https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYuMWDOC96E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQTNky2N1GM&t=505sNew concepts will be chosen at the start of January 2022
Previous Challenge Thread
The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Best Of
Epic Brutalism
Epic procedural
My love for panel houses and for the brutalist style was reflected in my project. Collected procedural generation, through a node system, it turned out not the most simple node tree. It assembles houses from a set of small parts. With a large number of changeable parameters. finally mastered procedural modeling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxg_IQcN2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFYG-F_j3Ek
IsadistI
8 ·
Re: How do you create giant, non-repeatable environment structures for games?
ned_poreyra said:Benjammin said:Are you posing hypothetical scenarios to test polycount? I may be missing some context, but seems to me your tone is a bit rude and confrontational? YF_Sticks gave you a detailed explanation of how to do something like this and your response is "Nope, doesn't make sense"? It does make sense, and meshes that large are not unheard of.Sorry. I may sound frustrated because I've been trying to solve this problem for a long time and I still see no solution on the horizon.As far as I know, the standard resolution in AAA games these days is 2K per 1 meter. Let's say the object is 500 meters high and 250 meters wide. Obviously I can't sculpt or paint it as one object, as the required resolution would be in billions of polygons and tens of thousands of UDIM textures. It has to be broken down into smaller parts, individually created and then assembled out of those, like a building.However, the circular part breaks everything. Because it's a unique, non-repeatable shape. Even worse - it's indented, which means it's not even really an object - it's a negative space created by other objects...
I think you misunderstood my answer above.
You don't texture it as one object. That wouldn't make any sense because you'd end up with the most low-resolution texture ever.
But what you can do is bake a unique normal map, for large scale detail. Normal map allows to be scaled up extremely high. And then you tile tiling textures over the whole object (which will give you the correct texel density). Also as Clark Coots mentioned, you can even add some geo to give more large detail like in the Overwatch Screenshot. That's how you solve this issue with having a big cube with a hole in it. Because you combine unique elements with tiling textures at the correct resolution.
Here are some examples of this workflow:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ek45q
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3dmL5Y
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2R36a
The AC Valhalla one even uses a nice combination between modular and Masks.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3dmL5Y
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2R36a
The AC Valhalla one even uses a nice combination between modular and Masks.
Here are some good instructional videos:
Hope this makes it more clear!
YF_Sticks
4 ·
Re: What are you working on 3D? 2021
A modular environment project I finished earlier this month 
Check out more images on my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8e2eLG
Check out more images on my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8e2eLG
ClaraTan
3 ·
The Quarterly CHARACTER ART Challenge | November - December
Welcome to the Quarterly Character Art Challenge!
How it works
- Every new challenge, 3 Character Concepts will be provided
- Pick one of the 3 concepts to work and post your progress here!
- Complete a 3D game res model of your chosen concept
Guidelines
- Help other artists grow! When you post an update, also leave a critique for someone else. Share knowledge you have learned
- There are no software restrictions; you're welcome to use as little, or as many different software packages as you like.
- There
are no polygon or texture restrictions, it can be a 3,000 triangle hand
painted model or a 100,000 triangle current gen model. Just make sure
the final result is a game model, not a sculpt!
- You are welcome to cross post on different sites (Artstation, Facebook, Discord etc.) for additional feedback
- Before starting your character, break down the concept and plan your work accordingly. Being able to effectively estimate how long it will take to complete a project is an important skill, especially for freelance artists.
- Your final presentation should be posed and rendered in any real time engine. (Marmoset, UE4, Unity, etc.)
- Don't be afraid to ask questions, but don't hesitate to find the answer on your own - chances are, the answer to your problem has already been answered within these forums
- If you feel anything should be modified or added to these guidelines, please let me know!
Resources
Concepts
Please credit and link to the artists when posting on other sites!
Green Gold by Kseniia Tselousova
Angel of Iron by Karina Pavlova
How concepts are chosen:
- Trying to keep it consistently one masculine character, one feminine and one other non-human (robot, creature, humanoid, etc)
- Trying to keep the 3 concepts look like they are part of a theme or could fit in similar universe.
- Concepts must be full body and clearly drawn. There shouldn't be a lot of guesswork on what the details or proportions are. Turnarounds are a good thing to have, but not required
- Concepts shouldn't be too complex or too simple to allow people to get them done in the time-frame while also finding something interesting and giving a challenge.
- Must be able to link back to the original source artist to they can be properly credited, Pinterest as a source doesn't count. If I cannot find the source or original artist, the art will not be used
- If
you are a concept artist and want your concept removed or want to
create a concept for a future challenge please feel free to contact me.
- If you have any suggestions of themes you would like to see in the future, send me a message!
Alemja
4 ·
Re: [ WIP ] Old Tree - ZBrush Study and UE5 Scene
Calling it done! Took a lot longer to get across the finish line than I'd anticipated but I'm glad I returned to it and didn't leave it unfinished. Thanks to anyone who stopped by to take a look.
You can check out the artstation project here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g8gR0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgm5Qp3fx9k&ab
You can check out the artstation project here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g8gR0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgm5Qp3fx9k&ab
iansmithartist
3 ·
https://youtu.be/QeloBDuo7g8Re: [UE4] Islands Environment [W.I.P]
This section haven't been update in 2 years. In that time I've completely redone everything in the last 6 months and the whole project is close to completion. During this project I've learned a lot about making foliage. The map has a blueprint utility widget slider that controls the weather wetness of the materials and wind speed at the same time. Here's some of the screen shots that demonstrate what's been done in the last 6 months.
Cattus
7 ·
Re: Substance Designer - Master Thread
Hey everyone, here's my latest node for Substance Designer. It allows you to extract an image's Dominant Colors.
Let me know what you think !
https://gum.co/DominantColors
Extract dominant colors from any image
Use the extracted colors in your graph
Quantize the colors of an image
Let me know what you think !
https://gum.co/DominantColors
Extract dominant colors from any image
Use the extracted colors in your graph
Quantize the colors of an image
StereoVinny
4 ·
Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
Mana Well
Hello I recently just finished this piece. More shots can be seen on my Artstation!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4XoZRn
Hello I recently just finished this piece. More shots can be seen on my Artstation!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4XoZRn
Shelluna
10 ·