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Re: Bloodborne Hunter Fanart [WIP]
Fingus
its all sculpted by hand.
Been working on the jacket folds and the pattern stitching (which takes forever!) Next I guess is designing the head necklace and how the hair sits around it.
Been working on the jacket folds and the pattern stitching (which takes forever!) Next I guess is designing the head necklace and how the hair sits around it.
Pav3d
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Re: [Finished] Samurai
CheeseOnToast said:Great work! As others have said, the silk looks really convincing. Any chance of a quick material breakdown?
Hey thanks! The main silk pattern was made as a filter in SD which would spit out masks into the user channels in SP, this is so that I could control what material group each part of the pattern would use on the fly. (Though eventually, as the amount of layers got larger, switching a toggle would take several minutes and sometimes resulted in a hardware lock up :P )
This filter would also create the normal map and height map which were used in detailing (cavity dirt etc)
Then in each material group would be the usual layers, grunge, speckle, cavity dirt etc. The pillowing layer raises the area slightly which gives the material a "puffiness" as though it is a soft silk. Things like memory creases (which can be sculpted, or in my case, made with a brush in SP) add to this effect.
Since silk has a coloured spec it has around 50%+ metalness in the texture, this gives it that silky look, and is something that has to be balanced carefully so it doesnt just look like a metal sheet.
Roughness on the left and metalness on the right
Once of the key things I found in getting a good silk result was making sure the silk threads themselves had a broken up specular highlight, here is a real world example:
You can achieve this by using curvature maps generated from your normal or height maps.
Pav3d
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Re: [Finished] Samurai
NikhilR said:@Pav3d
Thank you so much for sharing these techniques!
I've been using the curve function method for some straps on a sword I'm making (not working out very well)
Did you use curve functions for the wraps on your katana?
I'm preparing to post progress for my model, would it be alright to pm you some progress thus far first and get some guidance?
Ill explain the wraps below. And yeah sure, when I have some time I will take a look 
The wraps are made in 3ds max, made using relatively simple meshes with a shell and turbosmooth modifier on topBestiART said:I mean the grip of the katana, those fabric fibers, how did you make them?
Before that I had to get my head around how theyre actually made IRL, so I did some practicing with some shoelaces 
this pdf helped a lot.
While modelling I made sure my UVs remained straight, so it would be easier later on.
I then made the thread pattern using substance designer. Its fairly clean at the moment I will need to make rips, holes, loose threads etc.
Currently the wraps are pretty high poly, so I will make a simpler low poly mesh of the handle and then bake the colour information from the thread normal maps onto it. Then bake the high poly wraps normals and blend them together.
I will be using this technique for all the string holding the armour together.
Pav3d
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Re: What are you working on 3D? 2021
Hey! It's my character entry for ArtWarV competition.
The guy is a super human of Russia "Ivan the Giant" or "Верзила Иван".
You can check more pics on my Artstation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mDYONZ
Full WIP thread you can check here: https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/art-war-5-3d-submissions-art-world-war-ivan-the-giant-eggo/9919/
The guy is a super human of Russia "Ivan the Giant" or "Верзила Иван".
You can check more pics on my Artstation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mDYONZ
Full WIP thread you can check here: https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/art-war-5-3d-submissions-art-world-war-ivan-the-giant-eggo/9919/
EGGO
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[Tutorial] Model Pattern on any Surface (Blender + TexTools)
i couldn't find any Tutorial on how to model pattern on surfaces, so i had to figure it out.
i guess @renderhjs intention with this function in textools was something like this, so thank you mate 
for this you will need blender with the textools addon, i haven't tried it in max, since i don't have a license for it available.
this method works completly nondestructive, so you can alter your patterns on the fly without too much trouble
Here we go:
i have some distortions in my pattern, since i did a planar unwrap (which gives you a straight pattern in exchange for some distortion on the pattern itself)
also the height and the positioning of your pattern is also a factor for distortion, so keep that in mind
SnowInChina
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Gundam Hyakuri fan art
Hey everyone, I finally finished another personal piece.
It´s a fan art of a Gundam Hyakuri from the Iron Blooded Orphans Series.
Changes to the original model are based on the custom model by Red6281.
Hope you enjoy : )
It´s a fan art of a Gundam Hyakuri from the Iron Blooded Orphans Series.
Changes to the original model are based on the custom model by Red6281.
Hope you enjoy : )
C86G
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Re: Stylized Rock House
Finished!!!! Thank you to everyone who commented and gave me suggestions! You can view this on my artstation https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZGbyr1
ThisisVictoriaZ
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Re: Why do some people sink geometry into the objects, and some are merging vertex together?
I usually merge meshes together wherever I can but there are a few exceptions.
Reasons for merging vertexes:
Reasons to separate shells:
Reasons for merging vertexes:
- Merged vertexes are much easier to bake maps from as you don't have overlapping geometry on the lowpoly. This is a big time saver and produces much cleaner bakes.
- Merged vertexes have fewer visible hard edges. Hard edges are visible on a model as un-aliased edges and look bad - even with high end screen space anti-aliasing.
- Merged vertexes save texture space as you can UV the mesh as a single continuous UV island - which is always less UV space and saves texture space. This can lower the vertex count of a model as well.
- Merged vertexes produce better LODs if you are using a automated LOD generation system like in Unreal. Having separate shells means the mesh will 'tear apart' when dropping to lower polygon LODs.
- Merged vertexes produce cleaner lighting as the polygons are more evenly sorted.
Reasons to separate shells:
- Separate shells are slightly faster to model and so as long as you're not baking maps you save a tiny amount of time.
- Separate shells do save polygons and in some cases, like modeling a fence or grille, can save a lot of polygons. But they don't save vertexes so it's more important for low minimum spec work like phone titles.
- Separate shells when you want pieces to move independently of each other in some way - like for a gun or animated prop.
- Separate shells can make it easier to make manual LODs as you can just delete shells to lower the polygon count.
sprunghunt
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
@kuronekoshiii This shape is essentially an oblong through hole so the same principles apply: place the intersecting geometry between the existing edges of the cylinder wall, match the segment counts on both shapes and use the existing geometry as support loops. How much geometry needs to be used depends on how accurate the shapes needs to be.
There's several ways to approach modeling this but here's an example of what it could look like:
- Arrange the intersecting shapes.
- Match the segment counts on both shapes, using the existing edges on the cylinder wall as support loops.
- Run the boolean subtraction and split the shape into eights and add a mirror modifier.
- Merge down any stray vertices to the nearest adjacent vertex that's in line with the cylinder wall.
- Add the support loops around the shape with a chamfer / bevel operation and merge dissolve any stray geometry.
- Add the corner support loops.
- (Optional) select the inside edge loop and add a bevel to soften the shape transition.
- Final subdivision mesh.
FrankPolygon
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Re: Texture size: Why use 1024x1024, 2048x2048.... and not a 1000x1000, 2000x2000... ?
Yes
It's all to do with how binary numbers work in hardware
Eg.
To double a binary number you move bits to the left
It's all to do with how binary numbers work in hardware
Eg.
To double a binary number you move bits to the left
00000001 = 1
00000010 = 2
00000100 = 4
This is significantly faster than actually working out what 2*2 is in long form because you can literally just flip some switches in memory.
That's the speed bit (obviously there's more to it)
The main thing in terms of graphics is that there's a bunch of GPU stuff that relies on dividing a texture in half over and over again or works on 2*2 groups of pixels (mipping, filtering, compression, sampling etc).
If you have a power of 2 you can guarantee that those operations will work, if not you absolutely cant
00000010 = 2
00000100 = 4
This is significantly faster than actually working out what 2*2 is in long form because you can literally just flip some switches in memory.
That's the speed bit (obviously there's more to it)
The main thing in terms of graphics is that there's a bunch of GPU stuff that relies on dividing a texture in half over and over again or works on 2*2 groups of pixels (mipping, filtering, compression, sampling etc).
If you have a power of 2 you can guarantee that those operations will work, if not you absolutely cant
poopipe
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