🧵 /wip/ - Works In Progress
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:21:50 UTC No. 998180
/wip/ - Works In Progress - "graphic design is my passion" edition
Post your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.
Previous thread: >>993026
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:29:05 UTC No. 998182
>>998180
you ruined it.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:59:45 UTC No. 998189
>old thread at page 4 and not at image limit
>whole board only has 9 pages
yeah you're special
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:17:50 UTC No. 998190
shoulder mechanism. flawed but it doesn't seem to break easily at least. also why can't IK just fucking work? why do I need to add so many extra bones and constraints just to make it so it doesn't shit the bed?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:52:29 UTC No. 998195
>>998189
>anon doesn't know what a bump limit is
>anon is obviously a newfag because this has never been a problem before
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:02:17 UTC No. 998198
>>998195
You are so retarded, holy shit.
/3/ needs twenty more threads before any thread can fall off the catalog. It doesn't matter what page the old thread is on if you can still post in it.
Bumping has also been broken for eight years now. Sort by last reply and shoot yourself.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:14:38 UTC No. 998199
>>998198
Again, it's never been a problem before, and it's not a problem on any other board. Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generals and no one shits their pants over it except you.
People are less likely to post in threads that have reached their bump limit, and I just like to see the board be active.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:27:15 UTC No. 998200
>>998199
>Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generals
so why do you have to be such a little smug faggot with that op pic
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:42:43 UTC No. 998202
>>998200
I don’t recall feeling smug when I edited the OP pic, maybe just a little silly. I could have probably written “You don’t need to be someone special to do it.” Instead of “You don’t have to wait for someone special to do it.” because that would have gotten the point across better. It sounds stupid, but I have encountered people on this website before that think the jannies are the ones who make the general threads. I've seen the activity in the wip threads grind to a halt for weeks at a time because no one wants to make a new thread.
Maybe it’s my fault for wording things wrong, but your need to tell me I’m not special and that I’m being smug makes me think you’re projecting your own ego disorders onto me, because that's just not the way my brain operates. I’m just trying to have a little fun.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:46:08 UTC No. 998203
>>998199
Here's some prior work and a reasoning for it: >>997228
>10 days ago
>it's on page 6 and still has space for images
Stop shitting up my thread watcher. You make the thread when you need it, and right now you don't.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:29:15 UTC No. 998220
>>998217
Can I cum on it?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:37:31 UTC No. 998222
>>998220
No. Great shame. Ancestors cry.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:41:34 UTC No. 998224
it is op's fault for making a cringe statement that he should have known would make retards have a temper tantrum
it is anon's fault for getting chipped by a throwaway cringe pic
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:02:21 UTC No. 998234
>>998217
Is it even worth the effort to use plasticity, bro? I have a real, paid, active license, but I also like modelling with polys because it just makes more sense to me, if you know what I mean.
the chair nerd at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:57:15 UTC No. 998237
>>998180
I touch my pee pee at night
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:03:39 UTC No. 998240
>>998234
For surface modeling, absolutely. Polygonal modeling is quicker for most things, but I will say that I could spend an eternity trying to model that with polygons, and in the end I would have failed. I would never be able to get the perfect shading, the fillet washouts, the smooth transitions, etc. Maybe with subdiv, but even then... I wouldn't recommend it. It's not worth the effort if you're aiming the surface modeling look. The gorget, I could do with polygons, but not the rest of the helmet.
And I just think it's very fun. Time flies, which is why I only do this at weekends, or I wouldn't get any work done during the week.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:15:06 UTC No. 998241
>>998240
are you using the blender bridge at all?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:16:43 UTC No. 998242
>>998241
No, I'm using plasticity through vnc on a separate computer and I couldn't get the bridge to work over a different IP. I just export as OBJ when I'm finished.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:50 UTC No. 998269
>>998246
perfection
>>998264
What else is there to do? I assume the parts who aren't visible?
This looks pretty fucking good
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:14:22 UTC No. 998271
>>998258
super neat anon
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:09:30 UTC No. 998286
>>998269
There’s still a lot to do with the wood. Some splintering here and there, some texture adjustment to add granularity. As for the metal part, it’s barely worked on, I’m still gonna work on it for at least three weeks before it’s close to what I want. I have multiple references that I’m following. But thanks for compliment my guy
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:09:49 UTC No. 998335
>>998284
holy gemmy...
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:19:53 UTC No. 998337
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:22:51 UTC No. 998340
>>998338
how long have you been doing this?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:48:53 UTC No. 998344
>>998199
>it's done on literally every other board that has generals
It's literally not. Generals stay until they reach image limit and then get refreshed. That's how it works on every board.
>and no one shits their pants over it
Everyone shits their pants over it when some retard bakes a thread early.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:59:26 UTC No. 998388
>>998340
since january
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:28:58 UTC No. 998389
>>998388
doing good so far, but i think you only have the initial step. I think you should do rigging and animation on this character
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:13:21 UTC No. 998391
>>998284
high effort meme
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:51:55 UTC No. 998396
>>998391
You mean high effort art
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:14:47 UTC No. 998437
>>998389
ty. mostly rigged already, ik/fk limbs and parent switching for the gun. just need to add some constraints to the fingers and we're good to go. animation on the other hand... that shit is hard man. kind of have an idea of what I want do with him but it ain't gonna be anywhere near as good as it is in my head.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:53:35 UTC No. 998438
>>998437
are you using blender for animation?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:57:43 UTC No. 998439
>>998438
yeah, using blender for the whole thing.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:59:25 UTC No. 998448
>>998180
i have not been to this board in over a decade and you're all still using this same image.
that makes me so happy.
>still haven't hit 1 million posts
glad to see nothing has changed.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:30:37 UTC No. 998589
Cool thread idea
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:40:46 UTC No. 998639
>>998589
Bot, I hope whoever made you gets fucked in the ass with one of those baseball bats that have rusty nails embedded in em.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:41:25 UTC No. 998947
>>996394
Been pluggin away at this in the background, nearly time to cut things and start rendering. I could probably work this to death, but I need to make sure I have the time to actually render the anim.
One question though. Anyone know of a way to make heat haze that's more or less "depth accurate"? Like yeah I can throw a refraction on a plane and call it a day (which is what I've done), but there's a bit more nuance to actual heat distortion than that. Not to mention since it's just a plane at a fixed distance from the camera, anything that passes that plane (for instance the train), will be distorted instantly like someone just turned it on, instead of a gradual thing as it gets further on. So a heat haze that was a bit more gradual over a distance would work, but I'm not really sure how to do that, and searching for it just gives the basic bitch "just throw refraction on a plane, bro".
Also, I'm pretty fed up with Blender at this point. It's a fucking dice roll now when I press render whether it will crash (about a 50% chance), get stuck on "initializing" and not render at all (30%), or actually fucking render (20%).
I've narrowed down WHAT is causing it to fuck up (the road and adaptive subdiv), but not how to fix it. All searches point to "disable GPU subdivision", which I have, but no dice. Switching to the 4.3 beta made it a bit more stable, but it's really that extra 10% to make 20% on the render dice roll.
Not to mention the random, "will this object render or not", or "will the displacement displace" roll when adaptive subdiv on.
The modifier is a fucking mess.
Thanks for reading my faggy blog post/rant.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:29:20 UTC No. 998949
>>998947
get a more fucking powerful GPU then faggot
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:32:01 UTC No. 998954
>>998947
do it post-render and use a depth-pass to drive it
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:00:55 UTC No. 998958
>>998949
Next "more fucking powerful GPU" than I currently have is a 4090. Somehow I doubt that's going to make a difference. The GPU's strength isn't the problem. There's something fucky going on with Blender in conjunction with my project. Just weird shit all around, despite throwing much more at it in the past without issue.
>>998954
Yeah that actually sounds like a good idea.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:31:21 UTC No. 998960
>>998958
have you tried a clean uninstall and reinstall drivers with DDU? Also, this is exactly why I dont buy the most expensive cards. Cards always break after a while. I've had so many cards malfunction that I just buy cheap ones like 60 series now. To be honest with you I think 60 series cards can do everything almost as well as a 90 series card and you can replace it easily
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:44:00 UTC No. 999004
>>998960
I've updated drivers, but not reinstalled them. I'll give that a go.
Again though, I don't think it's the GPU. It works great. I've never had any problems with it, nor any of my previous ones (My 1080ti is STILL trucking in another computer as well). Like I said, the problem persists even with GPU subdivision turned off, so I don't think it's the GPU at all.
As for 60 series, I also use this for games too, and I run at 4k. 60s won't really do me much good.
I've got a 12600K (not the best CPU, but again, no issues), and 64gb of RAM. GPU, CPU and RAM all bought this year, all the parts have been working great.
For all intents and purposes, things should be well within my margins to render. I think it's just a freak thing. For some reason it's been crashing less, so who fucking knows now.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:56:29 UTC No. 999036
>>999012
I had meant to say cacti, but I like the chunky pillars better.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:53:46 UTC No. 999060
>>999012
what mr bone contemplating about?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:16:20 UTC No. 999063
>>998180
newfag here
why does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of it
the dedication is admirable
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:35:23 UTC No. 999071
>>998976
its good, but i want to see beyond a simple walk cycle into something "original"
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:46:18 UTC No. 999073
>>999063
>why does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of it
Tradition. One of the few things true /3/ fags can take pride in.
If I remember right, it was an oldfag's project that he made for WoW or something along those lines. It's been a good long while since I heard the reason, so that might be a bit off. Still, it's been the wip image even back in 2012 when I first started hanging around. /3/ was a wildly different place back then, that's for sure.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:36:34 UTC No. 999077
>>999071
ty, the plan™ needs a bunch of animations, just knocking out one I actually somewhat know how to do first
>>999060
idk. inspired by picrel. grew up in a very rural area and every other house had one of these out front.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:48:31 UTC No. 999099
>>999095
I'm going to be harsh with you but its because I see potential in you....
i think you need to challenge yourself more because right now what i see is very easy, like anyone could do it
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:00:29 UTC No. 999100
>>999099
by all means, harshness is why I post on 4chan instead if discord or reddit or something
>challenge yourself
so what do you recommend? that's quite broad but I'll give anything an honest try
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:25:25 UTC No. 999102
>>999100
you have to find something you're passionate about or else you won't do it. This can differ for everyone.
For me, I'm so into what I'm doing that I'm doing these subjects all the time, at home, at work on break, while I'm watching tv on my phone, when im driving in my car im listening to stuff thats related to what im doing. You have to find something big that you can do. You have to plan. You can create an animatic in resolve with images and videos
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:23:12 UTC No. 999104
>>999102
what a load of shit with zero feedback of any value
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:25:35 UTC No. 999105
>>999104
this
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:38:00 UTC No. 999106
>>999104
Re-read what i wrote. You are making extremely basic animations with keyframes. Me, I am planning like mad, making animatics, trying to stay at the front, coming up with new things that don't even come up with anything substantial on a google search. What this is, you have to find out because its personal for you. If you dont like what you are doing, you wont do it, period.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:45:25 UTC No. 999107
>>999106
that was a different anon but I kinda agree with him. you come off as a bit pretentious with this, whether that is your intention or not.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:48:38 UTC No. 999108
>>999107
I dont even know what pretense means.
You do you. I'll keep from replying to you from now on, but know this : what you posted is low effort. Most of what gets posted on this board is low effort.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:59:32 UTC No. 999109
>>999108
post your work then, let's see the high effort masterpieces you have created
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:20:12 UTC No. 999114
>>999110
Kek, please tell me you're not the raw chicken schizo and that you're just using his work as bait.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:23:53 UTC No. 999115
>>999114
It's they/them.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:24:36 UTC No. 999116
>>999110
I'd love to see your animatic for this
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:39:21 UTC No. 999119
>>999118
lol, learning fem and then vellum to a high level is so pointless and silly am i rite guise? Time to get some kind of meme to post from mah folder?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:45:19 UTC No. 999128
I'm messing with parallax eyes again. It might not be obvious how they're different from the previous parallax eyes I made. But in the previous one, I used a very difference node set up. all the difference are under the hood. I pretty much made my own displacement node. Doing so gave me a better idea about how this stuff works. And I was able to get the parallax scrolling to be more accurate. Now, when you turn then camera, it perfectly offsets.
Though, there is still a problem with it I have to work out. The work isn't done. As the nodes grow, it gets harder to identify the problems and fix them. I don't know exactly what's causing the problems.
I didn't go crazy with the displacement in pic related. Just gave it some subtle depth.
The cool thing about this is: it doesn't require UVs. So when I finally get a handle on this, then it should be entirely independent of pesky UV unwrapping.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:20:45 UTC No. 999138
>>999130
dont you think there should be more "thickness" to it? Like, everything looks like it has only one side now
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:51:06 UTC No. 999143
>>999138
Yeah I'll make a cloth sim to add cushion on the inside. Hopefully it turns out nice.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:00:13 UTC No. 999144
>>999143
why dont you just model it with thickness in plasticity, like you do in real cad when you have specs
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:45:06 UTC No. 999147
>>999144
Shelling is quite fickle when you have multiple joined surfaces. At least in plasticity, it tends to give undesirable results when you go too thick. It's already as thick as sheet metal, which is what I was going for, and even thicker in some places, like the interior of the helmet. Plus, I like the look of cloth padding. I'm thinking maybe a leather lining, but I haven't decided yet. Something like pic related.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:48:05 UTC No. 999148
>>999147
Maybe velvet. I think that might fit better than leather.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:04:39 UTC No. 999187
I had to follow a tutorial, but I got my first working rig. While the IKs work fine, I don't know why, after setting this up, I'm unable to manually rotate the shoulders. Has anyone got any good guides that could help?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:15:02 UTC No. 999212
Making a Scavengers Reign/Moebius inspired environment
Need to figure out how to modify the shader to get some of the shadows back into the scene
and work on the general landscape and foliage
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:42:11 UTC No. 999218
Getting closer, but not quite yet at what I want. Its going to require some work to get a artist defined sculpted shape to override the automatic tension line flex shape which my previous tool had in its toolkit by default. Because this is not present and I have not been able to attempt to implement this in houdini, I cannot currently match what I had in maya which had this feature
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:55:18 UTC No. 999220
progress is still being made. What I need to do now is duplicate and sculpt a target shape that will trigger upon flex because the default tension line method doesnt give enough control. Overall, excited with my progress, but I don't have much time to work
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:03:33 UTC No. 999263
>>999221
big flexa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g0
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:55:05 UTC No. 999586
>>999575
I hate everything to do with UVs and texturing. So today, I thought I would take a swing at coloring the model by volume. I got the nodes set up to create proximity with points that carry color information. And I was able to balance the colors, so they're all normalized perfectly. A couple problems were immediately apparent.
1. Because it's all proximity based, the points of the mesh often find themselves in a midway point between two colors. Resulting in a lot of color overlap that makes it all look blurry.
2. Again, because it's proximity based, the mesh looks all spotty and radial.
So, the difficult task, was to somehow give certain colors priority, to reduce the blue. While simultaneously making neighboring color points blend connect on the mash, eliminating the spotty look.
I managed to reduce the spottiness somewhat. But it's still apparent. I haven't figured out how to eliminate it.
I figured that by increasing the amount of points to sample from, it will reduce the spottiness enough to trick the eye. So I spent a lot of time working out how to do that. Managed it, and the results came out a little better. But not good enough. Still king of spotty in places, and the colors are still mixing heavily. I tried my luck at fully interpolating the points, and that made it worse. And by "fully", I mean that my first interpolation triangulated the points first, and then only interpolated between points that could see each other. While the second interpolation didn't have the triangulation limitation on. So it interpolated all the points. Turns out my triangualtion node is good for something after all, seeing as how it produced better results.
But anyway, the way I'm doing this really is a fruitless endeavor. I can never get precise enough control of the color via geometry nodes. I did learn some few things though. Node comprehension raised.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:56:20 UTC No. 999592
>>999586
Whatever you write is making less and less sense as time goes on.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:25:26 UTC No. 999595
>>999592
not him, but i would be frustrated if I was UVing and texturing in blender, too. It stinks. I suggest maya and substance painter
🗑️ Anonymous at Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:27:57 UTC No. 999596
>>999586
You're the most fucking retarded clown I've seen today. Download substance painter right now.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:26:35 UTC No. 999607
>>999592
Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't check my post before submitting. Reading back, I see some spelling and grammatical errors.
The short of it is this:
I can make the mesh read color information from floating points. But it doesn't look good. I tried to make it look good, but haven't found a suitable solution. Now I'm sad.
The silver lining, is that I leveled up my node skills, and I think my face topology is a lot better. The edge flow around the eyes in particular makes me happy. I finally feel like I made solid eyes. I can move them around, and they remain smooth, and fit well around the eyeballs.
The actual face shape isn't quite where I want it to be yet. But it's getting there. I started the face two days ago, and it was atrocious. Yesterday, I did a lot of work to make it appear human. Just human was enough for that day. Today, I got it looking more aesthetic. But I think it needs more work. It's not an economical head. Standing at 11,940 tris.
>>999596
Fuck... do I have to? The very idea of textures actually offends me. Like, how are we still using rasterized graphics to create color information for 3D graphics? Makes no sense when you really think about it. You should be able just "fill" the area around the model with the color you want.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:17:22 UTC No. 999628
>>999607
It's not because of spelling and grammatical errors. It's that you don't use words correctly.
With Ginecology Nodes alone and no math foundations you're not going to get anywhere.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:38:23 UTC No. 999630
>>999628
I'm curious to know how I'm using words wrong.
True, my math sucks. But I'm steadily increasing my understanding. I tried to get help from /sci/. And they did help a little. But they aren't very verbose over there. I guess math freaks all have the non-verbal kind of autism. Here are my posts:
>>>/sci/16445040
>>>/sci/16445234
>>>/sci/16446497
Barycentric coordinates may be what I'm looking for. Except the more I read into it, the more it seems to only fit a 3 point system. While I need something that works for an infinite amount of points. It's too hard for me to grasp anyway.
Regardless, I don't think the math is really the problem here. If I'm being honest with myself, the task my be impossible with nodes. I'm afraid of the reality that true control over blender will come from learning python. Which I really don't want to do.
I'm looking at "generated" uv coordinates now. It may be what I was looking for. A UV system that simply puts a box around the model, and then projects the texture onto the model by the box coordinates. I'm struggling to make it work right now. Not sure why texturing painting in material mode shows no change to the texture. But in the panel displaying sold mode, it does show the change. Weird. Blender's interface still feels so jank.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:57:22 UTC No. 999645
>>999630
Your lack of math foundations is the problem because it makes it impossible for you to understand the answers people give you.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:26:16 UTC No. 999649
>>999645
Fair point. However, an explanation would still help regardless. They speak the language of math. They know the lingo, the symbols and the shorthands. I don't. But, I'm still capable of understanding concepts when they're explained in a plain manner. Which nobody seems wants to do. Or maybe they're just incapable.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:10:56 UTC No. 999654
>>999649
I remember an exchange months ago where I told you something like: "you need to establish a metric" and you replied: "if by metric you mean..."
But the meaning of the word "metric" is not subjective. It's defined in math and it refers to a formula like "L = sqrt(a dot a)".
>Which nobody seems wants to do. Or maybe they're just incapable.
It's 100% a you problem. I've seen you ask variations of the same question for a year. I've seen several people giving you the correct answers several times and I've seen you ignoring the answers you were given.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:56:25 UTC No. 999656
>>999654
That doesn't sound familiar. No doubt I've made an ass of myself in the past. But I don't recall a situation where a metric was mentioned to me. And then subsequently, I try to redefine what metric means. Because I haven't been doing anything where a metric is relevant.(I don't think) And I probably wouldn't try to redefine a metric. But rather beg for a simplified explanation of what a metric is. So you probably have me confused with another guy.
I have been steadily improving at math. Last year, I had a poor grasp on normals and dot products and that kind of thing. The year before that, I had no fucking clue what those were. But today, I can visualize most vector functions in my head. If you tell me to get a dot product, I won't be confused like I used to be. I can just do it. Add, subtract, multiple, divide, normalize. These vector math concepts are memorized now. Rotation is still a little iffy.
I also don't recall receiving an answer for my current problem. I've asked a similar question before. Where I wanted to know how to tell if a point was inside of a triangle. That involved doing some area math with triangles, that I wasn't accustomed to doing. But I did eventually figure that one out. You're probably confusing that one with this one, because both illustrations show a point moving within a triangle.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:32:39 UTC No. 999657
>>999656
You're ignoring me.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:49:11 UTC No. 999658
get a room, autists
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:57:31 UTC No. 999659
>>999658
autism website
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:43:04 UTC No. 999664
>>999663
Nice, what sort of things did you find?
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:02:32 UTC No. 999666
>>999664
There's a lot of sloppiness which dates back 15 years. If you're able to read C code:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sn
It includes a fix for a self-shadowing bug that's in the internal renderer and, oddly enough, in Cycles too. I was planning to write an article at some point but I doubt I'll ever find the time.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:41:15 UTC No. 999693
For >>999660 and >>999663 I've left whatever comes out by default from MakeHuman untouched including the default skeleton. All I've done is I've attached some IK endpoints to the hands, feet and head. I didn't touch the mesh, I've done no weight painting, no shape keys, no drivers, no Geopolitical Nodes. Just bug fixes >>999666 to the IK system.
If you're a Blender user you'll likely never going to experience anything like this because looking at BCON, they're going in a completely different direction.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:23:39 UTC No. 999698
>>999607
We use textures because we have hardware that can draw billions of triangles a second with fixed functions for mapping textures to the perspective of the triangle.
3D graphics for surfaces is just approximating the contribution of light on that surface (or subsurface with materials that let some light scatter through them).
11,940 tris isn't bad for a face if it is the highest level of detail and you're not going to be doing any extreme close up shots of the eyes or mouth.
Your topology looks really good.
You should watch women's makeup tutorials for a headstart to making petty women.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:32:19 UTC No. 999701
>>999595
Substance painter yes, Maya no, Maya it's a waste of space
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:01:14 UTC No. 999706
>>999698
The thing that about 3D, that I have trouble accepting, is moving on to the next step of the process. I keep seeing ways to improve topology. But editing the mesh sees to break everything.
When you work with blender's particle hair system for example. If you make a change to the mesh while the hair is still connected. Then it causes your hair to scatter all crazily. The simple solution is to first disconnect the hair, and then work on the mesh, then re-connect the hair. Except, what if the hair is already hidden. Out of sight, out of mind, right? You go to change the mesh, without remembering to disconnect the hair. You make your changes, and save your work. You just saved the fucked up glitched hair, losing hours of work.
Similarly with textures, if you make changes to the surface of an object, the UV map gets all messed up, and you have to meticulously push it back into place. God forbid you unwrap the UV again, it re-proportions everything to account for the new geometry. Making everything misaligned.
These issues would be less of a problem if I could just stop fiddling with the mesh. But I can't help it. The more I look at it, the more I see things that can be fixed or improved upon. The idea that I just have to leave well enough alone, and move on to the next part of the process, really bothers me.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:36:52 UTC No. 999709
>>999706
Baking and projecting exist, this is not the 2000, you can break a model and reproject textures in a few minutes
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:41:56 UTC No. 999710
>>999709
How does that work? If I delete a face, then what does the texture bake/project to?
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:01:01 UTC No. 999711
>>999706
you should go through the standard process once to learn the hard way but there are way around most things now.
wrap3d will let you wrap bad topo to good basemeshes
will even transfer the texture over to match the new uv's
for character grooming, you never want to do the groom on the actual character mesh. separate the scalp mesh and groom on that. then you project and attach the scalp back onto your character.
that said, you should avoid constantly changing your topology because it's a PITA.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:01:34 UTC No. 999713
>>999706
I would look into blenders hair geonodes. The old system is ass and not worth anyone's time.
>>999709
This would be good advice but Blender's baking is dogshit for retaining details in the original model. You will lose a lot of information doing this.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:03:10 UTC No. 999714
>>999711
>separate the scalp mesh
just to be explicit, i mean duplicate and separate - don't just leave your character mesh scalpless
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:12:40 UTC No. 999718
>>999711
I know of the scalp trick. Why does it need a scalp anyway? The strands of hair all have their own point in space. They should just work relatively off that
Even Geometry node hair requires that you have a clean UV unwrap, in order to make the hair work properly.(Overlapping UVs cause confusion and slow down for geo hair)
I'm probably going to do geonode hair. But honestly, I get lost in the sauce. Nodes are convoluted. Even trying to use their prebuilt assets, it still requires you build the nodes in the correct order, and then you have a hundred variables to tweak. I'm just whining now. I just hate how fragile everything feels in 3D. It's like setting up a house of cards. The taller the stack, the more prone everything is to falling apart. I never feel like "ok, that's locked in." It's always "I hope this doesn't break." And then it breaks.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:30:49 UTC No. 999722
>>999718
Maths is hard anon. Data structures for flexible creativity are going to leave you aimless.
If you want to just make a female goblina then use DAZ or just knuckle down and spend time trying shit and reading documentation/source code.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:34:11 UTC No. 999723
>>999718
the roots for hair curves will store their position on the mesh either using:
1. uv space
2. primitive number + intrinsic primitive uv's from the rest pose
this allows them to look up attributes from the mesh or from uv space, including but not limited to, colour and animated position information. these position lookups are fast and precise.
i haven't done a groom in a bit, but in houdini it is possible for guides/groom to exist separate from the mesh/scalp (usually something's gone wrong if you're here). houdini will actually allow you to just do a new look up from a different mesh. in this case the 'fragility' you're feeling is probably because:
1. you don't know what you're doing
2. most dcc's are designed as programs for artists and will try and abstract away a lot of stuff and ask users to work in certain ways so they don't have to deal with technical problems
for 2. there are usually tools buried somewhere for technical artists to come in and save the day.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:20:45 UTC No. 999825
Made some changes to nose and mouth. Now there's a lot more geometry to shape the nostrils and nose tip, and bridge gets 6 sides instead of 4, for more roundness. Gave lips more geometry for shape. And I found the magic loop that made the inner eye corners look more natural. They eyelids feel even more solid before. So I celebrated by making a shape key. Look at that topology. Clean.
Also played with hair nodes. But it looks really shoddy right now.
Stumbled into a node called "point density". It sounds like a node that's made to perform the color volume stuff I was doing. Except, I can't get it to work that way. And all of the tutorials are like 9 years old. using the old versions of Blender. I found 1 tutorial that shows it working how I want, but following his steps doesn't yield any results. It literally just creates blank black material. And the comments are off on the video, so I can't even see what others have to say about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kog
>>999722
>If you want to just make a female goblina then use DAZ
Nah. I want to make my own thing.
>>999723
What's DCC?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:36:53 UTC No. 999831
>>999825
And of course editing topology breaks shape keys. I edit the the cheeks, then deleted half the mesh and symmetrize. Somehow, the right eyelid now malfunctions when the shape key is turned on. How the actual fuck does a symmetrized mesh, not have symmetrical shape keys?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:38:02 UTC No. 999834
>>999831
editing topo breaks shape keys but it doesnt break what is actually being used in the industry for years (see avatar way of water) which doesnt use shape keys but simulation driven by mocap.
tldr. Dont use outdated shape key workflow
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:41:39 UTC No. 999836
>>999834
The way of water uses machine learning for driving facial deformation because they had the time and money to crunch all that facial data.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:51:45 UTC No. 999837
>>999836
the way of water uses mocap and tissue simulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQ
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:15:22 UTC No. 999847
Welp, blender started slowing down for no reason. Went down every object and checked the modifier stacks and materials. Can't find the culprit.
I guess that's enough Blender for one day.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:46:11 UTC No. 999856
>>999713
>This would be good advice but Blender's baking is dogshit
You can use the dozens of free software to bake, I never said anything about blender
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:51:09 UTC No. 999857
>>999710
To the original texture anon, you want to modify the mesh and keep the texture.
You project the old mesh on the new one with the new UV and bake the textures from the old mesh.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:04:35 UTC No. 999870
>>999869
FUCK wrong board ENTIRELY
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 01:49:50 UTC No. 1000054
>>999837
>avatar 2009
Don't be wrong on the internet.
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:32:48 UTC No. 1000058
>>999834
>>999836
>>999837
>>1000054
Doesn't matter, because I'm not going to use AI or Motion capture for faces. I'm not shooting for full realism. Face capture was a mistake. Everything looks uncanny now, because everything uses face capture.
Also, I figured out what is causing blender to lag. For some reason, my mere 12k face mesh, magically obtained over 2 million verts. I tried all kinds of things to make it go away. But I just couldn't find the excess verts. Eventually, I used select by trait: loose geometry. It selected a single loose vert. This vert, I place deliberately in order to always have a centered vert to help with symmetry. Since I can always rely on it being dead center to the X axis, even if everything else changes.
Well... somehow all 2M excess verts were concentrated in that one position. So they all appeared like a single vert. Amazing. I'm not sure what I did to get 2M verts concentrated there. I have no clue when it happened.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:33:50 UTC No. 1000059
>>1000054
You didnt watch the video. The video is clearly Avatar 2. They go over all the new tech. READ the description of the video, it goes all over Avatar TWO
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 05:51:36 UTC No. 1000069
Invalid surface UVs on all the curves. Why?
Why does god sent Blender to me to make me suffer?
I don't know what causes this, why it matters, or how to fix it. I'm entirely lost. First of all, what even is the surface deformer even doing? Secondly, why is it a unique node that can't be created by the user? So if I delete it, then what? It's just fucking gone? How do I get it back? How do I reset it?
Hang on, let me consult the manual.(lol)
Wait shit, the manual actually helped for once. It was in a roundabout way. But it helped. I have to begrudgingly admit. If you run into this situation, here's the problem:
You changed the topology and/or UV of the mesh. The curves don't know where their roots should be on the UVs anymore. You have to tell them to re-detect the surface. Go to the hair's sculpt mode, and then Curves > Snap to nearest surface. That should do it.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:37:25 UTC No. 1000076
>>998180
How do I randomly move the UVs of each of these marble columns so that they don't all look the same? It's an array + curve modifier and I have turned into a single mesh
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:40:13 UTC No. 1000095
>>1000077
There's a UV offset option in the array modifier that you can use to offset each instance's UVs. 0.5 or 1.0 will probably give shit results, but anything that aren't those values should work. You can offset the U and V separately, so I'd do that as well.
All of this is assuming your columns aren't using fancy pants unwraps and are more or less laid out pretty flat on the UV space.
If you're using something like object coordinates in your shader, you can use something like this to offset them as well. You still need UV coordinates for it to work, but you don't have to do any work unwrapping your objects, just go into edit mode and U>Unwrap and take it as is (they can even be scaled to 0 as well). Then just tweak the UV offset in the modifier to get it to shit out a random value per object.
Then just use that random value to drive XYZ location of a texture coordinates node (optionally using a map range in between to make it go more than 0-1).
That's all slightly more advanced though, so just using the modifier's offset would be easiest.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:57:22 UTC No. 1000101
>>1000095
Thank you fren, I totally missed the UV property
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:12:50 UTC No. 1000102
>>1000101
No problemo. A few modifiers have that as well. Mirror is one I know for sure, not as useful with that one, but there's certain cases where it's perfect.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:00:52 UTC No. 1000134
>>1000059
You're an idiot and I have work to do.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:12:41 UTC No. 1000135
>>1000069
make your own thread if you want to write blogs about every retarded mistake you make, bro
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:58:00 UTC No. 1000139
>>1000134
what? The video came out when avatar 2 came out. It details what avatar 2 improved upon avatar 1 and MCU stuff. It shows this in video and writes about this in the video description. What is wrong with you?
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:03:02 UTC No. 1000140
>>999130
Almost finished. I was going to put some buttons on it, but I'd hate to ruin it with too much stuff. Maybe I'll put some stitching decals on the inner fabric, and of course the mandatory, half torn off pokemon stickers.
I'll model the female next.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:03:35 UTC No. 1000144
>>1000140
It's coming along nicely but what is that? Some kind of covid mask for LGBT folks?
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:11:39 UTC No. 1000145
>>1000144
It's a helmet for ladies (female (not ma'ams)).
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:11:08 UTC No. 1000191
Not sure if this is progress post worthy, but it's the first not a tutorial project I've tried. The blade tip needs adjusting and the guard needs much more work, but it looks like I'm on track to finishing something for once.
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:06:30 UTC No. 1000205
>>1000191
Nice, looks good anon, keep with the good work
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:08:09 UTC No. 1000207
>>1000144
Looks alien I like the design, not sure about the colour
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:36:45 UTC No. 1000219
>>999095
T-bot? That you?
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:30:00 UTC No. 1000223
>>1000135
I guess I was oversharing a little bit. I'll try to contain my complaining.
>>999825
Made some changes to the topology yet again. More looks going down the length of the nose. Felt it was necessary to sculpt the planes of the nose. Now the bridge is distinct. The nostrils are better defined. Still not sure of the topology is optimal, so it might change again.
I finally buckled down and learned hair. I think I get it now. Like really get it. It finally clicked, and I'm comprehending. But even so, it's not easy. It's going to take some time to refine. It's pretty messy as it is now.
Glad the model finally has eyebrows too.
Created a procedural skin texture. And then painted in the pink around her lips and eyes, and some blush here and there. The UV map is atrocious. >>999857 I need to learn this now. Is there any more insight you can give me? I'm not really understanding what you mean. Note: I never baked a texture before. And what does "projection" mean in this context exactly?
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:02:27 UTC No. 1000274
>>1000191
Looks very nice and clean, anon. Good work. Will you keep it low poly, or will you add a subdiv?
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:55:06 UTC No. 1000277
>>1000191
You didn't take my advice about connecting the grooves. Check out the official model, they use triangles to connect the grooves, like I suspected. Though, admittedly, I was wrong about two of the spots I circled in my previous image. Still, the other 3 spots are simple triangle connections.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:01:31 UTC No. 1000284
>>1000146
>>1000153
I've asked several times and it's been explained to me several times but I still don't know what the fuck is happening here. What is the point?
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:32:48 UTC No. 1000287
>>1000138
awesome!
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:56:06 UTC No. 1000289
>>1000284
I make those short clips when I'm working on some aspect of my own "animation system", which is really a number of patches on top of Blender 2.76. For testing purposes.
Since the Blender developers seem to be busy discussing HRT brands or whatever they do at the compound and I happen to be a developer as well... But don't worry because nothing of what you see is ever going to become mainstream, just enjoy the clips if you like them.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:43:46 UTC No. 1000292
>>1000274
The guard has taken me twice as long as every other aspect so far, so I'm tempted but gotta do it right.
>>1000277
I put some but not enough, didn't have time to do the grooves before work. I didn't have a reference of the top of the wings, didn't know they were diamonds. Making the golden crest on the hilt was easier but makes the inset for the pommel harder.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:45:27 UTC No. 1000316
>>1000207
The color isn't set on stone. I myself am not really satisfied with it. It's too aggressive. I want something softer. I'm hoping for something that will make people think, "oh, that's a flower!" Maybe a soft pink with the inner petals in a lighter tone.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:03:37 UTC No. 1000320
>>1000316
it looks a lot better with opaque materials than with the transparent glass material. I could see it looking good if it stays opaque and was textured nicely, but as of now with the glass it looks a lot worse than it does in the grey opaque viewport
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:24:53 UTC No. 1000321
>>1000320
Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it's because the glass just looks bad, or is it the interior that is not interesting enough?
I could make it into an opaque visor, but that's a completely different aesthetics than what I'm going for... It's supposed to be cute and delicate, not menacing.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:40:19 UTC No. 1000328
>>1000287
Thank you anon-kun, I'm glad you like it
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:18:27 UTC No. 1000378
>>1000316
If you're going for a flower bud, then I think the design is bad. Because all of the detail that marks it as a flower, are very high and on top of the head, where it's barely visible at all. Looking from the front view image, it just looks like a huge cone head with a notch in it. I thought you were going for cone headed aliens.
What I would do, is begin the bevels of the petals much lower on the helmet. the outer most pedals would look better lower. Like one of the outer petals should bevel around the ear piece. The visor itself is part of one big petal, and so it terminates lower too. And then fill in more petals from there. You don't have to follow the lines I drew exactly. I might have drawn too many petals. Dunno. But it should get the idea across.
As for color, perhaps make the outermost petals a different color from the rest. As flower buds tend to show, the outer/lower petals seem to take on the color of the stalk. Which is typically green. But you can make it not-green. Since purple appears to be her color scheme, then make the outer petals purple, so they fuse with the rest of her suit. And then the rest of the petals are that gray color metallic color you're using for trim. Or perhaps, a brighter whiter tone. But then it transitions from white to a third color. Like a pink. Again, you don't have to follow my color scheme exactly. But I'd advise not sticking with a single monotone purple for the entire head. It makes everything look too uniform. Doesn't help convey a flower.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:51:35 UTC No. 1000387
>>1000378
Thanks. That makes sense. I think I got the method down now that I can do this in a few hours instead of the days it took me the first time around.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:07:52 UTC No. 1000425
Does anyone have a vid or can tell me how to do animations with multiple camera angles? As in switching between cameras/removing them after the angle is done with? Not sure if I've explained that very well.
Is it just a case of having cameras in the scene and keyframing them as you need them?
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:30:51 UTC No. 1000429
I have a question about a problem: I imported my fucking model to mixamo and downloaded the animation with mesh so i can have the rig ingrained in the mesh since i dont have a rig, but the fucking model came back with wrong materials like the hat which is transparent and i don't see any fucking way of fixing it.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:01:43 UTC No. 1000511
>>1000316
Why not a gradient? Like those lotus flowers
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:38:28 UTC No. 1000531
>>1000529
The turnaround is shit, but the model is good. I think the texturing is a little to clean, but that's really just my personal opinion. Not everything needs to look weathered.
Nice job, anon. Proud of u.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:31:09 UTC No. 1000561
>>1000531
thanks man. i think it looks a bit too clean as well, i was kinda cautious with the wear and tear because i didn't want to make it seem like i just lazily threw some edge wear and dust filters, while they look cool they also make too much of a presence, so i just made it them very subtle.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:27:39 UTC No. 1000562
>>1000561
>i didn't want to make it seem like i just lazily threw some edge wear and dust filters
Literally me when I make a weapon
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 02:47:47 UTC No. 1000586
Took a break from human head to work on cat head.
It's an old model, but revitalized with all new cleaner topology.
I'm trying to get over my fear of texturing, so I painted it a little.
Added fur. It cost a lot of tris, but not too much. Nearly doubles the tri count. Which, is about the cost of an inverted hull outline. So it's not a big problem. I just wish I had a more efficient method.
I wanted to do something very different for fur. Inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wf
Tried to recreate it in geometry nodes. But it seems some coding is required to truly make it work.
Also encountered what I think is a bug with sampling points in geometry nodes.
I also revamped my eyes system to require zero geometry nodes. And a lot fewer shader nodes. Basically, I figured out that using texture coordinates set to object, and making the object an empty, get all that data I was transferring from geometry nodes automatically.
Discovered a pretty bad flaw in my eyes system though. Eyes can look wonky from the side. But luckily, it should be fixable by just having good eye topology.
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 08:14:14 UTC No. 1000597
>>1000584
Are you using blender? If so, are you using the layer weight node?
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 15:09:54 UTC No. 1000618
>>1000591
Don't give up alchemy lab kun, I believe in you, 's looking good so far
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:55:35 UTC No. 1000652
>>1000643
test with imported suzanne. Getting closer (have constant line widths of a few set widths that respect dot product) but still am missing a lot from the shading technique I use when I execute a specific rendering style in ink in traditional media with fineliners
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 06:29:14 UTC No. 1000693
>>1000652
Not bad, but I think the problem with toon shaders is the ambiguous shading of large areas that don't really mesh well with the line. Like it doesn't come across as actual shading like you'd see in an illustration, but moreso just a 3d artifact. This isn't just a problem with yours though, it's an issue with like 90% of toon shaders.
Which is why I think the best toon shaders don't even bother shading. It's mostly flat colors and lines.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:32:38 UTC No. 1000700
>>1000586
Check it out. I figured out how to make fur with textures.
It took me HOURS to figure out how to give these faces proper UV coordinates. They're all individual squares, so it should be easy. All I had to do was plot the 4 corners of each square to the coordinates (0,0,0) (0,1,0) (1,0,0) and (1,1,0). That's literally it. It took me FOREVER to figure it out. And the solution ended up being relatively easy. My solution avoids the UV unwrapping node too. Which is great, because that node is slow.
After that, I stumbled into another problem. The textures were not in the proper order. As in, ones that should be in front, were in back. It was some kind of depth issue. At first I thought it was because all the squares shared UV coordinates. So I fixed that by making them sit next to each other. Because the texture repeats, they still showed the texture normally, save for the depth problem that persisted. Then I changed the blending method from alpha blend to alpha hashed. That fixed the problem. Don't know why, but alpha blend seems to have depth issues. Which is a shame, because it blends better than alpha hashed, which is all grainy. Alpha clipped also works, but I don't prefer the sharp edges it creates.
After that, I came up with a way for the fur to lay down. I might not be able to sculpt it. But at least, when it's laid down at an angle, it covers more of the underlying mesh, and it appears to give the fur a pattern. Rather than just sticking straight out.
From here, I can improve it by making better and more varied fur textures. Plus, refining the weights that affect fur length.
I also fixed the sampling problem from before. It wasn't a bug, it was user error.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:26:00 UTC No. 1000708
>>1000693
Thanks for the feedback dood. This is what I'm going for. Line weights set by physically switching to different set width fineliners. A "reflective" style where the outside edges have lots of specular fresnel, always. I saw this style in a book on drawing and shading comic book super heroes
I am trying to translate this into a shader as a challenge. I tried the built in toon pipeline of prman to get the above, but now I feel like I have to explore the prmanOSL node
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:17:24 UTC No. 1000717
>>1000708
looks like osl in prman has practically no features and blender is much more full featured
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 11:18:18 UTC No. 1000761
>>998180
I am this anon >>1000138
Made more clothes for a not-Fallout but smaller in scope (you have a safehouse and select locations a-la Hitman Freelancer, instead of there being an open world) and with anthros I'm creating with a coder man. We're using Unreal 4.
If any sound + music guy is interested to join our team feel free to share your portfolio, if your work suits our project I'll get back to you, cheers
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:40:46 UTC No. 1000772
I was able to redo the petals with minimal effort yesterday. That's a lot more petals, redoing all the nice washouts will take a while. Whether it will look like a flower or not only after shading to know.
>>1000511
That's an interesting idea. In the end, I think I'll end up having to unwrap this and paint a base layer by hand.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 19:30:05 UTC No. 1000789
>>1000138
furry freak
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 22:50:47 UTC No. 1000795
>>1000789
I can't deny it
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:07:36 UTC No. 1000799
>>1000795
Based
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:42:02 UTC No. 1000835
Reposting from /v/.
After identifying a problem with my eye projection method, I got to thinking on how to really make a circle that's impervious to edge distortion. After some experimentation, it seems like a way to do that, is to project everything onto the camera. This is something I've done in geometry nodes before. But shader nodes work a little differently. It wasn't as intuitive. Still, after some node bashing, I got it working.
The webm displays a circle getting distorted by edges at first, and then it's swapped out for the new nodes, which display a circle impervious to edges.
I'm still uncertain about how to make the circle stay in place. Because it's a projection back onto the camera, the circle is always centered on the screen. I need to figure out how to offset the position in such a way that it sticks to point in space.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:45:28 UTC No. 1000836
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 22:20:57 UTC No. 1000853
>>1000223
You can use rightclick>"Pin" in UV editor to lock in the unwrapped vertices. If you hit unwrap again it will unwrap every "un-pinned" face based on the pin vertices
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 05:04:51 UTC No. 1000866
>>1000853
Sounds nice. I can't make it work though. I can pin the vertices just fine. but selecting unwrap makes all the unpinned vertices unwrap in full scale. taking up as much space as they can. Not following the flow of the pinned vertices at all.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 06:06:09 UTC No. 1000874
>>1000866
Did you ctrl A> Apply rotation and scale ? Also on the UV panel , press D or check bottom left for the Unwrap settings , try messing around with them
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 06:35:35 UTC No. 1000879
>>1000874
>Did you ctrl A> Apply rotation and scale ?
They're applied and neutral.
>press D or check bottom left for the Unwrap settings
??? Pressing D gets zero reaction from blender. Literally nothing to see in the bottom left. What function did you think was assigned to D?
Wait, I just figured out the problem. After I pinned the vertices, I was independently selecting the loose vertices and unwrapping them. The solution was to simply select the loose AND pinned vertices. I guess I should have tried that, but I didn't think of it.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 07:13:16 UTC No. 1001055
>>1001034
this rat seems familiar, is it from an anime or something?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 13:16:57 UTC No. 1001065
>>1001058
Beetles are beautful though how could you possible be yucked by those? They're adorable, you should look at the sheer intent those little fuckers push balls of shit around like their life depended upon it, it's inspiring man
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 19:40:18 UTC No. 1001086
>>1000429
is it transparent or the normals are just flipped?
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 08:24:16 UTC No. 1001141
>>1001085
>>1001140
that's why it felt familiar, an aspie, it's a small world
try setting your color management to Standard when working on NPR models, Filmic is the default for Blender and it looks dark and washed out
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 08:31:15 UTC No. 1001143
>>1001141
That's something I noticed as I was texturing, Blender's colors looked washed out and nothing like the colors I was putting down in the texture itself
By the way, what does NPR stand for?
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 08:33:36 UTC No. 1001145
>>1001143
Non Photorealistic Rendering, as opposed to PBR which stands to Physically Based Rendering (realistic)
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:14:32 UTC No. 1001231
>>1001221
Right, don't texture 3d models in clip studio paint.
If texture painting in blender bothers you that much, use an external program that's designed for 3d texturing like substance painter.
But really texture painting in blender should be fine.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:30:37 UTC No. 1001232
>>1001231
>substance painter
>SaaS shit
>Adobe shit
No.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:34:53 UTC No. 1001234
>>1001232
Right, I mean it's your workflow, whatever, but I really don't see what about the texture on the character really requires you to open up an external program to paint onto a UV mapped texture instead of, you know, painting onto the model directly.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:41:37 UTC No. 1001236
>>1001231
How do you keep substance painter from shitting all over the entire texture map when you paint on model and happen to get a little too close to the edge of the UV? Its horrible. Shit scribbles all over the place.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:02:07 UTC No. 1001238
>>1001236
I don't use substance painter, I manage with blender's built in features.
It's admittedly not the best but it beats manually editing in CSP.
Texture paint has that problem too sometimes, just make sure you're only painting on selected faces and if there's a problem with seams use your clone tool and have a large enough margin between UV islands.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:24:24 UTC No. 1001288
>>1001231
Blender's built-in texture painter leaves a LOT to be desired
CSP's brush engine alone makes it my go-to for anything 2D. Plus, I find it much more convenient to just export the UV layout and overlay it on top of my texture in CSP and work that way. Realtime updating is literally the only thing missing from my workflow
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:53:20 UTC No. 1001419
>>1001406
mogged by the cute lil rat maid a few posts above
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:04:48 UTC No. 1001452
>>1001451
im mean just go into scuplt mode and drag out those ears until they look elvish
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:01:22 UTC No. 1001515
>>998180
Modeled, rigged and textured my double barrel shotgun, for the most part anyway, I only need to add some damage detail to the Diffuse and generate height + roughness + metallic maps. Might make some color changes too
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:48:44 UTC No. 1001653
I wish /3/ was as active as /ic/
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:54:53 UTC No. 1001654
>>1001653
I don't.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:03:11 UTC No. 1001687
>>1000134
>2m verts in a point
Sounds like you're the idiot.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:04:14 UTC No. 1001688
>>999134
>To be reborn as my fursona.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:03:27 UTC No. 1001731
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:38:37 UTC No. 1001848
>>1001761
>>1001779
It's a nice, tight, low poly model. And yet, I still think it would look better if you spent more polygons rounding out the ears.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:11:41 UTC No. 1001852
>>1001848
It's not low poly, I tried the low poly style for this model initially but I'm too used to quads and good topology and every time I made a triangle I felt like I was being stabbed. So instead I pulled out every 3D modeling technique I know and didn't particularly care about the poly count
It's around 12k polys I think (and 2k of those are the frilly skirt under the outside skirt) but I agree, it would've come out better if I had spent more polygons rounding out the ears
I also set it up for VRM for funsies. This was the initial prototype, I fixed the hair and added a blink shapekey and my friend already debuted it on his stream :)
https://files.catbox.moe/crfv6m.mp4
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:19:00 UTC No. 1001859
>>1001221
there are a couple tricks, you can save your clip project file as a psd instead, Blender can read photoshop files
I've just heard about a plugin that auto reload files but I haven't tested it yet
https://extensions.blender.org/add-
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:18:07 UTC No. 1001878
>>1001852
>12k polys
Thats still considered low poly. It just isn't what people think of when they hear low poly, theyre thinking ps2 or n64 looking ass shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:17:34 UTC No. 1001884
>>1001852
>but I agree, it would've come out better if I had spent more polygons rounding out the ears
You should do it, if it's not too much trouble. Looks like you use blender. So go to your addons/extensions, and go to F2, and enable the function that preserves UVs as you edit.(pic related)
It shouldn't interfere with the UVs you already have. It should only place new geometry where it thinks it should go, in relation to the UVs that are already there. Still, it would be prudent to create a new UVmap over in object data properties. Because when you create a new uvmap, it copies your current uvmap. So in case something goes sideways, you will have a copy preserved.
Alternatively, you could just billboard the ears. Using Alpha to cut out a perfectly round shape. And then sticking the billboard in the front of the rest of the ear shape.
>>1001878
12k is higher than your average PS2 game model. Check it out: https://polycount.com/discussion/12
For example: In the first Jak and Daxter, Jak's model was 4,000 tris. In the second game, it was bumped up to 10,000.
For Zelda: Wind Waker Link was 2,800 tris. twilight Princess Link was 6,900
12k seems to be right on the cusp, where a PS2 game might push that high for a complex model. Or a PS3 game might go that low for an economical model. For example, Alan Wake's model is 13,437 tris. And Alice from Madness Returns is 11,748 tris. Those are on the low end of the PS3/Xbox36 era. That era seems to average about 18k.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:22:44 UTC No. 1001886
>>1001686
>>1001685
Looks ok. I see the vision. You have to define the lids of her eyes. It's an intimidating task, but needs to be done. Best start learning now, so you're not 50 heads deep, and still struggling with eyes. Also the shape of her lips could be defined a little more too.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:41:37 UTC No. 1001887
>>1001852
>frilly skirt
GIWTWM
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:59:10 UTC No. 1001889
>>1001888
You're asking the wrong guy about texturing. But I know that you need to retopologize before you think about texturing. Or, you can say "fuck texturing", and just paint on top of your sculpts. Some people do that, but it's not recommended if you're trying to create a fully poseable character that can be viewed at any angle.
So start looking up retopology and UV stuff first. Learn how to unwrap and texture a simple box first, to get the general idea, and then move up to more complex shapes.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:05:09 UTC No. 1001890
>>1001889
ah okay, thank you.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:28:21 UTC No. 1001915
>>1001731
Thank you anon-kun, I'm pleased to hear you like it
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:37:20 UTC No. 1001918
>>1001852
How long have you been modeling for?
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:55:32 UTC No. 1001942
I did this pretty much entirely in 3/4 persp, it doesn't shit itself in a basic turnaround, right?.
Anyway, i was an utter fool to think that i could go beyond donuts, i'm 2 gay 4 this.
Peace.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:20:34 UTC No. 1001948
>>1001942
wow amazing i love it
blog?
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:04:24 UTC No. 1001973
how are we looking? struggling with arms and shoulders, I feel like they're always either too big or too small. plus idk what to do with the shoulder topology here to make it deform well without adding a shitload of extra geometry
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:13:47 UTC No. 1001981
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Anonymous at Tue, 19 Nov 2024 05:43:31 UTC No. 1001984
>>1001981
hey I'm a retard and i just read the earlier posts, disregard this
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:53:50 UTC No. 1001988
>>1001611
I like him
Anonymous at Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:00:27 UTC No. 1002150
>>1002139
looks pretty good
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:57:26 UTC No. 1002176
>>1002158
Must... Fuck...
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:34:35 UTC No. 1002178
>>1002166
are you sure they don't look washed out because of the dark red background?
I tried color picking elements with >>1002116 and only the hair has very different colors
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:10:28 UTC No. 1002181
>>1002178
Nah, not him but I had the same problem once. Some blender retardation about color space.
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:37:27 UTC No. 1002183
>>1001942
Trying to get the basic shape of this *happy camper*, needs looooots of retouching later on, Never used voronoi/gradient procedurals before, can't get my rusty ass image textures to work on the machinery either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEE
>>1001948
Pls no sarcasm ;-;
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:11:38 UTC No. 1002201
>>1002153
Clean. Nice cuck shed.
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:47:28 UTC No. 1002214
>>1002181
Did you ever figure out a solution?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:18:14 UTC No. 1002216
>>1002158
>>1002211
You're really good at this. I really wish I could make bodies that look that attractive. How many years have you been training to get good at this?
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:35:23 UTC No. 1002217
>>1002211
Whoa, what? 4chan allows mp4s now? When did that happen?! Oh thank god. I can finally just upload without converting everything.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:36:16 UTC No. 1002218
>>1002216
I began modelling in 2019, but only started sculpting in early 2021.
her body's an anatomical disaster, lol. but thank you, i appreciate it
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:37:56 UTC No. 1002219
>>1002217
yeah, i was equally surprised. honestly great, webm sux
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:57:36 UTC No. 1002222
>>1002211
you did the easy part, the still model. The animation is the tricky part.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:33:34 UTC No. 1002224
>>1002105
idk if i want to get more complex with textures, i already fucking suck at it. have access to substance painter but i can barely figure it out so i just use kirta and blenders default texturing
>>1002211
mp4s? on 4chan? that's the one good change they've made since like... 2012.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:44:11 UTC No. 1002225
>>1002222
animating isn't really much of a tricky part for me atleast. rigging is actually the tricky part. it was also not really easy to model this