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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: How long to get really good at 3d sculpting
I do dumb shit until it hurts, then I tell others how I caused myself so much painFirebert said:Where can I buy some of them Wisdom O's™ you ate for breakfast?
Alex_J
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Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | September - October (74)
Made some decent progress on props, did some quick textures on the door and the electric box on top. The UVs aren't as packed as they should be, but I can change them later if needed.
demigodssw
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Re: Are people actually use Substance Designer for a job?
Risking being too blunt here but...gnoop said:I do and see people use it for tileables too since it capable to do perfect height blend in between layers ( contrary to Sampler last time i tried) . But working together with Designer is so much of a pain in your ass there. You spend most of your time fighting weird quirks.Besides Painter has same issue as Designer . It blurs evrything you need to move slightly while in SD you have safe transform at least . So recreating something like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgSq0jq5DzY&feature=youtu.be force you to work in very hi resolution only Mari is really capable of.
You spend most of your time fighting weird quirks, and your experiences are not universal. Have you considered this kind of thing might be either user error or a bug? Have you ever just... asked if something is intentional and filed a report? Plenty of people have no issue working with designer, so it's not that "everyone" spends "most of their time fighting weird quirks". People wouldn't use it if it was such a huge pain in the ass consistently, for no reason, regardless of what you think AAA management is capable of doing in terms of forcing everyone to use the software they paid for no exceptions
You yourself said you don't know what AAA is doing. In your Height Blend issues thread, since you keep bringing it up: you were kinda vague. Instead of asking what was going on with maybe a touch of humility, you presumed the math itself was wrong, that they designed it this way. Even kind of implied the devs must just be dumb bc maybe you could "fix it yourself". I truly hope that this was some kind of result of language barrier, but it was still rude. I'm not really surprised you didn't get an answer. FWIW, late, but I could not replicate that result with a version of sampler that I believe is fairly recent, if not the newest version since it's not what I typically need to use. There appears to be more options now so perhaps this was just a quirk or bug that got identified and fixed.
With the Custom Mask Blend w/ options as close to in your picture as I could get it:
And the regular Height Blend layer:
Just to clear that bit up. I have to say I'm unsure of which blurring you're talking about regarding substance painter, either. When you complain of these things, it would be nice to know what the actual problem is instead of what you think will fix it.
"So recreating something like in this video force you to work in very hi resolution only Mari is really capable of." = ❎ 
"When trying to recreate something like in this video even with a very high resolution it comes out blurred. Am I doing something wrong, or is this impossible to do in Painter?" = ✅ 
Which...yes, you're right! One of the answers might be "Oh, this isn't within what Painter can do right now because we don't support [Y]. Maybe try Mari?"
But one of the answers might ALSO be: "Huh, that's weird. What does your set up look like? It should be able to do this", or "theoretically you could if you set it up right but honestly we haven't tested it" or any number of much more productive conversation avenues than "...well, okay, use Mari then if you can already do it there?". If your intention is to say something more like "I would like it/ it would be useful if substance painter was capable of something like this and it might make it a better competitor to Mari", saying it that way sounds less abrasive than essentially saying "this is stupid, why doesn't it work like mari?". You will get better answers.
But one of the answers might ALSO be: "Huh, that's weird. What does your set up look like? It should be able to do this", or "theoretically you could if you set it up right but honestly we haven't tested it" or any number of much more productive conversation avenues than "...well, okay, use Mari then if you can already do it there?". If your intention is to say something more like "I would like it/ it would be useful if substance painter was capable of something like this and it might make it a better competitor to Mari", saying it that way sounds less abrasive than essentially saying "this is stupid, why doesn't it work like mari?". You will get better answers.
Maybe I'm going in too hard on you here, and it's not like I'm some Substance Evangelist. Substance is just another tool, I use Clip Studio Paint for edits sometimes so I'm hardly going to judge someone for preferring Photoshop or Mari or any other tool but... man. You come off really unproductive in threads like this.
I don't even like Adobe and I do have qualms about the state of AAA. But especially when the developers of the software have shown time and again that they're willing to discuss nebulous topics like this with you pretty much personally, I don't know what on earth you're wasting time navelgazing for. If I had that kind of access I wouldn't squander it asking things like "does anyone even actually use this?" without seemingly having a point. Just go to Artstation and filter by "substance 3D designer". You should get an answer fairly quickly.
(Coincidentally, you can also easily pick out actual professional usage from a quick visual survey here. Back4Blood, The Ascent, Far Cry 6, New World, Endzone, 9 to 5, Age of Darkness, Godfall, Larcenauts, Knockout City-- you may notice a number of these are not in fact AAA games btw)
As I said before. Your experiences are not universal. Substance Designer is not the best solution for every team. Just because something (and this goes for general collaboration approach, too) isn't the right solution for YOUR team doesn't mean it's one way or the other, in terms of ease of use, approach, or quality overall.
So "What's Happening", then? People have gotten used to Substance Designer. The new approach shine has worn off, hype has died down, and it's integrated more fully into peoples workflows. It's normal now, so people talk about it less like it's going to save game art like a Make Art button. And that probably means more people are using it, not less.
Substance updates are still regular for the suite; they're clearly doing fine even if only one person is using the program, so the question is a flawed one anyway. As always; How To Ask Questions The Smart Way applies.
BagelHero
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Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | September - October (74)
First update! Progress and Problems.
I got few props done for the enviroment(light, table and walls.). Also set up some simple lighting and working on the glass material.
Glass material needs a lot more work. I never worked on material as complex as this one. Will see if i am able to make the material look good.
Next step in the scene is to create models for the "fish tanks" and the ceiling lights above the operating table. Also might add detail to Op table.
I got few props done for the enviroment(light, table and walls.). Also set up some simple lighting and working on the glass material.
Glass material needs a lot more work. I never worked on material as complex as this one. Will see if i am able to make the material look good.
Next step in the scene is to create models for the "fish tanks" and the ceiling lights above the operating table. Also might add detail to Op table.
PuuroMan
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Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | September - October (74)
I thought I would be done with this by now, but I'm really just getting started. This is kinda my first time really doing any complex hard surface modelling like this and I just sorta jumped into it assuming that my usual methods would work out for me.
The first mistake I made was cleaning up faces and doing the UVs for the low poly assuming that the final product would more or less correlate. This has worked out for me in the past for some more simple stuff, like a pair of sunglasses or a wooden chest, but I see now why this should be avoided.
The next mistake I made was thinking I would be able to just sculpt the details in ZBrush and somehow, I dunno, polish it out. I realized after a couple hours of this that I was never going to get good results and I actually had to do myself some learning.
Now I am using booleans! Which seems obvious, in retrospect, but I've never had a good excuse to use them before. I'm going to finish it like this, but if I did something like this in the future I think I would want to try a CAD program like Shapr.
The first mistake I made was cleaning up faces and doing the UVs for the low poly assuming that the final product would more or less correlate. This has worked out for me in the past for some more simple stuff, like a pair of sunglasses or a wooden chest, but I see now why this should be avoided.
The next mistake I made was thinking I would be able to just sculpt the details in ZBrush and somehow, I dunno, polish it out. I realized after a couple hours of this that I was never going to get good results and I actually had to do myself some learning.
Now I am using booleans! Which seems obvious, in retrospect, but I've never had a good excuse to use them before. I'm going to finish it like this, but if I did something like this in the future I think I would want to try a CAD program like Shapr.
jgarrison
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Re: What are you working on 3D? 2021
Just Wrapped up these stylized rocks I've been working on for a while now. =D More shots here https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2YyDE
jimsvanberg
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2D character / environment concept art
Hi folks! I'm looking for an artist for ongoing work to create concept art to be used for eventual 3D modeling. This will involve some research/ideation of a category (such as post-apocolyptic wasteland, far-future scifi, fantasy monsters, etc) and creating multiple sheets of different concept art (black/white/grayscale, medium detail) based on my rough direction. Sometimes references/ideas included, other times it would require concepting from scratch or a mood board. If interested please specify rates for a sheet of concept containing 5-7 characters, similar quality to the examples included in this post.
ecaroth
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