LOW-POLY ART
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This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em!
Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:
Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide
Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:
- Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
- Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide
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Ok I can't seem to help myself. I just couldn't let it be so I had to work on that texture a bit more...
( still 1 | still 2 )
And the texture:
Added some foliage around the base and two birds to fly around the trees. Whole mesh is now 1136 tris.
Still trying to figure out what to add to the top of the house, looks too empty to my eyes. Or maybe it would get too busy... I dunno. Gotta figure it out tomorrow.
Anyhow, I'd say it's 99% complete now.
Awesome work
The ship/clubhouse is really nice... do you work from your own concepts? and if you do can we see them? Also do you really expect us to believe that such a badass biker dude who lives in such a badass boat house would keep such a nice garden
I have a pretty cool idea for a bike/biker of my own, not sure when I'm going to get round to it though, want to take my time with it
(I know pretty much sweet FA about bikes)
Do you have any general advice for UV layout? The textures of the most impressive low-poly things always seem to be very orderly, lots of square alignments. Even making judicious use of snap to pixel mine just feels like a mess with things strewn hither and yon.
Four cannons, one gigantic monster skull from god knows what kind of creature and the fact that it is a freakin pirate ship which has witnessed probably some pretty nasty stuff in its past, so yeah, I think it'll make up for 2 trees growing on top of it
Hey start sketching and blocking it out and post your wips here! Maybe ppl here can help you out and push you to the right direction... or at least guide away from the ditch
HEY that is a great idea
Well that is a good question. My original idea was to make the ship out of wood (obviously) and the bottom part from a bit different kind of wood. Afterwards it occured to me that it might look a bit stupid to have two different colors/looks for wood, so I did what I thought was a great idea and left them both the same color...
.. So now the bottom part is a bit messy yeah. It was supposed to be wood, but coming to think about it, it might be a better idea to remake the bottom part to look more like stone and color it the same dark grey as is the horns of the skull. Maybe that would help to read the forms better.
If you look closely for example the models I've been making recently, you will see that there are "some" stretching going on there.
If you go for the squared-out uv-layout, then you are sure to get some stretching if the model you are unwrapping is not perfectly square or flat. So the key here is to model stuff as close to square as possible. That way your uv's work out better. Obviously it is not always the best solution use the square uv-design, for example I've left all my trees and lamps at their own unique shapes. That is because the edges of those models are not as important as the actual inside of the shape.
mostly rushed trying to keep up with the video - love the result though.
a must watch for anyone.
also @Gorman The way he did his modeling method was by having it mirrored down the middle for better texturing. I almost changed those areas and especially on the handle protector I almost pulled it out to change the shape, but ultimately just left it there. I realize it could still be optimized, but this was more of a texturing challenge than modeling for me
Very much WIP mind you.
Graphicalgeek: His facial expression reads more like constipated rather then mad and/or evil. I would say to tackle the brow area to fix this. Use his eyebrows to show he's mad. That reads a lot better then trying to convey said emotion through his mouth.
9Skulls: Really cool, but it's in dire need of some sort of shading. It's a tad too flat right now imho.
breakneck: Awesome work man! I would bring out the lighting here and there a bit, and maybe sharpen up a few areas, but pretty darn sweet none the less!
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456 tris
Finally got it unwraped. That took longer than expected. I've just blocked out the major color groups here and done a little detailing on the head and wheel. I expect these areas and the back fins to be the most difficult. For paint I'm thinking of a nice teal and dark brown (to match my rider's scarf and pants)
Here's another picture of her with updated colors:
Edit: Crits are ALWAYS welcome!
And yes, those ARE sparkles in the rockets.
In Blender texture settings "premultiply" means what it means in compositing: color channels are multiplied by alpha channel so that result is black pixel when there is full transparency and original color when there is none. Some software (and some alpha blending shaders, at least in Unity) like their texture data unpremultiplied and some like it premultiplied. Blender itself can render both premultiplied and unpremultiplied images (latter is called "straight alpha"). When color correcting edges in compositing the image is usually unpremultiplied so that edge color data has full luminance values so it doesn't get unwanted tints.
Usually these things don't matter (unless compositing) but from time to time they might. Unwanted black/grey fringes around transparent edges usually result from premultiplied texture when such was not expected.
made for this contest
@Tom Pritchard Wow man that is looking brilliant. Decals and all sorts of trash around the place would make this look so cool!
@Graphicalgeek As RAWTalent said: you should try to work on his expression a bit more since it doesn't quite send those mad scientist vibes yet :poly122:
@Maph Pixelart, hooray! Looks great! Some parts of his body seem to "disappear" to the bg so I'd maybe work on the outline some more.
@gibson543 What's it going to be, some sort of toy tank? What is your texture resolution there? It does look a bit too high res for such simple model.
@Tigerfeet It's nice to hear from you again! Your texture is coming along nicely. That pure black I'm seeing on the tire looks a bit rough to my eyes. Maybe a less darker color, say, 8590% black would work just a bit better? Also it'd look wicked to see that thruster flame wobble in the wind, you know, like a powerfull burst of flame from flamethrower etc! That is ofcourse only if you were to animate the thing.
@Snader Now make it 'splode in pixelated fashion! :poly127:
@hevonen Kiittos! I think I got a better grasp of how to use it properly now.
@paradise.engineering That's really nice! The house model looks great and I really like the fluffyness of the trees lol. Somehow the house texture feels a bit flat, maybe add more contrast to the colors? Also I'd make the ground like a big round table and not a square plane like it is now. For me that sharp edge between the edge of the ground and sky is a big turnoff :F Great job anyways!
Especially got excited of those schweet bikes but I'm more into old muscle cars so I started to do really low polied muscle beast. I'd like to make pixel styled texture but haven't got pleasing result sofar. Tips are appreciated, in the meanwhile here's the mesh. No fancy turntables, so I just copied the car, tricount is 546 with the wheels included.
Also, cool to see other finns here aswell :poly142:
Anyhoos, uvw mapping is not the problem indeed. Mostly it's the final result of the texture that doesn't please me.
Will try to make new texture and will also reduce wheels polycount.
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forgot to say, this is 1968 Mustang. 69 is looking more aggressive and wider
Everything in my Maya UV editor seems to be half a pixel off when rendered. You'll notice in the screenshot that to get the treads aligned up and down I had to drag the UVs into the middle of a pixel. If you look at where the tread wraps around onto the side of the tire too you'll see it's perfectly aligned in the UV editor but in the render the pixel is bent in half
shading > hardware texturing > texture filter: unfiltered
That'll give you a more accurate texture view in the viewport then what it looks like you're getting. Not sure on the UV problems though.
turn that off, if you need a texture to repeat use repeat manually
that wont fix the repeats on render
however those features help with pixel placement and visualization, so here are the rest of the Maya features to turn off filtering
finally got around to texture my biker
@Tigerfeet The problem is definatelly with your filter settings. It seems like the filter system you are using is not calculating the pixel alignment proprely thus flipping dem around however it pleases :f
Redoing the forest track, coming out MUCH better now that I (sort of) know what im doing.
But I'm sorry for my repeated derailings of the thread. PolyHertz The viewport texture filtering was something I was looking for, so thank you very much for that!
Zoid, I'm afraid it didn't work. I DID have Wrap U and V selected, but unselecting them and taking another render had no effect. (I also reloaded the texture, restarted Maya, and clicked on and off all the options I could.)
Here's another screenshot, this time with my UVs lined up 'properly' in the UV window and in the viewport. But in the render it doesn't look like I lined things up at all.
I'm thinking, if you don't have an insight I might just translate the frame enough that the weird offset issues aren't happening anymore.
Also 9skulls, thanks for the tip on the treads. I wasn't sure about coming up off full black that I'd be able to have enough contrast, but I quite like how it's turning out.
here's a paintover
Also, that circled turquoise area is happening becuase you painted RIGHT at the UV edge. When the texture gets resized or is just rendered on the mesh, sometimes the edges bleed over. Since your background is a neutral grey, that's what's picked up at the seam of your tire. Painting like 3-5 pixels outside the UV seam is called a bleed area to keep this from happening. Hope this helps dude
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<shrug> it works for me for some reason. you can see how the cap on the bottom even goes gray as its UV are out of the 0-1 range
the only other option I can think of is to remind you to use x² textures as maya seems to filter them (badly) automatically if it is not.
I like the second one with the thinner lines on the roof and with the line going down the middle of the roof. My partner likes the first one.
woah no wait, check this out
wow, never seen that happen actually. I'm going to investigate
VPrime, if you want a cartoony look you can do it with either of those lining schemes. What I'd do is I'd mess with the models and make sure the walls are neither plum nor true. Selecting the verticies on the base and scaling them in a bit would add a lot of character to what is now pretty much just a box with a triangle on top. A cartoony style usually has brighter colors too. The texturing on them feels a little drab and maybe too realistic if cartoony is what you're shooting for.
Or its not.
1) maya doesn't seem to "pixel"render textures that are really small (< 16 pixel) too perfectly for low poly looks
2) Don't do something like X:Y proportions. Try to be 1:1 with your sheet. (at worst 2:1)
3) always use x² don't use a 30X26
128 x 32
32 x 32
the "wrap" feature will still cause issues, so you will need to turn it off
pretty sure I recall these issues before Autodesk acquired Maya, a friend of mine mentioned don't use anything under 16x16 for render
Personally I am mor of a fan of the old textures, but my partner on the game really likes it.
Very slick! The rider might be too similar to the bike, as it's hard to define where one ends and the other begins, unless that is what you are going for?