https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-N_W4mskHUHere is a capture of the latest version (lastest web-build), think I got to leave it at that for now:
The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: What made you feel good today?
a bit morbid , yes but, at least its realistic & "healthy" just do not believe the hype of the downside of it all, might not be all that bad. People say all kinds of things. No like click cause its morbidity otherwise i do cause of the photography skills. "cross-roads".
Photography skills are developing, the gate shot is pretty bad ass & i also enjoyed the bird.
Was "helpful to expand outside of digital", so thought if it doesn't apply to me now perhaps it will make others "feel good", to explore other options if they feel some type of way thus this share:
Posting since recently there have been a few posts on, "what do i do now". To let it be known i'd like to see stuff still even if not digital art.
iam717
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Re: Lowpoly tree and bird needed for open source project
do you still need a low poly tree?
someone2
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Re: Sketchbook: Tim Smith
Yep. Everything was done in Marvelous Designer to begin with.zetheros said:most people use marvelous designer for folds. If you want to hand sculpt them though, you can drop in some alpha map detail to use as a 'base', then clean up and sculpt over that. It's a good method, I use it myself for basically everything. You can find them for a few bucks (or even free sometimes) just need to watch for what licensing is attached.
I'm now just trying to refine and clean up some of the simulation noise. I have been trying to use some alphas as a base, though when trying to match the above reference, I've found that a number of the alphas aren't right for the job. So I've tried to manually sculpt them.
DustyShinigami
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (99)
Hi! @fairlyBread nice progress on the texturing 
Imo totally fine to continue working on it after the deadline, hope you get around to finish it. It was a pleasure working on the challenge alongside you, until next time
That bake issue is curious :-B Could try if triangulating that area fixes anything (if you haven't already done so). If you want a second pair of eyes on it, feel free to share that part by attaching a zip to post or pm.
With some new work starting tomorrow, I tried to wrap it up. Quite some tweaking and builds happened since my last update, so I'll write what I can remember :P
(hope the video shows :P)
Imo totally fine to continue working on it after the deadline, hope you get around to finish it. It was a pleasure working on the challenge alongside you, until next time That bake issue is curious :-B Could try if triangulating that area fixes anything (if you haven't already done so). If you want a second pair of eyes on it, feel free to share that part by attaching a zip to post or pm.
With some new work starting tomorrow, I tried to wrap it up. Quite some tweaking and builds happened since my last update, so I'll write what I can remember :P
- Cleaned up and iterated on shadergraphs. Got this ShaderGraphVariables feature into the project to get the spagetti under control thanks to local variables
- Iterated some on player model, added a dangling cup to backpack, shortened steps
- Added light probes for indirect player lighting (ditched the directional light to fake sand bounce light)
- Added some movement to sand
- Iterated some on structures, both close and distant
(hope the video shows :P)
Fabi_G
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Re: [ZBrush] OVERHANGS WITH SMOOTH GROUP BRUSH/POLISH GROUPS
Now a client or lead comes and asks for changes and you do that again. A chamfer modifier (or shader) would remove the need for this process entirely, keep it a ton more lightweight and easy to edit
Neox
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Re: Sketchbook: Tim Smith
most people use marvelous designer for folds. If you want to hand sculpt them though, you can drop in some alpha map detail to use as a 'base', then clean up and sculpt over that. It's a good method, I use it myself for basically everything. You can find them for a few bucks (or even free sometimes) just need to watch for what licensing is attached.
zetheros
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Re: [WIP] - UE5 - Ryan Gosling: Drive
Some overarching goals: Quality character piece, learn Marvelous, use strand hair, and use Unreal Engine for the medium. As you'll see, a lot more goals were added onto these eventually.
Chronologically, it's a mess, so I'll try doing sections to make it coherent.
Starting from the beginning, I'll post the sculpt I submitted for school so we can all laugh at it:
A year or two later I dusted it off, slapped on a new basemesh. The one I eventually used was by Tom Parker, who interestingly also based it off Ryan's appearance in Blade Runner 2049. I marveled at how he achieved his likeness, but I projected my sculpt onto it, knuckled down and then spent many hours refining it. I also sought some feedback from a local lecturer which helped a ton.
Among many likeness Youtube tutorials, one technique I gleaned that worked for me was to rapidly turn on and off Spotlight to be able to sculpt the 'impression' rather than trying to match exactly the shape for every photograph or screenshot (though I see some sculpt masters on Youtube do this).
It got a step closer than where I began, but it wasn't enough. I then bought a face pack from TexturingXYZ, VFace #89 Oleh, and started texture work. I did basic noise with Noisemaker in Zbrush first. I then wrap the VFace model, projected to my mesh, took the textures into Substance+Photoshop, and painted, layering on stuff to get more variation. I knew Ryan in Drive was a very tired man since he always worked night jobs, so I went a bit heavier on the eye circles.
Zbrush evolution:
I simultaneously brought the head into the Unreal Metahumans sample project to use the lighting for lookdev of the head sculpt. With real rendering powers, I immediately saw how far off I was with the sculpt, and I think the progress from there was very rapid. I was surprised myself. What people say about getting it in engine ASAP must be true, I recommend doing so. It looked correct in ZBrush but not in Unreal.
Thanks to JHill's Youtube videos, I ripped out eyes from Metahuman, roughly adjusted their eye shells to fit my character, and placed it in.
Unreal evolution:
The rightmost sculpt stage in the Unreal shot above is around the 1/3 mark of the changes I made since.
Also, you can already see it above, but I will circle back to hair at a later post.
TL;DR: Sculpting likeness is very hard. Even after this process I can only hope I got better at it.
I think that's it for now, I'll probably talk about clothing next.
Chronologically, it's a mess, so I'll try doing sections to make it coherent.
Starting from the beginning, I'll post the sculpt I submitted for school so we can all laugh at it:
Among many likeness Youtube tutorials, one technique I gleaned that worked for me was to rapidly turn on and off Spotlight to be able to sculpt the 'impression' rather than trying to match exactly the shape for every photograph or screenshot (though I see some sculpt masters on Youtube do this).
It got a step closer than where I began, but it wasn't enough. I then bought a face pack from TexturingXYZ, VFace #89 Oleh, and started texture work. I did basic noise with Noisemaker in Zbrush first. I then wrap the VFace model, projected to my mesh, took the textures into Substance+Photoshop, and painted, layering on stuff to get more variation. I knew Ryan in Drive was a very tired man since he always worked night jobs, so I went a bit heavier on the eye circles.
Zbrush evolution:
I simultaneously brought the head into the Unreal Metahumans sample project to use the lighting for lookdev of the head sculpt. With real rendering powers, I immediately saw how far off I was with the sculpt, and I think the progress from there was very rapid. I was surprised myself. What people say about getting it in engine ASAP must be true, I recommend doing so. It looked correct in ZBrush but not in Unreal.Thanks to JHill's Youtube videos, I ripped out eyes from Metahuman, roughly adjusted their eye shells to fit my character, and placed it in.
Unreal evolution:
The rightmost sculpt stage in the Unreal shot above is around the 1/3 mark of the changes I made since.
Also, you can already see it above, but I will circle back to hair at a later post.
TL;DR: Sculpting likeness is very hard. Even after this process I can only hope I got better at it.
I think that's it for now, I'll probably talk about clothing next.
de_cbble
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Re: How to solve this baking issue?
You've been a huge help. That was indeed the reason, and the issue has been resolved. Thank you so much.Neox said:The issue with this is, too little texture space to compensate for too much shading. Basically you have very strong low poly shading going on. The normalmap tries to compensate but there aren't enough pixels (or bit depth 16bit vs 8bit) to cover it.
You have 2 options basically
Upping the texture resolution and possibly bit depth
Or
Reducing the lowpoly shading
I would opt for the latter, get rid of the long thin triangles. Use some more geo or custom normals to flatten what the normal map has to compensate
Just look at the lowpoly without any normalmap, all that strong smooth shading is what the normalmap needs to carry, help it a bit
WangQiang
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
bad press right before announcing another delay to GTA6 is like, what even? Are they really going to save money by union busting at a time like this, especially in the EU?
31 people's salaries from now to the release of GTA6, so that's like a year. Ok so they probably asked for higher salaries and better benefits for themselves and others. I wonder what the pay raise is for 31 people (possibly more), for 1 year. Probably not enough to recoup the fallout they're getting now, that's for sure.
This is likely lawsuit territory, and that means legal fees, not to mention lowered team morale across the board. A team, even several hundred or thousand strong, needs to be united before a game release, not whatever the fuck this is. If Rockstar wants aggressive negotiations, do it after or before, not during development. This just reeks of poor planning and management
zetheros
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