Is there still meaningful room for innovation in 3D character design in future games, or has the medium reached its practical ceiling?
>>1023071We still haven’t gone through holographic technology. If only those stupid Americans can stop funding the fake AI we could get closer to hologram within the 10 years.
>>1023071>3D character design in future gamescharacters should serve the story. they can be anything. there is no real ceiling.
>>1023074ai is more funded and supported by china and india than anywhere else you retarded rentfreer
practical ceiling for 3D character design in modern games was reached like 10 or even 15 years ago in terms of LOD (level of details) since we have only variations on same models Everything depends on GPU and level of overhead code (game studio)(intentionally) put into game so you need new CPU , GPU from (chip maker ) so (game studio+ chip maker = profit ) and scam repeats and repeats You can see that by yourself some games from 5 - 7 years ago are more detailed as today. UNREAL eng. is great example how you can make game run much slower as same game 10 years ago. overhead code is word what you have to look into. Imagine cyberpunk (no bug sloop) 40% smoother and 50% faster But you need buy new gpu next year for 1200 and get nothing out of it. That is where we are now . Dead end.
There is still advancement leftSpoilers: It's lolis
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when the fuck did this get updated to have a building feature?
Crazy that lolige are going "mainstream" after being posted to ATF (then tiktok). First DoL, then hummingbird. What's next?
>>1022283most of the games on atf are pretty shit and amateurish desu. dare i say even cris' work looks better.but this game however, stands out for being artistically and aesthetically great for a solo dev as far as /3/ is concerned, even tho it is technically unfinished. cant show much of the game here tho. the op is a subtle bait.
>>1017727link to gaym?
>>1022283Unteralterbach has been making the rounds on tiktok with zoomer artists making their own OCs
Do you deform 3d model to get the expression you want?
>>1023113All fun and games spending weeks, months, years getting perfect face topology and then you have to rig the damn thing. All 55 muscles.
>>10232233D rendered anime is the future, we've been getting better and better at it every year.
>>1024069Modeling face miscles for anime would be tremendously missing the point
>>1024071Topology is topology.
>>1024072Eh, with anime you can go with the arcsys option of having just the one fan around the mouth or with the smirk/pixar option of having the mouth be a completely disconnected mesh from the face.
Im working on developing some games in my spare time and I’d really like to target the fidelity of ps2-ps3 style games, mostly for stylistic purposes (but also because I’m solo and don’t have the time and resources to make too many high poly things)Specifically, I’m really interested in how characters like pic related were modeled and textured to look semi-realistic and expressive (especially textures because I’m still terrible with them)Feel free to post low-poly or just your favorite models/textures from the games of the good old era of games
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what are indie game devs gonna do in 15 years when everyone is nostalgic for ps5 graphics tho
>>1024054No one is going to be nostalgic for that since everything looks the same now.There's nothing uniquely "playstation 5" about the ps5's graphics. The graphics and the games are the same for everyone now except nintendo.
>>995345>>995160I don't see this model on the model resource, anyone got a link? I'd like to see how well this one looks with path traced rendering.
What was your entry into 3D graphics? What software did you start out with? Mine was pic rel
It even came with seasons greetings from the devs
>>1023914Mine was 3D studio 2 (not-Max) on DOS
First it was 3ds Max around 1998 circa ,Later Maya, Cinema 3d ,even nice Wings 3d Blender is cool but... always some problem Now mostly 3ds Max and Blender
>>1024060>Wings 3dholy based
3d Canvas here.Tried milkshape, but 3d canvas made a little more sense to me at 13. I'd make little animations to show my friends. Didn't know about rendering, so I'd just bring them to my house and play the actual timeline for them.
Any recommendations for Learning professional animation for Blender? I'm swapping from Maya to Blender.
>>1023497Blender
How the fuck do slotted actions even work. I create a new action, I make slotted actions for each rig but then when I switch actions the slots just go away, they become unassigned and nothing fucking happens. It makes no fucking sense.
>>1023584simple way:-select object A, insert keyframe, which will implicitly create action AAction and slot A-switch to object B, select action AAction in the action dropdown, insert keyframe, which will implicitly create slot B on AActionthe important bit is the objects after the first have the action you want to be the parent for all slots as the active action when you insert keyframes/create the slots
>>1023584>>1023585Even if you originally created the slots on separate actions you can select both objects and use "Action->Merge animation" to combine them
>>1018529Really? I'm a native English speaker and while it is sometimes tricky to hear what he's saying, the subtitles make up for it. Plus, frankly, I just laugh whenever he says an English word with a very pronounced French accent. Like whenever he says the words "hips", it sounds like he's saying "EEEps." The EEEps of a character. Makes me laugh. But if you're a none-native English speaker I can definitely see why he'd be hard to follow. Still, his animation course, and his rigging course, is one of the few Blender things worth throwing real world money at.
>Youtube is full of retards who are poly modelling entire human characters from scratch instead of sculpting themImagine learning wrong from the get go and sinking hundreds of hours into doing it wrong and inefficiently. What a nightmare.
why would i sculpt an anime character when im going to have to edit the normals by hand for smooth lighting? i dont want to have to edit a billion face normals
>>1024019or manually retopo the entire mesh for good deformation.I don't really understand who is using sculpting for anything but maybe vfx
>>1024024i could see myself using it if i wanted to print a figurine or something but polymodelling is so easy anyways
>>1023937Haven't you been here asking if you should be poly-modelling characters and then turning around and telling others that you should never ever do it every time you get told to do it for more than a year at this point?
>>1024041Say it with me /3/ Trans rights are human rights
I am getting a certificate in CAD for free from my job. I will be all new to this field.What is the job market like for this? What are some basic things I need to know? Any advice would be appreciated!
>>1023995That's what the cert is in, AutoCAD. I'm just not sure whether to focus on manufacturing or the more civil engineering style route.
Your best bet is to stay at your job with the wrench
>>1024010I never said I turn a wrench for a living. I infact don't have a profession right now due to developing a chronic illness and have to change careers. I am hoping with all my prior education and experience a CAD cert from a college would lead to employment again.
>>1024013Basically anything computer related is fucked, outsourced poojeets for cheap dont make it any better. Blue collar jobs are somewhat stable for now because nobody wants to do physical jobs including poojeets
>>1023993depends on where you are, look at what local jobs are available related to CAD. tooling, molds, and other things need management, and a CAD degree helps on with blueprints, metrology, ISO and ANSI certs, all of which open doors. study this new niche. I got a few 3d printers and am learning coding now to develop an opensource software print-farm solution to sell on the market for user-rooted desktop CNC machines now. we need visonaries in tech in the western sphere, and CAD is central as a tool, if not as a career inherant. use it as a tool for alllllllllll the other careers. shoutout to the hungry ghost artwork, keep striving fellow polymath.
Hide your children and run.
>>1023901https://youtu.be/hNAc5AJ6q7U?t=544No need to hide. Polyhedra are fun for the whole family! :D
I've been trying to learn Blender (I'm willing to learn any program at this point desu) I followed the CGCookie intro to Blender course. I'm just trying to model/sculpt robots, mechs, and then humanoid creatures to pose, animate, and eventually 3Dprint toys out of them to sell.I checked the pinned post and tutorial links are 404'd.Does anyone have any suggestions of what tutorials to watch? Maybe even some tips and shit.
>>1023955If you are fem or at least cute you can add me on instagram, I'll teach you.
>>1023955At some point you need to stop watching tutorials and start making things
>>1023955https://blender-secrets-school.teachable.com/
>>1023955OP here, a game dev with 10 years of experience told me to just use Zbrush. So I got Zbrush.>>1023961The what.>>1023964The donut feels humiliating desu. But the rigging for impatient people, I'll look into.>>1023967Thank.>>1023973Checking this out now! Thanks.
>>1024000The ChudCG courses. Helped me when I started out.
so has ANY of you fucks actually used this for something?what's your experience with it been like so far ?
How the fuck is the industry working on meme AGI but we still don't have an AI that reliably does remeshing? How the fuck is that possible? Remeshing is full of repeating patterns, it should work well for AI automation.
>>1023799zremesher, dynamesh and decimation master already exist. what do you mean?
>>1023746>>1023747>>1023770how did you learn?
>>1023770>pixyz and manual cleanup in blender.awesome i was wondering about pixys performance, i guess ill give it a try and get the workflow down.
>>1023799>Remeshing is full of repeating patternslol, if only you knew how wrong you were
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>>1017914now show her polys
>>1019445She has around 25k triangles at the moment.Currently working on her shoes.
Meanwhile I've also made an upgraded Placeholder-chan model based on the new Alice model.
>>1017914>my name is not important
What's the quickest way from retard to creator of this?Wing3D?
>>1023304on PC with the hype surrounding the 7th guest 3D Studio (pre-max) got really popular fast, but that was for prerendered stuff. It's not until Max (so 96) that you could see textures in the viewport, and even so you couldn't paint them for several years so yeah, devs wrote custom texture unwrap and preview tools and drew them in deluxe paint and later photoshop.French game dev Cryo had famously developed an in-house real time 3d texturing tool that got leaked to every french dev and then some more across the world since it was so desirable.
>>1017881faggot retard
>>1017490for modeling you should take a model of whatever you want to copy and import it to blender (or whatever 3d modeling software you use) then add a mesh next to it and try to copy the model as closely as you can. If the result is too different then you try again a few more times until it looks similar enough. Then you make the model again, but this time change something about it. Do this again and again, changing the model each time, and eventually you'll be good enough at the style to make something in it.
I'm interested in learning low poly modelling and animation for games. My experience so far is gaming miniatures in Zbrush along with drawing.Where do I start? I'm open to any free software really.
>>1017490Quake's model guy is truly a master of making the most out of the limited polygon budget of the game. The texturing is so incredibly good. The remastered models are even better.
I started modeling in zbrush instead of blender. Everyone hypes it up as being much better and I think im missing something. It does feel better to model in but as a newb to this program, what features should I be aware of that shoots this to absolutely mogging blender???
>>1023836>grabbing, cutting, adding other mashThat's in standard blender my dude
>>1023824Zbrush is a sculpting software, anyone saying that it's better than blender for modeling is either trolling or retarded.
>>1023843theres a difference?
>>1023849Both sculpting and poly modeling are forms of modeling, so it's likely that silly anon presumed you meant poly modeling
>>1023795I'd say Blender is more of a jack of all trades and a master of none (who gets a lot of support from people) While Zbrush has a much greater emphasis on sculpting so you get more resources dedicated to coding.Also if you want an auto retopologizer, Zbrush is waaaay better at it.
Any eye rig setups that address the issue of clipping once the cornea goes too far to a side? https://files.catbox.moe/0yac70.webm
>>1023846Don't listen to the other idiot. That being said, ideally you want to be reasonable as to what you automate. Like automating some morph for the eye is overkill compared to just modeling the eye in a way that will not break down in the first place. Also since they're such simple shapes, basically two circles you could weight the outside of the iris to a bone and the inside to another and then it's super easy to adjust, and if you really need some sort of shortcut you can put an arrangement that looks good from the side in the pose library, rather than drvie a whole automation.Fancy rig features should be driven by what the rig's gonna be used for, make it easy to reach a good pose fast in most common situation. But good modeling will get you most of the way there
>>1023848How would you model the eye to prevent facial clipping from the side while looking good from the front? Since it’s just a disc, once it moves enough to the side, it’ll naturally collide with the face in such a way that will look bad from the side unless shrinked/deformed in some way, I’m not sure of any other solutionI don’t know how weighting the iris’ inside and outside different would solve the problem, since it’s only the outside that’s the issueThe pose library idea is probably the most realistic
>>1023848>>1023854Stop being lazy and rig like normal instead of over relying on a dumb PC to randomly add weights.
>>1023854Arcsys eyes for example are modeled with diagonal irises, simple as that. Looks good from the front and side.
you can just use a shrinkwrap modifier. and make the iris/pupil mesh a separate object with a shrinkwrap constraint on the object itself, pinned to the eyeball mesh. to keep it from floating away from the eye. and then parenting the iris/pupil meshes to bones. align the normal of the bone to point directly away from the eyeball mesh and then put another shrinkwrap constraint on the bone. i can demonstrate the effect if you need. this stacking of shrinkwrap modifiers and shrinkwrap constraints allows for any shape of iris/pupil onto any shape eyeball/sclera smoothly and without using blendshapes. but of course, this will only work inside of blender though, and isnt exportable.The pupil should be shrinkwrapped to the iris. and the iris shouldbe shrinkwrapped to the sclera. and each mesh should have enough geometry Set shrinkwrap modifier to Nearest Surface Point and Above Surface with a very very very tiny offset to avoid Z fighting.
