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Re: Bloodborne Hunter Fanart [WIP]
Hey thanks @FourtyNights
With the wetness/occlusion meshes i tried to combine them together initially but my results werent great which meant that the occlusion would sit above the wetness, making it look like its floating, so theyre 2 seperate meshes. (there is probably a cleverer way of doing this with just one mesh :P)
Here they talk about it briefly in paragon.
In the texture the top line of the bottom lid does have a very high gloss/low roughness value but the mesh allows for the "water of the eyeball thats pressing up against the lid" reflection. the wentness mesh on needs to be raised, intersecting the eyeball and the bottom eyelid at an angle to catch the light.
As for using in-engine AO to achieve that effect i _think_ because that is a largely a blanket value across the level (im not a tech artist, so im just guessing), in order to have it show up on such a small area it would really need to be cranked up, affecting everything else in the level.
Yeah with hair you gotta just tweak for hours on end, and keep going back to references. That zbrush hair plane brush saved me a lot of time. Flow maps took some time to get my head around them, just experiment.
With the wetness/occlusion meshes i tried to combine them together initially but my results werent great which meant that the occlusion would sit above the wetness, making it look like its floating, so theyre 2 seperate meshes. (there is probably a cleverer way of doing this with just one mesh :P)
Here they talk about it briefly in paragon.
In the texture the top line of the bottom lid does have a very high gloss/low roughness value but the mesh allows for the "water of the eyeball thats pressing up against the lid" reflection. the wentness mesh on needs to be raised, intersecting the eyeball and the bottom eyelid at an angle to catch the light.
As for using in-engine AO to achieve that effect i _think_ because that is a largely a blanket value across the level (im not a tech artist, so im just guessing), in order to have it show up on such a small area it would really need to be cranked up, affecting everything else in the level.
Yeah with hair you gotta just tweak for hours on end, and keep going back to references. That zbrush hair plane brush saved me a lot of time. Flow maps took some time to get my head around them, just experiment.
Pav3d
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Re: Bloodborne Hunter Fanart [WIP]
Hey cheers Felixenfeu, i think it was to do with the camera FOV, ive since adjusted it 
Created textures for the mace, created a floor, and did some tweaks. Next up is rigging and posing.
Created textures for the mace, created a floor, and did some tweaks. Next up is rigging and posing.
Pav3d
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Re: Bloodborne Hunter Fanart [WIP]
Thanks guys! Very kind!
Johnnynapalmsc yup theyre all sculpted.
Coming to the end of the scupting phase
Ive added damage to the clothes, which will be built upon in substance painter.
Ive added pores n wrinkles to the face, if anyone has any pointers on face detailing that would be handy!
Ive updated the mace wraps and added some sculpted damage.
nearly time to go into hibernation with the endless retopology. :P
Johnnynapalmsc yup theyre all sculpted.
Coming to the end of the scupting phase
Ive added damage to the clothes, which will be built upon in substance painter.
Ive added pores n wrinkles to the face, if anyone has any pointers on face detailing that would be handy!
Ive updated the mace wraps and added some sculpted damage.
nearly time to go into hibernation with the endless retopology. :P
Pav3d
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Re: Bloodborne Hunter Fanart [WIP]
Went back to the weapon and did some further fleshing out on the hair, so that I have a reference for the hair cards.
Pav3d
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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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