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Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
I had a sudden thought this weekend and solved three unrelated workflow annoyances. 😄 First one: Sometimes I sink edge loops of clothing to create the appearance of invisible seams. My usual approach involved manually prepping the mesh in Marvelous Designer with extra edge loops, exporting an unwelded mesh and manually… -
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I had my computer go down for maintenance nearly every other month last year. Turns out a RAM stick was bad. And the GPU VRAM was also glitching. And a HD started to fail while another imploded. The mobo is also suspicious. Wonderful times. After RMAs and tweaking to stabilize it so it could limp ahead for a little longer… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
An interlude to the interlude: I got Unreal Engine up and running in the new computer and found... not the latest version of the character project, but almost it. The initial imports are mostly to try and sync the colors I get in Blender with how they look in Unreal. UE is way too aggressive with the contrast and what's a… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
Thank you, good catch! I used to be more attentive when reviewing messages. 😆 ------ Tiny update just to say there's one! I scratched a hair alpha directly in Blender with a mouse and no stabilizer to better understand the type, scale and amount of variants I need for each type of hair layer. Looks better than I expected,… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
Tiny update. Still making progress on the cards, but in the meanwhile that fur breakdown thread got me having silly ideas. Many unknowns, I'll only be sure it works when I get it into an engine, but I'm wondering about what vertex color is normally used for in creatures and clothing, because I got some interesting and easy… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
Yes! How aggressive it is depends on the level, a bit like how the alpha is automatically generated by level too. Keeping lower levels more opaque looks better in general, and helps to hide the frizz, it's the tips which are problematic, so they got a heavier alpha subtraction by fresnel. This is how I'm adjusting the… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
To kickstart the thread, a sketch from a while back. It's fanart from an old anime, Lodoss. Dynotopo sculpt from scratch in Blender, I used it to figure out how to use curves for hair for this kind of clay bust, also to come up with a quick and flexible way to setup the base material so these busts look pretty. Blender… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
Minor update on the fins and shells furballs. It's likely the last one before I wrap up the hair cards system because I'm getting way too sidetracked. They're so fun! I really like the look of the fur, it's so fluffy I want to pet it. I managed to further improve their look, but they still have the obvious fins and shells… -
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This looks awesome. Are you using the fresnel term to fade out alpha for triangles that are approaching being edge-on to the camera? -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
I don't expect to go beyond one automatic layer deep (if any!) in most cases and I'll only know how bad it gets inside an engine when I cross the bridge into real time hair, but is there anything I can do to alleviate the issue when authoring a hairstyle? According to…
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