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
Best Of
Re: Learning Diary - Zbrush Sculpting for Characters and Creatures.
First of, thank you Dabou for the words and the feedback on the shoes, I tried following what you said and it is indeed feeling better. Sorry for taking too long to reply, I went on a vacation trip for a week.
The work on the dwarf continues, actually the highpoly is on a stage that I call pretty much done, I don't wanna dive into too much detailing on the sculpt, I want to achieve that on the texturing phase.
The work on the dwarf continues, actually the highpoly is on a stage that I call pretty much done, I don't wanna dive into too much detailing on the sculpt, I want to achieve that on the texturing phase.
RaphaelFabris
2 ·
Re: Polycount Store is open!
R13 also had to do some jiggery-pokery in the Store to get things flowing again.
BTW we could have some more cool merch incoming…
Eric Chadwick
2 ·
Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.
my problem with the up-res reimagings is that it removes my own imagination.
with the chunky graphics i imagine it as a real world in my own mind and become immersed, same as reading a book
when the graphics look like a photo, except its still missing the one billion tiny details that are needed to make it actually convincingly real, all i notice is all the one billion things missing that make it feel off and weird.
IMO the best era for 3d graphics was sega dreamcast time.
with the chunky graphics i imagine it as a real world in my own mind and become immersed, same as reading a book
when the graphics look like a photo, except its still missing the one billion tiny details that are needed to make it actually convincingly real, all i notice is all the one billion things missing that make it feel off and weird.
IMO the best era for 3d graphics was sega dreamcast time.
Alex_J
2 ·
Re: [WIP] - UE5 Cyberpunk Old Quebec
Started placing a few new props and testing out the EasySnow plugin, which will look much better in video:
CedricArsenault
1 ·
[HELP!] Maya Boolean to Zbrush Dynamesh Workflow
Hey everyone, I recently started looking into some dynamesh "boolean" workflows in Zbrush, and I am also learning to use Zbrush at the same time that I am experimenting with these new workflows. I found this great forum post about the whole workflow, whith a bunch of really great information (Article) . I can pretty much follow everything, but there are a few things that I am getting stuck on. I am mainly a Maya user, and I am very familiar with how Maya works, and I also know a little bit about Max, and how it uses modifiers. In most of theses dynames boolean workflow tutorials I have seen, to generate a Low poly, the max user will just delete or modify some modifiers, which can't really be done in Maya.
So I guess my main question/ Concern is once i have a nice looking dynameshed piece within Zbrush, and I need to make a low poly, what is the best way of doing that. Should I Zremesh it in Zbrush, should I decimate it with decimation master, or should i just retopologize in Maya using quad draw.
The article I linked above is great, but I have also been using this video to guide me through most of the zbrush process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6QPJ7XirE
If anyone has tried this method, or can give me some advice for this method, using Maya instead of Max, I would be really greatful. I think this method could be really great, and could really speedup my workflow, but i need a bit more guidance on it.
Any information is helpful. Thanks
So I guess my main question/ Concern is once i have a nice looking dynameshed piece within Zbrush, and I need to make a low poly, what is the best way of doing that. Should I Zremesh it in Zbrush, should I decimate it with decimation master, or should i just retopologize in Maya using quad draw.
The article I linked above is great, but I have also been using this video to guide me through most of the zbrush process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6QPJ7XirEIf anyone has tried this method, or can give me some advice for this method, using Maya instead of Max, I would be really greatful. I think this method could be really great, and could really speedup my workflow, but i need a bit more guidance on it.
Any information is helpful. Thanks
MMattice
1 ·
Re: [HELP!] Maya Boolean to Zbrush Dynamesh Workflow
Hello. Sorry for the late reply I haven't been around here for past couple of days. Basically what you need to do is to use the Clean Up function from Maya(Mesh->cleanup, at the bottom of mesh tab). You should see a Fix by Tesselation section and in there you should check "Faces with more than 4 sides".
cromadbomber
1 ·
Re: Polycount Store is open!
Fabi_G said:Pics or didn't happen
LOL delivered 15mins ago via our local 'fulfillment center' bit of a wait and tbf I do actually live at the arse end of the planet 
sacboi
2 ·
Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
Her being a methhead would be completely out of genre. It's a light, melodramatic action movie franchise, not a gritty, dark story about despair and addiction. The most you're going to get is a vague mention of death sticks outside of that one edgy extended universe Skywalker descendant, and they're not going to go into actual detail about it. It's just not part of Star Wars' identity. It would be like having Warhammer 40k suddenly make a protagonist who bring hopes and safety everywhere they go and loves all the xenos.
And if you're going to insist it should be that way, why not Luke Skywalker? That guy lived in a shithole in the desert with barely any water and nothing to do, you're telling me he wouldn't be the first in line to get off his tits every night? Or how about we decide Obi-Wan turned alcoholic for a while to cope with the devastating loss of his entire order, his friend, his way of life and the republic he fought for? I'll give you Yoda. He was definitely on something in that swamp.
Honestly, at a certain point, if you don't like it, it's time to go and write a fanfic instead of trying to convince the entire world that your ideal version would be better. Or better yet, make something of your own that implements the kind of characters and tropes you want, then you can trademark it and maybe turn a bit of profit. And if you can't do that, why don't you do what all the other angry Star Wars fans do and make a three hour video essay about a thirty minute topic so you can make some nice adsense revenue?
Also, those are just common sense things to remove, either for balancing or satisfaction. There's a reason if you want to go have a bath in Oblivion you need a mod for it; virtually nobody cares for such a feature and if it was forced on them it would be a giant pain in the arse. Same reason Nyx is invincible; who the hell wants to play a game where you have a companion separate from you that can die completely out of your control? That's not fun! Gamers have been rightly complaining for years about escort missions for exactly that reason! And again, Kay can fight like that in hand to hand combat because it's a bloody video game. Honestly, if you can't cope with that, what can you handle?
Lifting elements from the films is common sense. And if you don't think they did that for the other games and characters, I don't know what to tell you. It's a AAA game, of course this stuff is made by committee. Always has been. Ahsoka was made so kids watching The Clone Wars would have someone to relate to. Din Djarin was made because Boba Fett was really popular. Grogu was made because they thought a cute baby Yoda would sell like hotcakes and everyone loves seeing a stoic tough man become an adoptive parent. Almost everyone in the sequels is a remix of the archetypes and personalities from the original trilogy. If you're making a franchise piece, it's just normal to look at what was popular about the original work and see what elements you can apply to your product.
Player's "concerns" were just the same old bullshit that they didn't think she looked fuckable enough. Just look at the complaints about Angela from the SH2 remake. Same thing. Anyone pretending otherwise is full of shit.
I should stop replying to this thing. Even the morbid curiosity is wearing thin.
Rima
1 ·
Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
Is your media consumption nothing but people bitching and moaning about media? I see where the problem's coming from.
Maybe they just made an original character because they wanted their game to have its own identity instead of being seen as yet another spin off about someone we already know? Or so they'd have another character to trademark and make toys of? Or so they wouldn't have to be tied down to writing around established events, allowing them to do whatever the hell they want and not be restrained by a character needing to be alive and in a certain place at a certain time, thus spoiling the outcome of their story? Or because if it was a sequel to those events they didn't want the baggage of demanding their players have watched half a dozen series to understand who they are, or avoid having to awkwardly write around having to reference those? It's just common sense, honestly.
Above all, would they really want to make yet another Star Wars product that's furiously wanking off the fans of Filioni's shit? There's enough of that already. This is just boring now. I'm out.
Rima
1 ·