Pragmaic Fox's workshop

Pragmatic Fox

I'm kind of new to the community. My background is mostly in programming, but I think i'm up to try my hands at dota 2 items. I still haven't quite figured out a process for making item, but i think its coming along quite nice. The quality seems to be getting better which each successive one I released.

-Pragmatic Fox

My SketchFab:
https://sketchfab.com/MichaelPollind/models

Pragmatic Fox

can a mod fix the misspelling in the title?

Lyether

Good Modelling and if you know programming try out Particle Effecting.

Pragmatic Fox

Lyether wrote: »

Good Modelling and if you know programming try out Particle Effecting.

I couldn't find any adequate documentation in terms of particles. could you point me in the right direction?

Xajai

Hey there! Cool sculpts, but i feel like they are a little blunt, look for some tutorials and workflows for hard surface modeling, Would help push the quality up a notch! gj

Lyether

Pragmatic Fox wrote: »

I couldn't find any adequate documentation in terms of particles. could you point me in the right direction?

This should lead you in the right Direction. http://www.workshophatemachine.com/2014/06/04/introduction-dota-2-particle-systems/

Pragmatic Fox

I tried making an backpack item for Meepo but found that i couldn't really make the item fit within the 800 polygon limit. Any suggestions on how to amend this issue.

[NB] Mohsen

maybe make it a bit more simpler, and take away the strap in the middle on his torso that connects the 2

Pragmatic Fox

here is the Mirana Mount I've been working on.

Sculpt:
[SKETCHFAB]c4332cdfc0154e3d8ff310f11503837c[/SKETCHFAB]

Progress:
[SKETCHFAB]2622852b3a984a4f895b41f85809337e[/SKETCHFAB]
this model isn't done. this is just a progress that i placed on sketchfab. there is some triangle intersection that i'm not quite happy with. you might be able to notice some of it in the progress.

Baddcog

Pragmatic Fox wrote: »

I tried making an backpack item for Meepo but found that i couldn't really make the item fit within the 800 polygon limit. Any suggestions on how to amend this issue.

Without seeing the tris for the low poly it's hard to say where your problem lies.

It's basically a large cube so 800 tris should be plenty.

I find tracing out the major shapes like this can help you visualize where you need edges the most.


(why do people upload png's? they take 5x the bandwidth as jpgs, slow down loading on phones a lot)

Pragmatic Fox

@Baddcog
I've kinda put this on the back burner and plan to come back to it later or i might not come back to it at all. I've had multiple issues with mapping, but beside that its fairly decent at the current state. Its fair game if you want the sculpt.

Pragmatic Fox

For a first mount, its not that bad. It somewhat plain and boring. the spot patterns seems to suffer a lot from stretching which doesn't make me too happy and in general the textures themselves just seem kind of muddy.


here is the released model on the steam workshop: Item Link

Pragmatic Fox

here is an update on the model:

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Had to fix the eyes a bit. Didn't realize he looked cross eyed.

Pragmatic Fox

here is a render. Probably should of increased the amount of sub-surfacing on Mirana's hair but other then that I think it looks pretty good. Any suggestions?

Pragmatic Fox

I was experimenting with the combine bake feature for cycles. The results from this are fairly good. I'm thinking about potentially using this to bake in texture effects for my color.

[SKETCHFAB]2b356be2e29b477fae96152ca4a0e1fa#share[/SKETCHFAB]

Pragmatic Fox

Sculpt for the mount i'm working on. I'm currently looking for a texture artiest and animator. I had to bring down the topology to get this on Sketchfab. I'll upload some high quality images eventually.

[SKETCHFAB]415b2d8946a141b5b177873a618263db[/SKETCHFAB]

Pragmatic Fox

preview image:
I'm still adding detail and still need to make a flying variation.