i've learned from working on Exanima that it could be an absolute nightmare if character customization, particularly armour layering, isn't properly planned out before making a bunch of assets for. I definitely won't be doing armour layering that's for sure, we'll just replace body parts with different pieces of…
Was hoping I'd be 100% complete with the retopo, but there's still a few small bits to complete. Bake coming next week. I haven't made lowpolys of the swamp abyssals yet, so that might come after, or I'll start work on the arboreal vampires. Total tris coming in at 83,353. Have a great week!
Returning to the default iron automaton colour scheme, more polish work. Definitely getting there, this model will be done soonish. I'm still undecided on whether or not to make a female mesh; iron automatons simply don't have genders unlike the other races. Have a great week!
I've decided to not use the Zsphere veins that I made last week. While it was a good learning exercise, the results of mesh projection simply left too much clean up work to be worthwhile. As the human basemeshes are in a good spot, I'm revisiting older work; the vampires, and applying the anatomical skills I've been…
As this is the last Thursday of the year, here is this week's update as well as the annual summary of 2025 for Project Nova. For this week I continued work on the male swamp abyssal. Project Nova Annual Summary, 3rd year of Development Jan- Feb: Changed the infested race to a more bestial infested race code named 'Blood…
Female version in an okay spot. I'm thinking I should bump every race up one subdiv level, running out of mesh density in some areas, but I use that as a sign that I may be too detail intensive. Will probably lower the amount of granular detail across the board sometime in the future. Painting will definitely help visually…
Modular veins seem to be working well so far. Needs some cleanup and blending work (frame#3) but that will be part of the final polishing step. Have a great week!
The vein map looks really cool, and the attention you pay to anatomy is truly impressive. You're doing everything right here, as it's the foundation of the entire project. Any improvements will always have a positive impact on the overall result. I can see the progress from the first iteration to the current one—you've…