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Re: BRAWL 2 [Environment] The Jungle, sketchem
Woah, that's some ambitious scope 
Certainly an exciting stage when two mega huge mutants or robots start to brawl.
Good luck
Certainly an exciting stage when two mega huge mutants or robots start to brawl.
Good luck
Fabi_G
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Re: 1900's Western Fields
Update: Finished some foliage using SpeedTree for the first time. Really cool I must say and hopefully it'll spice up the environment and give a majestic look. Almost finished with my project that I've worked on for a really, really long time...
AtomicArmy
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Re: Sd.Kfz.182 Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B "Königstiger" (Henschel Turret)
Zi0 said:Leaving a Königstiger unfinished should be a crime xd
Never a truer comment, I mean to suddenly abandon that which I've had absolute joy modeling and without putting too fine a point on it simply bottled out, basically afraid of the prospect that I'll fail as an artist in terms of not being good enough. So I think over the intervening years I've now attained necessary skills coupled with confidence to finish the job.
That being said my sincere apologies to all who'd freely given of their time offering feedback for obviously my lack of respect and mere courtesy in not responding. Anyhow hopefully now I can repay everyone by seeing this project through too completion, minus extended god awful radio silence this time around.
Project will run concurrent alongside two other's both of whom are aprox same level of complexity, estimate August 31 thereabouts should have all three finalised.
Circa 2023 - 24 Blender asset creation technique exploration:
1 - Non UVW raw subd geometry textured using NITROX in lookdev mode (workflow here)
Additional bead weld elements:
2 - Bevel shader bake tests
Wires
Mapped UVs
(please ignore shitty packed layout)
3 - At present moving forward, seems to be a weighted normal hybrid trim sheet is probably what I'll implement, because it's just one texture atlas to worry about.
Base mesh wires - autosmoothed weighted normals
sacboi
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Re: Sd.Kfz.182 Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B "Königstiger" (Henschel Turret)
I know nothing about tanks, but this looks nice
Fabi_G
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Re: Sd.Kfz.182 Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B "Königstiger" (Henschel Turret)
This is dope dude 
Whenever I play Battlefield, I try and jump in tanks as much as possible, so seeing you make one has a special place in my heart.
Whenever I play Battlefield, I try and jump in tanks as much as possible, so seeing you make one has a special place in my heart.
Ashervisalis
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Re: Trim Sheet help required !
it makes it inconvenient but as stated above you'll get a more accurate idea of what the distortion will look like on the final asset.
uv interpolation is a dumb linear operation and edge orientation can make a pretty significant difference when a quad deviates from a 1:1 aspect ratio
to counter distortion, add geometry. the more regular (ie. square) your triangles are, the less wonky things will look
uv interpolation is a dumb linear operation and edge orientation can make a pretty significant difference when a quad deviates from a 1:1 aspect ratio
to counter distortion, add geometry. the more regular (ie. square) your triangles are, the less wonky things will look
poopipe
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Re: Trim Sheet help required !
Yes, triangulation will make it super inconvenient to select loops.MamdouhFahmy said:
Does it make a difference if the mesh is triangulated instead of being quads with the uvs ! , the trim thats supposed to cover that area is ornamental details like flower shapes and stuff so i think distortion going to be very obvious but i do need to do a rough texture and see how it works thanks ^^
dimwalker
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Re: BRAWL2 [Character] R&M, iam717
modeling wip 1 day, used blender to make the rough model sheet, wanted to make it. Was going to be all blender but i got frustrated with it again lol.updated the concept, will get to everyone's updates when i can shared pc.
iam717
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Re: Breakdown Fur
This is a really good looking fur! I was already familiar with the shell technique, but yours looks particularly good due the care in adjusting each shell maps and the height map usage.
I gotta say I'm itching to recreate a few steps in your breakdown using Blender geonodes to automate them. 😂
Edit: I gave the node setup a go and had a thought while putting it together. It's possibly a very stupid thought, and I hope it's okay to post it here, but since AAA clothing tends to have a decent polygon count nowadays I wondered: What about channel packing extra displacement variation into the vertex colors? Hell, what about using a regular single UV quadrant and adjusting the alphas directly in shader with a vertex color controlled blending mode? The diffuse color variation per shell has negligible impact in my tests, the only map truly needing variants is the alpha. And the diffuse variant could be derivated from the same alpha VC anyway. It feels wasteful to dedicate texture space for something that only sees a minor fairly constant variation.
An earlier test with just displacement and vertex color variations:
I don't know the cost of using an overlay or linear light blend in Unreal, if it's more expensive than using dedicated textures for each shell, nor if VC tends to be used for something else in clothing, but if at least one channel could be spared for the alpha it'd make creating shells so easy. You can have any odd number of shells you wish without having to subdivide and create extra maps. Proof of concept in Blender:
A sharper fur in the VC overlay method can be achieved by remapping the vc to something like 0.2-0.8 instead of 0-1, discarding values that are too close to 0 or 1 alpha.
Using something like a nodes setup you just input the number of shells, distance and other settings and it'll generate them for you while simultaneously calculating the alpha value and storing it in the vertex color of each shell.
And a bonus: Base + single shell using overlay mode, displacement derived from VC alpha, discarding values under 0.2. You add shells for longer fur.
I gotta say I'm itching to recreate a few steps in your breakdown using Blender geonodes to automate them. 😂
Edit: I gave the node setup a go and had a thought while putting it together. It's possibly a very stupid thought, and I hope it's okay to post it here, but since AAA clothing tends to have a decent polygon count nowadays I wondered: What about channel packing extra displacement variation into the vertex colors? Hell, what about using a regular single UV quadrant and adjusting the alphas directly in shader with a vertex color controlled blending mode? The diffuse color variation per shell has negligible impact in my tests, the only map truly needing variants is the alpha. And the diffuse variant could be derivated from the same alpha VC anyway. It feels wasteful to dedicate texture space for something that only sees a minor fairly constant variation.
An earlier test with just displacement and vertex color variations:
I don't know the cost of using an overlay or linear light blend in Unreal, if it's more expensive than using dedicated textures for each shell, nor if VC tends to be used for something else in clothing, but if at least one channel could be spared for the alpha it'd make creating shells so easy. You can have any odd number of shells you wish without having to subdivide and create extra maps. Proof of concept in Blender:
Using something like a nodes setup you just input the number of shells, distance and other settings and it'll generate them for you while simultaneously calculating the alpha value and storing it in the vertex color of each shell.
And a bonus: Base + single shell using overlay mode, displacement derived from VC alpha, discarding values under 0.2. You add shells for longer fur.
Celosia
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