/3/ - 3DCG

[Anonymous No.352105]

[Anonymous No.352113]

I'm still working on my level.

[Anonymous No.352117]

>>352113

Nice stuff! You say level, so are you using blender game engine? or is this for something else?

[Anonymous No.352125]

>>352117
Thanks :)

I dont really know anymore, honestly. If I can make it run well in blender, I'll just stick with that. If it's too slow for the majority of hardware configs, I'll try looking for something else. I'm happy with what blender can do right now though.

Not really sure what kind of game this is going to be but just for fun I want to try setting up network multiplayer for this one.

[Anonymous No.352126]

Started to make a Medieval level. Making the courtyard atm.

[Anonymous No.352127]

>>352113
do you make the textures yourself or you get them from somewhere, somehow?

[Anonymous No.352128]

>>352127

Not the guy from the image. But check out cgtextures dot com

[Anonymous No.352130]

>>352105

any other ideas on how to improve the face of my model?

[Anonymous No.352131]

>>352130
by deleting it

[Anonymous No.352135]

>>352130

I agree with Anon. Sometimes it's better to start over then to repair.

[Anonymous No.352137]

>>352130

Do it

[Anonymous No.352138]

>>352137

really delete it is the best advice? ha classic /3/

[Anonymous No.352144]

>>352130

Wait a minute, I think I recognize the style, is... is that you? pic related.

[Anonymous No.352145]

>>352144
no but I'm always on here driving my improvement through /3/'s patented hatemonger critique program. I love it.

I have learned more about anatomy crying in my hands over things people say here than anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.352146]

>>352127
All those textures are mine. I like the results better of modeling and baking materials than just taking photos. You get better much better normal maps this way too.

[Anonymous No.352149]

>>352146
So my source models look like this. I paint them with vertex colors and I just bake these onto lower poly models.

[Anonymous No.352160]

>>352130
Just so it's obv that /3/ is not only a bunch of unhelpful assholes. Your head actually has many markers of you understanding more about the actual lines
of the face than the level of your art currently suggest. I think you show promise but are currently in that earley intermediate state where one start
to have enough skills to make something that has actual human likeness but it starts heading into that fearsome valley.
Getting the signature 'creepy doll' look, this happens to all artists at some point in their development so don't worry about the harsh reviews.
Here's a paint over suggesting how to de-creep it a bit. Lighting from atop, unification of the elements of the facial structure, and a more relaxed gaze.

[Anonymous No.352162]

A low poly model for a texture challenge in college. Current tri count is at 1268

[Anonymous No.352163]

>>352160
holy mackrel. my eyes. I missed much.

check out the last picture you guys critiqued

[Anonymous No.352175]

>>352113
Really like the randomness and placement of the objects. Now that tire, now that's alittle random.

[sage No.352185]

>>352160
welcome to the internet

enjoy your short stay

[Anonymous No.352189]

>>352185
Been here a few years. Don't worry, as you mature you'll come to understand why just derping around eventually grows old.

[Anonymous No.352196]

I are has plobrem.
When I use subtool master to mirror the tooth it makes the copy a normal Polysphere.
Why?
Also, ignore the godawful sculpt. I'm still very much learning!

[Anonymous No.352227]

Obviously just at a starting point here but I made this within a couple hours earlier and will probably keep going with it.

Going for isolated type feel, just not sure on what lighting to use. I've done some dim lit things recently so might keep this as during the day.

[Anonymous No.352245]

In retrospect, I think the air conditioner is too big.

[Anonymous No.352248]

>>352196
Duplicate the subtool, Deformation>Mirror.

[Anonymous No.352250]

>>352227

god awful lighting, the modelling isn't half bad, but that lighting ruins EVERYTHING.

What is that sky? Why is grass transparent? bridge supports look like they don't touch the floor, awful low poly roof texture - whole roof model is bad as well, makes no sense

This could be better with a few simple tweaks, plz repost later

[Anonymous No.352253]

>>352105
Early wip of the MS18-E

[Anonymous No.352300]

>>352250
Actually, I think it's a lack of lighting. It appears to be fullbright.

[Anonymous No.352319]

Thanks for the crit the previous few threads guys. Spent the entire day trying to get the alphas to work well in Marmoset, but it turns out it can't handle it too well. I'll have to settle for this. My first proper character from modelling, baking and texturing. 2 days to get the male character in, and then on Monday I can start modelling weapons and headgear for them and pose them.

[Anonymous No.352338]

more head studies in 2.67.
SSS and hair in gpu is pretty sweet

[Anonymous No.352341]

>>352338
>hairloss and goitre
>boy? girl?

not sure if want

[Anonymous No.352344]

>>352338
at least you got the face right this time, especially the lips

usually all your models have that weird lips

[Anonymous No.352351]

>>352319
Please remind me, because I can't be bothered digging through the old threads:

You did a low poly base model, and then sculpted all the detail, right?

I remember telling you her ass was too low (2 threads ago?).
Looks pretty amazing from the last time I saw it, good work.

[Anonymous No.352359]

>>352175
Thanks :)

The tire is there because they earn money off of the metal they extract from it and sell to a scrap yard.

[Anonymous No.352360]

>>352338
Actually i think the peek of the lips is fine just pull the peaks of the upper lips in a bit towards each other and have the bottem lip extend so they reach the edges of the mouth

[Anonymous No.352362]

An update of my Medieval level.

Still making the courtyard

[Anonymous No.352363]

>>352248
Fenomenal! Thank you

[Anonymous No.352369]

>>352319
I would desaturate the colours slightly, and I don't like the hair.

[Anonymous No.352370]

>>352369
Oh and otherwise this is looking great I really like it.

[Anonymous No.352383]

>>352344

i dont know why i kept making lips like that. Its like autocorrect or something but more like autodestroy.

[Anonymous No.352384]

Another one with less mangy hair.

[Anonymous No.352385]

>>352360
thats also an area i struggle with. I feel like the more I touch it the more unnatural the lips get.

[Anonymous No.352403]

should I give up and kill myself?

[Anonymous No.352415]

>>352403
i love it for some reason

[Anonymous No.352423]

Working on a helmet. Jaw proportions are a bit off but they are just placeholders.

[Anonymous No.352425]

Here's an early low poly test.

[Anonymous No.352427]

[Anonymous No.352434]

>>352427
what theme is that?

[Anonymous No.352457]

>>352434
https://studiollb.wordpress.com/download/

[Anonymous No.352474]

>>352423
>>352425

Reminds me of Fallout's (Old) power armor and FNV's Lanius' helm

[Anonymous No.352478]

squid girl is a go
wonder if im taking a smart approach or should i do tentacles seperatly, i worst case i can split it

[Anonymous No.352481]

squid girl is a go
wonder if im taking a smart approach or should i do tentacles seperatly, i worst case i can split it

[Anonymous No.352484]

>>352481
ups wrong pic

[Alioto No.352486]

>>352481
I will make an octopus girl too some day.

[Anonymous No.352493]

>>352486
then do it

main proportions blocked in, still dont know how to do the tentacles, im tempted to just do one and then projecting it on everything, but thats lazy as hell

[Anonymous No.352497]

>>352250
>>352300

Thanks for suggestions, I'll try fix the bridge supports and improve roof but I should point out that I literally just threw this together to get a starting point idea. I'd have every intention of changing the background for example and as for lighting there isn't any yet.
Cheers anyway, I'll post an update next time I work on it.

[Anonymous No.352500]

>>352457
thanks guy

[Anonymous No.352506]

This is the level s'far..
What to do next.

[Anonymous No.352513]

last for today, will finish it tomorrow

[Anonymous No.352514]

>>352513

[Anonymous No.352516]

>>352162
Love it. Tina is best character.

[Anonymous No.352534]

>>352131
LOL

[Anonymous No.352535]

>>352506
beautiful. for a game? if so, how are you incorporating it?

[Anonymous No.352552]

>>352514
This guy dead?

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352558]

ey guys. pro modlr heer

[Anonymous No.352559]

>>352514
>I'ts absolutely crucial that we get that vagina finished before we even begin to add detail to anything else!

[Anonymous No.352563]

Any care to guess the game/location?

Still VERY early progress, not even sure why I bothered testing a render

[Anonymous No.352572]

Hei's Dagger from Darker Than Black

[Anonymous No.352589]

>>352563
Borderlands 3 alpha!

[Anonymous No.352602]

>>352572
The metal on the blade is far too dirty. It should have a clean reflective sheen to it.

[Anonymous No.352603]

>>352572
>>352602

[Anonymous No.352625]

>>352563
I am reminded of Cosmo Canyon.

[Anonymous No.352626]

>>352625
Aww yeah, fuckin nailed it.
I look forward to a more completed version.

The whole "take a background render from FF7 and remake it in 3D again" thing looks like a lot of fun, like that guy who made that sector 7 thing earlier this year.

[Anonymous No.352630]

>>352403
reminds me of the Simpsons maps in CS:S

[Anonymous No.352632]

>>352603
you're probably better off doing that in a vector program.
just saying.

[Anonymous No.352649]

>>352558
Those feed lips aren't bent and it isn't generic.
It's highly comparable to a BAR's, but the feed lips are functionally flawed. That said, they need to extend further along the top. A cartridge wouldn't seat well, currently.

It looks great, but do consider revising those lips.

[Anonymous No.352676]

>>352602
I disagree (image relevant)

But if it's clean and shiny it will lack detail and interest, depending on the in-game results I might even make it dirtier as it seems people prefer damaged goods above shiny out of the box ones.

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352677]

starting on a rocket launcher i'm going to base off the atv

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352678]

>>352677

[Anonymous No.352683]

>>352625

Yep! Bingo...I'm the one remaking it, gonna take me a while, at the moment, I'm just trying to set the scene up with placeholders, so I can get the dimensions and camera set up, then I'll go in and remodel everything to a high standard and texture it...still wondering whether I want a realistic rendering, or keep it more true to the low colour range style of the game and keep it all simplistic?

>>352626

Do it, it's fun

But as a side note, this will take me a long time, I tend to work really slowly on projects and hopefully I don't lose motivation. I'[ll post in the WIP until it's done

Respect for guessing it this early on

[Anonymous No.352686]

Started learning 3D modelling today. I'm trying to make a model of one of my drawings. Definately not as good as the other things posted here, but it's something, I guess.

[VC No.352691]

>>352676

I agree. In a studio where I used to work (they made FPSs) the general rule was to really dirty stuff up. If an object has a normal map, specular map and sometimes a displacement map, it's a waste not to make maximum use of it. Players like the detail.

[Anonymous No.352693]

should I trim my bush?

(if you know what I mean)

[Anonymous No.352694]

>>352686
You will learn quickly that there is a big difference between a character design that works in 2d and one that works in 3d. I can see you are already having to improvise to give volume to inherently more graphic shapes.

[Anonymous No.352697]

>>352691
God, I truly hate this trend in modern video games. Just because something CAN have a lot of detail doesn't mean it SHOULD. A strong visual aesthetic requires areas of both high and low interest. If everything has the same grime and grunge, none of it stands out which becomes visually monotonous. Gears of War for example is incredibly hard to look at over long periods of time because there is hyper detail every-goddamn-where. The eyes need to take a break to better appreciate visual complexity. There is no light without shadow so to speak.

The best assets have shading that is driven by real world conditions. A common sword might be chipped, scuffed, and scratched along the cutting portion of the blade whereas the base of the blade might accumulate grime from lack of use. But there's more to it than that. Who owns the sword? Does he or she clean the blade regularly? A nobleman would have a cleaner sword than a peasant. But maybe the blade holds particular significance to the peasant, who cleans it thoroughly after every fight. Or maybe the nobleman is going a little bat-shit and has stopped cleaning his sword entirely. The crusted blood and grime that coats the blade indicative of a beleaguered mind. See what I'm getting at?

[Anonymous No.352700]

>>352697
Mate listen the fuck up. If there is less detail like you propose, that means less jobs for us and games get even more done by programmers and outsourced modellers because hey like you said, less detail.

Ok? Do you get it?

[Anonymous No.352703]

>>352700
>Implying you deserve a job because you can just spam random photoshop brushes on a texture and add a photograph as an overlay.

Bad design directions are bad design directions even if they create more job opportunities.

[Anonymous No.352705]

>>352700
Not that guy you responded to, but I agree with what he said.

Individual detail for each object = more work, not less like you somehow concluded.

Imagine if every sword in skyrim had an original owner, tailor crafted by an artist to suit the owner's story. This means perfectly clean and fresh out of the smiths, or hung on a mantle for years, or used every day for training purposes, or seen 100s of battles and 1000s of deaths.

Each object having a personal story is definitely more work and gives a new level of depth to a game.

Spending all your time making the high detailed map for a single object and then copy+paste the same gritty, scarred texture onto ALL the same objects in the game, makes it more dull/tiresome, and adds little value.

I don't want a +10 sword that has been wielded by a demi-god and seen the deaths of a million mortals, if the fucking thing looks like a sword I could buy from a merchant. (ok maybe I do because it's OP as fuck, but you know what i'm talking about)

[Anonymous No.352707]

Ok so I went through the whole xnormal process to make my normal maps. but some reason, i'm getting these weird colours on the normal. I've tried with my other model and that doesn't happen at all, but when i choose this one, it happens all over the body. anyone know what's up here? shits annoying as fuck

[Anonymous No.352710]

>>352678
boxes&cylinders.jpg

>>352693
bushes are way too big compared to the fence

[Anonymous No.352713]

>>352710
Yeah, I've got major proportion issues. Like those fences, they're meant to be taller than an avg person, but now they look like waist-size fences

[Anonymous No.352714]

>>352713
But did I use too many planes for such a bush?

[Anonymous No.352723]

>>352559
>implying vagina isnt the most important part

>>352552
wat ?
>>352572
i like it
>>352707
ray distance too big, reduce the cage, xnormal makes a big one customally, reduce it, or was it the scale, dont remember where was the setting
anyway on the tail the feet get baked and on the hand the side of the body

[Anonymous No.352724]

>>352714
its not the amount really, it looks okay. its just the proportions. btw is that diffuse+spec+normal+alpha ?

[Anonymous No.352726]

>>352714
you need something to provide scale, like a person. the fences sort of work in the second post. i think the scale problem is that you have bush dense plants on small trees

[Anonymous No.352727]

>>352724
you mean the wall?
Wall is just diffuse. Spec and normal is temporarily mapped from the diffuse texture.

[Anonymous No.352728]

leavees may also be too big

[Anonymous No.352729]

or it may be the leaf planes; each one corrospoonds to a large branch and the wall is already supposed to be big

[Anonymous No.352739]

>>352535
It's the world map for a game we're making for a uni project. Going to be five mini-games and a boss level that take place on the island :)

...if it's ever coded.

[Anonymous No.352749]

>>352727
i meant the plants

[Anonymous No.352765]

>>352749
It's just diffuse+alpha (clip alpha)

[Anonymous No.352771]

>>352765
Can you try this and post a SS plez?

[Anonymous No.352772]

>>352771
can't you do it?

[Anonymous No.352774]

>>352772
i can/did. I wanna see how it looks in your scene

[Anonymous No.352777]

>>352774
ok hang on

[Anonymous No.352781]

>>352774
can you show your model for this?

[Anonymous No.352782]

>>352781
I didnt save it, once I baked the maps. It's basically bunch of turbosmoothed bent planes mashed together. Using it as a single plane will give nice results

[Anonymous No.352786]

>>352782

[Anonymous No.352787]

>>352782
>>352786
here, I forgot to say that it didn't turn out too good, could've helped if I had the models...

[Anonymous No.352789]

Anybody any ideas how to make those sucky thingies ?
i guess beveling each bottom polygon seperatly could get me some results

[Anonymous No.352790]

>>352789
I want to eat it.

[Anonymous No.352791]

>>352787
Yeah, yours look better. Wierd lighting creates black straws in the middle, or maybe your engine flips the normals. It looks pretty good when I render here.

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352792]

>>352789
you could make an alpha of one and just create a new brush

[Anonymous No.352794]

Hey /3/, what looks wrong with this orge thing so far?

[Anonymous No.352795]

>>352794
drawn guidlines would be awesome

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352796]

nigga aint got lips or any mouth definition

[Anonymous No.352797]

>>352796
this jew is right, add some lips and shiot

[Anonymous No.352801]

>>352789
>Look at thumbnail
Huh, that looks kinda coo-
>Octo-cunt
....

[Anonymous No.352804]

>>352686
How long have you been doing this?

[Anonymous No.352808]

>>352796
>>352797
LOL! Sometimes it's fun to be a newb.
I present to you: Pamela Ogreson

[Anonymous No.352810]

>>352808
the edges of his cheekbones is too sharp, makes it looks like it's just pasted on.

[Anonymous No.352814]

>>352558
Where did you get the noise texture? Photosourced?

[Anonymous No.352815]

>>352558
> 140 tris for a magazine

[Anonymous No.352817]

resized the leaves, It looks better imo.

alpha's on the fences are doing weird shit though.

[Anonymous No.352816]

test

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352819]

>>352814
low opacity overlay with grunge brushes added very subtlety and then sharpened.

[Anonymous No.352820]

>>352819
follow 4 more soft grunge

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352821]

>>352815
get on my fucking level

[Anonymous No.352823]

finally ;_;

[Anonymous No.352825]

>>352801
Not to mention the octo-tits.

[Anonymous No.352839]

it was worth it.

[Anonymous No.352842]

>>352384
wassuuup ladies

[Anonymous No.352844]

Damn dont know if im not overdetailing it

>>352801
what i can say, i like my monster girls, will still detail it up later ;f Make it more ... fleshy
>>352825
son, you might be gay

[Anonymous No.352845]

>>352844
looks great

[Alioto No.352846]

>>352844
Did you model each sucker separately?

[Anonymous No.352847]

>>352845
thanks
>>352846
nah, made one and then created an insert brush

[Alioto No.352849]

>>352847
I kind of supposed that (otherwise it would counterdict your reputation of beeing the fastest sculpter of /3/)

One more question: What do when geometry overlaps in a model (or tool)? If one sucker crosses an other f.eg.. How can you access those hidden overlapped areas for sculpting?

In Blender I would select one polyloop and press grow selection and hide that geometry to work on the other. But in Zbrush you cannot do that, right?

[Anonymous No.352852]

>>352849
Not him, but you don't even need to hide those areas to sculpt it. But if you need to, yes, you can do an auto-groups so each sucker has its own polygroup, then ctrl+shift click the sucker you want to isolate for sculpting. ctrl+shift again in the empty space to unhide all the geometry again. You can also ctrl+shift and drag select over general poly areas to isolate those areas regardless of polygroup. And under your brush settings, you can turn on Mask by Polygroup, which will only let your brush affect the polygroup you first started your stroke on.

[Anonymous No.352857]

>>352852
thanks! But what do you mean by saying
>you don't even need to hide those areas to sculpt it

I have to hide one overlaping area to visually reveal the other for sculpting, desu ne?

[Anonymous No.352858]

>>352857
If you had Mask by Polygroup on, you could merely start sculpting on the sucker you want to deform to a better position, not affecting the other geometry it is penetrating. So you could easily just pull the one sucker's edge to the side a bit so it looks like it's touching instead of penetrating.

[Anonymous No.352859]

>>352858
Not to mention doing it this way give you instant feedback on if you have moved/sculpted the sucker enough so it's not penetrating, instead of switching back and forth between polygroup visibility.

[Anonymous No.352877]

So what should I do to improve what I already have?

Already on todo list:

1) ADD MORE OBJECTS IN THE ROOM. This is a big one.

2) Get glow panels on the closest side as well.

3) Reduce the number of lamps used to create the glow effect, it's killing render time.

4) The glow panel material has reflectivity. It doesn't need it at this stage.

5) Eventually add more light sources than the glow panels. This can be done when I'm done with step 3.

6) Reduce Polycount as much as possible. That one's obvious though.

7) That fucking noise oh my god. This'll come with earlier mentioned fixes.

8) There's a material that is only there to look shitty. Get rid of it.

Anything else you guys notice?

[Anonymous No.352880]

>>352877

depending on the style you're going for, I'd say add more colours, other than green, but it does depend on the look you want to convey

Other than that, I'd say just work on the to-do list and see how it turns out. One thing though, unless this is for games, the whole 'Reduce Polycount' shouldn't matter - it's always better to have a low polycount, but for still images, it's not a big worry

[Anonymous No.352882]

>>352880

It's eventually going to be for a short animation, it shouldn't matter in the long run but I do have a few faces that can be compressed into less tris.

Each of the rooms will have it's own color. The color isn't going to be as dramatic, I'm going to additionally add lights to brighten the rooms as well.

I did a quick-fix on the glow-panels but it's created a new problem: there's a hole in the floor, that's the new problem # 2.

I removed the extra lamps and brightened the ones that are left. This basically got rid of most of the noise as well.

Got rid of the unnecessary material and the reflectivity on the glow panels. I've now only got 4 major issues!

[Anonymous No.352883]

>>352253
Update, foot/ankle almost complete. Still working out proportions... After bevels >.<
captcha - electronic ffignno

[Anonymous No.352887]

hardware render

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.352893]

pretty happy bake. only a few hiccups.

[Anonymous No.352909]

Using student version of maya, is there anyway to get a student version or trial of mental ray? Doesn't seem to be in the autodesk student download section.

Opinions on what I have so far?
Still yet to add any proper textures, and the floor seat+table are just placeholders until I think of something better to put there.
It's supposed to be an underwater bedroom/study with a rustic sort of feel. I am going to add a netting hanging from the roof using alphas, and I probably need a chest of drawers.

[Anonymous No.352912]

I always loved 3D modeling, but after I'm done with it, I never know where to apply it to.

I mean, it's just a 3D model, what the fuck do I do with this shit later? I can't program for shit.

[Anonymous No.352917]

>>352912
N-no one...?

[Anonymous No.352921]

>>352912
animate it?
Or sculpt and do a really high detail mode, then post it on /3/ or another 3d forum for people to jerk it to.

[Anonymous No.352922]

>>352909
just download the maya 2014 trial and look for a crack on piratebay.

[Anonymous No.352924]

>>352893
>>352105
wires.

[Anonymous No.352926]

[Anonymous No.352927]

>>352926
Texturing exercise or actual gameobject?

[Anonymous No.352928]

>>352927
It's for a game.

How bad is it, you can tell me..

[Anonymous No.352929]

>>352804
Just started. Maybe 2 hours?

[Anonymous No.352930]

>>352922
I have the student version of 2013 installed which I think lasts for 3 years anyway, same with my student version of mudbox.

I just wanted mental ray so I could render my scene with it from home, instead of with the schools hardware which takes 10x as long (no render farm).

[Anonymous No.352934]

>>352928
half life 1 had better containers

[Anonymous No.352936]

>>352934
I don't think HL1 had any containers. Half Life 2 had better containers though.

[Anonymous No.352940]

>>352936
I'm a third party and he wasn't exaggerating.

[Anonymous No.352941]

>>352940
>>352934
What do I have to change?

[Anonymous No.352949]

>>352941

corners too sharp, the bars aren't even connected to the container...yeah yeah polycount and what not, this isn't 1999

The problem is there's no detail, it's just a badly low resolution textured box. Give it actual geometry detail...look at reference images

[Anonymous No.352954]

>>352949
Thanks for the advice, appreciate it. But the container is not going to be used in an FPS. The player won't see much of the geometry from far off. It's going to have a top down view.

[Anonymous No.352962]

Okay, toned down the normal a bit and added some letters.
>if you squint your eyes and back off a little bit it looks pwetty

[Anonymous No.352964]

Update on this, small detail. Saved a medium detail mesh if you think I should change anything (which I suspect that you do)

[Anonymous No.352966]

>>352964
I don't normally like telling people what they should or shouldn't do, but you should really just start from scratch and make something new.

Putting so much effort into a piece that will never see the light of day apart from 4chan, isn't a very good idea, I find that people learn better from getting to a specific point, then scrapping their models and starting over.

The dude with the octopus loli is fine because his 'end point' is matching to it's reference, but just fucking around is different.

As far as your current model is concerned, you could turn it into a bust, and start on a neck/shoulders. Or take a trip through google for a couple hours and look up goblin and orc pics to get a better understanding on how their 'canon' appearance is, then start over and try to implement some of the features you studied.

[Anonymous No.352968]

>>352962
I want you to go to google and search for images of containers, also use textures larger than 64x64

[Anonymous No.352973]

>>352962
Try to add more geometry. It just looks like a rectangular prism and slapped a texture in it. Give more detail/geometry because your texturing is alright.

[Anonymous No.352976]

>>352968
>>352973
will do.

[Anonymous No.352994]

Baking high poly plants and grass to create a texture library for foliage. I baked 4 textures for now, but I think it looks pretty rich. Polycount is 8000

[Anonymous No.352995]

>>352994
looks really bad

[Anonymous No.353017]

I made my low poly chair

>>352994
What are you using to create the high poly plants? That could use some work, it looks kind of noisy, but the idea is good and I think it could look pretty sweet.

[Anonymous No.353022]

Working on textures.

[Anonymous No.353023]

>>353022

[Anonymous No.353024]

>>353023
looked 10x better un "textured"

[Anonymous No.353028]

>>352995
It's probably because it was just a basic scanline render. Here is one rendered with mentalray
>>353017
Thanks man. I just model leaves from boxes, and spline cylinder the stems. Then use PFsource to grow the leaves from the stems, or handplace the flowers.

[Anonymous No.353030]

>>353028
yup. Gorgeous.
Can I see your source models for the low poly bakes?

[Anonymous No.353033]

>>353030
Sorry mate, I dont save the models once I extract textures. I'm not ever going to be able to use the 20k highpoly models spread around the scene.

[Anonymous No.353035]

next update will be last
fucking work, had almost no time to do it today
>>352849
i mostly split my mesh by polygroups, or use the trick with transpose ctrl+click that will select the geo that is separated from other, or transpose ctrl+drag to mask from edge loops
also grow shrink blur sharpen mask and Hidept to hide masked areas, and ofc shift+ctrl+drag

But still, i mostly use polygoups with masking
>>352964
not much to say, keep zbrushing, always use human reference
your too much of a begginer to hammer much into you ;f

>>353023
yeha, kind of looks better untextured, the lack of detail dont show so much then

[Anonymous No.353047]

>>353033
I know but you should always keep your original bake sources somewhere. What happens if you need to make some changes to the texture later on?

I was just asking so I know what kind of setup I should use for this if I ever wanted to do this.

[Anonymous No.353052]

Got bored modelling and spent some time testing out render settings, particles and simple surface bump maps and darkness

[Anonymous No.353054]

>>353047
It goes like this. Create a bunch of splines with random shapes, and pathfollow some cylinders with slightly different thicknesses to them. Then create leaves with different shapes and turbosmooth them. Always use boxes when doing leaves and not planes so the leaves have volume and look good when baking the normals.Here's an example of a recent leaf models.

Then arrange the spline cylinders in a bunch and the leaves to their surface using PFlow. I'm assuming you're a max user btw.

Then select ortographic view and create a plane that fits the size of the plants bounding box. Use projection from the modifier list and bake a Complete map with skylight so you get AOS, then bake alpha map and normal map.

[Anonymous No.353055]

>>353054
>Always use boxes when doing leaves and not planes so the leaves have volume and look good when baking the normals.Here's an example of a recent leaf models.


what. use planes. always. dont be fucking retarded

Pic very related, all 1x1 or 2x2 cards

[Anonymous No.353058]

>>353055
I said use boxes for baking normal data so they have thickness in the textures. Using single poly planes for a leaf or a bunch of leaves is the most ideal, especially when you're filling up the scene with them.

[Anonymous No.353060]

>>353035
Fine, have an untextured version then.

[Anonymous No.353061]

>>353058
>baking normals for plants

no. just no. Watch alex alvarez's 4 dvd series on grass, plants, and trees. (he worked on avatar and has founded gnomon school)

[Anonymous No.353062]

>>353058
I was the dude asking originally. thanks for the tips. I'd still love to see a whole plant that you would use for baking, but it's fine if you really don't have any to show.

[Anonymous No.353063]

>>353061
Thanks, I had no idea this guy gave tips and tricks about his magic. Although ;

> I am definitely impressed by how many polygons I can throw at Mental Ray. I've gone up to 700 million via instancing and 12 Billion via mr proxies, which only used 5gb of RAM of the 12gb on my system.

My max crashes when calculating more than 1 million polys, no exceptions. You still need a small monster to achieve something like this, nevermind the skills to create the forest.

>>353062

No prob man. You shouldn't have any trouble creating it, its easy to learn and get used to.

[Anonymous No.353068]

k almost done, only the big tentacles left for detailing , and maybe some pussy juice dripping or something to push it more into wrong teritorry ;f

but im off to sleep

[Anonymous No.353069]

>>353068
If you add pussy juice, i`ll report you for pedophila you sick fuck.

[Anonymous No.353070]

>>353069
>zoophilia and animal abuse
fixed it for you

[Anonymous No.353071]

>>353068
Good work man.
Only thing I personally dislike about it, is the deep creases on the flat side of the tentacles. Might look better once it's textured, but it doesn't look right imo.

[Anonymous No.353072]

>>353068
I am pretty new at ZBrush.
I notice that the tentacles aren't connected to the body throughout most of this. How do you join the two meshes?
Also, since you've done and made the tentacles the way you have I'm guessing you have no intention of rigging/animating it?

[Anonymous No.353073]

>>353072
>Rigging/Animating it
I've seen enough anime to know where that would go.

[Anonymous No.353075]

>>353071
yeha i though i might have overdone it on the forms
still i worked off reference and i saw found some weird ass tentacles, but i agree some might look too weird
>>353072
sometimes i dynamesh the whole thing if the last step is to merge 2 or more parts
sometimes i created a new base mesh and reproject the details if i intend to work a bit more on it
or i will leave them separate as the arms here, and just hack out a project +store morph + morph brush trick if im feeling lazy

>no intention of rigging/animating it
no point, dont know what i would do with it
now i think i might have done 1 tentacle and pose it 6x, but i never saw selvy be this lazy, so i guess it does make you better

[Anonymous No.353076]

>>353069
>WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
<--- a picture of you right now. L@@K

[Anonymous No.353079]

>>353069
>Opens pussy
>Ink comes out
10/10 octololi

[Anonymous No.353080]

>>353068
>no butt
common man.

[Anonymous No.353081]

>>353079
> Octololi
This is my new nickname for every videogame for the next 10 years.

[Anonymous No.353084]

>>353081
I will add you as friend for every game for the next 10 years.

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353108]

requested wires + base materials. 4k tris

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353109]

>>352962
post pictures of your texture map

[Reichardt !vXKh1ytRio No.353116]

Lance of Longinus

[Anonymous No.353118]

>>353109
tips for more efficient use of the UV map?

[Anonymous No.353122]

>>353118
pretty hard to fuck up the UVs of a box lol

[Anonymous No.353127]

>>353122
explain

[Anonymous No.353134]

>>353118
so much wasted uv space ...

[Anonymous No.353136]

>>353134
sharp eye

[Anonymous No.353137]

I don't know why I unwrapped it like that.

would this be any better?

[Anonymous No.353138]

>>353137
Not really, you should use stitching and pelting after that relaxing if you're using 3DsMax then give TexTools a try.

[Anonymous No.353139]

>>353137
its good
unless you worry about uv normal map seams you dont have to stitch uv together

[Anonymous No.353140]

>>353139
oh right, thanks
>>353138
no, I use Blender.
Had a bit of trouble understanding what you guys meant with stitching but now I know. I think I'm just going to texture it using this uv and then fix the seams with texture painting inside Blender.

[Anonymous No.353223]

>>352966
I always thought it's better to finish the piece you're working on, but maybe not.
I'm still learning the steps from making a low poly head in Maya to high detail sculpting and polypainting in Zbrush.
Thank you for your advice though, will remember it!

[Anonymous No.353231]

What does /3/ think is the best way to learn Zbrush? To study and learn different steps and anatomy, or just to doodle?

[Anonymous No.353233]

>>353023
wait?, is the white one untextured? it looks a lot nicer, it kind of looks like a cool cave dwelling feature, the fact that it's the same colour all over, works because it looks like it just lacks pigment from living in pitch dark all of it's life, but when you actually give it colour and it's still the same colour all over it looks like it came out of a plastic mould, no animals are the same colour ALL over, except birds but that's because they have feathers and even then are multicoloured to some extent most of the time.

did a little paint over for you, looks like shit because it was quick but you get the idea.

[Anonymous No.353242]

>>352962
>>352926
It's..not bad. Depending on the graphical style of the game it might be perfect. But unless it's an überlow-poly game I'd say you should try to work on the edges, make them, not so sharp. Try to get something more out of it, or at least make a variant with a door that is a little bit open so that you don't just see square containers everywhere you look.

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353243]

texture progress. need to add a lot more

[Anonymous No.353246]

>>353243
looks really really bad.

[Anonymous No.353248]

>>353243
>>353246
It does not look "really really bad".
But it could look alot better

[Anonymous No.353249]

>>353248
>It does not look "really really bad".

ive seen modellers with a months experience make better.

[Anonymous No.353250]

>>353249
I bet you've also seen worse. If your going to post something I think it might as well be some constructive criticism.
But then again, I'm just one person on the internet and you won't give a shit about what I say.

[Anonymous No.353252]

First attempt at actual modelling. Feel kind of proud of it.

[Anonymous No.353253]

>>353250
>i bet youve seen worse

not much worse

[Anonymous No.353255]

>>353253
Now you've seen much worse!
Good night

[Anonymous No.353257]

>>353255
at least this one has some infantile charm to it

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353261]

>>353257
>>353253
>>353249
>>353246
no.

[Anonymous No.353262]

>>353257

no it doesn't, this annoys me - when I first started modelling on the very first day - I wasn't this bad. The red button isn't even centred

plz don't post again

[Anonymous No.353266]

godamn i need a new cpu, zbrush is alerady slow as a bitch

[Anonymous No.353271]

>>353266
well done. Any colouring. Jelly metarerials?

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353283]

moar progress

[Anonymous No.353284]

>>353283
is this a joke.lxo

[Anonymous No.353288]

Two questions,

firstly, I'm using Lightwave, is there any easy'ish way to add detail to the rocks/cliffs in my Cosmo Canyon Scene - or will I just have to resort to bump maps?

Secondly, does anyone have any low or high poly models of any Final Fantasy VII characters? Just so I can use them for height reference and place them at the main gate in renders?

Any thoughts, improvements?

Working from this image: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091103215348/finalfantasy/images/4/4a/FFVII-CosmoCanyon.jpg

[Anonymous No.353298]

I currently am making a jar, I like it so far but I might change one of the scenes on the jar to make it more varied.

[Anonymous No.353300]

>>353288
I was going to say google it faggot, but I figured since you're doing a cool thing from my beloved FF7 I would google it myself, faggot.

But it turns out, those models are really fucking hard to find. The only thing I did find was the models, but in google sketchup form. And since I don't know shit about GSU I don't know how useful that is.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=28445043f266d0f2dc537981deb9bffd

[Anonymous No.353308]

>>353300

Yeah I know they are! But I remember seeing a thread near the end of the year...when some anon was making a collage of /3/ work - I saw a low poly rendition of Cloud - and was hoping if that anon saw it - he'd offer the model... But I will try - if it comes to it, I'll remake them myself soon enough

Although, I do want to start a Final Fantasy IX project after this - that game had some amazing environments

Anyway, here's a bit more added...can't wait until I start texturing this bitch - will make it look much better - although the sign at the front I will struggle with...I'm not very artistic and the text does need re-making in Illustrator or something

We shall see...

[Anonymous No.353311]

>>353308
Well, I just googled this. You can see the guy and Cloud's height in comparison to the sign, so hopefully that can help you in your scale quest.

Keep up the good work and such.

[Anonymous No.353318]

[Reichardt !vXKh1ytRio No.353321]

Still need to thin out the tines, taper the staff, and add a pointed end cap.

[Anonymous No.353326]

>>353321
Y'all gonna pierce some AT field with dat?

[Anonymous No.353358]

>>353321
while you're at it, start modeling AAA Wunder.

just suggesting

[Anonymous No.353361]

Guys, I have a question from other side.

Using Vray - VrayWireColor, I want it to ignore transparent objects like glass etc. Is there a way other than hiding those objects and rerendering?

[Anonymous No.353364]

>>353361
I found a related tutorial on that problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvhlMnprQ5Y

[Anonymous No.353374]

The face needs work, hat kinda sucks, materials could be better, and the weights need to be tweaked, but I'm happy with it at the moment. I think next I'll try making the rest of the Cuyler clan, Shariff and Denny, or Dan Halen.

[Anonymous No.353381]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK85tUyhbo

Group Project I just finished for Uni

[Anonymous No.353382]

>>352105
http://skfb.ly/5lkjihg2fd

[Anonymous No.353399]

>>353382
not comfy enough, no rubber or soft part that goes on the head, horrible colors, frant part looks like it will fall off at any moment
horrible design, what were you thinking ?

[Anonymous No.353401]

It's probably not a good idea to post this, but I started about a day ago and this is the first model I've created (Not textured, some parts have materials on them to make the render a bit nicer)

[Anonymous No.353410]

>>353399
>d idea to post this, but

Well i imagined under the head covering would be a pad,
plus the ears would be padded.

[Anonymous No.353412]

>>353401

not bad for a first model, but yeah don't post for a while unless you really want someone to rip your models to shreds.

The model aside, I must say... awful awful floor, why is the brown part reflective and the red part not? Don't do that. Centre the spot light and you shouldn't make the edge of the floor visible - move the camera up and rotate it down to avoid this issue

P.S 16:9 Aspect Ratio looks better for elongated objects, allows you to zoom in and avoid empty frame space. 1280x720 resolution is standard

[Anonymous No.353428]

>>353381
This reminds me so much of Morrowind.

[Anonymous No.353434]

Hit me!

[Anonymous No.353436]

>>353434
Personal preference would say to smooth out the trigger and make harder edges. I'd take it into battle though.

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353438]

[Anonymous No.353439]

>>353438
Really Nice texture
Where did you learn to make them?

[Anonymous No.353440]

>>353436
Thx. I made the edges rounder for better results when baking normal maps

[Anonymous No.353441]

>>353438
2 babby tier

[Reichardt !vXKh1ytRio No.353455]

>>353326
Something like that.

>>353358
I'm actually planning to make most things from Eva, consider it a long term project. The Wunder is on my list, but near the bottom after all the Eva's, Angels, Tokyo-3, Lilith, GNR, etc

[Anonymous No.353465]

I posted this as a random picture a while back and got a lot of crits I wasn't asking for.

I feel satisfied with the exterior scene now, though; time for it to be torn apart. Gonna start working on the interior in the meantime.

[Anonymous No.353492]

>>353465
> dem bleached colors
> dat terrible unsharpen mask
> dem sad weather
> dat depressing weather

sadness and misery is flowing from your render duud. please re-evaluate the colors, ambient and the general feel it gives

[Anonymous No.353493]

>>353465
>>353492
Here, I did what I had in mind.

[Anonymous No.353496]

a little test on zbrush :)

[Anonymous No.353503]

guys do you remember the name of guy with the most fucked up Kaneda bike thread? I lost the link to thread, can someone please post it?

[Anonymous No.353506]

>>353493

I preferred it sad, but both are good...one thing I hate is the rock texture, it looks really fake in both pics

Love the tress though....how did you make/acquire them?

[Deforges !kltjFCOGEI No.353532]

Here are some crits op, mainly a lot of these problems come from your lighting. I think you'd really benefit from getting that down in a separate scene.

[Anonymous No.353542]

>>353492
>>353506

Thanks for your opinions. I'm going to rethink my lighting as I think that will be what makes the most difference. As for the rocks, I can fix those.

>>353532

Thanks for the crit, but >>353465
is what I did >>353493
is just someone trying to convey their idea to me

[Anonymous No.353549]

>>353503
I found it myself on chan archive in thread with bad portfolios, if anyone was curious wtf I was talking about here's link http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?88605-Rock-1-ch&highlight=shockblade

[Anonymous No.353572]

>>353549
wow... this is a troll right? wow.

[Anonymous No.353573]

>>353266

The top two head tenticles look like they're clipping through her brain. But then again, I assume you aren't looking for anatomical accuracy to be applicable to your masturbation aid.

[Anonymous No.353577]

>>353549
I read every page. Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.353578]

More of this robot, the company's finally going to release it to facebook. https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5bjfdhwrjwb3am/chatbot%20intro.mp4

[Anonymous No.353579]

[Anonymous No.353580]

I wish I had more time to do 3D.

[Anonymous No.353611]

question: is the left method safe ? or a no-no, i am working on my first 3d model for game and i could save up some vertices doing it the left-way, considering faces would intersect at ~90 angle

[Anonymous No.353612]

>>353611

for games? mostly its save because you can do different LOD models faster. (not always. depens on how complicated model became) if you dont need LOD then screw up the joining.

[Anonymous No.353613]

>>353573
it may be funny to you, but its not that easy to fap and sculpt my models at the same time

[Anonymous No.353614]

>>353611
depends really
some engines can start clipping geometry at distances once they simplify their calculations
but for the most part it should be safe as long as the poly faces arent too close, just dont be overly reliant on it, putting in few more polies wont be taxing as much as normal maps and post in today games

[Anonymous No.353629]

>>353611
I don't think it matters a whole lot. You might notice some seams or lighting glitches because the engine will decide where to put the triangles, atleast that was the case in id software engines.

[Anonymous No.353640]

slowww progress

[Anonymous No.353643]

>>353438
This is really bad. The paint is scraped off at all the wrong places. Do you know that geometry would interact in the real world? Most of the places you have scraped it off at would not even touch ground or any other surface enough to grind it off.

[Anonymous No.353644]

>>353640
I'm thinking you are making it a little too smooth, but then again that might just be the direction you want to take it. Looks decent enough, you have one heck of a texturing job in front of you though.

[Anonymous No.353668]

>>353401
I'm him, improving rapidly, well I like to think so anyway. Here's a WIP of the next model, 6000 triangles already, should I be worried that its taking so much?

[Anonymous No.353675]

>>353668
If that's the low poly. Yeah.
You shouldn't need more than 8-16 sides on any given cylinder

[Anonymous No.353677]

>>353675
But the cylinders look stiff and blocky when I give them less than the default 32, if I was to put the model into some kind of game(which I'm not looking at doing yet as I only started a few days ago) would the model come out as not-so-blocky?

[Anonymous No.353684]

>>353677
Yes it would. That's what normal maps, specular maps, and other textures are for.
And if you want to go "Look at me guys I'm so leet" you can use an engine that supports tessellation

[Anonymous No.353686]

>>353684
Ah right, thank you for helping the floating newbie. I'll finish this off just for experiance and looks then start a new project keeping in mind the cylinder sides tip and keeping triangles low

[Anonymous No.353712]

>>353686
>>353684
>>353677
>>353675
>>353668
I'm going to end it here, material'd it quickly cba with textures as I'm throwing it away.

Final Counts:
Verts: 4404
Faces: 3381
Tris: 8522

Thanks for your tips, I'm now going to model a small spaceship

[Anonymous No.353713]

I've retextured this box with a better uv map. I know some of you still want me to add geometry but trust me, you won't see this up close. It's going to be a simple game.

[Anonymous No.353714]

>>353712

you should find the smooth shading.

[Anonymous No.353716]

>>353714
I probably should, but as I said I only started a little while ago, I can build basics and can only vaguely play with renders and materials and textures.

[Anonymous No.353717]

>>353716
why are you raytracing while simulatenously listing a polycount?

[Anonymous No.353718]

>>353578
No one's gonna look at this unless I add a picture.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5bjfdhwrjwb3am/chatbot%20intro.mp4

[Anonymous No.353719]

>>353717
I'm not sure, what is the problem with this?

[Anonymous No.353726]

>Stereo pictures
>Cross your eyes
>Prepare to be annoyed
>Shit's gonna hurt your eyes

[Anonymous No.353731]

>>353713

Looks much better! And if viewed from far away, will be indistinguishable

>>353726

I can't do it, and it's not something I'd want too see in 3D - things up close are better for 3D - those pics due to their distance look the same, despite the 3 cameras maybe being 2 inches apart

[Anonymous No.353738]

>>353726
> cross your eyes between 720 pixels
tep lal

[Anonymous No.353739]

>>353731
yeah, 2 inches, in fact.

By the way, if anyone knows how to achieve the effect, I'd gladly try do it.

[Anonymous No.353741]

>>353726
if you have the red-blue glasses

[Anonymous No.353743]

>>353726

[Anonymous No.353744]

>>353743
Yeah dude. What filters are you using for the red-cyan ?

[Anonymous No.353753]

[Anonymous No.353765]

>>353718
Pretty good, what is it for? Video to put on a website?

[Anonymous No.353795]

>>353612
>>353614
>>353629
T.HANKS

i am aiming at udk, but i guess its better to be safe than sorry

[Anonymous No.353899]

>>353549

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever read.

After 18 pages I can't tell if it is the most elaborate 2 year troll in history, or the single stupidest person on the internet.

[Anonymous No.353920]

boobs bump

[Anonymous No.353921]

>>353920
and a screenshot of my game that I liked

[Anonymous No.353942]

rate me /3/.

[Anonymous No.353948]

>>353942
would maybe fap to

[Anonymous No.353949]

>>353921
are such bumps intended? I would lower it just a bit, but that's just me.

[Anonymous No.354027]

>>353920
really liking it man, can tell a difference in material.

finally retopo'd mine to get into unity, opinions?

[Anonymous No.354029]

>>353949
Good point. The wall and the floor could be turned down a bit. The rest is supposed to look like that though, if thats a problem

[Anonymous No.354049]

>>353765
Yeah, it's for my company's facebook page

[Anonymous No.354146]

>>353640
I really don't like the sign. try and look at reference of a real old wooden sign or at least a more stylistically aesthetic sign from a cartoon or something.

If you remaking something it's okay to stray from the original design if you're improving it.

I might show you what I mean when I finish eating.