Tyr Handplane - Finished

Madosho · Jan 2017

I also wanted to give this a go

. I’ve been working on it quite a bit already, so here is my progress thusfar. Decided to go for a handplane with a sharp angled shape language. I also wanted to incorperate a lot of celtic/dwarven style patterns into this. Due to time constraints I decided to do crossbakes and mix the bakes of Handplane with detail from Ndo.

Update. Final thoughts:
Handplane baker is shaping to a really good baker. Clean bakes, amazing speed, and easy to use. But at the moment there are still a couple of other bakers that get my preference. But that is mainly due the features the other bakers have. I'm really looking forward to see where the baker is heading. And it was really fun to participate

! Thanks AlecMoody for organising this contest!

My experience thusfar:

Extremely fast and extremely clean bakes.
No need to explode my meshes anymore. Woo!
Very easy to use.
I had some difficulties with getting the normals to bake correctly in the beginning. But I got those fixed in the end. The same problems did however return once I started using a skewmesh to fix the skewdetail errors. But next time I just need to model those in.
Just because I was curious, I tried to export all of my meshes in meters. My project’s unit size is in centimeters. But this caused the baker to get stuck. It refused to bake.
Didn’t really get the material ID/materials psd to work. I stuck with a color id bake from Maya in the end.

Some feedback points:

Loading in your Lowpoly and Highpoly via the same method as you would load in your cage would be handy. Saves us a couple of clicks :P.
A previewer for your bakes would also be really nice to have.
Maybe a possibility to make some kind off preset for the raytraced AO and curvature that is based on your output settings. Low/Medium/High quality etc. So you have the possibility to let Handplanebaker calculate the ideal amount of rays for you. Just an idea though.
Time estimation for your bakes.
I think it would also be nice to set the default colour for the background colour of the curvaturemap as a neutral grey

Final Images:

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And some breakdowns:

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Madosho · Jan 2017

Model progress from earlier:

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And here are all the textures i've used up untill now:

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Handplane AO:

Handplane Curvature (The parts that show up as black where not put into the projection groups because they didn't need to be baked):

Handplane TS Normal:

Handplane OS Normal:

Handplane Gradient:

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Handplane + NDO TS Normal:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ug/h7hia3b09xms.png

Handplane + NDO AO:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ki/5r7ccl6a5fdk.png

Handplane + NDO Curvature:

Kanni3d · Jan 2017

Great work! Love the unique design! Can't wait to see some textures and renders of this. This came out with great results from the baker too.

One small critique is that I feel you could possibly pack your uv's just a bit tighter to push out that much more quality/resolution from the bakes.

Madosho · Jan 2017

Thanks man

. Yeah, I definitely need to get better at that. So much space left over still :P. Thanks for the critique!

Madosho · Jan 2017

And I think that's a wrap! Was really fun to do, learned a lot from this aswell. Texturing is done in Quixel.

And some breakdowns:

Tyr Handplane - Finished

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