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Re: Halloween scene on Unity

A quick way to do realtime animated mist & fog is to use UV distortion and a scrolling "clouds" texture. Pretty effective if you tweak it. If you advance to about 0:16 in the video, you can see the maps that go into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2vLwOAu0UI&t=16s
There's a bit more about it on the first page of my sketchbook.

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Eric Chadwick

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Re: Alternative to Quixel Suite ?

I miss DDO and NDO.

armagon

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Re: What made you feel good today?

was at the track on friday for the 2025 F1 season opener first peek at all the cars in race trim:

and yesterday's quali shenanigans -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7T8TC-cZg

sacboi

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Re: Building a GPU powered painting program.

Here's a dumb fun little feature. When you save it now does a sweep of light across the ui. (it looks better not as a low fps gif)

Muzzoid

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)

Hi,

first off, thank you @Klawd and @Paxwort for the suggestion and answers. Even though I like the challenge of going efficient and compact as much as possibe I focused a lot on game assets throught my 3D journey. For this project I will try a more detailed approach and not go for optimized. Thanks a lot for the suggestion since I was not sure how I would approach it in a live pipeline environment.

@virtualmanyour models looking good so far.

- my suggestion on the drawer would be offsetting the wood texture. It's visibly across the whole front and since the they are different pieces ofsetting the drawers themself would help that pattern feel not projected.

- Furthermore I have the suspicion your normals might not be hardened. It feels like the shading suggest there is a curveture in the front.

- I also feel like the edgewear is a bit too much. If you multiply a grunge texture for example over the edgewear mask you can get rid of the continous edgewear and break it up. I feel like giving it a bit more of an orange / beige tint would give more of a wooden feel.

- one last thing: you can do this even after uv's and texturing - but with caution! - try some slight deformation and bending some of the straight lines.

@Charlie_Temerald looks great! There is a programm called f-spy to help you set up reference images for your viewport. I know it works in combination with blender, other programs not sure. Roomscale and blockout looks great thou!

@Paxwort looking good. Only suggestion would be to add more cuts and offsets in the wood panels to give them some depth. Love the texturing and models so far thou. gj

For my part:

I am getting close to finishing the modelling part. I will go for a Mid-Poly workflow and try to not go overboard with texture maps x) My goal will be to do closeups and give each part the attention to detail I can. There is still some unresolved parts like cables and on the bottom shelf but getting there.

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MRpnut

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)

it has taken me so long to get the perspective right on this, there are some slight differences, especially on the stairs but those I'm fine without, I cant wait to start modelling

i tried real hard to get the perspective right so i even made perspective image guidelines in photoshop. -

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Charlie_Temerald

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)

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I think that's all the sculpting done, though I'm not really happy with the barbeque masonry, so I may come back at that from another angle. Otherwise, time to get baking!

Paxwort

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Re: How can I improve this render?

Latest with some story elements. Probably going to add some more and texture the bot next.

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ably

samarth7523

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

Yeah. I’m exaggerating here for the purpose of the diagram, but the general idea is to break up the contour so that not everything is so uniform. Find spots you want a little more planar or areas you want to keep more rounded. Mix it up and experiment to find something that has some rhythm and looks organic.

pxgeek

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Re: [WIP] Blastoise for 3D printing - advice needed

I'd maybe consider making the water more of a jet/pillar than an explosion looking effect. Maybe add some sphere bubbles in a few places, and small strings spinning around the pillars?

Sick Blastoise btw

Ashervisalis

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