The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Awesome tutorial from DW 4 winner!
polycounter lvl 16
AWESOME MakingOf from DV 4 winner you guys can find here http://slipgatecentral.livejournal.com/25838.html?mode=reply
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Wonder what that final segment is rendered with, looks to clean to be marmoset, maybe prerendred mentalray?
Awesome awesome find!
if only people could make games where every asset is that quality
Vimeo will keep those original videos for one week. Register and download the source files in the bottom right corner.
...and I’m still waiting for Cg Academy promised game workflow tutorial DVD from Rawkstar back in 2006...
Wish the subtitles were slower though, i have to pause the vid on the long ones.
I think the most impressive thing is how he does stuff like retopo in tris without any special tools, regardless of how much difficult it is. I guess that just proves how badass he really is.
Sick video though.
Um it kinda does work the same way...just create an array if you want several objects layed out over it.
Amazing video. Im even more awed at the entry now.
Someone should make a really indepth video tutorial on marmoset...looks like theres tons of buttons and sliders in there.
like FFD but w/warping to geo?
Although it's funny to me how many 'lazy' tricks work so well for the design. -The copy/smooth/make selection/delete inverse/extrude all over the place. I guess really solid planning and topology on the base models really make those flow well.
use skin wrap and a nurbs cv surface.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/skinwrap.jpg
btw skin wrap is awesome to simplify cloth physics, by doing it on a simple peice of geometry then skin wrap your high to the low.
Like, I've had a head model with a good set of blendshapes (morph targets in max). I've made a very simple face mask model and wrapped it on top of that head, then created blendshapes for it.
Then for new heads I've created another shape that morphed the original face mask to fit the new face. Then I wrapped the new head to the face mask and created a raw set of blendshapes using the face mask... it has worked surprisingly well.
So it was a two stage thing:
1. original face -> lowres generic face mask
now fit the face mask to the new face, then
2. lowres face mask -> new face
And it was fairly easy to perform some quick tweaks to the new blendshapes while the head was wraped to the generic face mask, as there were only a few vertices to edit.
I got the idea from MGS4 by the way, see here:
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/customer_stories/metal_gear_4/default.aspx
although my mesh is a little more detailed and it's a single part covering mouth, eyes, jaw and brow.
But there are many other uses for skin wrap too. It's faster then Maya's wrap, has more parameters too, but sometimes it's harder to control the deformations...
They are FLVs.
Man, i love watching this type of thing!
As nezach rightly said. they are .FLV's.
I use FLV Player to view them offline and its the best i have seen so far.
When you combine it with the Combined Community Codec Pack and Media Player Classic, you are good to go with just about anything really
wrap not warp and in max its called skinwrap
whoops has already been said, damnit should read further before posting
Also the settings you choose determine how well it deforms (if at all).
In both apps you don't need to worry about NURBS, the video is his specific workflow - the Wrap deformer in Maya and Skin Wrap in Max both work perfectly fine with regular polygon meshes...
Maya's Wrap deformer has only a few options to mess around with so it's usually easy to get a solution working quickly - in Max I've often had to fiddle with settings a lot just to get it deforming nicely.
its mega pimp though already his thumbnails in the beginning were super awesome ! each and everyone of them could carry a game as a hero or enemy archetype
You can get from Highend3d
It's pretty much like Max's "Spacing Tool", except it keeps the connections to the curve afterward, so you can move the curve around and the objects follow it. More like Max's "Path Deform WSM" modifier, except that it doesn't actually deform the objects, just orients them to the path. So it's kinda like a halfway house, but it's pretty good.
Also as said use a nurbs surface. Its in the nurbs drop down in the create panel.