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Re: [WIP] Verasia - 3D Environment
Here are some updates shots of my environment. The foliage on the outside of the town and grass on the inside are both kind of placeholders for now, I'm currently working on Set Dressing the Interior. There will be more updates soon. There are a lot more Screenshots iv taken but I feel It would be overflooding this thread to post all that 
. Let me know its you need more and I will post them. 
. Let me know its you need more and I will post them. 
Manoj_Ravish
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Re: [WIP] Verasia - 3D Environment
@Neox @Noren Thank you so much for your input.
I'm so sorry I couldn't respond to you guys earlier, I completely forgot I posted on here. The trees at the front would certainly be trimmed. Those trees existed from the first block-out I made months ago just to visualize and plan my environment so I just replaced them with the trees I created now. My focus was more on the inside of the town so I didn't pay much mind to them, but yea those Trees will experience the full wrath of a Sawblade.
I'm not familiar with the term palisade but im guessing it means the large fences on either sides of the Entrance Arch. I've placed those all around the small town, and I agree, the straight line is odd. I will break it up a bit. As per the Geography Edits, I'm afraid I cant make too many changes as i have things planned for it.
Please look at the new Shots I have posted and let me know what you think. *These renders are not final yet*
I have also made a walkthrough video and I hope you give it a watch to see what the Entrance currently looks like..
https://youtu.be/8Y6ATDOkMy0?si=DVntiuFW91sXCQgS
I will be Set Dressing outside the entrance too.
I'm so sorry I couldn't respond to you guys earlier, I completely forgot I posted on here. The trees at the front would certainly be trimmed. Those trees existed from the first block-out I made months ago just to visualize and plan my environment so I just replaced them with the trees I created now. My focus was more on the inside of the town so I didn't pay much mind to them, but yea those Trees will experience the full wrath of a Sawblade.
I'm not familiar with the term palisade but im guessing it means the large fences on either sides of the Entrance Arch. I've placed those all around the small town, and I agree, the straight line is odd. I will break it up a bit. As per the Geography Edits, I'm afraid I cant make too many changes as i have things planned for it.
Please look at the new Shots I have posted and let me know what you think. *These renders are not final yet*
I have also made a walkthrough video and I hope you give it a watch to see what the Entrance currently looks like..
https://youtu.be/8Y6ATDOkMy0?si=DVntiuFW91sXCQgSI will be Set Dressing outside the entrance too.
Manoj_Ravish
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Re: How would you approach this? 3ds Max
Since you already have the sewing pattern, you could try the Cloth modifier. Trace the two shapes with splines, apply the Garment Maker modifier or Subdivide set to Delaunay, copy (edit: reference) and arrange very roughly like shown by Eric, define the connected seams and simulate in place with some internal pressure. If you want the surface bump as geometry, you can Skin Wrap that high poly geometry to your flat cloth pieces before simulating (but if you use bump/normal/displacement maps that's not really necessary).
Noren
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Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
About animation embeds, we have some guidance here FWIW: Sticky: Animation Forum - How To Post Your Work
Eric Chadwick
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Re: [WIP] Verasia - 3D Environment
No feedback so far?
I love it, it had a ton of potential!
I really enjoy how organic the first shot feels. In conparison, the straight lines from the palisade and the road entrance feel pretty off..
Especially compared to the round organic house shapes
Id try loosening thah up a bit. But its tricky you want the area around the palisade cleared out. Those trees in front atm are so massive, the look like chopping them down could result in an easy break of palisade.
Maybe add a moat? Maybe make it wave over the terrain a bit more organically? Not sure if that makes sense
I love it, it had a ton of potential!
I really enjoy how organic the first shot feels. In conparison, the straight lines from the palisade and the road entrance feel pretty off..
Especially compared to the round organic house shapes
Id try loosening thah up a bit. But its tricky you want the area around the palisade cleared out. Those trees in front atm are so massive, the look like chopping them down could result in an easy break of palisade.
Maybe add a moat? Maybe make it wave over the terrain a bit more organically? Not sure if that makes sense
Neox
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Re: Learning Diary - Zbrush Sculpting for Characters and Creatures.
Ok I see !
Thanks for the clarification on the pedestal part. To each their own I guess, if it helps you building your models. I tend to do that also but I don't embarrass myself with a pedestal, just a plane ^^. I guess I'm lazier than you 
So you won't do animated characters, just an animation of static situation right ? Yeah seems a way better plan considering the complexity of your model with no knowledge about animation ^^. Good good good, just checking you're not putting yourself into too much frustrating work 
Good luck on your work !
PS. I had to wait for the end of the april fool joke of polycount as it was really uncomfortable to answer or even read ^^.
Dabou Master
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Re: Stylized Game ready backpack
Eric Chadwick said:Ah. Then usually it's best to post the concept (along a credit to the artist) just so people can provide suitable feedback.art_pixellz said:
thanks, but i was following specific concept and artstyle
art_pixellz
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Re: How would you approach this? 3ds Max
I'd suggest finding a 3D model to use as a guide, to help you figure out the layout. Then decide what the smallest repeatable element is (one triangle and one larger patch), model that as simple as possible, then instance-rotate it around to fill out the whole ball.
Sketchfab lets you search for downloadable assets, here's one that seems to match your design:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/al-rihla-qatar-2022-world-cup-football-ball-stl-a10706a5659f4d11a7ad6c4a8b088b49
Here's a quick sketch using a Geosphere set to Icosa, for triangle-based layout.
Sketchfab lets you search for downloadable assets, here's one that seems to match your design:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/al-rihla-qatar-2022-world-cup-football-ball-stl-a10706a5659f4d11a7ad6c4a8b088b49
Here's a quick sketch using a Geosphere set to Icosa, for triangle-based layout.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Hanging clothing in games
In my experience realtime clothsims are unpredictable enough that you want to avoid relying on them fully for anything that you really care about.
My instinct says physics driven bones are less likely to do weird shit and are almost certainly more performant (low bar in this case tbf)
I'll caveat all that by saying I've not had to set up a character that had flappy cloth stuff in 7-8 years so the Sims might be amazing now
My instinct says physics driven bones are less likely to do weird shit and are almost certainly more performant (low bar in this case tbf)
I'll caveat all that by saying I've not had to set up a character that had flappy cloth stuff in 7-8 years so the Sims might be amazing now
poopipe
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Re: Hanging clothing in games
Well, if there's one rule for cloth in games, it is that "clothsim" isn't the obvious solution it may seem to be.
Cloth in Fortnite is made with bones :
https://youtu.be/Oe7fYS9qxmk?feature=shared&t=1276
More generally this kind of stuff is always more tricky to setup than what one would expect - so, never ever leave it "for later". In the sense of : don't even begin a cape or hood design before being 100% certain that the tech to make it move actually works, with a representative ingame prototype.
Also it's always a good idea to design such elements in a way that allows them to be skin weighted the good old way (moving with the skeleton of the character) as a fallback, especially since there is a pretty good chance that a fancy cape solution ends up being dropped later in development. Lastly, treating cape objects as separate modular parts (as opposed to intricate designs attached to the character in a visually complex way) is a good idea too.
A setup with a bone chain and a trail controller :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrqgWDV5SQ
Cloth in Fortnite is made with bones :
https://youtu.be/Oe7fYS9qxmk?feature=shared&t=1276More generally this kind of stuff is always more tricky to setup than what one would expect - so, never ever leave it "for later". In the sense of : don't even begin a cape or hood design before being 100% certain that the tech to make it move actually works, with a representative ingame prototype.
Also it's always a good idea to design such elements in a way that allows them to be skin weighted the good old way (moving with the skeleton of the character) as a fallback, especially since there is a pretty good chance that a fancy cape solution ends up being dropped later in development. Lastly, treating cape objects as separate modular parts (as opposed to intricate designs attached to the character in a visually complex way) is a good idea too.
A setup with a bone chain and a trail controller :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrqgWDV5SQ
pior
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