Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Crest
greentooth
Hello everyone, I would like to show the breakdown on my Witch Doctor Crest. The next few posts to this thread will be a walk through of how I achieved it. First, here are the final renders:
Side-by-side with the 2D art - yes this is the spray from HotS
Side-by-side with the 2D art - yes this is the spray from HotS
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Here is a single card with a feather texture and alpha applied. It has been lit from in front as well as from behind to test translucency of the material
You can see in the picture below how I can retain the hard sharp shapes and still be able to add detail like wood rings and chipped bone.
A quick break down on how that was done:
Marvelous Designer exports their .obj's tessimated. I wanted a nice smooth quad-based topology so I exported two things from MD: The final rendered sheet and the pattern from which the sheet was made from.
To do that:
1.) Right click on your rendered cloth -> Reset 2-D Arrangement
2.) Export obj selected with the following settings checked: Single Object, Unwelded, and Thin
In Maya:
1.) Import both your flat pattern and your rendered cloth
This is the best part! When you import your flat pattern, when you open the UV editor you can see that your UVs are practically made!!
2.) You can go ahead and go one of two ways: go into zbrush and zremesh or just bust out the quad draw and trace over your flat pattern to get your toplogy right. This creates the base low poly object. In my case, I used the Add Divisions option in Maya to give me a better resolution
3.) Select your imported pattern mesh and then select your low poly object as well. Mesh -> Transfer attributes
Now your information from your MD pattern is right on your low poly mesh. However you're not done yet. We need to transfer the vertex position of our floppy sheet onto or low poly sheet. To do that, change the settings of the Transfer Attributes window again:
4.) Select your floppy sheet, and then select your low poly sheet and click Apply.
BAM!
Now I can make a sweet and glorious tattered alpha pattern and slap that baby onto my flag!
Here are a couple tutorial videos on the process:
Yeah no.
And that's it! I did a side-by-side comparison and made some small tweaks in shape and silohuette. I'm not 100% satisfied with how the materials are reading but I'm really hoping that this will do better once it comes out of the texturing process.
Thank you for reading and learning with me and giving me an excuse to not retopo by making this walkthrough instead
Texturing in progress - it's the bane of my existence. I was never good at color theory but I'm giving it my 110% I am pushing for a stylized look so I'm minimizing use of roughness and maximizing AO, curvature and diffusion
I certainly have room on a feathers card to try it ! I'm currently sticking with the concept which is pretty symmetrical for the most part but I don't see the harm in adding some details as you suggested