shaded hard. I would use use hard edges deliberately in places where it meaningfully removes gradients from mesh shading, like steep angles.
Then, I recommend straightening the UV islands to not have aliasing artifacts along seams. When not using hard edges, you can have fewer seams in areas where they're less noticeable.
I also think that texel density is too low here. To address that, you could
A - increase texture resolution
B - texture by mapping UVs to an trim atlas
C - assemble the crate from a couple detailed board modules
or perhaps it's a combination of those options. And likely there's more
Keep it up
Taking a look at the lowpoly, I'd say with beveled edges and the resulting mesh shading, hard edges become redundant. While hard edges need UV splits (when baking a normal map), not every edge along a UV split needs to be shaded hard. I would use use hard edges deliberately in places where it meaningfully removes gradients from mesh shading, like steep angles.
Then, I recommend straightening the UV islands to not have aliasing artifacts along seams. When not using hard edges, you can have fewer seams in areas where they're less noticeable.
I also think that texel density is too low here. To address that, you could
A - increase texture resolution
B - texture by mapping UVs to an trim atlas
C - assemble the crate from a couple detailed board modules
or perhaps it's a combination of those options. And likely there's more
Keep it up
Fabi_G
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Re: [WIP] Triumph Rocket 3R Bike (SubD Model)
More parts. Will probably revisit those pieces and fix some minor shading and topology issues
kosh3d
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Re: BRAWL2 [Character] Sodom, Fabi_G
Long time no update, feels like work has taken over my life 
Pyro
Or hand-painted diffuse, like Quake skins?
Also, I started painting a greyscale texture to use in the shader. I need to check here that it works at various distances. In regards to readability, hatching (if used, might go more bold) might be something to do in the shader and the line weights should be consistent in the end.
Alternative Outfit Ideas
'Humungus'Pyro
Style
Something in the direction of 'Mad World' - black and white even?!Or hand-painted diffuse, like Quake skins?
Minimal Progress
Since last update, I tweaked the model some. Tried different poses to get better result with the humanoid/anim retarget of Unity. I now use a T-Pose with mostly straightened limbs. With the A-Pose, some rotations were slightly off. I created hand poses to blend on top. Perhaps it would be best to create a custom pose in the end. I'll see.Also, I started painting a greyscale texture to use in the shader. I need to check here that it works at various distances. In regards to readability, hatching (if used, might go more bold) might be something to do in the shader and the line weights should be consistent in the end.
Fabi_G
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Re: BRAWL2 [Character] Bratan, masslove
I've had a minor back surgery, thus a month of silence
Also, I hate the blockout stage, constantly trying to get things right, stalling into constant micro-tweaks, which often turn out for worse
Nevertheless, pushing on!
masslove
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Zoddo said:Got stuck trying to remove the star shapes on this piece, does anyone know an easier to fix this?
Just a quick mobile drawing. Collapse red, remove pink
Neox
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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.
Oh by the way, I should also probably mention the following as it is a bit of a personal journey : a few years ago (way before the emergence of slop machines like ChatGPT and Midjourney), developments in the field of machine learning made me daydream about the possible ways of, for instance, sketching a rough shape and getting it shaded automatically by leveraging ML training, or getting a 3D primitive oriented according to a gesture, or various ways of overcoming the (still to this day) clunkiness of wacom tablets as all these things sounded like natural evolutions of our digital tools.
Fast forward to today, now that these challenges have been solved and AI software is widely available to all, I personally find such things utterly uninteresting because the "solving" that AI does goes so far that it completely replace any skills. So now I would gladly go back to manually placing primitives in 3D space in a 3D software if I needed ; or painstakingly constructing things by hand using old ass perspective drawing techniques, or taking the time to build a mannequin to take photos of ... not only because it's fun, but also because it does make one improve ! Quite ironic at the end of the day
Fast forward to today, now that these challenges have been solved and AI software is widely available to all, I personally find such things utterly uninteresting because the "solving" that AI does goes so far that it completely replace any skills. So now I would gladly go back to manually placing primitives in 3D space in a 3D software if I needed ; or painstakingly constructing things by hand using old ass perspective drawing techniques, or taking the time to build a mannequin to take photos of ... not only because it's fun, but also because it does make one improve ! Quite ironic at the end of the day
pior
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Re: Xenomite-X (The apex predator of WAR)
Hey everyone! 👋
I’ve just started working on the texturing for my major project and wanted to share a WIP first draft to get some early impressions.
This is still very much in progress, so please excuse the unfinished areas, especially the rear hydraulics, which I haven’t started yet. The front hydraulics are a good example of the look I’m aiming for across the entire mech: slightly weathered, grounded in realism, with some subtle grime and wear in the crevices.
Would LOVE to hear any feedback you might have, about materials, color balance, roughness values, or anything that feels off.
Crits are very welcome and appreciated! 🙏
Thanks in advance—I’ll be updating this thread as I refine things!
akshattejas
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