VG Remix - Okami

Tyche Laughs

I haven't modeled anything in far, far too long-- it's embarrassing. So this challenge looks like a good place to pick it back up again. Here's a sketch that should at least mostly convey what I'm thinking... (please excuse the perspective and poor anatomy) Going to try to encapsulate lots of elements from the entire game, though I'm not going to try to recreate a specific scene or encounter. Little nods to as many as I can will hopefully be within my scope for this thing, though.

Note: So none of the monitors in my house can connect to my PS2, so I'm flying off of internet references.




Maybe if I have time and don't get distracted by something shiny there will be more little things in there... Will see how things go.[IMG]http://home.comcast.net/ ~sksdigitalart/images/okamiDiramaSketch01a.jpg[/IMG]

danielletaureau

I think this is a good contest to pick up modelling again! Okami has such great style that it could definitely lend well to a low poly diorama.

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Incredible game and what a cool idea for a diorama.

I look forward to seeing it blossom. All the best with it!

Tyche Laughs

Thanks ^_^.

Tyche Laughs

Started on Amaterasu... 470 tris.

the-regressor

Looking good so far. Good shape on Amaterasu :]

minorthreat

oh boy oh boy oh boy, keep it up!

Tyche Laughs

Just what could I be thinking, here? I feel like I might be crazy...Hm.... 496 tris.
Edit: some of the wiggly lines have been corrected since this screenshot was taken.

Tyche Laughs

104 tris each. May need some tweaks, but I'll see how the details go on the textures, first.

Tyche Laughs

First attempt at foliage ever. 498 tris. Just one or two more <~500 tri meshes left before all the itty bitty things.

MLewallen

Lookin' good!

Tyche Laughs

The brush is kind of big and important, but it's also a fairly simple object... So I went for the middle and have it at 192 tris. Wondering if I should try and lower that to the 100 limit for props or increase it to be a full-fledged 'hero' piece...

@MLewallen - Thanks! I hope that my texturing won't ruin these... Well, I have time to get obsessive about those, at least.

Update: brought the count down to 96 on the brush.

Tyche Laughs

Lilypad: 57 tris. Onto texturing the elements from the basic sketched diorama soon.

AlanSMitchell

love Okami keep going

Tyche Laughs

Things are a bit.. behind at the moment. Still progressing, though.

Tyche Laughs

So, today I found the setting in Maya that makes my life about 80 times better. I knew it was there, but couldn't remember where to find it-- the USE NO LIGHTING view setting. Presto! My ugly, mostly-unavoidable seam on that one rock is now gone! Whoo!

Wild_Fire_1187

Yep. That looks significantly better without the lighting. Also jsut makes it looks more Okami-esque.

Tyche Laughs

Hm..... Still working along... Here's Amaterasu's sun-disk-thingamabob-I-forgot-the-name-of. (Honestly I always used the beads once I got them)

Tyche Laughs

Progress so far... Still chugging along.

AlanSMitchell

WAOH Can't wait for the final product.

Tyche Laughs

Today's screenshot. Working on that darned scroll. And Amaterasu....
Still behind where I want to be, but things are starting to come together a bit.

Tyche Laughs

Well, I've still got a ways to go on Amaterasu's and the scroll's textures, but I took a break to put some lanterns in. Not entirely sure on their individual placements especially as viewed from a ways off, but at least I didn't completely screw up the color on those. Things will be inching forwards today, I think... And I still need to figure out the whole deal with materials and getting them all into sketchfab properly. Oh, boy.

givemeajob

looking good. I cant wait to see the final entry

Tyche Laughs

Well, well; look who's hanging out by the bridge...

Still doing details on the big scroll and Amaterasu. WILL be done in time if upload isn't a disaster.

Tyche Laughs

Hm.. still trying to figure out how to get the sketchfab button on here to work... maybe I'm not doing the right thing?

Tyche Laughs

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Ok. Figured out what was wrong. Here's everything without textures.
... Yes, I have a lot of masked things.

Tyche Laughs

Currently working on straightening out all of my materials and minor corrections for sketchfab upload. It's interesting how some of these things show up more easily there...

Tyche Laughs

Okay.. for some reason sketchfab thinks I have 18 materials when I actually have 24... Making the majority of my opacity masks... not work properly. This is getting aggravating... Have attempted re-export, re-upload, reconnecting materials in Maya etc to the point where I've had it on sketchfab nine times-- and still not had every piece working properly.

Alemja

I had a problem with opacity masks, I found using a jpg instead of a png for the alpha works better (though it was still glitchy as hell at times). I'm not sure how to solve the material problem... I'm also not sure if this affects you or not, but sketchfab only allows 16 textures per scene. https://sketchfab.com/faq

Tyche Laughs

Alemja wrote: »

I had a problem with opacity masks, I found using a jpg instead of a png for the alpha works better

But.. jpegs don't have transparency... Unless you mean using a black and white jpeg? Do they accept those? Hm...

Alemja wrote: »

sketchfab only allows 16 textures per scene. https://sketchfab.com/faq

Yeah.. I saw that, taught my monitor some new, colorful collections of words and have been trying to figure out how I want to combine some of these. Will see if doing so makes things.. better.
Thanks!

Tyche Laughs

Tried reducing the number of materials; tried recreating all materials... That didn't work, either. So, I'm just going to use what I have and submit the thing. Hope a slightly translucent/glitchy Amaterasu doesn't offend people; I'm just too fed up to care anymore.