Learning dDo Project- Soviet Ppsh-41

RianShelton

I usually lurk on forums and have decided the only way to get better or get a community presence is to start posting, so if I have bad forum ettiquette, please forgive. That being said this is my first post. I recently got a license of dDo at GDC, and wanted to do a mini-project to learn the tools so I can effectively put it into my pipeline.(If I liked it) I love doing guns so I went start-to-finish on a classic Soviet rifle, a Ppsh-41. I made my mesh in Maya and created the normals using nDo2. I set the project to work at "third" resolution, with intention of doing a "New Production Render" to get it back up to 4k. I had several zipping issues, losing preset details from zipping data loss, and essentially was unable to get it to do a "New Production Render". I thought I did something wrong along the way, so I decided to redo it at a working res of "half". Still had the same issues and have decided to call this project finished due to frustration. Here are the results. First set is from the dDo previewer that uses marmoset skyshop. This seemed to get the best lighting that flattered the small details dDo is best at doing. I also found SketchFab, couldn't edit the lighting, so it doesn't look that great.[SKETCHFAB]3dd2e210a6494ab781e17f884c3b104f[/SKETCHFAB]

RianShelton

You may have to click the SketchFab link to see the textures on the model. I also downloaded a trial of the new Marmoset Toolbag 2. I thought the original toolbag did an excellent job. I liked how MT 2.0 had several new tweaks in the material editor, but didn't like how the lighting presets were super dim, or blown out? Here are my results.

EarthQuake

Check out the getting started tutorial, it goes over the basics on the new lighting system (which is a lot more flexible than the old one): http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/getting-started

GragGunslinger

The wood is looking really slick, but your metal is missing some high freq details like scratches or nicks and burns, right now it's a little artificial, but if you just push it a little more it'll be really solid!

RianShelton

GragGunslinger- Thanks, I do need to push it more, the SketchFab is horrible looking, I thought the Marmoset renders that were attached would show it off better, but it does need work, just gave up on it cause dDo was making me angry! You mad bro! Yes, yes I am.

EarthQuake- I need to spend more time setting up the lights, that's for sure, just like how the preset lighting setup looked versus the new one, just preference.