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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
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Re: Learning Diary - Zbrush Sculpting for Characters and Creatures.
Hey again! I'm excited to share with you guys the result of the dwarf character I was making, I'm glad I finally finished a character with the whole pipeline for games.
I posted more images in artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1NLJro
Now the plan is to do a course to practice even more and learn new things, I want to create a character that needs the use of hair cards next.
I posted more images in artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1NLJro
Now the plan is to do a course to practice even more and learn new things, I want to create a character that needs the use of hair cards next.
RaphaelFabris
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Re: Trying to improve likeness sculpting
I was looking at Amelia Rowcrofts process videos, she has her own likeness tutorials on her website. I noticed how little she adjusts the features back and forth after the initial foundation, so her method of measuring the face must be really solid with how little is being adjusted at later stages
eg. from this stage to this, the features seemingly aren't being adjusted
another example, see how from the 4th pic every remains in place, I wonder how much experimentation she does like if she tested the measurements out before this final sculpt
small99
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Re: Trying to improve likeness sculpting
I really like the first guide definitely lots of useful tips and their work is amazing.iam717 said:You probably seen all these already but to bunch a topic together with link and info i feel works great when people in the "future" search this matter out:Artstation: click numbers#1. guide2. likeness search tutorialsyoutube:1 in-depth2. lots hereThe 1st linked guide is what i really wanted to share i remember this or something similar where someone went through the processes to make any face and AnatomyForSculptors goes over the "fat" distribution "guide" that could also be helpful.aye-eye convo was mentioned so i touched on the topics spoken of: so o/t.Just my .02's on this aye-eye situation everyone loves so much, it will hinder you if one day you do not have access to that content or its paywall-ed and you find yourself with less currency to play with or one of the many other possibilities. There is also, Hey"parent" how do you do this thing? we'll child let's ask the robotic computer for help, oh you do not know how to do this thing? then imagine that for actually important functions of society, then we have a problem or at least they will when and or if we get there.
The whole spotlight method interests me cause it'd be great if it was just as simple as align your mesh to a good front and side reference photo.
Breaking down the face before you sculpt it such as going into photoshop overlaying different reference seeing how they match up, measuring/estimating overall distance from chin to mouth, nose to eyes, forehead to hairline, and doing silhouettes and outline drawings of the head/features to understand the shapes before diving right in to sculpting has helped me
small99
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Re: Sketchbook: Rima
I'm stuck on my main project, so I'm procrastinating by doing random studies again. Trying different techniques for a change of pace, and also because I'm losing my fucking mind. Perfectionism is a real bitch. Unfortunately, I'm ill again, so this one is all for today:
Rima
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Re: Unreal Engine Plugins and Settings That are Unnecessary
Even though this isn't exactly what you are after, here are two things you can do for it to not drive you insane :
You could also use 4.27 instead of whatever is current. 5.x has numerous issues (from UX to performance) that makes the editor unnecessary unpleasant to use compared to the previous version.
You could also use 4.27 instead of whatever is current. 5.x has numerous issues (from UX to performance) that makes the editor unnecessary unpleasant to use compared to the previous version.
pior
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Re: how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?
Baking 8 bit normal maps has never been a good idea
Unless the engine you're targeting is very silly indeed you want to be feeding it 16bit textures for everything (outside of special cases where you want 32bit) - UE5 support for 16bit color maps is acceptable (vs the abortion it was in UE4) so there's no excuse there
Unless the engine you're targeting is very silly indeed you want to be feeding it 16bit textures for everything (outside of special cases where you want 32bit) - UE5 support for 16bit color maps is acceptable (vs the abortion it was in UE4) so there's no excuse there
poopipe
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Re: how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?
bake 16bit textures and 8 bit and see if there is a visible difference. if no difference, go with what is lighter. keep a save file of your baking setup right before you bake, just in case you learn something new in the future and decide you want a different size texture, then you can easily do so.
as for outside pieces, i'm not personally aware of any situations that would call for making floor pieces that are custom fit to a build or anything like that. i think 99% of the time, people are just overlapping geo and you use some props to cover the transition between foreground and background.
when doing your work, think about if a model you are making has broad reuse, or if it is "custom" meaning it can only be used in one or a few places. if it has broad reuse, that is efficient and you should try to cover the majority of your levels with those high efficiency models. if you are finding that you need custom models, that is low efficiency and so you make best use of time to put that sort of thing off as long as you can, on account that the level may change many times for many reasons - therefore "premature optimization" is the root of all evil (meaning it contributes to wasted time and energy )
Alex_J
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Re: how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?
Ohh you really want to make the geometry fit.. why not "just" overlap the tiles ?
okidoki
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Re: how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?
Normal maps get compressed with BC5 compression where it wont make much of a difference, but baking at 16 bit and lowering it down to 8 bit later can produce dithering and noise instead of obvious banding artifacts where there's strong gradients. Doesn't really matter much unless there's really low roughness values.cturbo said:Do we still bake at 8bit or has it gone up to 16bit maps yet?
ZacD
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