/3/ - 3DCG

>>928985
Exaaaactly. There's the boilerplate reasoning of "we want to keep updated on le drivers n'setch" but if that were the case, they were dropping the ball already on height detection and retargeting / importing tutorials (they're really just pushing the streaming tutorials, which are halfass, and of course you can't test it unless you bought the streaming tier subscription).

Also, it bears repeating: no technical support for your $4,000 suit setup unless you pay for a premium subscription.

Just like with other high-dollar plugins that require subscription, I don't want the first chunk of my time using that software going through the learning curve, which was a little steep those first few weeks just importing and retargeting.

Unreal itself is great, no fees for standard use (free until you make your first million is the idea, anyway). There's a few shortcomings in cloth out of the box, leading to plugins like Draper (worth looking at). Otherwise, I have very few complaints.

Can't complain about Unreal, it was my mistake to start learning at the tail end of 4, just to relearn it now at 5 with some pretty big differences. I'd say now is the absolute best time to get into it and learn.

There's a lot to cover still on the "jiggle and swish" but it's been a fun ride so far

>>928998
can you add mulitple normal maps to the shirt and fade between them in sync with the animation to make dynamic wrinkles?
sort of like shape keys helping with bending knees for example, but for clothes

>>929025
In Blender, all those weights will transfer over, but there's no real way to start that in unreal. Once things are weighted right, then you can take it into chaos cloth and customize from there.
What I've done with the two gifs above is take the Matrix city sample player character (which they've modeled with slightly bigger assets than the standard female-tall-normalweight model), and steal her clothes. They've put a bunch of effort into those maps to get this.

>>928967

For that read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

Also read this: https://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/mi%20table.htm

Also read this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4492868/Study-finds-taste-movies-highly-idiosyncratic.html


And If you are Ugandan read this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jun/03/what-does-meat-taste-of-flavours

Rapid gun fire

This is a funny meme, but I often wonder if all the time investment we, as a collective, put into this shit is worth it. Imagine the amount of hours spent across the world just to perfect some roughness maps on 3D props across the world. For what exactly, at the end of the way? How will that ultra photorealism push the humanity forward in any way? Okay, unless metaverse and full virtual reality is the future, then it may be useful, but not in a good way.

I'm looking at myself, okay, I'm getting better and better at creating some virtual objects for some games - am I really using my life to the fullest potential? What if I invested more time in learning something that mattered and people benefited more from my work, AND I could have found equal joy in it too, if only I knew. In a way, this is one of the most pointless industries you can be in, we're not creating personal art anyway, we're all mostly just shallow content generators.

Convince me that this is a retarded thinking and I'm wrong, hopefully without the "at the end of the way nothing matters, just do what you enjoy" argument.

>>928994
please ignore the writing errors, my IQ drops when I go to 4chan and I don't bother rereading posts

>>928994
>>928995
less contemplation more content creation, asset monkey

>>928963
Pretty much. I had high hopes. Animation is good but rigging is an afterthought at best. Maya is still King.

>>928990
Isn't this an animation tool and not a rigging tool? Of course you'd build the rig in a different software and maybe use this tool to make some as-needed edits and adjustments.

>>928992
you cant get your rig into it, you cant reapply a maya "bridge" rig while in it, it breaks down when you jump, and you sure as hell cant export a rig

>getting bought, tech-gutted and then phased out by Autodesk in
>3
>2
>1

>>929037
That would be the best case scenario.

autorig pro 3.66

>>928943
still searching for this one : https://thiagoklafke.gumroad.com/l/environmentartmastery

>>928948
Read the OP it's in one of the links. I think /3/ might one of the most spoonfed community on this site. I even have to make nearly every important general except for /wip/ when they reach bump limit and I never have to anywhere else

>>928952
sligthly unrelated but I wish that piracy was less paywalled. I've been searching for a lot of courses and although course club has a lot of them they don't make it easy to download without paying up.
So often now these file storage sits that used to just be bad are now doing max 20kb/s speeds.
What happened to the good old days when everything was just torrents.

>>928953
course club is cool, CGPersia is the worst. On course club you have only 1 minute of waiting time and you can be smart about so you don't waste any time. It's also fast to download.
But yeah I wish everything was torrents too.

Your mother

>>928914
I once rendered Aldebaraan in real scale. It was so big the file was like 900kb.

>>928914
This is to scale, the whole landscape is about 2x2km. Size is not too difficult to deal with, but there are some weird camera settings you have to pay attention to in some DCCs

>>928879
Royalty free doesn't mean public domain, it means you pay a fee upfront for usage but no further fees

>>928879
polyhaven.com/textures

I'm pretty sure you have a very high resolution camera in your pocket RN. Go take pictures of walls and dirt.

>>929007
This is a great idea as well. Just try to take the pictures on a overcast day when the sun is high in the sky. You want as flat of lighting as you can get.

Ethan is a faggot, why would you spend even a single dollar on anything having to do with him? How can you call him "seething" when you're apparently willing to spend hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars to "own him"? God damn, anon.

>>928877
based patron of the arts

>extremely detailed
Around 20k

>>928877
Hi, I am Sanjay Khatun and I can do the work in 2 weeks for 50$, you can be sure that your project will be in good hands, I have 17 years of experience in the industry.

If the cost seems very high we can discuss it and reach an agreement.

>>928877
are you that alexander the great schizo?

Is Cris legitimately mentally ill? He literally goes from sucking XYZ product's dick endlessly to shitting on it relentlessly and back again every five minutes.

>>928870
You can love a product and still be realistic about why it's not good anon.

>>928865
Correct
Be a nigger elsewhere

still using 2.2, these updates are fucking garbage

>check new features on the official blender.org video recap of "le new features"
>their newest and most exciting feature they lead off with is some useless grease pencil shit

stop with the point releases already

>>928840
>I learned so many useful techniques from it.
He learned jack shit lol

Basedimus 4D

>>928838
>Latest video is him whining because people who produce the same slop are rich and famous and not him
Genuinely just touch grass

>>928840
Because it's the only life being breathed into this dead board besides that one guy that bump old threads with one word replies every now and then. Touch grass.

>>929026
stfu cris

bumperino

>>928801
If you really just want a static .obj of the pose then you can use Object->Convert->Mesh

>>928803
thank you Anonymous you are a smart fella /thread

>>928801
apply the armature modifier

>>928803
tks

Looks pretty bad

>>928780
Is there a good and free way to do it without paying for gigapixel ai?

>>928868
i can upscale them if you want

>>928876
I don't need anything at the moment, I just wonder if there's something free that can also do decent results in general.

>>928881
scale up bigger than you need
add a little noise
scale down

>>928757
>https://archive.org/details/3dsmax1
Also cool iso. I'm making a render using only 3ds max 1 as a nice little Christmas day hobby.

>>928757
How the fuck are you supposed to get it to work?

>>928757
BEG NGMI

>>928854
Cope, anyone can make generic soulless modern graphics but very few can actually truly capture this vintage style

love this shit

Its Him.

one of them lost a foot?! How fucked up!

no way

>It's time.

>>928737
What if there's someone here who is practicing 3d modeling and wants exaclty to make a bunch of easy shit.
If not, it's fine. At least I tried asking.

>>928739
Just make a working game with placeholders and then slowly replace them with finished models
You can't get motivated for your "dream" in gamedev, why would someone get motivated to work for free? (except jannies, ofc)

>>928739
I was more referring to the /a/ meme but ok.

>>928739
>The problem is that I need a lot of them and by the time I make 30th model I won't have any motivation to actually develop a game.

Are you under the impression that developing a game is quick?

>>928734
Make a prototype with less door variety. Randomize the color or w/e if you need to.
Just draw doodle versions to represent the doors, or use Stable Diffusion to generate a bunch of door textures and stick them in a giant atlas, then generate normal and roughness maps of the atlas with Material Maker (very easy to do).

Don't get hung up on a requirement for a huge variety of final quality doors lol, you need to get some gameplay working and then determine if it's worth pursuing and paying some money for art.

fuck off cris

Nurbs and Metaballs were abandoned when smooth subdivision surfaces came out.

>>928686
i like your banana anon

>>928689
I thought it was the sculpting that replaced it

>>928820
Nurbs are still used by CAD software such as Sketch up but more artistic oriented software all switched to subdivision surfaces as soon as they came out. Because Pixar and because of a leghty argument about interpolating vs approximating surfaces.

>>928686
they're very unintuitive. you need to learn either Maya or Rhino if you want to use NURBS with any speed or efficiency.