Pipotchi's Workshop
polycounter lvl 4
Hi, I'm pretty new to polycount but I love the set ideas that people are producing and thought I'd throw some concepts out too.
UPDATE:
Current available concepts:
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Hope you like my stuff! All criticism is much appreciated
UPDATE:
Current available concepts:
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Completed Items:
Hope you like my stuff! All criticism is much appreciated
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As for tips, I'd say take into account the hero's slots more when concepting. On slardar for example, the arm slot is only 450 triangles and a 128x256 texture so fitting two shoulders and bracers on that without access to alpha might stretch the budget a bit, mainly because of those wavy ripped pink cloth/fin pieces.
Thank you
Also added two lion wands which are flower themed maces ideally. The concept behind them is that they are crafted by demon warmages, thus needing to be tools for channeling precise and delicate spells and hexes, as well as being deadly enough to pulverize someone's skull in close combat.
edit: + a couple of sand king heads for good measure
edit 2: aaand tails
I drew out the proportions for the ck head. Also I dont think I will be able to make any of these sets any time soon so they are all up for the taking.
finding it really hard to make the front view how i envisaged it.. I think its mainly because my main idea is the horn, and its not visible from the front. Might have to rework this and maybe even make a rough copy in maya so its more accurate.
As for the CK helmet, I think it needs some more shape on the sides in the front. The sides look way too flat compared to the first iteration and the shadows on the side view don't really make sense with that amount of shape on the front.
also can someone inform me on the pracicality of including the ninja trousers in the belt or armor? Antimage has no leg slot but I feel it adds to the whole image kinda nicely.
Is something like this different enough? I never even saw his design until you brought it up so its very strange that I had such a similar idea.
I have a few other ideas based on swords with both great power and a huge drawback, so hopefully I can get those concepted soon.
(taken down because needs extra work..)
Oh yea I guess I could add some ridges, but it is black metal. It can definitely have some more features though
btw I will send you those slardar weapons soon.
Also prosomogy this set isnt up for taking because someone is already working on it but Im glad you like it
#2 is there any chance he might get mistaken for a ward? I know its maybe a stupid thing to say but his eye is pretty similar to the ward eyes.
And the last and biggest worry: I am a fairly weak/not knowledgeable modeller but I am really interested in doing this myself if no-one is willing to collaborate on it since I think I would be able to animate it. I also think Im just about capable of making a lowpoly version of this, but the highpoly would probably take me a long amount of time since I dont own zbrush or other modelling software. I'll try and learn but in the meantime I was going to aim to do the lowpoly and animate it. Is there a way to create a highpoly from a lowpoly? I just hope I can get the concept done well.
(very rough work.. once I work out whether this is a feasible project I will make it better. also will draw out the flying version, which'll likely be him surfing on one of the scrolls carried)
About the colours, I do not believe that it would be mistaken for Rubick, even though it's basically the same colours (mostly because of the size difference.)
And third, change that eye to a face or something. When I saw it the first thing I thought was that it was a ward. It would really help the design if you did that.
my workshop link is :http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198026621056/myworkshopfiles/
Sukotto is already modeling the entire set and is pretty much done with the sculpt for the whole thing last I saw.
EDIT: Also I'm snatching up #3 and #5 of the Sand King tails. I'll be doing #3 this week as a single item and we're planning to flesh out #5 into a set sometime in the future.
I say your post up above about not being able to get the front view of the helmet "right". I find working with a little bit of sculpey on my desk helps figure out spacial issues quickly. Of course sketch up can do this too but Sculpey is quicker (for fleshing out an already sketched idea), plus working in the real world is refreshing sometimes!
Now that you mention animals, the rubick looks a little like a mini rubick bird!
also a bird is possibly another way i could adapt the rubick courier, good idea
This is my item in maya so far:
And when I import it into dota 2, it does this:
Part of the weapon gets pulled to somewhere near his feet and stays there while the rest of the weapon swings around normally. I assume I've done something drastically wrong with attaching the weapon to the joint but I don't know what.
Im using Maya, I selected the weapon as an object as well as the joint "Weapon4_0" and chose these options for Smooth Bind:
any help would be much appreciated.
edit: i just found a solution by changing the smooth bind settings so the weapon is attached not to the joint hierarchy but to the selected joint only. I've been confused about the problem for ages and find the solution 1 hour after I ask for help about it.
first time doing mudbox so i'm doing things in a weird order i think
its going ok so far I think. But I am still having a few issues trying to sort out making a normal map as well as making the .tgas for the masks in photoshop elements, where there isnt a channel option. Anyone not use photoshop for their masks who can give me a good alternative?
I think I can bypass the channel issue by having 3 layers (rgb) and making them all Add blends, or whatever the photoshop equivalent is. Hopefully that works!
edit: excuse my ultra crap render settings for in-game. At least you get to see what the item looks like at bare minimum quality
edit2: nvm, took some higher quality pics
Seismic Rattler
Armaments of Reckoning
Hopefully you guys like them. Also I am making a pugna concept based off flames. I figured the hero was one of the most unloved in the workshop right now so if we make a cool set for him it has a decent chance of getting in-game. This is up for collaboration (death prophet set isnt because I want to try that one myself)
These two items are up for collaboration separately or together. I could make them into a set but if anyone wants to just do one or the other then thats fine too.
The overall theme is that Warlock (an avid explorer) is searching for a mythical beast known as a Dunewraith in the desert. The grub is bait, and the torch is a staff carved from the dead trees you can often see in deserts. I have a golem too (the dunewraith) but I imagine animating and modelling a golem is a lot of hard work.
Also I am not sure if it comes across properly but the branches on the staff twist around the flame in a spiral. Its hard for me to draw
This is the highpoly, I think it went well apart from the clipping on the top of the horn. I think this happened by me overlapping through the material because the horn is so thin, but I can go back and edit the normal maps to get rid of this effect. If anyone has any advice on how to make the model a bit better it will be much appreciated!
also has some uv mapping problems + unfinished textures but I will finish those once I work out this sculpting problem.
In the meantime I have a ton of new single item ideas. I was gunna post them all at the same time when they were all drawn up but ehh couldn't wait, and will be busy moving house over the next few days. Hope you like!
I improved my first flame Pugna set concept, should I add a ward and weapon?
Also tried modelling Razor head B.. not so sure. I think my modelling skills are improving(????) but I still miss important parts of the design sometimes which Id have to go back and edit if I wanted to take this further
-waiting reply.
cheers
So far only the jacket is "complete" (seen in the 2nd picture), but I'm open to criticism on everything ofc!
Also made the concept for these treant protector wards a while back. A throwback to his old ability set.