/3/ - 3DCG

>>678791
>I'm kind of surprised I haven't heard of more people using it.

I'm gonna give you a quick rundown:
On the surface it seems powerful until you realize the absolute hell it is just to make models for export to source engine MDL format and thier maps and material system. Source engine is an absolute dumpster fire and you shoudn't be learning something so outdated, broken and has backwards workflows only being held up by scattered community tools. Also SFM is basically abandonware at this point too.

Its best just to learn how to animate in any 3D program rather than a broken movie making tool for a horribly outdated engine. Lastly a lot of points were already covered in this topic >>>672638

>>678749
lol is this you?
https://www.blender.org/press/re-branding-blender/

>>678905
LOL fucking got em

OP is a LARPing faggot

>>678759
>I hope you guys keep this naive perspective so that I can prosper
Why then did you make this thread in the first place?

>>678905
Reminded me of that Chinese university, claiming they had developed their own "purely Chinese made" 3D package to get the sweet, sweet state funding shekels and then it was just re-branded Blender.

>>678702
There's a thread for asking retarded questions, there's also a blender thread.
Then there's google, which would instantly have given you the answer.
Kill yourself.

>>678702
>>561987
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>>678702
At the bottom of your screen, switch from dope sheet to 3d view, also go look up workspaces

>>678702
It's like when a new user of maya accidentally goes into paint mode.

>>678702
>install 2.80 open image edit mode...
>why the fuck can't I see the objects UV map
>literally REEEEeeee for 5 min at blenders buggy bullshit
>oh, wait nvm...

the UI is a mess.
i heard all the common arguments about on why its good, and i respect that.
but you can't put the geometry tab next to the texture tab, like comeone. you really have to 'search' every little thing because its scattered like crazy

>>678672
All on arguments on why it's "good" boil down to "I've been using the program for 10 years and have figured out all the nonsense so you should too"

>>678753
It's more like "I followed this two-week basics course from Pavlovich, and now I scoff at people who think ZBrush is hard. They are just lazy."

>>678758
Imagine if Pixologic followed a 2 week course on UX design.

>>678666
make a simple stick figure/ mannequin proxy mesh then

>>678664
I'd say in theory yes but in practice for your average artist; no. If you built a true representation of the skeleton you're to manipulate
and it has good joints in all the correct locations then yes very much so, you can move around it and observe it from any vantage in a
very rapid fluid way and try things out at a pace that is just impossible to replicate with a mere mouse and keyboard moving joints on screen one by one.

But with a generic stiff mannequin with joints that soon will have a lot of play, like what you see in your image not so much.
You will be fighting the rig to strike a pose it doesn't support and it wont represent your actual character well.

Something like pic related would be the ideal. It is the animation puppet for the CGI T-rex from the original Jurassic Park.
An expert stop motion artist would pose the digital T-rex directly recording joint rotations straight from that puppet.
But I mean good luck building something like that if you don't have a VFX workshop at your disposal.

>>678869
Here's a more interesting image of the thing being used. It's a testament to just how powerful the organic quality of the input is that this scene from 1995 looks more believable than most CGI we see even today.

If you're not in terrible physical shape or something a powerful and easy thing you can do instead of using a mannequin
is to just keep a fullbody mirror nearby while animating and simply get up off your ass and get into the kind of pose you're going for and observe yourself.

Being able to feel your own joints and move all your limbs at once will help you figure out a pose very rapidly.
Just make sure no-ones around or at least is aware of what you're upto if you're animating the opposite sex or somekinda creature.

>>678869
>>678870
That was one of the cool things about Softimage Creative Environment / Softimage|3D; out of the box you could hook up any imaginable device to use as a motion channel driver. Granted you still needed that expert stop motion puppeteer, but what a nice thing to have.

>>678871
I did that all the time, taping myself doing crazy stuff to get either facial or full body motion reverences. But yeah, better do it in a discrete way.

>>678606
Hey guys it's OP here. Man I wish there was a thread specifically for asking questions. Instead of killing threads with my shitty questions

OP here again. Sorry to keep filling this thread, but I forgot to say that I'm a wholesome faggot.

OP here, I'm gay btw, not sure if that matters

Stop.

Just go find some fully physics based forward pathracer and export your shit to it. Wa la.

>>678505
so much shit wrong with this post
the /3/ degeneracy goes on

>>678569
>spectrum renderers
what the fuck is even that
do you mean linear workflow? or unclamped? or unbiased? wtf

>>678649
Renderers which take into account the properties of materials when interacting with light in different wavelengths.

Octane, Thea, Indigo, and Luxcore, if recall correctly, are spectral renderers. There's also Ocean, although it's intended for high-level previz (pic related) and takes more of a scientific approach to light simulation.

>>678649
https://www.eclat-digital.com/2013/02/22/spectral-rendering/
>>678660
Thanks for show me ocean render.

>>678387
A shader is the thing that you plug your texture maps into and possesses the properties (often physically correct) of the material you want to represent in your 3D scene.

For instance: metal, dielectric (plastic, wood, etc.), glass, skin, etc.

It's the thing that defines the surface of a mesh once the renderer calculates how the lights hit it and whatnot.

One thing is for sure, shader =/= textures

AMA if it's still not clear

>>678390
Thank you for clearing this up.
>>678391
Wait, what you just described is a material.

>>678395
shader (properties) + textures (visual info) = material

>>678399
Much appreciated.

>>678402
anytime m8

>>678383
I had an old vostro 1500 a couple years back. I was surprised how well it ran blender even with only 64mb of graphics ram... Well, I was surprised that it could run blender anyways. Saying it ran blender well is a bit of an overstatement, but it was enough to mess around with some low poly stuff. That said, it was the 1680 x 1050 screen resolution that was actually of note. I think I actually liked it more then my current 1920x1080. I don't know if they make that resolution anymore, but it seemed like it saved a good chunk of graphics resources without sacrificing much in the way of monitor resolution.

>>678352
And outdated.
Very, VERY outdated.

>>678352
It is impossible to create a good interface in ZBrush, even the language and terminology is fucking retarded
You just need to get used to it and then get mad whenever they improve it just like everyone else

>>678352
Rate my custom UI, /3/

>>678769
kek
this

>>678820
Longhi / 10

Elon Musk.

>>678921
Freddy mercury

>>678922
kek. I know right? I'll probably do him next (pun intended).

Just finished first day of Ryan Kingslien's 12 days of Realism. I can already see improvement. Can't wait to finish the course. I'm going now. Bye.

Well, Kingslien is one cool motherfucker. This really makes my process a whole lot easier.

>>678338
These is literally not a single pixel affected by AA in your picture. I don't work with Solidworks, but maybe there are multiple options that could affect Anti-Aliasing

>>678274
Nurbs are kick ass get good fagit.

>>678274
Basically everything has a modeling toolkit capable of it.

You can use Blender, which apart from being one of the best modelers out there, it's free. And you'll be in a large community full of knowledgeable people happy to help you with your learning. Look at BlenderNation for example.

>>678274
>NURBS modeling a car interior
autism tier
>NURBS modeling a car exterior
god tier

>>678289
>we are blendlet witnesses, do you have a moment to talk about our blend leggy

>>678463
but that is noting like what youre doing, that is in essence sculpting but with poly modelling which youre not doing, yours is too rounded and look like limbs of a fat girl and in some cases of that palm he fucked up areas and some areas dont make sense, so this is not a good example by any means, hes doing the same thing that jap guy is, just more ugly. but again this is not what youre doing.

>>678461
youre definitely right, cant help these retards, just hope they dont spread their shitty ideology els where, ESPECIALLY since they have no idea what theyre talking about.

>>678468
wow thats amazing. pls say who is he thats the level i want to achieve.

>>678476
Curvy McCurvington

just offset your geo lol

>>678468
Do you even read the posts you are responding to anon?

Not a very good look to be deflecting calling everyone and everything 'shitty retarded multi-fucks' left and right
ESPECIALLY not at the same time as you're toggling CAPS on people while engaging in DAMAGE CONTROL type behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9ZxsulN2c

>>678480
is your brain damaged from all the damage control? or are you just illiterate?

>>678253
NOTE: I want to starting this of by saying I am still learning animation and fairly new to it, don't take what I say as truth. Just trying to provide some criticism.

The anticipation at the beginning when it pulls back before going forwards is to quick and too exagerated.
Less pull back, make it ease into the pull back and make it take longer.
In fact most of the animation is too quick you can barely tell whats going on.
The second shot was so fast I almost missed it the first time. You could probably remove it and have the camera rotate with the UFO in the first shot or remove the third shot and have the camera rotate with it on the second shot.
The very last shot is fine, maybe just give the UFO a little more time to ease in and out some more.

If your worried about getting a job, focus on your skills, tool programming, animators rely on tools. Don't know what tools animators wish they had, just ask.

>>678421
auto rigs? maya plugins that are hardware accelerated? What else?

Great post big legs how does this relate to 3d design? Maybe get the meat heads to learn the difference of subs

Looks like he has a big penis tbf.

I would hope so. Otherwise he is a fucking disgrace to steroid users everywhere.

Use Sequence Render instead, for some reason that gets rid of the watermark. Also make sure the render view is somewhere comfy on your screen if you choose to have it up, that bitch won't move once you start it up

They offer you the power of Arnold for free, and you complain about a simple watermark? Fucking millennials, I swear.

is Arnold better than the mighty prMan?

>>678168
This looks like Daz trash, there is a thread for other degenerates if you want some help with that mess
>>676492

>>678170

mmh ty nigga

>>678171
no worries mate

>>678168
also interested in this

i too have a thing for fat bald slobs