๐งต /wip/ - Works In Progress
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:37:47 UTC No. 958680
/wip/ - Works In Progress - SOULLESS Edition
Yes the hobbit hole isn't the original one but I asked for it and no one gave it to me, get fucked.
Anyway!
Post your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.
Previous thread: >>936854
List of free resources: https://pastebin.com/cZLVnNtB (embed)
/3/ Discord: https://discord.gg/ujt5vtr4DE
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:39:06 UTC No. 958681
Activity has been slowing down considerably recently. Don't tell me everyone is using the trannycord server
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:31:13 UTC No. 958685
I'll try to upload something this evening
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:25:12 UTC No. 958686
>>958680
bump for new invite link
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:10:24 UTC No. 958710
>>958686
Do you want an invite to discord?
Only troons there
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:12:59 UTC No. 958733
>>958728
Is this porn?
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:19:36 UTC No. 958734
>>958733
Yeah. Does it have "the look"?
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:35:51 UTC No. 958736
>>958734
Not that anon but she looks like she's gonna suck my cock inside out
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:15:50 UTC No. 958748
>>958746
how did you do the leather deformation/twisting?
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:28:14 UTC No. 958749
>>958748
made the base in maya, exported to zbrush to deform it a bit, exported back to maya and did retopo. (Take the cube, extrude it, add few loops, scale down every second one, ad few support loops here and there, do one subdivision to get the organic look -> touch it up a bit with sculpting -> retopo)
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:24:33 UTC No. 958756
>>958680
>/3/ Discord: https://discord.gg/gbYCEBPuK2
fix'd.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:25:04 UTC No. 958757
>>958681
that discord is dead, the new one is above.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:25:35 UTC No. 958758
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:26:15 UTC No. 958759
>>958710
said the incel who willing to get fucked by White old men.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:44:12 UTC No. 958795
>>958746
Damn that's awesome, great subject choice and artistic execution, this is gonna look mighty fine in your portfolio
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:53:05 UTC No. 958800
>>958799
I hope that shader won't be in the final build.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:46:49 UTC No. 958807
>>958799
This looks cool, what did you make it in anon? *nity? Godot? Unreal?
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:47:49 UTC No. 958808
>>958731
Nothing wrong with that, they're cool objects, Anon.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:24:18 UTC No. 958814
>>958808
T-thank you anon kun
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:02:04 UTC No. 958818
So I'm getting back into blender after drawing for the last 5 or so years. What I'm trying to do is build 3 main body types and use them modularly. My goal is a more simplified type models is it a good idea to make the model anatomically correct then simplify/stylize it? All the tutorials I see are modeling stylized characters but I really don't like the results. The designs don't translate well imo.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:25:41 UTC No. 958827
>>958818
Yeah I'm doing basemeshes for my characters too, finished the one for my males. I find it more advisable to only do 1 basemesh per gender but if you're feeling confident you can do 3, I just don't recommend it as I find it unlikely you'll be using all of them, chances are you may use all 3 in the beginning but then end up favouring only one of them. A lot of wasted work if you ask me, I've been there, not only that but if you're gonna make clothes as well you'll have to refit them for each body type! Trust me, just do only one basemesh for your males and only one for your females, Bethesda style, but hey you do you I ain't your boss.
>stylized
To me the issue isn't so much that they're stylized as it's that the proportions are all over the place. I found my older basemeshes were inadequate due to their hands, feet, heads, arm, torso and leg had all unrealistic dimensions. You ("you" in general, not you specifically anon) can do stylized but that shouldn't be an excuse for shitty anatomy, the most important thing is for all the body parts to have realistic proportions
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:54:32 UTC No. 958834
>>958827
I'm thinking of wildly differing body types like small/medium/large I just don't see how one base mesh can be manipulated to all desired proportions. This is for animation not for a game I have no desire try that again, Jesus.
>I found my older basemeshes were inadequate due to their hands, feet, heads, arm, torso and leg had all unrealistic dimensions.
This is what I'm trying to avoid by creating catch all models I can manipulate down the line to fit renditions of original and existing characters without having to go back and remodel from scratch every time.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:25:09 UTC No. 958840
>>958799
The video is damaged
I accidently left the video
in my bluejeans. I headed down town to get my bluejeans dry cleaned . I had forgotten I had saved the file inside the small coin pocket within the standard pocket on my bluejeans front Leftside
this is a mix up. No voodoo, no bullcrap. Im not into that crap
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:48:43 UTC No. 958842
>>958807
unity . its great to see the company men going after their fair share, their slice of the pie. About time they all start earning a decent wage. makes me proud to be so close, almost friends with the higher ups ever since istarted to make video game inside the Unity engine.
man id shoot myself if I had to moderate the unity forums for 1 god dam day and these men having been fighting in those trenches for years.. after the company makes one of the most well-calculated business decisions I've ever been so close to witness in my life, I'm struck with this overwhelming pride, in my position as an active user of unity techlogy, Im really getting to know these guys. my test to earn there respect was becoming a kick ass , all around crazy good game developer. and its like, im close friends with those guys at this point, we're in the same pond me and those guys
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:01:07 UTC No. 958845
>>958842
your video looks obscene, in a bad way, though?
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:19:39 UTC No. 958847
>>958846
like, no offense my man but i think you should focus on getting a better technical result (since that is what we are going for here) in unreal engine than making low effort stuff in unity engine
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:47:42 UTC No. 958849
>>958842
What the fuck are you talking about
Is this AI text
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:49:33 UTC No. 958850
>>958847
man I cant do this anymore... here., listen its about time I just come clean. I owe it to the community
i tried to be a rockstar with my video- all of my lies about being best friends with the guys inside Unity headquarters . none of that was true...
the truth is that im not kick ass , all around crazy good game developer that I said I was. I lied about all of that. im not even on the map. You weren't having connection issues earlier , the site is fine... that was a lie .
what the hell im doing man
i got owned, face plant. done- humiliated within just 30 posts of the brand new W.I.P. thread on live TV
im ruined
square one. along the straight and narrow this time, no more lies
if you need me, I'll be in the cris general
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:19:35 UTC No. 958851
>>958795
thanks anon :)
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:26:07 UTC No. 958865
>>958864
the muscles look really unnatural
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:42:43 UTC No. 958867
>>958864
yea, its a good start, but you still have much more to learn.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:39:40 UTC No. 958878
>>958864
think of the serratus like a hand print that tucks under the lats. It hits 9 ribs but you can only see 4 and a half. Everything originates from under the shoulder blade and wraps around to the front into the the obliques.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:54:23 UTC No. 958880
>>958850
you're great, don't let anyone tell you otherwise
post more animation stuff, I love to see it
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:13:13 UTC No. 958882
>>958864
Too early to tell, put in more work then we'll tell you
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:30:03 UTC No. 958891
>>958878
Thanks
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:31:04 UTC No. 958892
>>958867
Thanks to you too. I'll keep at it.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:38:36 UTC No. 958894
>>958878
you only see the serratus on people that incredibly thin and or cut
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:46:00 UTC No. 958895
>>958759
Shh troon, you are never going to be a woman
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:07:58 UTC No. 958899
>>958894
That isn't entirely true. Someone with and average build can have a visible serratus but you won't be able to see the lacing of the obliques while the eye will be drawn to the isolated more pronounced hand print formation.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:15:43 UTC No. 958900
>>958898
the grass looks fake.
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:20:11 UTC No. 958902
>>958900
It is
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:40:49 UTC No. 958913
Changed the grip on the carrier and added some stamps/proofmarks (that you can't see) as well as some other things a kind anon suggested. I went fucking mental with that eraser to make the NFPA diamond look battered. I've never been good at picking the render settings so they always come out like shit.
I just wanted to try SP really. There's also parts that look worse because of my garbage unwrapping. Got filtered by the gauge so I ended up leaving it too.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:01:05 UTC No. 958917
>>958902
It looks fake mate. Stop it with the sarcasm or you will never improve past 90s renders.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:24:32 UTC No. 958918
>>958895
And you'll never get laid,
nor be in a military,
nor in office,
nor rich,
nor powerful,
you'll always be impotent for all eternity.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:29:49 UTC No. 958934
>>958799
>>958842
>>958846
based schizomaxxer
i remember when people were mistaking you for world4jack
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:55:47 UTC No. 958941
>>958900
it has to be fake. there isno way to send real grass on the tv screen yet
>>958934
this time is real the other guy was a crisis actor
i am the real jack
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:33:05 UTC No. 958945
>>958941
haha i love this little guy
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:47:27 UTC No. 958959
>>958910
combinations of grunge textures and dirt + edge wear generators with masks (concrete crack alphas for the edges) and tree bark alpha masks to give it that worn leather wear
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:05:34 UTC No. 958960
>>958941
>it has to be fake. there isno way to send real grass on the tv screen yet
mate...it _looks_ fake. It doesn't look even photoreal. You did a bad job with the grass.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:07:09 UTC No. 958962
>>958960
to add on to this, you want photoreal looking grass? Look at the op pic.
>>958680
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:34:06 UTC No. 958968
>>958962
That's a photograph though
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:44:40 UTC No. 958969
>>958968
mate that _is_ real grass. I said this :
>the grass looks fake.
it looks like fake grass. Know the difference and stop posting low quality crap you made in 2 minutes in blendur like its the next hot shit
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:23:06 UTC No. 958973
>>958918
Don't forget to dilate that hole
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:13:20 UTC No. 958993
>>958680
What music does /wip/ listen to to fuel their creative sessions?
For me it's russian orthodox death metal, song is Batushka - Litourgiya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgf
If you're gonna share music I highly suggest to not put just a link but to specify at least genre, artist and song name; whenever people share just a link in other boards' treads I just gloss over them because the chances of clicking a link for nothing are amplified, at least if the poster says beforehand what their link is about one can more easily engage with it or ignore it altogether instead of clicking only to find out it's shit to them
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:19:37 UTC No. 958994
>>958993
Might as well post just the headphones too. They're more heavy than I liked at 700 faces, a bit too much but going lower that just makes it look shit so I won't. Besides, headphones are not seen very often so they're not a high use prop, thanks to their rarity they can afford to be a bit geometrically heavier
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:44:52 UTC No. 958998
>>958799
jack, meds now! keep it up tho, dont listen to the haters
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:51:12 UTC No. 958999
>>958959
>tree bark alpha masks to give it that worn leather wear
Neat. Nice job thinking outside of the box like that.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:20:40 UTC No. 959005
>>959000
>Show me how you would do it
Not that anon but this is where the line is drawn between genuine criticism and a crab. Let's see which that guy is
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:08:49 UTC No. 959022
>>959000
it looks better (honestly anything would look better than the first one), but it still looks like astroturf.
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:48:13 UTC No. 959084
Redpill me on Blender's Alpha modes anon kun.
I'm trying to make some very simple game-ready water, so just a scrolling texture with transparency. This setup in pic rel does what I need it to but I heard my computer working quite a lot just to render like 3-4 water planes. Am I doing something wrong? My Material settings are:
- Blend Mode = Alpha Blend
- Shadow Mode = None.
I'm just surprised to hear my computer struggling over what seem like such light settings, there aren't even shadows involved for crying out loud
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:44:28 UTC No. 959089
>>959084
This isnt blender general. Delete your post
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:31:03 UTC No. 959097
>>959084
I'm pretty sure the game approach would be just to have a single plane (or more detailed water mesh) with a shader on it scrolling and distorting a normal map
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:39:26 UTC No. 959128
I don't know much or anything about sculpting and I'll redo the hands from scratch. Does anyone know or have any tips about modeling cotton, drapey clothes, and hair as in the pic referenced?
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:19:01 UTC No. 959150
>too retard for UV mapping
>can't handpainted texture
how do i cope
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:20:44 UTC No. 959178
>>959039
Looks rubbery, you need to make it crease.
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:43:29 UTC No. 959192
>>959150
how the fuck am I supposed to pelt this but keeping texture continuity?
are my seems to simple for the job?
also it take forever for peel mode & I have 3080ti, starting to suspect peeling doesnt support gpu
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:00:35 UTC No. 959194
can't believe i need 30 minutes to make crescent moon, i really need to learn a lot of tool
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:48:24 UTC No. 959196
>>959048
Very cool! How did you create the outline?
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:52:38 UTC No. 959198
>>958734
I wouldn't say so. If it had "the look", it would have looked more feminine, had way more detail and way more glossy/shiny.
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:36:58 UTC No. 959205
>>959204
* the muscles stick through the skin
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:42:58 UTC No. 959207
>>959192
I finally found someone who uses 3ds Max.
Lately I only see Blender users in this piece of shit!
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:47:43 UTC No. 959208
>>959192
The basic theory of UV unwrapping is that you have to view it like cutting a paper doll with scissors: the paper doll is your model while the scissors are the UV seams.
When it comes to texturing, what 3D software does is flattening your model so that it may PROJECT an image texture onto your 3D model, and it will do it regardless of how well you cut your paper doll: if you cut the paper doll making it so it can be spread nicely and flatly on your table, then the image will look not distorted; but if you didn't cut your paper properly, then the software will do the equivalent of squashing and bending your 3D model and flattening it that way in order to project the image texture, needless to say this way the projected image texture will look distorted as hell.
As for your model, personally I almost never use the Subdivision Surface modifier, but I'm pretty sure it affects UV unwrapping in its own way. Look up on Google what common issues UV unwrapping a model with Subdivision Surface there are and how to fix them, I'd help you myself but I'm very inexperienced with Subdivision Surface. Maybe another anon can help you there.
What I can say is that you definitely need to add more cuts to your model, I'll show you how I'd do it with a screenshot
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:57:45 UTC No. 959211
>>959208
UV continuity is overrated if you ask me. Your number 1 priority in UV unwrapping is making those islands nice and flat, number 2 priority is hiding seams. As a beginner you can 100% afford to make a shitload of cuts to flatten those islands, you'll get better with practice but first you gotta wrap (heh) your head around this stuff on a purely conceptual level
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:04:14 UTC No. 959212
>>959208
ye I know the basics I guess
>>959211
no idea how texture continuity is impossible for semi complex objects to this day
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:14:38 UTC No. 959214
>>959212
You know what let me jump into Blender real quick and show you how I did it personally
>no idea how texture continuity is impossible for semi complex objects to this day
Don't worry about it man it's not important, it's one of those things you'll get better at over time
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:18:21 UTC No. 959216
>>959214
Also you'd want texture continuity only for things that warrant it, chairs aren't really among them because they are made up of multiple pieces, they are NOT one single object, there are exceptions like those single-piece plastic chairs but most chairs are not like that. What kind of chair are you trying to make? Are you using a reference? Can I see it?
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:30:57 UTC No. 959220
>>959218
>out of memory
Bad idea, always use references bro, good referencing is half the work when doing models, without a good reference most models will look like ass
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:39:32 UTC No. 959221
>>959220
ye I know, I just came back from a year hiatus & usually I do lowpoly stuff & was wondering how it's higher poly
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:40:26 UTC No. 959222
>>959207
I was a 3ds max user too, back when they added the ribbon ui and iray. Had some great features I'd love to see in blender, but overall I've become full blendlet. Sorry bruh
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:56:19 UTC No. 959223
>>959222
I know the quality of Blender and the ease of modeling, but currently I use 3ds max because of the corona render and some job openings that always ask for 3ds max as a base.
I'm trying to live in 3D, so I opted for 3ds to try to fit in better with everything.
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:27:37 UTC No. 959224
>>959218
how do I make the leather conform to the wooden seat by the way?
tried cloth but it doesnt conform if it's already geometries already overlap
is ProBoolean the only way? cuz I really dont wanna use that
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:06:24 UTC No. 959243
>>959225
get some references of bats and gargoyles
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:24:41 UTC No. 959245
>>959225
What's the matter? I see nothing wrong about this, in fact it's a pretty cool model, bats and gargoyles are cool and you did those things justice
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:35:32 UTC No. 959246
Can anyone tell me to how use stencils in substance, but to color them? I don't mean like when you do stickers and things I mean more like if you have a text that you want be, for instance, blue. I know you could do it the same sort of way as you do stickers and things, but what if you want to change that blue to a red to see how it looks? There must be an easy way to do it without having to make a new stencil every time.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 02:00:59 UTC No. 959259
>>958985
>>959225
it looks cool
you obviously dont have a texture yet so maybe try using a material thats close to the colour of his skin?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:31:54 UTC No. 959273
>>959264
I wish there was a more efficient way. If I may ask, what's the poly count?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:12:57 UTC No. 959312
>>959264
Try taking specularity and reflections off your eyelash texture. Make it matt black
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:38:16 UTC No. 959323
>>959321
Very expressive and impressive! Could you please show us the wire frame of the model?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:44:58 UTC No. 959340
>>959332
Thanks!
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:03:58 UTC No. 959342
>>959332
the topology is horrible
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:09:10 UTC No. 959344
>>959342
Yeah it's just what zremesher pooped out. Given the character's design I don't think it's going to cause problems. I don't like how the mouth came out especially even though I used control painting it ignorned it and just did w/e
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:09:29 UTC No. 959345
>>959342
It could be better, but its perfectly fine for what its used for.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:41:32 UTC No. 959357
Painted some maps to further tighten up and suck in areas of the skin. Changed renderers. Getting some high frequency noise in the mesh even with a relatively high amount of substeps (3)...hmmm......
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:11:28 UTC No. 959359
Anyone have any blender add-ons they like? I've been looking at a few like riggify, Bpainter, retopoflow. I'm more worried about rigging and uvmaps/texturepainting as that's always where I had hangups.
>>959357
Isn't shape keys better for this type of thing?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:17:29 UTC No. 959360
>>959359
>Isn't shape keys better for this type of thing?
I'm trying to do build and sim believable muscle rigs, like Avatar.
I have to find out why I'm getting this noise on the mesh and why my edges keep showing up hardened in the render.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:21:53 UTC No. 959361
>>959322
you could have a monochrome mask for the "highlights" and then color both individually
>>959360
>why I'm getting this noise
maybe some weights fight each other or something like that? I don't know how your sim works
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:27:43 UTC No. 959362
>>959360
Will you be using it for animations or some sort of simulation? I want to know the payoff more so to learn use cases more than any sort of critique.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:31:18 UTC No. 959364
>>959362
animation.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:37:53 UTC No. 959370
>>959369
have a reference for what your end goal is? Unless you NEED it you could make it less baby by making it more top heavy. Bigg chest, broad shoulder, narrow hips and thinner thighs. Like a muscular man but tiny.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:40:12 UTC No. 959371
>>959370
I have a sketch, but making her cute yet adult is the hard part; I was thinking somewhere in the 3-head portion while going on the vein of Viewtiful Joe/ Wonderful 101.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:10:31 UTC No. 959377
>>959373
yeah, like that.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:12:31 UTC No. 959379
Spitballed hair and changed their static facial expression to see how much personality i can get out of what ive made so far. I can make some surprising faces from mixing what I did.
Each ghost should have their own face for wandering, chasing, and fleeing. Then they make a face when they see you, either to begin chasing you or running away. Those could be unique too.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:58:33 UTC No. 959384
>>959379
I have to be honest and you may hate me for this but Please listen. I am not getting ghost vibes from these. You cant even see through them. They appear to be moving ontop of a ball instead of flying.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 03:25:54 UTC No. 959385
>>959384
Yeah they're gonna be moving on top of some balls if you know what I mean
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 04:18:04 UTC No. 959386
>>959321
They have cunt and asses on them, do they?
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 04:28:11 UTC No. 959387
>>959384
Ok i dont mean that theyre the manifested spirits of the dead. I mean their function as the bad guys from pacman. I wanted to make characters that look like this and i have contrived an excuse for them to be that way.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 07:34:20 UTC No. 959391
>>959356
Thank you very much. I suppose you're right. It's much more reliable and versatile than using the grease pencil or freestyle. It just works. Also, I really like your model!
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 10:48:14 UTC No. 959396
>>959389
That doesn't mean you can't give the model materials.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:15:58 UTC No. 959403
>>959402
I had no intention to bully. I am sorry if it came off that way. I really like your model.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:43:16 UTC No. 959409
>>959403
thank you
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:43:37 UTC No. 959410
>>959342
>>959344
honestly I think the topo is fine. I've spent a lot of time on perfecting topology, and I really think that it could have been better spent on improving my sculpting and texturing, as nobody actually sees the wireframe in the end.
>>959379
I think they're looking great! - though I get what >>959384 means, I'd definitely try adding a scrolling displacement texture or two, on a second UVmap so it can be controlled manually, it could get some subtle waves and wobbles to affect the silhouette and bottom skirt(?)
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:50:20 UTC No. 959411
>>959409
You're welcome. I really like the color scheme.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:00:22 UTC No. 959412
>>959411
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIF
watch pretty cure
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:15:37 UTC No. 959413
>>959410
>as nobody actually sees the wireframe in the end.
Mate... I am cringing. Topology only becomes less relevant for static, non animated objects, NOT faces of all things.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:23:15 UTC No. 959416
>>959412
Now that I see the source material, your render looks washed out. Have you tried changing the Color Management settings?
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:29:19 UTC No. 959417
>>959416
>Have you tried changing the Color Management settings?
how? i only know how to model
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:33:11 UTC No. 959418
>>959413
there's no need for that, I actually agree with you, but that anon's ghost model has perfectly serviceable topo for facial animation. See >>959321 it sounds like you thought I meant topology isn't important at all.
Sure you could spend hours remaking the whole thing for immaculate deformation, but the end result will look exactly the same to the average player.
I just don't think the time and effort required is worth it for such a borderline unnoticeable improvement.
If you're making a game all by yourself it's so easy to get trapped with using your time on things with the least importance.
I speak from experience...
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:34:58 UTC No. 959420
>>959418
please, no more slop. Do not promote slop
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:41:29 UTC No. 959421
>>959420
please, tell me what you mean by that.
Do you think I'm encouraging fucking garten of banban-tier quality?
It's obvious anon's making something out of passion, and understands that "good enough" doesn't equate to a raw sculpt with 8million tris
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:53:56 UTC No. 959423
>>959421
Stop promoting zremesher for facial topology. You are making a fool out of yourself.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:02:08 UTC No. 959427
>>959424
You're welcome.
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:09:53 UTC No. 959428
>>959400
good stuff, though I kinda like the bigger shoulders even if it wasn't what you were going for. you plan to rig that?
>>959423
and you are being an ass who keeps spouting claims without any kind of explanation, nobody will take your opinions seriously if you're not going to elaborate.
Or just keep parroting things you heard from elsewhere it's up to you mate
Anonymous at Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:34:19 UTC No. 959430
>>959428
I am planning on rigging it after I model the other two alternate faces. Although the bigger shoulders do fit the character, I am trying to stay as close as I can to the animation model.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:02:20 UTC No. 959489
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:08:20 UTC No. 959490
>>959489
https://www.youtube.com/@mmcganimet
it's a timelapse, i watch it with 0.25x speed
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:15:14 UTC No. 959492
>>959490
thanks nibba, i hope i'm gmi like you
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:18:19 UTC No. 959493
>>959492
good luck
๐๏ธ Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:07:01 UTC No. 959497
I made a bunch of matcap and this one is by far the best.
My matcap is objectively superior to any matcap you are currently using.
If you are not working with a matcap like this you are handicapping yourself.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:08:45 UTC No. 959498
I made a bunch of matcaps and this one is by far the best.
My matcap is objectively superior to any matcap you are currently using.
If you are not working with a matcap like this you are handicapping yourself.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:12:47 UTC No. 959499
i don't know how to draw, i didn't learn anatomy, but i can make character with poly modeling, what are the chance i can make a good character sculpt?
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:49:50 UTC No. 959500
>>959499
Your chances are high and your future is bright. Do your best, anon!
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:55:34 UTC No. 959510
started the rigging process.
>>959391
Thanks!
>>959424
neat! i like the dress design.
>>959495
using a shrinkwrap modifier works just fine. but you could try retopoflow, or if you have an ipad, cozy blanket is an option. I've never tried the latter personally though, and i found retopoflow's performance to be lacking.
๐๏ธ Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:26:15 UTC No. 959512
how can i manipulate the torus to get that mouth shape to make shape keys with ? i am so stumped since proportional editing isnt working and the only method i can think of is rigging the torus but i have no clue about the bone placements
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:15:28 UTC No. 959531
>>959000
How big is this marble/how microscopic is this grass
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:22:36 UTC No. 959533
>>959498
matcap-sama...
I kneel
>>959503
start from scratch
cement the learning in your brain
every time I come back from a 6 month break I find it easier to regain the lost knowledge
it's obviously better to just keep practicing and improving constantly but that shit can be exhausting
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:27:00 UTC No. 959542
>>959423
Can you point out some specific issues with the facial topology of >>959332 instead of just saying "it's bad"?
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:44:28 UTC No. 959547
>>959541
I really love this design. Belly looks great, legs go all the way down. My only nitpick is that the place where the lioncloth connects to the belt looks strange. The contour with the belly is great though - maybe if the belt went all the way around with the white coming from underneath, or if the white cloth somehow looked to be draped over the belt?
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:56:25 UTC No. 959552
>>959357
you've improved a lot with this, but something about >>958694 really creeps me out. I'd love to see this technique used on a horror game monster, like an amorphous but vaguely humanoid creature - it would be great at amplifying the fear of the unknown, it would be difficult to pin down what it actually looks like since it has no definite form
just imagine that thing pursuing you in the dark using procedural animations to push against walls, grasp around corners and move around in horrific ways
I've not looked into baking simulations for use in engines, but I'd assume it ruins the effect if you're coupling them with procedural animation
>>959359
the addons I use mostly are:
textools for a couple of Quick UV features
bone manager and game rig tools for rigging
and a few that come with blender like looptools, extra objects, bsurfaces and node wrangler
rigify is too overwhelming for me, maybe I'll give it another go once I understand every nuance of its inner workings
retopoflow feels way too intrusive, I like some of the tools, but it really shits itself when you're already using one of its hotkeys, and the fact that it demands a whole mode really pisses me off, I use industry standard keymap and camera controls (alt+ mouse buttons) and retopoflow didn't take kindly to that for some reason, maybe it's different now but I've since learned to retop pretty quickly without its help
>bpainter
global brush and texture presets
why am I only just learning about this
I hate how blender works with brush presets, are there any addons that aren't 6 years old that just has that feature? I can't seem to find any other than bpainter
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:52:26 UTC No. 959565
>>959332
How is that bad topology? Explain or you're a salty crab
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:20:17 UTC No. 959570
>>958728
damn i wanna see them feet
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:02:10 UTC No. 959576
>>958768
>Chainsawhead
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:18:13 UTC No. 959579
>>959048
Top notch mate. This shader is pure sex.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:21:19 UTC No. 959580
>>959510
Thank you for saving me 80 bucks I have an android tablet I'll look to see if cozy is compatible.
>>959552
I kinda figured bp was a must, I really appreciate your list.
>rigify is too overwhelming for me
There was a few more rigging plugins I'll do more research into those. I just really want the rigging to be as painless as possible.
Again thank you to you both. It's a big help.
Anonymous at Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:47:00 UTC No. 959583
>>959379
First person PacMan?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:13:42 UTC No. 959594
4th ghost concept. got last minute inspiration on a different facial expression though
>>959583
3rd person
>>959570
not feet. they float
>>959565
the lips brow, and no edge loops around the mouth. I SHOULD have redone it by hand but i chose not to. dont be like me
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:37:52 UTC No. 959599
>>959595
you really need proper roughness maps
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:38:54 UTC No. 959600
>>959597
this looks much much worse
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:59:44 UTC No. 959603
>>959599
i need a map to your heart
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:06:59 UTC No. 959604
>>959595
Silky smooth
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:13:38 UTC No. 959606
https://www.youtube.com/@fusako3d/v
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:29:48 UTC No. 959612
>>959178
This. It reminds me of stretch Armstrong and it might have to do with the compression of the forearm and elbow joint
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:31:14 UTC No. 959613
>>959357
Looks good from the front but the side still needs some work
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:32:17 UTC No. 959614
>>958941
prove you are jack NOW
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:31:42 UTC No. 959615
>>959614
prove you are NOT Jack Now
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:54:57 UTC No. 959638
how you motivate yourself to make another 3D model after finish previous model?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:03:47 UTC No. 959643
what do you think of this base for a space marine? Its just the common basic shapes all space marines have, now I want to refine it further but theres infinite variations in design to choose from
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:34:47 UTC No. 959644
>>959638
If I'm really stuck I like to make a little story up in my head. Doesn't matter if it's a scene set in a room, outside of a building, a whole street, or just things someone would carry. My little story isn't complete until I make all the models for it and bring that scene from the story to life.
A lot of the time I'll think "that might be cool to model" and then I think it would be better with more things around it. A bit like how fish and chips are nice, but salt and vinegar makes them better. For instance, one of the first things I ever modeled properly was a gold bar, but then it went
>A gold bar is cool
>But a lot of gold bars are better
>Gold bars in crates are even cooler than that
>But who keeps crates of gold bars?
>I know, Nazis
>But where would they keep gold bars?
>In a spooky cellar hidden away from the Allies
>Maybe those crates have been hidden away until after the war and weren't found until later
And that was the first thing I ever posted on /wip/. It wasn't very good because it was the first thing I'd made that wasn't low poly, but the point is that I made a scene based on what started out as basically a rectangle. Thinking of that scene motivated me to model more things rather than just leaving it as a single gold bar.
I don't know if that helps, but that's the way my autism does it.
joe mama at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:12:25 UTC No. 959651
hi
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:45:26 UTC No. 959657
turns out that none of my automatic muscle relaxing and contracting was working...had to rebuild all my curves. This was why the bicep was not contracting. Now the issue is the tricep contraction is reversed.
also found out that i had to do a "unsmooth" and then resmooth operation from the new maya 2024 commands to get rid of the hard edged banding from r3ds....
Now I have to deal with the high frequency noise....basically from what i have read they say that there is a setting that controls this and if you reduce it the noise goes down but the stability of the sim drastically goes down as well
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:14:48 UTC No. 959662
Damn I really wanted to nail this character but I guess my powerlevel is too low to succeed. I got around to partially retopoing this >>956054 and did a zillion tweaks afterwards but it's still not right. Might have to scrap it and try again in a year or so.
What really annoys me is how I have zero idea how a sculpt will look with eyelashes, eyebrows, hair and a material with sss. When I first retopo'd it, it looked absolutely retarded (I mean it still does, but much more so) so I had to do the annoying process of adjusting the sculpt, then adjusting the retopo mesh to fit the changes to see it if looked better, then again and again until I got this. Do you think this is salvageable or should I really get more experience before hoping to nail a likeness?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:35:40 UTC No. 959667
>>959657
This is interesting work, looks like a lot of fun.
What project are you actually going to use this for? Or are you going to try selling it as an asset?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:14:16 UTC No. 959669
>>959667
i'm trying to learn the system which I think is really fascinating. Once I have a stable sim I want to try to add further sim on top with clothes made with Marvelous.
The arm was originally part of the human base mesh included with the package from 2017 but to be able to use it you have to be a subscribing member and do a ton of modifications and use all sorts of scripts and read a lot of documentation... There are a lot of parameters in FEM
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:59:24 UTC No. 959671
>>958731
Why not use premade assets?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:53:04 UTC No. 959694
>>959662
Looks similar but more waxy. I think the main problem is the skin textures and the whole hair tho. Keep working on the skin and redo the hair.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:37:18 UTC No. 959708
>>959696
I canโt even fap to this
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:06:25 UTC No. 959710
>>959662
You problem is the source image.
That face is a mess
one eye is straight the other slanted and there is too much space between the eyes and the mouth making the nose strangely elongated.
Staying close to this reference will always result in a wonky 3D model.
Use the face more as an loose inspiration.
And most importantly don't make the face so long.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:37:54 UTC No. 959716
>>959696
true cockmongler energy
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:00:59 UTC No. 959730
>>959662
What are you talking about this is excellent anon, it does actually look like the reference image, the reason why you feel it doesn't it's because it's lacking all that stuff on the hair (those laces and jewelry there), the hair is much more bushy too, as it stands your model has too few and thin hair strands. The hair strands are also too perfect: if you look at the reference image you'll see that it isn't all neat and orderly but there are also some hairs out of place, he does have that kind of "bed hair" style in places. Keep up the good work, don't worry about your model not looking 100% exactly like the reference image, it doesn't have to
>>959710
>And most importantly don't make the face so long.
Don't tell me, you're one of those anime style faces modeler aren't you? The one with those ridiculously miniscule babyfaces? Only someone with such a warped sense of proportions could give such misleading "criticism"
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:32:25 UTC No. 959734
>>959732
Thank you for posting an image that proves my point, it's funny when people give credit to your thesis without them even realizing
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:46:42 UTC No. 959740
>>959737
This isn't bad anon, it just looks like the son (daughter? Can never tell with the gender with these fuckin' elves) of OP's model. OP's model looks like an adult, this looks like a child
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:48:22 UTC No. 959741
>>958733
>>958734
>>958736
Genuinely curious why this reads as porn to you guys. Looks like some random pink ghost eneny to me
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:03:58 UTC No. 959743
>>959741
I'm the 3rd anon you quoted, I was just shitposting when I said that. I just look at porn too much and make jokes about it like everything I see is secretly about porn / someone's poorly hidden fetish, is all
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:20:25 UTC No. 959747
I modeled and rigged this seemingly simple metal gate so that I can open and close it.
Maybe it was simple to model, but it was tedious as fuck to rig, this motherfucker has like 60 fucking bones if not more to move all those little fucking rods and lattices in tandem. I'm glad it's working, but never again lmao
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:10:33 UTC No. 959753
>>959747
You could have done this extremely easily and quickly in houdini or with geometry nodes
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:23:19 UTC No. 959756
>>959753
Is that so? How exactly? Does Houdini take care of rigging as well?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:45:30 UTC No. 959757
>>959756
educate yourself in proceduralism young padawan
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:48:05 UTC No. 959758
>>959638
Completing a model should be motivation enough to proceed to the next, otherwise perhaps reflect on why it hasn't? Could be the subject matter, complexity, workflow chosen.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:01:43 UTC No. 959769
>>959741
Im the second quote and i am the creator.
I was answering the question
>is this porn?
Yeah
>follow up question
Does it have "that look"?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:44:40 UTC No. 959774
>>959694
Thanks! I reduced the sss somewhat so it should be less waxy and added some voronoi noise to the skin. I largely have no idea what I'm doing with materials so it's still shitty. Working on the hair now too.
>>959710
Yeah I guess the reference is kinda weird. BG2 portraits are known to be just heavily photoshopped photos. But this is a pickle cause I really wanted the model to actually BE her rather than an interpretation. But looking at the matcap view the face is pretty long, like some TES altmer or something. Not really sure what to do since making the face less long will make it more human, but at the same time lose a defining feature. I wish a had the skill to pull off a human-proportioned "caricature" of her likeness, but I'm not skilled enough, which is why I'm frustrated.
>>959730
Thanks, I guess I'll work on it a bit more to see if it clicks then. I started adding those hairbands and stuff. I may have messed up the face though.
>>959737
I've unfurrowed her brows somewhat so she should look less angry now, thanks.
๐๏ธ _ at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:09:49 UTC No. 959777
>>>/vg/447875110
Artificial Academy 2 General /aa2g/ #1293
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>Downloads:
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>Information:
AA2Mini Install Guide:
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General FAQ:
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AAU Guide and Resources (Modules, Tans, Props, Poses, and More):
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>Character Cards [Database], now with a list of every NonOC in the megas:
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>Mods & More:
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>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:15:26 UTC No. 959778
>>959774
I can totally read her as aerie, it looks good anon, it's just the shaders and lights that make her look shitty the primary shapes are there focus on the tertiary shapes, put a roughness/specular map for the skin and paintings on her face and test a scene with good illumination. You will see the changes.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:14:39 UTC No. 959806
im jumping back into doing programming stuff so not a 3dcg wip per se, but i made a visualizer for the ghost's hunting strategy that looks visually interesting.
The big pink circle is the center of their chosen hunting ground, which they pick based on rules unique to each one. The little dot that bounces around is a spot within range the ghost might go to. Once it's close it picks a spot and goes there, when it gets there it picks a new spot. after a certain amount of time they'll pick a new central location based on rule and start over.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:34:05 UTC No. 959808
>>959806
What pathfinding are you runing anon? A* and reverse floodfill is prob how most would solve such routing, or a vector 'flow field' and just move towards a random adjacent waypoint and then traverse a random distance along the field.
I like flow fields personally because of how easily they allow you to move entire crowds thru areas without getting stuck.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:48:11 UTC No. 959810
>>959808
I am using unity's built in navmesh system. The primary hunting points were hand created and the sub points are vectors with random x and z coordinates with a range matching the hunting radius. That part isn't at all complicated. What was was figuring out their personalities. The pink one checks each hand made point to see which on is closest to the player and sets it. The Red one (with the new dreamworks face) tries to mach your latitude to catch you in the next area you might visit. Green picks a spot in average of all the collectibles (she hides in the center till the end of the game then roams around pellets you missed). blue just picks one at random.
It would be easy to make a new maze and have different/more points.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:11:11 UTC No. 959813
Turns out that my previous rest shape was taken from the solver real start frame and not after all the tissue pressure and sucking in during the runup had been applied, meaning the extracted corrective would not correctly hit the target.
Reduced the bicep auto flex by half.
Its funny how this sim is so involved yet so delicate - setting one parameter incorrectly can ruin the look of everything
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:21:13 UTC No. 959814
>>959774
There is some wiggle room before a face starts looking deformed and unnatural.
You need to be spot on with anatomical features if you stray from the idealized proportions.
The eyes are a far too simple shape, you have to think even if it's an elf the shape of the eye is the way it is because the parts that are necessary for an eye to function end up creating that shape.
If you slant an eye to such a high degree you should also think about the underlying structure. The eye sockets would have the same rotation, that would make the cheekbones protrude more.
The same goes for the nose.
Even a very straight nose is made out of the underlying bone and cartilage.
Another thing to consider is that her jaw is especially small for the size of her head.
That would mean all the muscles that move the jaw are smaller and as a consequence the all the features of the skull that are there to support a strong biteforce like the brow ridge are far less pronounced.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:17:48 UTC No. 959843
I swear I'm not gonna spam so often, I'll work on it until I at least finish rigging it before posting again.
>>959778
Well, at least she's a little recognizable. I need to figure out how to do skin materials. For now I just plugged in the voronoi texture I'm using as a bump map into an rgb curve and mixed that with the roughness "map" - as I'm only using vertex colors for now, only the tattoos are an image. I wanted to try painting it in armor paint but I'm pretty sure it doesn't support SSS so I'm not sure how to paint the "subdermal" layer (that I'm using for subsurface color) other than just literally mixing it with the diffuse in there. I'll try to do a scene with lighting after I rig the thing.
>>959814
Thanks for the tips. I tried to nudge it a little bit in that direction (left side of pic related is before, right after) but I'm not sure if I made it better or worse. You probably had a bigger change in mind, right? It's hard to balance because I felt the larger changes I tried strayed further from the reference. What really bugs me is that it still looks goofy if you scale the picture down, but okish when zoomed in. I'm guessing that's what you mean by being misshapen. I'll try to fix that.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:29:28 UTC No. 959847
>>959843
how did u do it? Did you overlay and trace the topo?
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:44:31 UTC No. 959850
>>959847
You mean how I retopologized the sculpt? I use blender, so, I just switch the snapping to "face" with "individual elements on" and "snap with itself" off, then I throw on subsurf, set it to 2 subdivisions, then a shrinkwrap modifier set to "project" in both negative and positive directions, and then I just poly model as usual, snapping the mesh to the sculpt by holding the snapping hotkey when necessary.
After I finish fiddling with it though, I'm gonna use multires instead of subsurf, collapse the shrinkwrap into the multires, bake normals from that, and set the subdivisions to 1 with baked normals as a texture. For performance reasons, as my computer isn't very new.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:15:45 UTC No. 959851
>>959850
no, how did you get the proportions to match the image in the first place, like in >>959662. Did you trace over it?
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:18:31 UTC No. 959852
>>959851
Oh, sorry. No, I just eyeballed it. I eyeball everything I make because I feel that tracing never really works aside from maybe matching body proportions from a chart or something. I've tried tracing faces before, and it never ever worked for me, even when I spent a lot of time trying to match the perspective of the picture through a camera. Maybe some kinda photogrammetry program can match camera angles accurately, but I don't think a human can. Much less from a drawn/photoshopped picture which is inherently inaccurate.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:00:28 UTC No. 959854
>>959843
Keep up the good work, I believe in you anon kun
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:02:00 UTC No. 959877
Fixed a situation where when the arm was swinging, the g forces were too high and the bicep slid off the bone completely.
Tried rendering with Lama shaders but found them hard to control. Obviously my roughness was too low. My uncompressed avi straight out of resolve and before compression looks significantly sharper and more detailed then this webm, unfortunately. Going to have to do more tests. Something must be wrong because even though I was running a pixar preset from the material browser, all the lama skin presets pretty much looked grey while the gpu pixar surface shaders looked their appropriate color (caucasian to black, depending on preset). I was also unable to change the color of the skin to check that it was working, to say a blue.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 01:36:19 UTC No. 959895
>>959877
fixed the lama settings. Turns out pixar preset library for lama has some wires that are going towards obsolete connections and thus the color doesnt come through and it doesnt do anything. Also when you do connect it properly the procedural values are not tuned with ACES color management in mind for the examples, and thus only work in the No color management option. I had to eyeball the values and render again, but lama is very powerful. This is how the previous sequence should have looked
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:19:33 UTC No. 959942
"Before the apocalypse, civil unrest and criminality had reached their apex. Corruption infiltrated every facet of society, violence dominated the streets.
To, quote, "meet the demand for increased security", metro stations were soon fitted with panoptiturrets. Armed with double quad barrel 50. BMG miniguns, they reduced to hot pulp all foolish enough to commit anything from shoplifting to pickpocketing to robbery. Some citizens voiced their doubts as to the need for such overkill weaponry. Soon compromising details arose as to the acquisition of the panoptiturrets, with weapons monolith Gulliver Dynamics being suspected of bribing city officials to obtain the supply contracts. Such a tale was not unheard of and was largely met with apathy, what little citizen outrage there was in the face of the upteenth misuse of the treasury fell on deaf ears.
Coincidentally, the panoptiturrets proved their effectiveness in the quelling of the frequent (and bloody) popular revolts: whenever curfews were enforced, and metro stations were locked down, any unprepared rebel thinking of using the underground tunnels to move around the city would meet a grisly end".
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:00:16 UTC No. 959955
>>959192
>also it take forever for peel mode & I have 3080ti, starting to suspect peeling doesnt support gpu
unwrapping should take like 1 second
the entire process is supposed to only consist of selecting edges and either auto packing or hand packing the island
if your uv mapping takes longer than 15 minutes you are doing something very very very wrong
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:45:58 UTC No. 959956
>>959895
ah bro this is the thing! The whole point of making a simulation instead of running corrective shapes is this specific thing.
The bicep shouldnt collapse until the forearm is pushing down on it. You know muscles inflate when they contract, but some muscles have to depress because as they contract the complimentary limb is pushing down on it. That means the bicep expands through the whole stroke of the arm cur;, until the forearm touches it and starts pushing in.
This is acting like you ARE using a corrective blendshape but just 1 too few, deforming strait from base mesh to the squished bicep pose.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:51:13 UTC No. 959958
Gave the ghosts a "reaction" animation. They all do a little happy dance and make a face when they see the player. They cant move during it so it gives you a chance to run away if they ambush you at a corner.
Their various wandering behaviors seem to be working and I got to play it how it's meant to be payed briefly.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:26:28 UTC No. 960018
substance painter's edge detect/ curvature just dont work. Instead of spreading along the edges they just splatter the whole model. Using projection triplanar.
is there an easy way to change projection mode across multiple layers btw?
checked the model's normals & they're fine
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:38:19 UTC No. 960020
>>960018
wrong bread..
repost here and maybe you will get some anwsers
>>959526
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:26:19 UTC No. 960032
>>959958
It looks great anon, is this a porn version of pacman?
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:33:52 UTC No. 960033
>>959895
It looks ok, but they don't behave like muscles, not only muscles don't contract like this, it looks like the density is more like fat than muscles. Keep going man, I want to see the full SIM soon
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:08:33 UTC No. 960056
>>959956
not sure if this is what you mean but with this muscle system, the bones drive the muscles. As the distance between two curve CVs riveted to bones change length, the muscle contracts / relaxes / moves. As the muscles move, they move other muscles that they are bound to via various attachments. The muscles can never move the bones. If I have my bicep in a relaxed state and then trigger flexion over frames 10-15 it cannot affect the position of any bone
>>960033
> it looks like the density is more like fat than muscles
reduced the stiffness of the skin from 3 to 0.5 to suck in the skin more as doing the opposite gives less suck in. This looks better and less fatty in AB comparisons, but introduced some more instability.
Tried rendering with gpu in cycles 4 instead of cpu in prman. Went from 1min / frame to 6sec/frame. I made a quick shader but the quality was worse than prman, but maybe with more time in the shader editor there is hope. The reduction in render times for the same sized image is nice
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:18:38 UTC No. 960057
>>958731
Stop doing that you're wasting time.
๐๏ธ , at Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:12:33 UTC No. 960069
>>>/vg/447875110
Artificial Academy 2 General /aa2g/ #1293
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Welcome, this general is for the discussion of ILLUSION's Artificial Academy 2.
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>Downloads:
/aa2g/ Pre-Installed Game, AA2Mini: https://tsukiyo.me/AAA/AA2MiniPPX.x
AAUnlimited updates: https://github.com/aa2g/AA2Unlimite
>Information:
AA2Mini Install Guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
General FAQ:
https://web.archive.org/web/2020021
AAU Guide and Resources (Modules, Tans, Props, Poses, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
>Character Cards [Database], now with a list of every NonOC in the megas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
https://db.bepis.moe/aa2/
>Mods & More:
Mods for AAU/AA2Mini (ppx format, the mediafire has everything):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vw
/aa2g/ Modding Reference Guide (Slot lists for Hair/Clothes/Faces, List Guides, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet
Booru: https://aau.booru.org
>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host
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Mod is such a lard ass and live in his dilapidated room where he watch his nigger lady get ntr everyday he turns on his pc Faps using the same set of condom filled with his own CUM.
Anonymous at Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:17:49 UTC No. 960070
>>960032
Yeah, in a nutshell.
The key differences being you have to deposit the pellets you collect in special locations. Your character is a repair robot on a spaceship. The ghosts are aliens that invaded. You also slowly get irradiated. After a certain amount of radiation builds up you move too slowly to outrun the ghost. You clear radiation by discharging the radiation absorbing fluid in your radiation pouch. If youre powered uo and irradiated you can do a special attack that kills th ghosts for longer.
Anonymous at Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:29:15 UTC No. 960071
>>960069
Soooo why post in /3/? Are you looking for big tiddy monster girl models or shota boys with giant asses?
Anonymous at Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:38:18 UTC No. 960072
>>960071
Damn. Guess they dont want free models after all. Oh well.
Anonymous at Sun, 1 Oct 2023 21:54:09 UTC No. 960136
>>960056
Much better than before, but still there muscles need to maintain their shape, I have a little bit of muscles in my arms and they contract but never squish that way, muscles are much more solid than your current sim, but great work bro, keep it going
>>960070
That's really good stuff, it sounds fun and I dig the style of the characters. You play as the robot girl that we can see in the clip?
>>960117
Looks good anon if I was you I would make the head a little bit smaller and work on the head profile a little bit more especially the jawbone, that looks a little bit prominent compared to the rest of the craneum
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:09:56 UTC No. 960145
>>960142
you will never be able to rig in that position
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:29:38 UTC No. 960147
>>960145
itโs a static pose for a statue
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:20:06 UTC No. 960178
>>960177
I'm not sure what it is, but the grass feels like it's taller where the camera is and much shorter nearer the house.
What's that white square on top of the roof btw?
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 16:06:31 UTC No. 960181
>>960178
i will try raising the camera a bit, the cube is just to test depth of field, i forgot to disable it in rendering
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 16:18:42 UTC No. 960183
>>960156
looking good anon
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Oct 2023 16:21:24 UTC No. 960184
>>960181
yes i was looking at the image and i saw the cube, i think that putting the camera in a rela position (human eye level )will make the image to look more grounnded
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Oct 2023 00:59:16 UTC No. 960207
>>960033
>it looks like the density is more like fat than muscles
turns out i was missing a pass after all, the actual "skin" or "dermis" pass. You are actually supposed to simulate "fat" and have its stiffness properties be "of" scientifically measured fat and then simulate another skin layer on top of the fat pass with a specific material and that is supposed to be your final shippable result as opposed to doing what i was doing before which was making the "fat" more and more elastic.
webm related is the skin pass. Now I move on to learning to mirror my setup to the other side
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Oct 2023 01:17:00 UTC No. 960208
>>960136
>You play as the robot girl that we can see in the clip?
Yeah, her she is. Not done of course.
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Oct 2023 04:02:33 UTC No. 960210
>>960209
Do you have a blog?
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Oct 2023 06:46:35 UTC No. 960214
>>960207
Is starting to look much better anon!
>>960208
>>960209
Good shit bro, looks fun, just one thing, it looks like the elbow ik rig rotate more than it should, but that has a really simple solution, other than that, good job
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:21:00 UTC No. 960235
>>960210
Not yet.
>>960214
Oh yeah ive ditched the iks on the arms completely. When the last features are implemented itll be time to go back and redo all of the animations, and with only fk on the arms.
Anonymous at Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:26:40 UTC No. 960342
>>960235
Good to know bro, it looks better than 90% of what /3/ has ever made, when you release it let us know so we can buy the game
Anonymous at Wed, 4 Oct 2023 18:05:30 UTC No. 960352
>>960348
I could be wrong, but with those poles being closer to the foreground than the house it means the poles must only be about 6ft tall.
Anonymous at Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:15:25 UTC No. 960362
>>960348
i am going to string this shoe on a ballon and going to make it fly from the house
>>960352
thanks anon i made a 2m meter cube and fixed all the scaling issues. not having a human reference fucks with your renders so hard
Anonymous at Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:58:58 UTC No. 960364
>>960209
Not bouncy enough. I like it tho.
Anonymous at Wed, 4 Oct 2023 22:42:11 UTC No. 960373
>>960371
This is awesome. Great job, anon. Is this straight out of Eevee with some shader work or did you do a bit of Photoshopping to get that painterly look?
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 01:55:24 UTC No. 960391
>>960373
thank you! its actually rendered in cycles. it has a lot of volumetric fog and stuff.
i did a substantial amount of photoshop, applying the craquelure texture, adjusting values, and of course the smudge tool which is a god send for this kinda stuff
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 01:57:01 UTC No. 960392
>>960391
so its not 3d. Why are you posting here?
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 02:04:06 UTC No. 960393
>>960392
??? photoshop was for achieving the painterly look not draw everything lmfao
breakdown here https://imgur.com/a/KrZoxbq
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 03:40:47 UTC No. 960398
>>960368
based 2.78 low poly modeler
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 12:52:47 UTC No. 960442
>>960441
dude you dont even have normal maps.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:08:34 UTC No. 960452
>>960449
only the people and mists are images as planes :3
breakdown video here https://imgur.com/a/FDHKhCL
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:11:24 UTC No. 960453
>>960452
>only the people and mists are images as planes :3
3D BOARD
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 15:42:46 UTC No. 960465
>>960392
>>960449
>>960453
Not that anon but stop being so autistic, his work is 3D regardless of how narrow your definition of it is
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 16:08:09 UTC No. 960466
>>960453
pyw now
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 16:15:49 UTC No. 960468
>>960415
moisturize you filthy animal
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Oct 2023 19:30:45 UTC No. 960497
>>960441
for the love of god anon mark some edges as sharp
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Oct 2023 00:14:45 UTC No. 960530
>>959541
You're gonna make it
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Oct 2023 02:17:57 UTC No. 960538
>>960537
it wont subdivide well at all lmao
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 02:46:26 UTC No. 960619
>>958680
somebody qrd me in how to do a fucking half a sphere (srsly) and how to set up a "photo studio" evnironment and lighting?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 03:20:38 UTC No. 960620
>>960619
Half a sphere is simple enough
>Add your sphere
>Switch to wireframe view
>Switch camera angle to front orthographic
>Edit mode
>Box select all of the verts on one side of the sphere (not including the verts in the centreline)
>Delete selected verts
>????
>PROFIT
You might want to rotate the sphere first too.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 03:30:09 UTC No. 960621
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 03:44:49 UTC No. 960622
>>960621
You silly sausage. It's easy to overthink 3D stuff in my experience.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 04:15:55 UTC No. 960623
>>960622
makes sense, thanks sensei
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 16:42:46 UTC No. 960707
>>960619
The hardest part is figuring out what the settings on your lights do. Read the lighting section in your software's help documents like it's a book.
When you know what fiddling with what does what it's as simple as googling pictures of studio setups that produce the effect you want and copying them.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:21:38 UTC No. 960718
Bros why do the textures in Eevee (bottom) look arguably better than the ones in Cycles? What have I fucked up?
I know all of the other glaring errors so no one needs to point them out. I'm just concerned with this right now.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:27:05 UTC No. 960721
>>960718
the top looks significantly better
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:32:41 UTC No. 960723
>>960721
Does it? It's like parts of the wear aren't as noticeable on the Cycles one. I'm assuming now though that that's from the lighting because it's not a proper setup it's just an HDRI.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:47:58 UTC No. 960724
>>960723
a hdri is proper lighting with cycles
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:49:10 UTC No. 960725
>>960724
Yeah, but you know what I mean. A more adequate HDRI rather than the one I'm using because I just picked the first one from the folder without any thought.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:59:58 UTC No. 960728
>>960725
just look at the metal On / Off switch on the right on the bottom render. It looks awful compared to the top. Cycles is far superior to eevee.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 20:24:03 UTC No. 960732
>>960728
Since you've mentioned that I've just noticed that the on/off text and the other non-white text is engraved in Eevee, but more like embossed in Cycles (it's supposed to be embossed). That's weird. Unless it's one of those odd settings you need to activate/deactivate in Eeevee.
Other than that is it looking alright?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 20:27:08 UTC No. 960734
>>960732
no, its not looking alright. The eevee render doesnt generate any shadows from the hdri and these are all over the model. If you turned on the visibility of the hdri in the background you would also see that the orangy color is not present in eevee since it has no irradiance. You have an untrained eye. Nobody serious uses eevee. Im outta here
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 20:38:42 UTC No. 960735
>>960734
...I was talking about the model itself.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 20:40:44 UTC No. 960736
>>960735
i think you should get some reference on firearms
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 20:57:27 UTC No. 960737
>>960718
Have you tried doing an actual render of the one on the top? Eevee is meant to be a real time renderer like you would find in a game engine, while Cycles is meant for things to be fully rendered. This means that Cycles will look worse than Eevee in this scenario because it isn't fully doing what it was designed to do, while Eevee is already operating at the extent of its capabilities.
>>960734
>Im outta here
Goodness me, I'd hate to see you go.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 21:04:47 UTC No. 960739
>>960736
I don't know, it mostly looks like the actual thing to me. Let me guess, you think his model looks bad because it doesn't match the image in your head of what a gun should look like, and you just wanted to find another thing to nitpick.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Oct 2023 21:09:41 UTC No. 960740
>>960739
his model isn't accurate to that model and additionally appears to be wildly inaccurate.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:24:38 UTC No. 960751
>>960737
>Have you tried doing an actual render of the one on the top?
Actually that's a good point I haven't done that yet.
>>960740
In fairness it wasn't that reference I was using it was this one. They're more or less the same, but different enough.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:34:03 UTC No. 960754
>>960751
you need to make a lot better textures
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 03:54:20 UTC No. 960774
now i can mirror any setup. It was harder than it looked to mirror as the naming has to be just right....getting very close to full body render, unfortunately my sim times at all stages have doubled which is why i have been encouraged to test parts separately
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:09:16 UTC No. 960824
>>960822
You might want to play around with the shading some before trying to finalize your mesh too much. On-model-ish Pokemon look kind of weird without stylized rendering, and the shaders you use can affect some of the topology you want.
๐๏ธ Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 22:25:41 UTC No. 960827
>>960824
how's this [spoiler] shader partly stolen from cummingham's model (which was uploaded by him, on smutbase)[/spoiler]
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Oct 2023 23:44:33 UTC No. 960830
>>960824
what does it look like if you take the outline shader off the eyelashes?
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Oct 2023 11:07:34 UTC No. 960850
>>960822
would like to see a walk cycle
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Oct 2023 13:47:24 UTC No. 960859
>>960850
Have to rig it first.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:42:01 UTC No. 961186
should I connect the mouth with the base mesh and them unwrap the mouth on the same uv texture to be able to animate it properly?
Also a question about eyes, as I understand I need to keep them as separate object so I ran rotate them in a game engine?
Anonymous at Wed, 1 Nov 2023 09:30:58 UTC No. 962812
>>958799
Jack, you are a fucking legend mate. I love you.