WIP THREAD

[WIP THREAD No.461658]

We recycle now edition

Last thread: >>459766

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.461661]

>>461658
decided to play around with colour, I need to add pockets to the jacket still and add some wear effects too. I may redo the sandals too, the idea was that they were going to be like re-purposed human sandals that would be too long and would be fastened to the feet using duct tape and rope, but it didn't really work out that well. I may redo them, keeping the duct tape but maybe make them out of cardboard instead of a human flip-flop, it will feel more unified with the rest of the design and colours.

[Anonymous No.461676]

Added grass and plants and whatever, almost done with it

I was originally going for photo real-ish-ness with this

Can anyone let me know what they think?

[Anonymous No.461679]

>>461676
The roof of the shed is too bright. And also it seems like the planks are oiled for some reason. That would be a strange thing to do to a shed that probably doesn't get used that much. Just do it darker or change it to those rubber tiles that are black.

[Anonymous No.461683]

haven't modeled shit in a while, trying out some sort of hover tank thingy

[Anonymous No.461684]

>>461683
Too many edges for such little shape.

[Anonymous No.461685]

>>461684
I'm modeling with turbosmooth so there aren't really that many polys. right now I'm just trying to get a decent shape going while watching my edgeflow, and so turbosmooth helps me spot where I fucked up.

[Anonymous No.461699]

Made a sex bot. Working on a better sex bot.
Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.461704]

[Anonymous No.461710]

When is it better to assign multiple materials to a mesh to change attributes like gloss/reflection, vs creating maps to change those values?
Should i only use a map when the different areas can't be defined by the topology?
i.e for the corners on the book i would use a different material to the cover, but pages are only slightly more glossy than the cover, so i would use the same material for the for the pages and cover,and map the gloss value.
How does this change between a game pipeline and other pipelines?

[Anonymous No.461711]

>>461710
If the topology between the two materials is separate, it's fine, otherwise you generally want it as a texture so you can have a more natural looking material transition. Unless of course it's a hard-edge on the model, then that's fine.

[Anonymous No.461722]

Working on a low poly shooter. Tentatively titled "Slavshit".

It's pretty much Slav quake 2, except with detailed weapon handling controls, kind like a more casual Receiver.

Got a bunch more dunn than this but I don't want to blow my load just yet. Just finished a Gopnik player model.

[Anonymous No.461723]

>>461699
O_________O , I have a robo hard on

[Anonymous No.461725]

I made those 2 small DC motors for the miniz project I'm working on, they're not very detailed, but the thing is, they are details by themselves, and it's for an animation anyway, so, what's the point of adding details to details?

[Anonymous No.461726]

>>461676
Looks pre good, the first thing you see when you open it is shed windows, and they look completely wrong, do the windows have thickness? they just need to be tweaked, and the fence at the back intentionally curves downways? otherwise good job.

[Anonymous No.461727]

>>461725
One thing you can do, is generate a quick noise or fractal map and add it to the glossyness of the shader, etc the metal part, and that will help break its perfectness up, then it'l look more detailed

[Anonymous No.461733]

>>461727
A bit more like this? I also just finished the pot that goes with the smaller motor in the servo.

[Anonymous No.461734]

>>461733
And it fits!

[Anonymous No.461780]

>>461710
I don't like the bow in front of the skirt/dress, and I'd try to make her hair another color.

[Anonymous No.461808]

>>461726

thanks mang, yeah this is my backyard and the shed irl has like screens for windows so thats what i was trying to make.

what i did like 2 years ago was just made planes with dark transparency as the windows but ill try some textures or something.
materials have never been my strong suit.

[Anonymous No.461809]

>>461676

Another scene I started like 2 years ago and never finished

[Anonymous No.461810]

>>461809
i remember this being posted here. I oldfag now

[Anonymous No.461822]

>>461809
you should finish it now, it looks like a comfy place to sit, maybe make the light more yellow for that extra comfyness.

[Anonymous No.461823]

Just started using Blender for the first time today, looking to learn how to make first person weapon animations.
Think I'm making steady progress.

[Anonymous No.461829]

>>461823
looks about 1999 level

[Anonymous No.461831]

>>461829
Shit man, I'm past 1995? Thank god!

[Anonymous No.461835]

>>461823
Updated, posting before bed quick.

[Anonymous No.461840]

>>461835
>>461823
It looks like he uses a lot of force to get that slide back, it's not a powerful spring that needs any manly amount of power to get back.
Like wise it slams shut so hard that the gun torques forward. That looks strange and dangerous.

On a real Desert Eeagle pistol it would smoothly slide straight forward with a light *click* once released.
And the slide is not a massive weight so the movement of it have no noticable effect on the orientation of where you point the gun.

I get you might wanna do something more 'action movie' but if you know anything about firearms it just look weird.
Like having a car door that need you to really force it open with muscle and that just goes *SLAMM* like a springloaded death trap once you release it.

[Anonymous No.461841]

Mark 2 is getting there. Mark 1 is on the right
Rigging is super easy given there's no deforming...
Need to work on palms, fingers, feet, and toes. My least favorite.

[Anonymous No.461844]

>>461841
wert are you making?

[Anonymous No.461846]

>>461844
A game for all ages

[Anonymous No.461847]

>>461699
It looks like you're going for a curvy wide hip look for the new robot, but the squarness of the joints is breaking the silhouette.

The solid jointed pieces is integral to the sex robot look, but they should all add up to what an actual woman would look like. Your first robot is a good example of that.

If you want the big ball joint look I'd reduce the pelvis's contribution to the silhouette by a lot and have the balls make up the shape of the hips, and then the thigh pieces need to be wide enough to appear to "pick up" the silhouette after it's been broken. I'll draw something because I think I'm not making sense.

[Anonymous No.461848]

>>461847
Big wide hips come from the ball joints. The pelvis section is just there as a hard point for them to connect.

[Anonymous No.461849]

>>461848
or like this for the other thigh

[Anonymous No.461850]

>>461847
Yeah. I guess I had my fingers crossed it wouldn't be too off putting.
Here I've used soft selection to change the silhouette some.

[Anonymous No.461851]

>>461850
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.461852]

>>461851
lookin better. front view?

[Anonymous No.461853]

[Anonymous No.461854]

>>461853
dem giant labia

[Anonymous No.461855]

>>461854
It's for fisting the unfistable.
>do not stick your fist inside android girls.jpg

[Anonymous No.461857]

>>461853
To completely eliminate the square ness you gotta bring the thighs in the middle together.

I don't want to tell you how to design your characters, this is just what I think would get the look you're after

[Anonymous No.461858]

>>461855

[Anonymous No.461860]

I wonder if sound webm works on /3/

[Anonymous No.461863]

>>461857
Considered doing that, and those curves look pretty hot, but I think it's hotter this way. Also I don't want to mess with the curves because they fit so perfectly in the hip joint. They can swivel to ridiculous angles right now without any clipping, which is nice as I'm not actually weighting verts except for in the neck.

[Anonymous No.461865]

I'm still pretty new to 3ds max and such, but I'm working on rigging this robot arm. Is this bone structure fine for it? I had an earlier version with less bones but the IK rig ended up bending in strange ways when I moved it.

Anyone got any tips for rigging something like this?

[Anonymous No.461867]

>>461865
Not 100% sure how that's supposed to move, but form the looks of it, only pic related bones are actually necessary.
However I'm not a professional rigger so I'm not sure what the best practices are.

[Anonymous No.461868]

>>461867
That seems like a pretty good set up

The only think I need to work out now is if I can limit how the IK moves bones. Right now it acts as if each bone works on a ball joint, but I need certain pieces to move in specific ways, which I've detailed in this image. Is there any way to do that or will the IK not work with that?

[Anonymous No.461869]

>>461868
>the only think

If you create your joints from the orthographic view parallel to the axis you want the joint to rotate on, then apply a single-chain IK solver to it, it will only bend along that axis.
The best way to ensure IK bends the way you want it to, is to rotate the joints on the middle joint of the IK in the direction you want it to bend.
I've never done rigging in Max so idk how to create a single-chain solver, but in Maya you change it in the option box for create IK handle.

got these fucking UVs done. Thank god for unfold3D. Idk how to group the different pieces though. When all the meshes are combined, i'll have to decide which parts deserve their own materials, then divide those materials into multiple UV spaces and keep all the shells relative in scale, which they aren't, currently.
Any advice for these steps would be very helpful.

[Anonymous No.461882]

>>461835
It doesn't look like he's actually gripping the slide; his hand moves further than the slide does.

[Anonymous No.461883]

Started modeling this PCB, at first I was thinking about using an actual PCB design software, research every component, and export a step file, but it's a shit ton of work, and at the end it's just for an animation, so fuck it, I'll just make it this way.

[Anonymous No.461917]

>>461658

Need help. I'm playing around with Mental Ray & Vray in Maya. Problem comes when I have to set up lights, I'm confused with all the units types and such. I'm trying to follow some lessons also reading things around but I'm just becoming more confused, is there some good book or website that explains about real life photometric units, and how to relate them to 3D lights (kinda like a database)? Also, is really important to use actual photometric accurate values or is acceptable to set everything in arbitrary units and adjust exposure by eye?

Pic related, one done in Mray the other in Vray 3.0 maya. Tried to keep it alike but in Vray I can't build IES + Hdri textured lights.

[Anonymous No.461920]

>>461917
Using real units will lead to more accurate/realistic renders. It would also make your work quicker and easier because it means less tweaking. But you really need to know what you're doing. I don't know what problems you're having but VRay does IES and HDRI lighting.

[Anonymous No.461929]

>>461699
make it more anthropomorphic and less machinelike

[Anonymous No.461932]

>>461920

Sorry for the misunderstanding. What I meant is that Vray either let's you create lights with optional HDRi texture or IES lights, but not both at the same time (within the same light both things).
I guess I could work around it making a dummy plane with the texture and a surface shader and setting the light to invisible, but with Mental ray you can plug both nodes to the same area light and get the effect at the same time, which is cool since you get the IES pattern and the texture for the reflections.

I agree with what you said, that's why I'm looking for some database and ways to understand how vray and mental ray units work. So far I've been finding out a few bits of usual watt to lumen and lux to lumen stuff with usual lights, I've also been looking at the exposure through physical camera. Still putting the stuff together.

[Anonymous No.461945]

added some more stuff to the hangar, I think it's coming along but it still has a ways to go before I can start texturing. First of all, to the kind anon in the previous thread, I wasn't sure what you meant by make the feet wider, I tried making the individual toes wider and that looked silly, as well as making the toes longer, but that also didn't work, did you mean I should redo the feet? Secondly, added things like a balcony, elevator, computer, crates, robot arm and observation room, anyone have feedback on that stuff? trying to make it look like a workshop, probably going to have some rusty textures for the walls and make the whole thing look like it was thrown together and not professionally built, was thinking like a rebel hideout or something along those lines. How's it look?
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.461950]

>>461945
Here's what i meant with the feet. Yours look like the right.Not quite THAT thin, but i'm just emphasising the difference. They should be taller for how long they are.
I think for the arm you should either put as much detail into it as the tank itself, or scrap it.
Coz a single jointed arm made of large blocks and cylinders just doesn't fit. Given it's size, it would just be a metal frame with hydraulics and cables inside. Especially if the workshops meant to be built from scrap in some rebel hideout, they likely wouldn't be adding unnecessary parts.
BTW: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Smoothing

That's what i meant by smoothing. Second heading down, "Smoothing parts of a mesh"

[Anonymous No.461951]

Working on my first gun model. I feel like I already have too many polygons considering how simple this shape is. Does this seem like it has too many polygons? Could I achieve this shape without adding so much geometry?

[Anonymous No.461952]

> Idk how to group the different pieces though.

Do you mean arranging the UV shells in UV space around in a meaningful way? I usually just put any UV shells that are going to be part of the same material in the same area. makes it easier to create masks later on when you're painting.

[Anonymous No.461953]

>>461869
> Idk how to group the different pieces though.

Do you mean arranging the UV shells in UV space around in a meaningful way? I usually just put any UV shells that are going to be part of the same material in the same area. makes it easier to create masks later on when you're painting.

[Anonymous No.461955]

>>461953
Yeh that's what i meant. I figure since most of the fabric won't need a many maps i'd put them on one material and in the same UV space, then have another material/UVs for metal parts, eyes, etc. which will need opacity / gloss / reflection maps.

Now my problem is, do i use unfold3D and let maya auto scale and pack the shells which will be most efficient use of space vs size. Or manually layout the islands in a way that will make texturing a lot easier?

[Anonymous No.461957]

>>461955
>Or manually layout the islands in a way that will make texturing a lot easier?
That one. Letting the algorithm do it automatically is time efficient at first, but ultimately will cost you more time when painting because the UV map is so unorganized.

Do it manually and the UV map will be easier to read in every way; will make painting and creating masks infinitely easier.

[Anonymous No.461963]

>>461951
It depends what you are going to do with it you could go nuts with it and make a high poly then retopologize it to get it low again so you have a nice normal map.

Other than that it seems to need what it already has for the shape.

[Anonymous No.461969]

>>461951
The topology flow is not quite well, it won't smooth well and is going to be a nightmare when adding edge loops to crease the edges.
Also looking at the backplate image, the trigger is at a different "Z-depth" than the frame of the gun, you have model it as if the trigger was at the same level with the frame.

[Anonymous No.461970]

>>461661
I can't believe you've spent so long on this

[Anonymous No.461971]

[Anonymous No.461972]

C&C please

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.461973]

>>461970
I took a month long break, I only just started working on it again for a couple of hours recently. It's not a project I can just drop, it's for university.

[Anonymous No.461978]

>>461972
Command and conquer?

[Anonymous No.461979]

>>461978

comment and critique

[Anonymous No.461980]

>>461979
constructive criticism

[Anonymous No.461983]

>>461810

We all grow oldfag together, anon

[Anonymous No.461984]

>>461822

Yeah i'm planning to

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.461985]

>>461661
bit more progress.

[Anonymous No.461986]

my first knack at a couch
diddnt add cushions yet

[Anonymous No.461987]

>>461985
The folds on the arms and legs still don't look realistic, you should work on that.

[Anonymous No.461989]

Body topology good thus far? How much detail should I add to the head at this point?

[Anonymous No.461990]

Pretty much done with my first zBrush sculpt.

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.461993]

>>461987
I'm going to call the folds done -for now- so I can move on, I have a deadline and I need to retopo this and create another sculpted character too. But I may come back to this later and fix the folds. I'm fairly happy with the jacket as it is now.

[Anonymous No.462001]

>>461722
I'm interested in seeing more of this.

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462003]

I played around with fibermesh a bit.

Also question: Zbrush is getting sluggish now at 5 mill points, I know zbrush doesn't utilize GPU, so will upgrading my CPU give me noticeably more polygons to work with?

[Anonymous No.462016]

Glorious VSS Vintorez, still a WIP, how do you guys reckon I can further improve this piece?

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462018]

>>461985
another small progress.

[Anonymous No.462019]

>>462016
Is this for Metro 2033?

[Anonymous No.462020]

>>461986
now that i figured out how to make the base figure i started working on the real model

not too sure about the cushions though, even though there are some cushions like pic related i feel like top 3 needs to be thicker and bottom one needs to be divided into 3 separate cushions

[Anonymous No.462022]

>>462019
Just a student examproject,al though it was inspired by the Metro-stalker games.
Thanks for the compliment anon.

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462024]

>>462016
I really like this however some of the texture work is questionable, there is a really jarring contrast between the really noisy textures of the barrel and the foregrip, compared to the overly soft textures of pretty much everything else.

Other than that I like the overall look of the gun, if you could find a balance with the textures if could look much nicer.

[Anonymous No.462031]

>>461809
>>461822

Added more to it

[Anonymous No.462047]

>>462016
You should revisit the textures of the strap and handle. It looks like you just slapped them on.

[Anonymous No.462048]

>>461990
slimy

[Anonymous No.462065]

a scenario for a game, I still work in the texture, which will be in the cartoon style

[Anonymous No.462069]

>>462048
Plastic toy to be more precise.

[Anonymous No.462071]

>>461985
I remember coming into this thread maybe 3 or more weeks ago, and someone gave you a really good crit on the cloth and the folds. however nothing has changed, it still looks bad. what happened?

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462072]

>>462071
I you read the thread you would see that I stopped working on this for a month, so was actually not working on it when I got that crit although I thanked him heartily for the reference and advice, and have taken it on board. And you would see that I have a deadline so I need to get this finished as I have other things to do. Personally I think the jacket looks good, it's a thick leathery material and it's pulled up the arm to the material gathers to that effect. yeah the pants could use some real work and I will study folds and drapery more when I get time and in the next model but for now I just want to get moving on this and not spend forever on the clothing. I also may go back and have a completely new go at the pants if I get time.

[Anonymous No.462075]

>>462069
It looks like porcelain or some glazed ceramic material. Reminds me of some glossy snowman salt and pepper shakers I have.

[Anonymous No.462083]

>>462065
Reminds me of futurama for some reason.

[Anonymous No.462115]

Replaced the spear with a shield because I have no idea what running with a spear and a sword would look like.

[Anonymous No.462119]

>>462115
consider the weight of the sword dude, theres no drag on the sword arm, honestly I don't think she would be swinging that arm at all in a run, it might sway a bit soley out of the twist of the torso but it definitely wouldn't be moving like that.

[Anonymous No.462126]

>>462115
Yes this looks like running, but there's no sense of weight here... The sword and shield would be slow to start and stop moving. Also the shield might look better facing forward and now swinging side to side.

[Anonymous No.462129]

>>462115
>>462119
>>462126

And the boobs should bounce.

[Anonymous No.462136]

>>462115
You just keep making it worse lol. The spear and sword made more sense. If you were running with a shield and sword, you'd have the shield poised defensively infront of you, swaying/bouncing a bit, and the sword poised ready to stab or swing, not sticking out behind you, not swinging forward and backwards like it's weightless.

[Anonymous No.462137]

>>462129
I don't think the mery rig has a boob control

[Anonymous No.462148]

RnD for my new semesters class
final will be a 2d animation in a 3d stage
worked out both transparent image sequence on a plane
and got a ambient occlusion on the plane to show me where the walls are when i animate

[Anonymous No.462150]

>>462115
you buy a spear, and a sword, and then you get someone to record a few takes of you running with it

[Anonymous No.462153]

>>462115
not enough bounce

[Anonymous No.462155]

Doing a fan-sculpt of grommash from the WoD draenor animation where he's all hung up on the tree and starved. The shoulders are bothering me a lot.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462157]

>>462155
I cant see shit captain

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462159]

>>462155
your monitor is set too bright, you should calibrate it.

[Anonymous No.462161]

>>462159
I'm pretty new to Zbrush, but when i render the model it puts this dark filter over the top. No idea how to stop it.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462163]

>>462161
use print screen button for now
and make sure you turn off adjustments on the right side window when you export

[Anonymous No.462164]

[Anonymous No.462165]

I started playing with it again.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462169]

>>462164
sstill dark as fuck

pick the standard material and hide the texture so I can actually see what's going on there on the forms

[Anonymous No.462170]

>>462169
Standard mat without texture.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462174]

>>462170
yeah you def need to do a lot of refinement everywhere, those clay strokes look really weird

[Anonymous No.462183]

just finished a Anglepoise table lamp for a room im making

any refinements to make?

[Anonymous No.462184]

>>462164
pretty sickdark

[Anonymous No.462186]

>>462183
The base looks pretty thin; I would suspect it wouldn't support the lamp in the real world.

I'd suggest making it thicker, so it looks like it could actually weigh down the lamp if you extended it out across the table.

[Anonymous No.462189]

>>462186
this better? added some thickness and definition

[Anonymous No.462192]

>>462189
Better, but still seems pretty thin to me. If it's not being bolted down to the desk, I feel like it would fall over pretty easily.

[Anonymous No.462204]

>>462189
Make it looks like it's an inch thick.

[Anonymous No.462205]

>>462115
m8, can you post your blog, I wanna see your work.

[Anonymous No.462208]

>>462115
2fast4me
add some weight to taht sword and shield
move the head, it's kinda static

[Anonymous No.462219]

>>462192
>>462204
alright added more thickness, is it alright now?

and made a end table for it to stand on but now that its finished im thinking the lamp would look better with a more modern table or less modern lamp
how does it look together?

[Anonymous No.462220]

>>462219
I think the stand looks better and the table is modeled well but they definitely do not go well together.

Those kind of lamps in my opinion are meant to be on a desk or somewhere you do work (be it writing or drawing or w/e)

[Anonymous No.462222]

Here is the progress on the burger mobile i posted a week ago for my hard surface 2 midterm
>interior isnt done
>windows arnt on

[Anonymous No.462223]

>>462222
here is the wireframe

[Anonymous No.462226]

>>462222
Thats some 10/10 cheese right there

[Anonymous No.462229]

I...I'm actually having fun modelling for once.

Imported the bottom as a base mesh into 4r7, did shit to it. Its pretty cool. Too bad the cracked version is unstable as shit. Might actually buy it if there is a student discount or something.

I wish I knew how to rotate things I'm extruding. I have no idea how to do the stock otherwise. The tools are so intuitive.

[Anonymous No.462232]

>>462222
>>462223
origional

[Anonymous No.462233]

>>462229
the regular version is unstable as shit

[Anonymous No.462248]

First model I'm not following a tutorial to make.

[Anonymous No.462249]

>>462248
I could have had fewer vertices if I lowered the resolution of the bevel object for those tubes.

[Anonymous No.462318]

>>462249
a handy way to model is to assume you're going to smooth as your final step. You can avoid having to make extra geometry for big smooth curves by placing the vertices in exaggerated positions.

[Anonymous No.462337]

please assist cannot light for shit

[Anonymous No.462340]

>>461950
Many thanks, friend! Sorry for the late reply, I've been insanely busy this week, but I put in a couple hours and after finding a design for the arm I liked, I put one together, how is this one?
Also I see what you mean about the feet, thickened them vertically and horizontally, I like them a lot more. Played around with autosmooth and I like it, but I didn't turn it on for everything (like the cannon, I like the angular look more than a smoothed one) one question about that though, how will that affect texturing?
anyway thanks a bunch for the feedback, how's it looking now?

also looks like the 4k render is too big for 4chan, here's a higher res version: http://i.imgur.com/IUMzlVy.jpg

[Anonymous No.462342]

Nightime!

[Anonymous No.462344]

>>462337
well step one would be adding a light.

beyond that, visible light sources should have lights, like the monitor, just neoguh to show that they're glowing.

Follow a 3 light rule. Have one big light that lights as much of the scene as it can with an emphasis on what you want us to see. It should be warm.

The second light should be much dimmer and is meant to illuminate big areas that are dark. this is called the fill light and it should be cooler

Final light is for making stuff look cool and should only be used if it looks good. The rim light should be very strong and light things from behind so that it casts a sharp reflection on the edges of everything.

[Anonymous No.462346]

>>462340
I think you could go through and harden a few of those edges again, for instance, the largest round shell around the top might have a have a crease where it's bent. The feet look a lot more sturdy, but now maybe a bit brick-like, you could scale the top of them in a bit so they're more slanted. normal angles will not affect texturing. Speaking of which, if this project has a deadline, you will want to spend half your work time on uvs/texturing/lighting/post. Something i've not foreseen on some of my previous projects is how long that can all take, and a bad texture job will ruin all the effort put into the model. The arm still feels like it's missing something, maybe just a smaller secondary pipe following the large one, i can't really pick what's throwing it off for me.

[Anonymous No.462349]

>>462346
sharpened a couple of the edges, added a light cause one side wan't getting much and extruded+scaled down the tops of the feet, looks a little less brick like IMO, thanks! Also I don't have a deadline, just doing this for fun and to work on getting some sort of 3d skill, I want to go into game design someday and figured making things would beneficial. And yeah going to have to spend a lot of time texturing, I have only textured once before and it was a pretty shit job to be honest, once I've got down the very basics of modelling when I finish this I'll spend a lot of time texturing it. Also have to learn cycles, I want to make it look pretty and blender render isn't the best for that sort of thing. one question though, I've put it off for a while but do you know how to get rid of the noise in the picture? Wherever there's shadow there seems to be a lot of noise and it's rather annoying

[Anonymous No.462351]

>>462220
is this lamp more fitting?

[Anonymous No.462352]

>>462223
Are 284,000 tris really needed?

[Anonymous No.462354]

Working on making a detective's office for Daily Draw. Today's model is phone that I'll hopefully finish within the hour.

[Anonymous No.462357]

>>462349
I don't know anything about render setup in blender, but look for something like "shadow rays" or "samples" in global render settings or per light object attributes.
I wouldn't increase them yet though since you're only rendering tests, and it will increase render time a lot.
Those toes look way cooler now.

When you set up lights, usually you'd have 1 major fill light, like the overall direction of the light, and then maybe a backlgiht of the same intensity, and then fill lights to fake light bounce, which would have shadows disabled, and be less intense. IN this case i'm assuming you want it to look like the tank is surrounded by lights, since it needs to be lit everywhere to work on. However, i would still suggest lowering the intensity of a few of them and softening the shadows on most of them, and disabling shadows on a few of them altogether.
I would also increase the penumbra angle, which will give spotlights a better drop-off.

[Anonymous No.462358]

Alright. Guy who posted the Deagle animation a while back.
I have three sets of animations here.

Learned how to animate Thursday of last week. Made a kind of crappy Deagle animation the same day.
Made this set of 1911 animations the next day.

[Anonymous No.462360]

Made this UMP reload animation Saturday night and finished the set Monday morning.

[Anonymous No.462361]

>>462360 Meant to link to >>462358

>>462360
Made this set of AWP animations throughout today, need to make an equip animation and an unequip animation for this and the UMP. 1911 is pretty much done, don't feel like working on that one anymore.

[Anonymous No.462362]

>>462358
>>462360
>>462361

god damn, you just learned how to animate last thurdsay? This is pretty impressive

[Anonymous No.462363]

>>462360
eeesh the movement of the gun through the air is very offputting. Remember objects decelerate to a stop at the apex of their trajectory and then accelerate at the same rate. Yours is maintaining a constant rate. and looks more like it's suspended from wires than being tossed in the air.

[Anonymous No.462364]

>>462362
Yeah, watched a video on Thursday on how to set bones up and whatnot.

I've done tons of shit over the years, worked with making maps, some game dev, programming; just lots of stuff on computers. I think what gave me a head start in animation was doing posters/poses/renders in Source Filmmaker. If not that, I dunno. But yeah I think I'm doing well. Came a long way from the Deagle on Thursday.

I appreciate it though.

>>462363
Definitely noted.

[Anonymous No.462374]

>>462358
>>462364
also when the mag is tossed into the gun it goes at an even speed, I would suggest making it faster, when it flies out it looks fine just the tossing looks a little strange

[Anonymous No.462376]

Phone is done and placed in scene with cheap Sun and Sky lighting. More to come.

[Anonymous No.462383]

>>462358
need to make it look like the hands are reacting to the gun firing. not the other way around

[Anonymous No.462406]

Not looking forward to making the normal map for this bitch.

[Anonymous No.462407]

>>462406
why not? basic shapes. can't see what the issue would be.

[Anonymous No.462408]

>>462407
I'm still new to the whole normal map baking process, so anything more complex than, say, a box, is somewhat tough for me.

[scribbler No.462419]

Sketch from last night

[Anonymous No.462422]

>>462408
http://www.xnormal.net/

very easy, just make sure your envelope is right and it's a breeze

[Anonymous No.462435]

>>462419
your overall shape looks pretty good, but your nipples seems odd to me, way too low

[Anonymous No.462437]

>>462419
>>462435
Agreed.

[Anonymous No.462438]

>>462419
learn anatomy for fucks sake. inb4 trolls

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462444]

>>462419
nipples are fine, they can vary in where they sit on the chest so that's an odd thing to criticise here. It kind of looks like you sculpted a bunch of masses on the body without actually really understanding the individual muscles groups, origins and insertions.

[scribbler No.462457]

>>462435
>>462437
I mean, that's where they were seated on most references, but I'll see if I can fix them up
>>462438
Noted! I'll keep at it.

>>462444
Yeah, I see what you mean. It's just hard to balance muscle accuracy with human variability while making it seem like they are seated under the skin. Any place in particular that needs a lot of work, and any tips in particular?

[Anonymous No.462461]

>>462150
Or just get something analagous. A length of PVC pipe (which is dirt cheap) or a broom for the spear.

Use a baseball bat for the sword. Try running around holding both, watch how you run with them, how it feels to try and swing the sword like in your animation.

[Anonymous No.462462]

Threw a bunch of screenshots onto one image for simplicity sake.

First model I've made after a couple false starts following other tutorials/books. Using the character art for 'Captain Blender' I got out of a book as background.

I'm planning to have another go at modeling when I get back from class, so any ideas for improvement would be great.

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462463]

>>462457
I don't get what you mean about variability.
The biggest problem area for me is the latissimus dorsi and the serratus anterior and oblique area in general looks really off. It kind of looks like you've merged the lats with the obliques in some weird way that shows that you don't really understand the functions of those muscles and you pretty much guessed how they would look in 3D based on one 2D image or something. Think of the muscles in terms of their functions in moving/stabilising the back and arms.

[Heretic !!O65RQvLvGXb No.462464]

>>462463

[Anonymous No.462474]

>>462361

>that gun won't last a week

Why does it have to be so pointlessly extravagant.

>>462358

The slide would cock back much faster

[Anonymous No.462476]

>>462464
not realistic

[Anonymous No.462482]

>>462474
You saw the reload on the L96, correct? They're supposed to be funny.
Yeah I know it would.

Fixed the swing on the L96.

[Anonymous No.462483]

This is my first model I've made, expect some tutorial stuff, any suggestions?

[crossonrose No.462484]

>>461685
true. sex and torture of fetuses is evil

[Anonymous No.462485]

>>462483
Actually really cool. SMG?
Magazine looks a bit too big for the rounds, though. And I'd make the grip larger.

[Anonymous No.462487]

>>462485
It's a Bolter from WH40K, so proportions of normal guns don't apply I guess. pic related

Thanks for the feedback.

[Anonymous No.462488]

>>462487
Ah shit, never played WH40k.
In that case, phenomenally close while adding nice additions that don't ruin the original. I like it a lot.

[scribbler No.462491]

>>462463
Alright, I made some adjustments. I don't know I actually helped it at all, though.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462494]

>>462464
its a nice model but the anatomy isnt exactly realistic or spot on here
im not a big fan of using 3d models that aren't 3d scan for anatomy reference overall

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462496]

>>462491
you need some proper refs
start with volumes and how ide a chest from the side and front exactly is then go into anatomy

[Anonymous No.462497]

>>462474
>Why does it have to be so pointlessly extravagant.

Being a main character in an FPS game is literally about being a goddamn unbelievable badass like Rambo Schwarzeneggar. It isn't about being logical and making lots of smart decisions about your long-term economic goals as a bullet dispensary. It's about fucking killing guys in really badass ways and looking cool while you do it.

Video. Games.

[Anonymous No.462522]

There's definitely a learning curve, but I think I'm starting to understand it.

[Anonymous No.462523]

>>462522
>>462522
SubSurfed and matcapped in Blender.

[Anonymous No.462525]

>>462464
Dont listen to all these fuck wads
This looks great dude, you're really good

[Anonymous No.462528]

>>462342
So i'm going for semi-realism here,
can anyone let me know which areas need improvement in that category, i dont really know how to go forward with this now, besides like general material fixes.

[Anonymous No.462531]

Painting the texture maps for that toon Chain Chomp inspired figure.

[Anonymous No.462535]

>>462528
Looks like it could use some lights in the hallway to make the railing and chairs stand out while giving the floor some reflections so it doesn't look flat. Could probably use some lights or more window light coming the top floor to give everything more depth. Also a lot longer of a render time, especially if you're mixing in real photos as posters. I'm not experienced in architecture, but I'm thinking those changes could help?

[Anonymous No.462536]

Added (kinda) an equip animation, as well as an unequip animation.

[Anonymous No.462547]

>>462531
I only noticed the dick after looking at the image a 2nd time 30 minutes later
Does this mean I'm extremely hetero?

[Anonymous No.462549]

>>462352
140k polys
its mostly in the light bulbs which are modeled with the filament and innards.
>there are ~160 light bulbs

[Anonymous No.462556]

My 4k shitty gun render

[Anonymous No.462558]

>>462547

Means I need to add more dicks to it.

[Anonymous No.462565]

Think I'm done blocking all the basic shapes.

[Anonymous No.462569]

>>462556
post wires pls. This looks pretty dang good.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462571]

>>462547
No wonder since its slapped on there for "lolz" and dosnt fit the character at all
It aims for that creepy and scary look yet gives a obvious sexualized element if form of a hard dick, the 2 clashing elements ruin the whole model

[Anonymous No.462576]

>>462571
you were slapped on there for "lolz"

[Anonymous No.462585]

>>462569
Sorry, I lost the model

[Anonymous No.462586]

>>461951
Millenia pls help this guy

[Anonymous No.462587]

>>462586
yesss lets summon good ol mil'

[Anonymous No.462599]

>>462571

The dick is morphable. It can be morphed so the crotch is perfectly smooth or it can be morphed into a vagina (the penis becoming the clit and the testicles become the labia).

[Anonymous No.462604]

>>462571
>hard dick
>hard
man, you tripfags are really fucking retarded.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462608]

>>462604
you should see a doctor if your dick looks like that normally ;/
>>462599
still the dick and the tail in the wrong place totally don't fit here

[Anonymous No.462612]

>>462586
No. Mr. "Every Gun has to look like it was dropped into a septic tank" is not welcome here.

[Anonymous No.462664]

finished this today. I want to make a 2nd shot.

[Anonymous No.462665]

>>462358
>>462360
>>462361
>>462482
>>462536
Glorious.

[Anonymous No.462666]

>>461951
Start small and simple, add edges and slices as you go.

I started my Mauser as a really simple outline, then filled in the faces, added the depressions and other beveled areas.

[Anonymous No.462670]

Slowly but surely redoing all the components of the sight.

[Anonymous No.462672]

>>462664
How do you make trees like this?

>>462665
This is fucking glorious!

[Anonymous No.462676]

>>462665
There aren't any rounds in that magazine!
I was half expecting him to start spitting them out into the mag.
2glorious

[Anonymous No.462683]

>>462665
Oh please make a short shooter with that!

[Anonymous No.462688]

how come the only animations i ever see here are guns reloading? :(

[Anonymous No.462689]

>>462688
Because I don't know how to make webms or gifs properly. :(

Your swings lack weight and anticipation. THere's no way something that heavy would be so easy to swing and throw. Also watch your knees they're popping. You also have some weird rotations on your feet on the first swing.

I also feel like he shouldn't throw the axe at the end, and instead chase the ball off the screen. I feel like that would make the animation a little bit more interesting.

[Anonymous No.462700]

>>461699
Needs bigger hooters

[Anonymous No.462702]

>>462666
Thanks. I think I've got all the hardware blocked out now. I think now it'll just be adding small details and tightening up corners before smoothing and making the high-poly model.

Does 5k polygons seem like too many for the low-poly model?

[Anonymous No.462703]

>>462702
Some more angles.

[Anonymous No.462713]

>>462115
Even if she had that kind of strength, I think all that sword swinging is kind of dangerous. She could cut herself. Not to consider the fact that whenever she runs next to a wall, she would be swinging it into the wall.

[Anonymous No.462734]

>>462688
Would you prefer these kind of animations?

[Anonymous No.462736]

I well, I don't know how to texture or even texture paint.

So I'm stuck.

Don't understand colour theory. Can't paint or draw for crap.

[Anonymous No.462742]

>>462736
open photoshop, go to cgTextures and make some frankenstein textures, it's not that hard. I'ts not gonna look amazing, but it's a start.

[Anonymous No.462743]

>>462734
yes

[Anonymous No.462745]

Just got my Kinect to USB adaptor. Babby's First Mocap.

Fun, but I can see it's not going to be the effortless animation solution some part of my mind was hoping it would be. In fact I can imagine that for some things cleaning up the mocap data is going to be more work than just animating the sequence by hand.

Still fun though.

[Anonymous No.462747]

>>462745
wow you wasted money on 1)kinect 2)adapter

git gud at hand keyed animation, like pixar does

[Anonymous No.462749]

>>462747

I'd hardly call $6 a waste of money. I've spent more money on less amusing gadgets. And the Kinect was free.

[Anonymous No.462756]

>>462749
you spent $6 on useless, unnatural shit. Pixar shuns mocap 100% because of how utterly awful it is. Get fucking gud

[Anonymous No.462759]

>>462756
not the poster, but I find it more horrible that you are wasting your time hating on some one for something that in no way shape or for effects your life

[Anonymous No.462761]

>>462759

Welcome to /3/.

I don't know how much a 360 Kinect sells for but I'm pretty sure it's nowhere near what a professional mocap rig costs. I wasn't expecting a lot out of it although I was kinda hoping the raw capture would be a little better. Still, for waist-up stuff it might knock off a good chunk of the work. All in all I'm happy with the $6 I spent on it.

The dog walked infront of the kinect while I was setting it up and it recognized it as a figure. I want to try capturing the dog walking and see what sort of hell it puts the figure through.

[Anonymous No.462763]

>>462761
Sell that shit (360, kinect, adapter) and donate the money to the blender foundation.

[Anonymous No.462767]

Opinions?

[Anonymous No.462768]

and her bobs

[Anonymous No.462770]

>>462767
>>462768
anatomy needs work

[Anonymous No.462771]

>>462767

Gonna be a pain in the ass to rig with the arms that close to the torso.

[Anonymous No.462772]

>>462763

I could donate every cent I've ever made to the Blender Foundation and they still wouldn't be able to make a UI that didn't suck.

[Anonymous No.462773]

>>462772
donate and see if you're right

[SUPERtwinky !!G5xDaK3GlNe No.462774]

Since this is the most lively thread on /3/, I'm going to post this here and not waste an entire thread.

Here's an update on the status of /3/'s divegrass team, with a link to a roster poll as /3/ has had the same roster for over a year now.
http://pastebin.com/cAbZsCCz
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and fill out the poll.

>>462734
2Spooky4Me

[Anonymous No.462778]

>>462767
Nuisance to rig like >>462771 says; but I like it.

[Anonymous No.462779]

>>462768
look at some real boobs.

[Anonymous No.462782]

>>462688
something about the axe falling seems off, i think it's that it turns to fall on the blade side, it doesn't make sense that it would turn like that. also the throw at the end looks like shit, makes it seem like the weight he's struggling with the whole time is gone, I think you should give the axe more drag before he tosses it, or maybe even make him do a spin prior to the toss.

[Anonymous No.462783]

>>461972
Kobayashi

http://moonboog.com/sites/default/files/mv5bmtc0ndg1mjc0of5bml5banbnxkftztcwotgwnzy3mw._v1_sx640_sy720_.jpg

[Anonymous No.462784]

>>462774
>/3/ has a sports team
Neat

[Anonymous No.462785]

>>462779

Hey. C'mon man. He's miles ahead of what Alioto does for boobs. I'll bet he's even touched one.

[Anonymous No.462790]

>>462773

I'd just as soon give my money to Moller Flying Car. He's got a better chance of succeeding.

[Anonymous No.462793]

uv unwrapping is going to suck. But I think I'm starting to understand it how and what to block out.

[Anonymous No.462795]

>>462119
>>462126
>>462208
>>462713

Never had so many people say UR DOIN IT WRONG, thanks for the feedback. I made some minor tweaks, any areas glare out as wrong still? I added a bit more bounce to the torso and arms. I still don't like the sword holding arm but it is better than it flailing around.

[Anonymous No.462796]

>>462795
is this a joke?

[Anonymous No.462797]

Here's to hoping this makes a decent bake.

[Anonymous No.462805]

>>462795
How are your 2d skills?

I feel like you might be jumping into 3d animation because of the convenience without yet knowing much about the theories of animation.

Try doing some 2d animations, you can torrent toonboom or tvpaint.

If you don't want to put in that much effort, at least try doing some planning, draw out some of your key poses, etc, know what you're going to animate and if it looks right before opening up maya.

Again though, I think you ought to study up some more on the fundamentals of animation, you've probably been recommended it before, but try the Animator's Survival Kit.

Here's a link

http://kickass.to/richard-williams-the-animators-survival-kit-expanded-edition-pdf-zzzzz-t9688674.html

[A Huge Boner No.462808]

>>462700
Are these big enough?

[Anonymous No.462810]

dunno wtf is happening with her armpits or clevage, looks ok in the viewport but something is fucky when it renders.

[Anonymous No.462812]

>>462808
perhaps a tad bigger on the mk3

[Anonymous No.462813]

Tried some rock sculpting, what do I need to think about going forward? Sorry for sup-par webm, I was tired

[Anonymous No.462814]

>>462795
Are you aware of the 12 principles of animation? You don't seem to be applying it to your work.

[Anonymous No.462815]

>>462767
wouldmakepornwith/10

[Anonymous No.462816]

>>462767
Good job! Would you mind telling us a bit about the process? Looking at the image Im suspecting that youve been keeping at least the limbs as separate subtools up until one of the later stages, is this correct? Im currently trying to find the best way to structure up a full body sculpt and havent found one sure-fire way just yet.

[slocik !!/3tH96Fh3bO No.462831]

>>462810
maybe your normals are fucked

[Anonymous No.462835]

>>462773
I hope you been donating as well from the mad dosh you been making

[Anonymous No.462838]

Think I'm ready to smooth this bitch and then bake the normal map to the low poly model.

Looking forward to texturing it.

[Anonymous No.462850]

>>462772
the UI doesn't suck

Maya's sucks as it has no fucking shortcuts and you haved to go searching for everything

3ds max's suck because its ugly

Zbrush'es sucks because its tons of scrolling

blender's is easy.

[Anonymous No.462852]

>>462850
>Maya's sucks as it has no fucking shortcuts and you haved to go searching for everything


hurr durr what is preferences->hotkeys

[Anonymous No.462853]

>>462852
you shouildn't have to set shortcuts for the most basic of things.

Plus, blenders GSR > QWERTY bullshit.

[Anonymous No.462854]

>>462853

[Anonymous No.462857]

>>462853
Nigger learn to do art. What kind of faggot doesn't learn and set short cuts for any kind of art program? Are you going tell me next that MSPaint is god tier because of it's big shiny buttons?

[Anonymous No.462858]

Close to done on this bitch. Guns are surprisingly fun to model, although I need to learn to bump the poly count down.

[Anonymous No.462863]

>>462857
The art program should be programmed and come to you with the most ideal set up. This demonstrates that they actually worked with the program and learned how to make art with it. For example, creating edge loops in Maya isn't a default shortcut. Hell, its even hidden deep in some menu's somewhere. Something that is used that fucking often in a modeling program being that deep and hidden is stupid.
3DSMax/Maya isn't made by artists, for artists. Its made by engineers that know fuck all what an artist wants.


When you pick up a brush to oil paint, the brush works because there is a certain way a brush should be. You don't have to cut the brush yourself, laminate the handle, treat it with the right chemicals (unless you want to make your own from scratch). No an oil brush works the way it should right out of the damn box.

This is why Blender's UI and shortcuts > Maya's. Everything that is the most important is front and center.

[Anonymous No.462866]

>>462863
beautiful explanation 10/10
/discussion

[Anonymous No.462868]

>>462850
>Maya's sucks as it has no fucking shortcuts and you haved to go searching for everything

Are you shitting me? Maya has hotkeys and a hotbox.

[Anonymous No.462870]

>>462868
what is the hotkey for extruding a face
what is the hotkey for beveling
what is the hotkey for creating an edge loop
what is the hotkey for spherizing a selection of vertices

[Anonymous No.462875]

>>462665
which program is that?? o.o

[Anonymous No.462876]

>>462875
Blender

[Anonymous No.462878]

Ready to UV unwrap this model, but I'm a bit confused as to one thing:

I want to have all these individual meshes that make up the model all share UVs on one UV layout (or UV set, I guess? I'm not sure on the terminology). Going to Combine -> Mesh accomplishes this, but then I can't select each individual mesh by itself since it's all considered one mesh.

I'm sure it's something simple, but I can't seem to figure it out.

[Anonymous No.462882]

>>462878
Upon further thinking, I guess I don't actually need all of the UVs for these multiple meshes to exist on the same UV set, right?

As long as I organize the UVs of each mesh such that they don't overlap in the 0-1 UV space, I can texture the entire model without combining the meshes, right?

[Anonymous No.462883]

>>462882
right and right
it all depends on the capability of your software(and today basically no one has to worry about that.)

[Anonymous No.462887]

Is there a tool in Maya's UV tools that will size up the UV shells so that there's uniform pixel density across the mesh? Seems like there should be a tool that can do that, but I'm not sure of what it is.

[Anonymous No.462889]

>>462813
a lot of the bumps and crevasses seem pretty uniform, maybe try making some smoother/flatter areas with smaller cracks, so it looks like it's only chipped broken here and there.

[Anonymous No.462892]

>>462779

They look fine, are you gay?

[Anonymous No.462926]

>>462870
All of these are accessible through the Modeling toolkit in 2014.

Except Inset. I'm really tired of extruding a face at a zero value and then scaling. It doesn't always work.

[Anonymous No.462928]

>>462863
Well then how about you pack up your computer and pick up them paint then, Picasso. Your ideal workflow is not going to be the same as mine or the next guy, but that's why you can configure these programs to fit your needs. I started as a Max user but was then forced to switch to Maya. Did I bitch about it? Yeah, but then I switched my setup and controls to match the way I'm comfortable with in Max. Shit literally takes you only ten minutes. I mean how lazy can you be.

[Anonymous No.462931]

UVing and this is so tedious.

Modelling is fun, but not this crap.

[Anonymous No.462935]

>>462931

You should have your UVs in mind while modelling.

[Anonymous No.462945]

>>462926
The fuck you smoking? Inset is right there in the extrude properties. Otherwise you can use the Transform Components tool to just inset the selected edges, or use the Slide Edge tool.

[Anonymous No.462954]

>>462892
First
>looking at tits
>gay
Second
Referencing is a very good thing to do, even if you think something looks fine, you can reference it and find mistakes you didn't even realize you were making.

Reffing is good dude.

>>462768
Here's a ref btw if you couldn't be asked.

[A Huge Boner No.462955]

>>462812
I'm not the same person as that guy. honestly I really don't like how he's doing that robot (not that mine is all that great looking)

[Anonymous No.462959]

>>462931
Learn to modular modeling mtfr!

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Category:EnvironmentModularity

[Anonymous No.462969]

>>462853
Maya serves lots of different purposes. If they start adding default shortcuts, say all the most ideal shortcuts are for modelling, and animators are left with obscure annoying shortcuts, they then need to create their own and overwrite some regardless.
It isn't hard to ctrl+shift click a function to add a shelf button, and then add that to a shortcut.
You only have to "go searching" for everything if you don't know where it is, same as any other program. Once you know where it is, like i said, you make your own buttons with a single click.

[Anonymous No.462972]

>>462928
>Well then how about you pack up your computer and pick up them paint then,

I'm doing both actually.

>Your ideal workflow is not going to be the same as mine or the next guy

We aren't talking about workflow. We are talking about how industry programs are not made with the user's intentions in mind.

It should work in the most optimal fashion out of the box and be customizable if a person chooses to. Changing between different programs isn't the point. Obviously you are going to have to learn where things are. Changing keybinds isn't what I am talking about either.

Imagine if you opened up a new program and ctrl c, ctrl v wasn't copy and paste. Copy and Paste are functions, but they aren't even given default keybinds in any way shape or form.

You are defending shitty programming and a lack of connection with the userbase.

[Anonymous No.462974]

[Anonymous No.462975]

>>462974
Forgot the post. How do you stop what is going on in red. I thought normal maps are supposed to override what the original mesh does.

[A Huge Boner No.462976]

>>462975
you sometimes still have to add supporting edge loops to fix these sorts of issues.

[Anonymous No.462977]

>>462831

Checked that, but it looks like it's a combo of bad modeling + the shader spazzing out.

[Anonymous No.462978]

>>462977
kek @ no anatomy whatsofuckingever

[Anonymous No.462980]

>>462977
you need to give her pecs

[Anonymous No.462981]

>>462977
It resembles a human but is missing human anatomy

[Anonymous No.462985]

>>462972
It should work in the most optimal fashion out of the box
Maya does.
Tell me What functionality it's missing specifically, and i'll give you a good reason why you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.462989]

>>462945

[Anonymous No.462993]

>>462977
whats with the gooch man looks like she needs a penis.

[A Huge Boner No.462999]

>>462863
man I don't know what you're talking about Max is pretty damned intuitive. just because you enjoy memorizing every fucking key combo doesn't mean everyone else wants to do that shit.

Like what exactly are you expecting? all these programs are pretty heavily customizable, there's no reason to bitch and moan about these things.

[Anonymous No.463002]

>>462985
scripting in C

[Anonymous No.463003]

Making a splinter. Mixed it with oncept and in game model:
http://metroid.retropixel.net/games/mprime2/artwork/concept_splinter.jpg
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/7/7f/Splinter_crop.png/revision/latest?cb=20140621123027

Ready to texture or should I change more?

[Anonymous No.463005]

>>463002
Wtf do you need scripting in c for? Are you too retarded to accomplish what you need in MEL?

[Anonymous No.463007]

>>462863
Blender shortcuts don't make any sense. You just say you like them because you are used to them.
At least with max the keys are where you need them. Everything is within the reach of your left hand.
Blenderboy/10

[Anonymous No.463026]

Modelling some jellotits

[Anonymous No.463033]

>>463026
learn anatomy

[Anonymous No.463034]

>>463033
nah, it has to be overexagerated and stylized =)

[Anonymous No.463035]

>>463034
you dont know what to exaggerate, and you dont know how to even make a jello material

[Anonymous No.463036]

>>463035
Jelly much?

[Anonymous No.463037]

>>463036
Why?

[Anonymous No.463050]

>>463007
>Blender shortcuts don't make any sense.
How about instead of just making subjective claims you try to back some of it up by helping me make an objective comparison.

what is the max hotkey for adding an editable poly cube with non-arbitrary position and size? (blender shift-a > cube)
what is the max hotkey for snapping vertexes/object to the grid? (blender shift-s > grid)
what is the max hotkey for edge crease weighing your turbosmooth when you dont want to waste polygons adding extra edge loops? (blender shift-e)
what is the max hotkey for making normals consistent? (blender ctrl-n)
what is the max hotkey for extruding a vertex/edge/face/curve/spline/line? (blender e)

[Anonymous No.463052]

been over a year and have no motivation to finish, kill me

[Anonymous No.463055]

I've been working on a nodetree-based building generator for Blender. So far, mostly only facades are possible. The nodetrees take these parts...

[Anonymous No.463056]

World Machine to MODO to Photoshop, did I do okay?

[Anonymous No.463057]

>>463055
..and build this house using them.

[Anonymous No.463058]

>>463056

[Anonymous No.463061]

>>463057
Awwwe shit that looks dope. I'm working on something similar only it isn't as nice looking as that one.

Hopefully finishing it up will make it look fuller.

[Anonymous No.463068]

>>463056
>>463058
The dof makes it look like a tiny plastic model rather than a big landscape. But other than that it's a nice render

[Anonymous No.463073]

>>463068
Going for more of a tilt-shift look actually, so that is the aim of it

[Anonymous No.463078]

>>463058
Due to erosion, landmasses under large bodies of water will not have the ZBrush-like detail underwater like you're showing. At most the land will retain the rough contours of the mountainside, but for the most part it would look flat.
Your render looks like a tsunami just wrecked Thailand.

[Anonymous No.463084]

>>461710
For example in Unity, each material is a new drawcall, so it's better to use a single material per model. Ofc it depends on how far you want to go with it. Also your model looks like it would benefit more from handpainted textures.

[Anonymous No.463097]

>>463084
Hell, you could even use a single material for multiple objects if you know they're generally going to always be in the scene together most of the time.

[Anonymous No.463101]

Getting there.

[Anonymous No.463114]

Help, I have no ideal what I am doing.

[Anonymous No.463116]

>>461658

Sony F55 on a bracket. Bracket hasnt been beveled, still want to add more details

[Anonymous No.463117]

Is my UV map shit? I feel like I may've made too many seams, but frankly I'm pretty new to hard surface modelling, so it's kinda hard for me to say.

Before baking my normal map, I softened all the edges since that seems to be a recurring piece of advice I've come across.

[Anonymous No.463118]

>>463117

Softening all edges is how you end up with a bad normal bake (if you're doing game art). Your model, assuming this ISNT for a game, has too many rounding faces. A barrel can have 6-8 sides since you should just be subdividing it with smooth once it's done

[Anonymous No.463119]

>>462858

Hey that's an excellent model, very tastefully smoothed. What was your process for edge looping?

[Anonymous No.463121]

>>461710
Do you know of any tutorials to push my character modelling to this level in Maya? I am currently so shit.

[Anonymous No.463123]

>>463117
try utilize the entire uv space, otherwise you waste like 50% of the texture space

[Anonymous No.463125]

>>463118
Sorry, I should've clarified: I meant I softened all the edges specifically *for* the baking process. After I have a normal map baked, I plan on hardening various edges. That's okay, right?

I softened all the edges for the baking process because of pic related. Am I interpreting it right?

[Anonymous No.463127]

I made stretch tests

[Anonymous No.463128]

>>463125


That will mess up the model bake as it's baked for that specific mesh normal setup. Before bake, harden all edges that are over ~60 degrees. Anywhere you have a hard edge should be a cut in your UV (you can use selection constraints for this), and anywhere with a soft edge should have Move and Sew run on it.

[Anonymous No.463129]

>>463128
Well now I'm confused.

Jesus Christ learning about normals, hard edges, seams, cages, and shit is a fucking headache.

[Anonymous No.463131]

>>463129

Worst part is that nobody can agree on the best workflow. All softened edges is an easy way to get a bake, but your normal map will end up with a ton of gradients, and the artefacts will be mostly on flat surfaces, which is distracting.

[Anonymous No.463132]

I think this is one of my better models, and its still just rough.

[Anonymous No.463146]

it's not as bad as it could be.

I'll have more time to work on it next weekend.

[Anonymous No.463147]

some models i'm working on for a game

[Anonymous No.463163]

>>463127
>skeleton
Is that... a dongledang between her legs?

[Anonymous No.463190]

Anybody know if there's a way to get the Layout UVs tool to layout all of my separate meshes' UVs into the 0-1 UV space without any overlapping? I've fiddled with the options to no avail; they always have overlaps for some reason.

And is there a way to get there to be relatively uniform pixel density across the UVs? Seems like such a tedious pain to do it manually every time I have to unfold.

[Anonymous No.463191]

>>463190
Nevermind, figured it out. Apparently the "prescale" option is what I was looking for.

[Anonymous No.463196]

>>462361
You need to make some moments much faster. everything is to much on the same speed but looking decent keep up the good work bro

[Anonymous No.463244]

pla rate.

[Anonymous No.463326]

>>463244
your mesh doesn't follow your guide.
Don't eyeball it when you don't have to. Literally trace that shit with vertices.

[Anonymous No.463355]

First draft of the paint job.

How's this look for 3300 polygons? 2k texture maps.

[Anonymous No.463386]

Started lighting a scene I've been modeling for the past few days. Here's a base AO render. I'm basing my work method off this guy's example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSfUAsIQLec

Working out of Maya 2014.

[Anonymous No.463404]

>>463355
The handle and scope look too low detail compared to everything else. Low detail in polys, not texture.

[Anonymous No.463406]

That's about as far as I've gotten tonight. Working without FG is interesting. I like the amount of control you have.

[Anonymous No.463424]

>>463404
Thanks for the feedback. I figured it'd be okay to make the grip lower detail since it'd be covered up by the player's hand about 99% of the time.

I'll probably go back and add some detail to the scope, though.

[Anonymous No.463428]

Texturing is hard.

[Anonymous No.463978]

>>461883
It didn't take a long time for my friend to get a PCB modeled in 3D using altium. There was a site that had a metric fuckton of models for all sorts of components but I forgot its name.