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Re: Oasis Multifunction Vehicle
iam717 said:You saw though my tomfoolery!
i like it that much.If someone told you to make this for them, what would've been the price? pm.me. if you want to keep that "private" "as private as we can be now-a-days..."Just a curiosity, you can also ignore it if you feel like it. //bump
Usually I charge per hour, and I didn't count the hours for this, so can't really tell. As I mentioned before I worked on this for more than a year, so the price would be unreasonable
Grubber
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How to build an open world environment with less than 10 rocks
Hi,
More breakdown elements here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x385wW
I've been working on a game for the past 3 years and tried to come up with innovative techniques throughout production to increase quality without tanking dev time. I think one of the biggest achievements was managing to create a modular set of cliffs that were reused across multiple biomes and served as the core for the majority of the open world we put together.
I know I didn't re invent the wheel or anything but I wanted to share this here and take on feedback or opinions on it if people ever tried similar techniques
You can find the full projects here if you're interested in the process:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BkBy4k
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BkBy4k
Lucas_Duguin
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026
Worth showing this EEvEE shader; I've been playing with.
NSFW: nude lady.
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its using blended mode this is why it might be a "big" deal for me.
Quick post for now i'll chime in on every ones threads again soon.
iam717
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Re: How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?
“Garbage in, garbage out” still applies to ai generated assets, in my experience. You end up polishing a turd.
And all the hidden costs are not helping… energy consumption, copyright theft, worsening job market, concentration of wealth, results looking like slop, the whole thing is a huge clusterfuck.
Eric Chadwick
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Sketchbook: Selwyn Phillips
Let's start this sketchbook with some sci-fi doodles. I'm not much of a concept artist but feel free to pick it apart if you wish.
SelwynPhillips
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Re: Learning Blender and Texturing
The one concept you need to learn regarding move/rotate/scale transformations in Blender isn't so much the way to reassign the hotkeys. It's the fact that by tapping the key assigned to the desired transform, then moving the mouse around, and then tapping the key assigned to confirm, one can work without even using any manipulator at all, and without the need to even be near the thing you want to affect - it (object or component) just needs to be selected.
And then from there, you have filters to limit things around a given axis (tapping x y z with or without shift), and in different spaces (double-tap). And as an added bonus there is no need to hold down the click while performing the transform, that's great for your wrist.
Do not rebind anything until you've completely learned how to do all that. Check this out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfoIKlHFD6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW4af0ZK5gM
Having used Max and Maya for years before moving to Blender, this revolutionary (IMHO) way of moving things around in space struck me as way more efficient and faster than any other software. It takes root in oldschool keyboard-centric CAD, and it's been in Blender since forever.
"Aside from the software itself, also the confirmation you could compete with someone professional in a better known tool while using Blender, even from a productivity point of view."
Yes, confirmed.
The only (massive) issue is that there is no proper documentation maintained for Blender, meaning that new users have to hunt around for info like the above - and some may miss it completely. This is very unfortunate but it won't change anytime soon.
And then from there, you have filters to limit things around a given axis (tapping x y z with or without shift), and in different spaces (double-tap). And as an added bonus there is no need to hold down the click while performing the transform, that's great for your wrist.
Do not rebind anything until you've completely learned how to do all that. Check this out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfoIKlHFD6Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW4af0ZK5gMHaving used Max and Maya for years before moving to Blender, this revolutionary (IMHO) way of moving things around in space struck me as way more efficient and faster than any other software. It takes root in oldschool keyboard-centric CAD, and it's been in Blender since forever.
"Aside from the software itself, also the confirmation you could compete with someone professional in a better known tool while using Blender, even from a productivity point of view."
Yes, confirmed.
The only (massive) issue is that there is no proper documentation maintained for Blender, meaning that new users have to hunt around for info like the above - and some may miss it completely. This is very unfortunate but it won't change anytime soon.
pior
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Re: Sketchbook: Rima
I got quite frustrated doing and redoing the leg. I never quite get the knees right, and when they're wrong, it messes the whole thing up. I probably need to do some isolated studies of the knees by themselves. So, in order to be productive while being stuck on that, I did the arms in my free time today. Right hand side is the construction, left is once I'd gone over the edges to refine it a little.
Comparing their current state to the scan reference (left), they're not a million miles off. There's a lot of refinement to be done; angles to fix, highlights that need to be matches, lots of little tweaks. But it's not completely dogshit. I think I've become better at understanding whether or not it's turning out well relative to the stage it's at. That's something I've always struggled with, and is basically the reason I've had nothing to show despite how long I've been sculpting. I could only judge it relative to the target, rather than for its stage of the process, so it always looked like shit. It was like comparing a sketch to a final render. I suppose my brain just hates itself. Anyway, I've improved a little bit at that, I think, which is why I can look at it right now and see the stuff I need to fix as part of the process instead of as faults.
Next free time I get, I'm going to tackle the torso again. It's given me a lot of trouble with some of its eccentricities, but I feel like if I can get that working right, everything else should come together better.
This is definitely the workflow of a control freak.
Rima
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (102)
@Fabi_G, looking nice!
The only issue I see with this method are little polygonal diamond shapes where the metal arcs are damaged: either it's the contrasting color in vertex color, or sharp edges, or both, but they look a bit too sharp. Especially compared to the similar shapes baked into the normal map.
I realize these are supposed to create interest in silhouette, so I wonder how to properly utilize them with a trim map like this. Simply make them smooth?
As per your suggestion, I shifted things around a bit to make the eye more prominent
There were some issues with the engine I was going to use - UE 4. I had to give up eventually - it crashes every 10 mins on the new system, (seemingly) at random, and I really don't want to re-install anything at the moment, so... Godot it is! Not that I was particularly invested in UE - I only rendered a model that one time in it and don't know anything basically. Plus Godot is much-much faster to launch.
Testing export/import: the textures are only some baked normals, very basic colors and simple curvature generators.
The only issue I see with this method are little polygonal diamond shapes where the metal arcs are damaged: either it's the contrasting color in vertex color, or sharp edges, or both, but they look a bit too sharp. Especially compared to the similar shapes baked into the normal map.
I realize these are supposed to create interest in silhouette, so I wonder how to properly utilize them with a trim map like this. Simply make them smooth?
As per your suggestion, I shifted things around a bit to make the eye more prominent
There were some issues with the engine I was going to use - UE 4. I had to give up eventually - it crashes every 10 mins on the new system, (seemingly) at random, and I really don't want to re-install anything at the moment, so... Godot it is! Not that I was particularly invested in UE - I only rendered a model that one time in it and don't know anything basically. Plus Godot is much-much faster to launch.
Testing export/import: the textures are only some baked normals, very basic colors and simple curvature generators.
stray
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