/wip/ - Works In Progress - "graphic design is my passion" editionPost your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here.Previous thread: >>993026
>>998180you ruined it.
>old thread at page 4 and not at image limit>whole board only has 9 pagesyeah you're special
shoulder mechanism. flawed but it doesn't seem to break easily at least. also why can't IK just fucking work? why do I need to add so many extra bones and constraints just to make it so it doesn't shit the bed?
>>998189>anon doesn't know what a bump limit is>anon is obviously a newfag because this has never been a problem before
>>998195You are so retarded, holy shit./3/ needs twenty more threads before any thread can fall off the catalog. It doesn't matter what page the old thread is on if you can still post in it.Bumping has also been broken for eight years now. Sort by last reply and shoot yourself.
>>998198Again, it's never been a problem before, and it's not a problem on any other board. Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generals and no one shits their pants over it except you.People are less likely to post in threads that have reached their bump limit, and I just like to see the board be active.
>>998199>Creating a new thread after the old one has reached its bump limit is how it's done on literally every other board that has generalsso why do you have to be such a little smug faggot with that op pic
>>998200I don’t recall feeling smug when I edited the OP pic, maybe just a little silly. I could have probably written “You don’t need to be someone special to do it.” Instead of “You don’t have to wait for someone special to do it.” because that would have gotten the point across better. It sounds stupid, but I have encountered people on this website before that think the jannies are the ones who make the general threads. I've seen the activity in the wip threads grind to a halt for weeks at a time because no one wants to make a new thread.Maybe it’s my fault for wording things wrong, but your need to tell me I’m not special and that I’m being smug makes me think you’re projecting your own ego disorders onto me, because that's just not the way my brain operates. I’m just trying to have a little fun.
>>998199Here's some prior work and a reasoning for it: >>997228>10 days ago>it's on page 6 and still has space for imagesStop shitting up my thread watcher. You make the thread when you need it, and right now you don't.
Now modeling the gorget. I'll see if I can stamp some leaf-like pattern into it.
>>998217Can I cum on it?
>>998220No. Great shame. Ancestors cry.
it is op's fault for making a cringe statement that he should have known would make retards have a temper tantrumit is anon's fault for getting chipped by a throwaway cringe pic
>>998217Is it even worth the effort to use plasticity, bro? I have a real, paid, active license, but I also like modelling with polys because it just makes more sense to me, if you know what I mean.
>>998180I touch my pee pee at night
>>998234For surface modeling, absolutely. Polygonal modeling is quicker for most things, but I will say that I could spend an eternity trying to model that with polygons, and in the end I would have failed. I would never be able to get the perfect shading, the fillet washouts, the smooth transitions, etc. Maybe with subdiv, but even then... I wouldn't recommend it. It's not worth the effort if you're aiming the surface modeling look. The gorget, I could do with polygons, but not the rest of the helmet.And I just think it's very fun. Time flies, which is why I only do this at weekends, or I wouldn't get any work done during the week.
>>998240are you using the blender bridge at all?
>>998241No, I'm using plasticity through vnc on a separate computer and I couldn't get the bridge to work over a different IP. I just export as OBJ when I'm finished.
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Still working on it, maybe another month of work left to finish this entirely and post it.
>>998246perfection>>998264What else is there to do? I assume the parts who aren't visible?This looks pretty fucking good
>>998258super neat anon
>>998270
>>998269There’s still a lot to do with the wood. Some splintering here and there, some texture adjustment to add granularity. As for the metal part, it’s barely worked on, I’m still gonna work on it for at least three weeks before it’s close to what I want. I have multiple references that I’m following. But thanks for compliment my guy
>>998258day 2>>998271thank you.
>>998284holy gemmy...
>>998270>>998284gemstone
>>998190more or less done. just need to mess with the rifle a little bit more I think, not very enthused by it.what do you think, blue fresnel outline thing on the shader, or skip it?
>>998338how long have you been doing this?
>>998199>it's done on literally every other board that has generalsIt's literally not. Generals stay until they reach image limit and then get refreshed. That's how it works on every board.>and no one shits their pants over itEveryone shits their pants over it when some retard bakes a thread early.
>>998340since january
>>998388doing good so far, but i think you only have the initial step. I think you should do rigging and animation on this character
>>998284high effort meme
>>998391You mean high effort art
>>998389ty. mostly rigged already, ik/fk limbs and parent switching for the gun. just need to add some constraints to the fingers and we're good to go. animation on the other hand... that shit is hard man. kind of have an idea of what I want do with him but it ain't gonna be anywhere near as good as it is in my head.
>>998437are you using blender for animation?
>>998438yeah, using blender for the whole thing.
>>998180i have not been to this board in over a decade and you're all still using this same image.that makes me so happy.>still haven't hit 1 million postsglad to see nothing has changed.
Cool thread idea
>>998589Bot, I hope whoever made you gets fucked in the ass with one of those baseball bats that have rusty nails embedded in em.
>>998284
How do I make a good low-poly anthro head?
>>996394Been pluggin away at this in the background, nearly time to cut things and start rendering. I could probably work this to death, but I need to make sure I have the time to actually render the anim.One question though. Anyone know of a way to make heat haze that's more or less "depth accurate"? Like yeah I can throw a refraction on a plane and call it a day (which is what I've done), but there's a bit more nuance to actual heat distortion than that. Not to mention since it's just a plane at a fixed distance from the camera, anything that passes that plane (for instance the train), will be distorted instantly like someone just turned it on, instead of a gradual thing as it gets further on. So a heat haze that was a bit more gradual over a distance would work, but I'm not really sure how to do that, and searching for it just gives the basic bitch "just throw refraction on a plane, bro".Also, I'm pretty fed up with Blender at this point. It's a fucking dice roll now when I press render whether it will crash (about a 50% chance), get stuck on "initializing" and not render at all (30%), or actually fucking render (20%).I've narrowed down WHAT is causing it to fuck up (the road and adaptive subdiv), but not how to fix it. All searches point to "disable GPU subdivision", which I have, but no dice. Switching to the 4.3 beta made it a bit more stable, but it's really that extra 10% to make 20% on the render dice roll.Not to mention the random, "will this object render or not", or "will the displacement displace" roll when adaptive subdiv on.The modifier is a fucking mess.Thanks for reading my faggy blog post/rant.
>>998947get a more fucking powerful GPU then faggot
>>998947do it post-render and use a depth-pass to drive it
>>998949Next "more fucking powerful GPU" than I currently have is a 4090. Somehow I doubt that's going to make a difference. The GPU's strength isn't the problem. There's something fucky going on with Blender in conjunction with my project. Just weird shit all around, despite throwing much more at it in the past without issue.>>998954Yeah that actually sounds like a good idea.
>>998958have you tried a clean uninstall and reinstall drivers with DDU? Also, this is exactly why I dont buy the most expensive cards. Cards always break after a while. I've had so many cards malfunction that I just buy cheap ones like 60 series now. To be honest with you I think 60 series cards can do everything almost as well as a 90 series card and you can replace it easily
>>998747idk what to have him lean on but whatever it is im probably gonna use geonodes to scatter it everywhere
>>998970also:
>>998960I've updated drivers, but not reinstalled them. I'll give that a go.Again though, I don't think it's the GPU. It works great. I've never had any problems with it, nor any of my previous ones (My 1080ti is STILL trucking in another computer as well). Like I said, the problem persists even with GPU subdivision turned off, so I don't think it's the GPU at all.As for 60 series, I also use this for games too, and I run at 4k. 60s won't really do me much good.I've got a 12600K (not the best CPU, but again, no issues), and 64gb of RAM. GPU, CPU and RAM all bought this year, all the parts have been working great.For all intents and purposes, things should be well within my margins to render. I think it's just a freak thing. For some reason it's been crashing less, so who fucking knows now.
>>998970settled on pillars i think
>>999012I had meant to say cacti, but I like the chunky pillars better.
>>999012what mr bone contemplating about?
>>998180newfag herewhy does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of itthe dedication is admirable
>>998976its good, but i want to see beyond a simple walk cycle into something "original"
>>999063>why does this thread always have the same image or slight variations of itTradition. One of the few things true /3/ fags can take pride in.If I remember right, it was an oldfag's project that he made for WoW or something along those lines. It's been a good long while since I heard the reason, so that might be a bit off. Still, it's been the wip image even back in 2012 when I first started hanging around. /3/ was a wildly different place back then, that's for sure.
>>999071ty, the plan™ needs a bunch of animations, just knocking out one I actually somewhat know how to do first>>999060idk. inspired by picrel. grew up in a very rural area and every other house had one of these out front.
>>998334...>>998940always start by the eyes region and do the snout later>>999073i'm in that pic. nice of you to save that collage, good times.
>>999095I'm going to be harsh with you but its because I see potential in you....i think you need to challenge yourself more because right now what i see is very easy, like anyone could do it
>>999099by all means, harshness is why I post on 4chan instead if discord or reddit or something>challenge yourselfso what do you recommend? that's quite broad but I'll give anything an honest try
>>999100you have to find something you're passionate about or else you won't do it. This can differ for everyone. For me, I'm so into what I'm doing that I'm doing these subjects all the time, at home, at work on break, while I'm watching tv on my phone, when im driving in my car im listening to stuff thats related to what im doing. You have to find something big that you can do. You have to plan. You can create an animatic in resolve with images and videos
>>999102what a load of shit with zero feedback of any value
>>999104this
>>999104Re-read what i wrote. You are making extremely basic animations with keyframes. Me, I am planning like mad, making animatics, trying to stay at the front, coming up with new things that don't even come up with anything substantial on a google search. What this is, you have to find out because its personal for you. If you dont like what you are doing, you wont do it, period.
>>999106that was a different anon but I kinda agree with him. you come off as a bit pretentious with this, whether that is your intention or not.
>>999107I dont even know what pretense means.You do you. I'll keep from replying to you from now on, but know this : what you posted is low effort. Most of what gets posted on this board is low effort.
>>999108post your work then, let's see the high effort masterpieces you have created
>>999109this was my old sim that i had to give up because the plugin company got sold and stopped supporting licenses
An experiment with some kind of blue fog with my own raytracer.
The white streaks are because of t-junctions in the model. I'll fix them at some point. The models are from Cube 2/Sauerbraten.
>>999110Kek, please tell me you're not the raw chicken schizo and that you're just using his work as bait.
>>999114It's they/them.
>>999110I'd love to see your animatic for this
>>999114show me some respect. I have years of simulation experience with fem solver>>999116my animatic is for my eyes only
reminded me of this, thanks for the laugh anon
>>999118lol, learning fem and then vellum to a high level is so pointless and silly am i rite guise? Time to get some kind of meme to post from mah folder?
I'm messing with parallax eyes again. It might not be obvious how they're different from the previous parallax eyes I made. But in the previous one, I used a very difference node set up. all the difference are under the hood. I pretty much made my own displacement node. Doing so gave me a better idea about how this stuff works. And I was able to get the parallax scrolling to be more accurate. Now, when you turn then camera, it perfectly offsets.Though, there is still a problem with it I have to work out. The work isn't done. As the nodes grow, it gets harder to identify the problems and fix them. I don't know exactly what's causing the problems.I didn't go crazy with the displacement in pic related. Just gave it some subtle depth.The cool thing about this is: it doesn't require UVs. So when I finally get a handle on this, then it should be entirely independent of pesky UV unwrapping.
>>998217Still some stuff to do, like the interior cushions, buttons, micro fillets. Maybe a flashlight, I haven't decided yet. It's coming along nicely though.
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>>999130dont you think there should be more "thickness" to it? Like, everything looks like it has only one side now
>>999138Yeah I'll make a cloth sim to add cushion on the inside. Hopefully it turns out nice.
>>999143why dont you just model it with thickness in plasticity, like you do in real cad when you have specs
>>999144Shelling is quite fickle when you have multiple joined surfaces. At least in plasticity, it tends to give undesirable results when you go too thick. It's already as thick as sheet metal, which is what I was going for, and even thicker in some places, like the interior of the helmet. Plus, I like the look of cloth padding. I'm thinking maybe a leather lining, but I haven't decided yet. Something like pic related.
>>999147Maybe velvet. I think that might fit better than leather.
I had to follow a tutorial, but I got my first working rig. While the IKs work fine, I don't know why, after setting this up, I'm unable to manually rotate the shoulders. Has anyone got any good guides that could help?
Making a Scavengers Reign/Moebius inspired environmentNeed to figure out how to modify the shader to get some of the shadows back into the scene and work on the general landscape and foliage
keeping on with the arm since its really the basis of everything. Going to rebuild the arm again.
>>999221big flexahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g0v2SDe6MU
>>999095
https://files.catbox.moe/y4dbyq.png
>>999368
mantis girl wip
Don't mind me I'm just testing parameters on my IK rig.
>>999575I hate everything to do with UVs and texturing. So today, I thought I would take a swing at coloring the model by volume. I got the nodes set up to create proximity with points that carry color information. And I was able to balance the colors, so they're all normalized perfectly. A couple problems were immediately apparent.1. Because it's all proximity based, the points of the mesh often find themselves in a midway point between two colors. Resulting in a lot of color overlap that makes it all look blurry.2. Again, because it's proximity based, the mesh looks all spotty and radial.So, the difficult task, was to somehow give certain colors priority, to reduce the blue. While simultaneously making neighboring color points blend connect on the mash, eliminating the spotty look.I managed to reduce the spottiness somewhat. But it's still apparent. I haven't figured out how to eliminate it.I figured that by increasing the amount of points to sample from, it will reduce the spottiness enough to trick the eye. So I spent a lot of time working out how to do that. Managed it, and the results came out a little better. But not good enough. Still king of spotty in places, and the colors are still mixing heavily. I tried my luck at fully interpolating the points, and that made it worse. And by "fully", I mean that my first interpolation triangulated the points first, and then only interpolated between points that could see each other. While the second interpolation didn't have the triangulation limitation on. So it interpolated all the points. Turns out my triangualtion node is good for something after all, seeing as how it produced better results.But anyway, the way I'm doing this really is a fruitless endeavor. I can never get precise enough control of the color via geometry nodes. I did learn some few things though. Node comprehension raised.
>>999586Whatever you write is making less and less sense as time goes on.
>>999592not him, but i would be frustrated if I was UVing and texturing in blender, too. It stinks. I suggest maya and substance painter
>>999592Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't check my post before submitting. Reading back, I see some spelling and grammatical errors.The short of it is this:I can make the mesh read color information from floating points. But it doesn't look good. I tried to make it look good, but haven't found a suitable solution. Now I'm sad.The silver lining, is that I leveled up my node skills, and I think my face topology is a lot better. The edge flow around the eyes in particular makes me happy. I finally feel like I made solid eyes. I can move them around, and they remain smooth, and fit well around the eyeballs.The actual face shape isn't quite where I want it to be yet. But it's getting there. I started the face two days ago, and it was atrocious. Yesterday, I did a lot of work to make it appear human. Just human was enough for that day. Today, I got it looking more aesthetic. But I think it needs more work. It's not an economical head. Standing at 11,940 tris.>>999596Fuck... do I have to? The very idea of textures actually offends me. Like, how are we still using rasterized graphics to create color information for 3D graphics? Makes no sense when you really think about it. You should be able just "fill" the area around the model with the color you want.
>>999607It's not because of spelling and grammatical errors. It's that you don't use words correctly.With Ginecology Nodes alone and no math foundations you're not going to get anywhere.
>>999628I'm curious to know how I'm using words wrong.True, my math sucks. But I'm steadily increasing my understanding. I tried to get help from /sci/. And they did help a little. But they aren't very verbose over there. I guess math freaks all have the non-verbal kind of autism. Here are my posts:>>>/sci/16445040>>>/sci/16445234>>>/sci/16446497Barycentric coordinates may be what I'm looking for. Except the more I read into it, the more it seems to only fit a 3 point system. While I need something that works for an infinite amount of points. It's too hard for me to grasp anyway.Regardless, I don't think the math is really the problem here. If I'm being honest with myself, the task my be impossible with nodes. I'm afraid of the reality that true control over blender will come from learning python. Which I really don't want to do. I'm looking at "generated" uv coordinates now. It may be what I was looking for. A UV system that simply puts a box around the model, and then projects the texture onto the model by the box coordinates. I'm struggling to make it work right now. Not sure why texturing painting in material mode shows no change to the texture. But in the panel displaying sold mode, it does show the change. Weird. Blender's interface still feels so jank.
>>999630Your lack of math foundations is the problem because it makes it impossible for you to understand the answers people give you.
>>999645Fair point. However, an explanation would still help regardless. They speak the language of math. They know the lingo, the symbols and the shorthands. I don't. But, I'm still capable of understanding concepts when they're explained in a plain manner. Which nobody seems wants to do. Or maybe they're just incapable.
>>999649I remember an exchange months ago where I told you something like: "you need to establish a metric" and you replied: "if by metric you mean..."But the meaning of the word "metric" is not subjective. It's defined in math and it refers to a formula like "L = sqrt(a dot a)".>Which nobody seems wants to do. Or maybe they're just incapable.It's 100% a you problem. I've seen you ask variations of the same question for a year. I've seen several people giving you the correct answers several times and I've seen you ignoring the answers you were given.
>>999654That doesn't sound familiar. No doubt I've made an ass of myself in the past. But I don't recall a situation where a metric was mentioned to me. And then subsequently, I try to redefine what metric means. Because I haven't been doing anything where a metric is relevant.(I don't think) And I probably wouldn't try to redefine a metric. But rather beg for a simplified explanation of what a metric is. So you probably have me confused with another guy.I have been steadily improving at math. Last year, I had a poor grasp on normals and dot products and that kind of thing. The year before that, I had no fucking clue what those were. But today, I can visualize most vector functions in my head. If you tell me to get a dot product, I won't be confused like I used to be. I can just do it. Add, subtract, multiple, divide, normalize. These vector math concepts are memorized now. Rotation is still a little iffy.I also don't recall receiving an answer for my current problem. I've asked a similar question before. Where I wanted to know how to tell if a point was inside of a triangle. That involved doing some area math with triangles, that I wasn't accustomed to doing. But I did eventually figure that one out. You're probably confusing that one with this one, because both illustrations show a point moving within a triangle.
>>999656You're ignoring me.
get a room, autists
>>999658autism website
I was watching BCON and they said that "Animation 2025" is not going to happen.
I've fixed like 100 bugs in Blender's IK system but there are 1000 more and I don't trust it, still I'm amazed I was able to make it work at all.
>>999663Nice, what sort of things did you find?
>>999664There's a lot of sloppiness which dates back 15 years. If you're able to read C code:https://sourceforge.net/projects/snes9l/files/blender-2.79b-debian12.diff/downloadIt includes a fix for a self-shadowing bug that's in the internal renderer and, oddly enough, in Cycles too. I was planning to write an article at some point but I doubt I'll ever find the time.
>>999660who could have predicted this!
For >>999660 and >>999663 I've left whatever comes out by default from MakeHuman untouched including the default skeleton. All I've done is I've attached some IK endpoints to the hands, feet and head. I didn't touch the mesh, I've done no weight painting, no shape keys, no drivers, no Geopolitical Nodes. Just bug fixes >>999666 to the IK system.If you're a Blender user you'll likely never going to experience anything like this because looking at BCON, they're going in a completely different direction.
>>999607We use textures because we have hardware that can draw billions of triangles a second with fixed functions for mapping textures to the perspective of the triangle.3D graphics for surfaces is just approximating the contribution of light on that surface (or subsurface with materials that let some light scatter through them).11,940 tris isn't bad for a face if it is the highest level of detail and you're not going to be doing any extreme close up shots of the eyes or mouth.Your topology looks really good.You should watch women's makeup tutorials for a headstart to making petty women.
>>999595Substance painter yes, Maya no, Maya it's a waste of space
>>999698The thing that about 3D, that I have trouble accepting, is moving on to the next step of the process. I keep seeing ways to improve topology. But editing the mesh sees to break everything.When you work with blender's particle hair system for example. If you make a change to the mesh while the hair is still connected. Then it causes your hair to scatter all crazily. The simple solution is to first disconnect the hair, and then work on the mesh, then re-connect the hair. Except, what if the hair is already hidden. Out of sight, out of mind, right? You go to change the mesh, without remembering to disconnect the hair. You make your changes, and save your work. You just saved the fucked up glitched hair, losing hours of work.Similarly with textures, if you make changes to the surface of an object, the UV map gets all messed up, and you have to meticulously push it back into place. God forbid you unwrap the UV again, it re-proportions everything to account for the new geometry. Making everything misaligned.These issues would be less of a problem if I could just stop fiddling with the mesh. But I can't help it. The more I look at it, the more I see things that can be fixed or improved upon. The idea that I just have to leave well enough alone, and move on to the next part of the process, really bothers me.
>>999706Baking and projecting exist, this is not the 2000, you can break a model and reproject textures in a few minutes
>>999709How does that work? If I delete a face, then what does the texture bake/project to?
>>999706you should go through the standard process once to learn the hard way but there are way around most things now.wrap3d will let you wrap bad topo to good basemesheswill even transfer the texture over to match the new uv'sfor character grooming, you never want to do the groom on the actual character mesh. separate the scalp mesh and groom on that. then you project and attach the scalp back onto your character.that said, you should avoid constantly changing your topology because it's a PITA.
>>999706I would look into blenders hair geonodes. The old system is ass and not worth anyone's time.>>999709This would be good advice but Blender's baking is dogshit for retaining details in the original model. You will lose a lot of information doing this.
>>999711>separate the scalp meshjust to be explicit, i mean duplicate and separate - don't just leave your character mesh scalpless
>>999711I know of the scalp trick. Why does it need a scalp anyway? The strands of hair all have their own point in space. They should just work relatively off thatEven Geometry node hair requires that you have a clean UV unwrap, in order to make the hair work properly.(Overlapping UVs cause confusion and slow down for geo hair)I'm probably going to do geonode hair. But honestly, I get lost in the sauce. Nodes are convoluted. Even trying to use their prebuilt assets, it still requires you build the nodes in the correct order, and then you have a hundred variables to tweak. I'm just whining now. I just hate how fragile everything feels in 3D. It's like setting up a house of cards. The taller the stack, the more prone everything is to falling apart. I never feel like "ok, that's locked in." It's always "I hope this doesn't break." And then it breaks.
>>999718Maths is hard anon. Data structures for flexible creativity are going to leave you aimless.If you want to just make a female goblina then use DAZ or just knuckle down and spend time trying shit and reading documentation/source code.
>>999718the roots for hair curves will store their position on the mesh either using:1. uv space2. primitive number + intrinsic primitive uv's from the rest posethis allows them to look up attributes from the mesh or from uv space, including but not limited to, colour and animated position information. these position lookups are fast and precise.i haven't done a groom in a bit, but in houdini it is possible for guides/groom to exist separate from the mesh/scalp (usually something's gone wrong if you're here). houdini will actually allow you to just do a new look up from a different mesh. in this case the 'fragility' you're feeling is probably because:1. you don't know what you're doing2. most dcc's are designed as programs for artists and will try and abstract away a lot of stuff and ask users to work in certain ways so they don't have to deal with technical problemsfor 2. there are usually tools buried somewhere for technical artists to come in and save the day.
Made some changes to nose and mouth. Now there's a lot more geometry to shape the nostrils and nose tip, and bridge gets 6 sides instead of 4, for more roundness. Gave lips more geometry for shape. And I found the magic loop that made the inner eye corners look more natural. They eyelids feel even more solid before. So I celebrated by making a shape key. Look at that topology. Clean.Also played with hair nodes. But it looks really shoddy right now.Stumbled into a node called "point density". It sounds like a node that's made to perform the color volume stuff I was doing. Except, I can't get it to work that way. And all of the tutorials are like 9 years old. using the old versions of Blender. I found 1 tutorial that shows it working how I want, but following his steps doesn't yield any results. It literally just creates blank black material. And the comments are off on the video, so I can't even see what others have to say about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KogFovV-QoA>>999722>If you want to just make a female goblina then use DAZNah. I want to make my own thing.>>999723What's DCC?
>>999825And of course editing topology breaks shape keys. I edit the the cheeks, then deleted half the mesh and symmetrize. Somehow, the right eyelid now malfunctions when the shape key is turned on. How the actual fuck does a symmetrized mesh, not have symmetrical shape keys?
>>999831editing topo breaks shape keys but it doesnt break what is actually being used in the industry for years (see avatar way of water) which doesnt use shape keys but simulation driven by mocap. tldr. Dont use outdated shape key workflow
>>999834The way of water uses machine learning for driving facial deformation because they had the time and money to crunch all that facial data.
>>999836the way of water uses mocap and tissue simulationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQ5vTqqdgE
Welp, blender started slowing down for no reason. Went down every object and checked the modifier stacks and materials. Can't find the culprit.I guess that's enough Blender for one day.
>>999713>This would be good advice but Blender's baking is dogshitYou can use the dozens of free software to bake, I never said anything about blender
>>999710To the original texture anon, you want to modify the mesh and keep the texture.You project the old mesh on the new one with the new UV and bake the textures from the old mesh.
should i buy one 180-day premium or two? will there be another premium sale in the next 180 days?
>>999869FUCK wrong board ENTIRELY
>>999837>avatar 2009Don't be wrong on the internet.https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/exclusive-joe-letteri-discusses-weta-fxs-new-facial-pipeline-on-avatar-2/
>>999834>>999836>>999837>>1000054Doesn't matter, because I'm not going to use AI or Motion capture for faces. I'm not shooting for full realism. Face capture was a mistake. Everything looks uncanny now, because everything uses face capture.Also, I figured out what is causing blender to lag. For some reason, my mere 12k face mesh, magically obtained over 2 million verts. I tried all kinds of things to make it go away. But I just couldn't find the excess verts. Eventually, I used select by trait: loose geometry. It selected a single loose vert. This vert, I place deliberately in order to always have a centered vert to help with symmetry. Since I can always rely on it being dead center to the X axis, even if everything else changes.Well... somehow all 2M excess verts were concentrated in that one position. So they all appeared like a single vert. Amazing. I'm not sure what I did to get 2M verts concentrated there. I have no clue when it happened.
>>1000054You didnt watch the video. The video is clearly Avatar 2. They go over all the new tech. READ the description of the video, it goes all over Avatar TWO
Invalid surface UVs on all the curves. Why?Why does god sent Blender to me to make me suffer?I don't know what causes this, why it matters, or how to fix it. I'm entirely lost. First of all, what even is the surface deformer even doing? Secondly, why is it a unique node that can't be created by the user? So if I delete it, then what? It's just fucking gone? How do I get it back? How do I reset it?Hang on, let me consult the manual.(lol)Wait shit, the manual actually helped for once. It was in a roundabout way. But it helped. I have to begrudgingly admit. If you run into this situation, here's the problem:You changed the topology and/or UV of the mesh. The curves don't know where their roots should be on the UVs anymore. You have to tell them to re-detect the surface. Go to the hair's sculpt mode, and then Curves > Snap to nearest surface. That should do it.
How do I make the UV mapping for each instanced of these marble columns (array+curve modifier) to be different from the last, so that they don't all look the same
>>1000077There's a UV offset option in the array modifier that you can use to offset each instance's UVs. 0.5 or 1.0 will probably give shit results, but anything that aren't those values should work. You can offset the U and V separately, so I'd do that as well.All of this is assuming your columns aren't using fancy pants unwraps and are more or less laid out pretty flat on the UV space.If you're using something like object coordinates in your shader, you can use something like this to offset them as well. You still need UV coordinates for it to work, but you don't have to do any work unwrapping your objects, just go into edit mode and U>Unwrap and take it as is (they can even be scaled to 0 as well). Then just tweak the UV offset in the modifier to get it to shit out a random value per object.Then just use that random value to drive XYZ location of a texture coordinates node (optionally using a map range in between to make it go more than 0-1).That's all slightly more advanced though, so just using the modifier's offset would be easiest.
>>1000095Thank you fren, I totally missed the UV property
>>1000101No problemo. A few modifiers have that as well. Mirror is one I know for sure, not as useful with that one, but there's certain cases where it's perfect.
>>1000059You're an idiot and I have work to do.
>>1000069make your own thread if you want to write blogs about every retarded mistake you make, bro
Finished modeling and texturing a piece of clothing. I only need to cleanup the weights and it should be done
>>1000134what? The video came out when avatar 2 came out. It details what avatar 2 improved upon avatar 1 and MCU stuff. It shows this in video and writes about this in the video description. What is wrong with you?
>>999130Almost finished. I was going to put some buttons on it, but I'd hate to ruin it with too much stuff. Maybe I'll put some stitching decals on the inner fabric, and of course the mandatory, half torn off pokemon stickers.I'll model the female next.
>>1000140It's coming along nicely but what is that? Some kind of covid mask for LGBT folks?
>>1000144It's a helmet for ladies (female (not ma'ams)).
More than the usual bounciness, I'm trying to capture the effects of gravity on certain body parts.
I've never done hair simulations before but I've given it a try.
Not sure if this is progress post worthy, but it's the first not a tutorial project I've tried. The blade tip needs adjusting and the guard needs much more work, but it looks like I'm on track to finishing something for once.
>>1000191Nice, looks good anon, keep with the good work
>>1000144Looks alien I like the design, not sure about the colour
>>999095T-bot? That you?
>>1000135I guess I was oversharing a little bit. I'll try to contain my complaining.>>999825Made some changes to the topology yet again. More looks going down the length of the nose. Felt it was necessary to sculpt the planes of the nose. Now the bridge is distinct. The nostrils are better defined. Still not sure of the topology is optimal, so it might change again.I finally buckled down and learned hair. I think I get it now. Like really get it. It finally clicked, and I'm comprehending. But even so, it's not easy. It's going to take some time to refine. It's pretty messy as it is now.Glad the model finally has eyebrows too.Created a procedural skin texture. And then painted in the pink around her lips and eyes, and some blush here and there. The UV map is atrocious. >>999857 I need to learn this now. Is there any more insight you can give me? I'm not really understanding what you mean. Note: I never baked a texture before. And what does "projection" mean in this context exactly?
>>1000191Looks very nice and clean, anon. Good work. Will you keep it low poly, or will you add a subdiv?
>>1000191You didn't take my advice about connecting the grooves. Check out the official model, they use triangles to connect the grooves, like I suspected. Though, admittedly, I was wrong about two of the spots I circled in my previous image. Still, the other 3 spots are simple triangle connections.
>>1000146>>1000153I've asked several times and it's been explained to me several times but I still don't know what the fuck is happening here. What is the point?
>>1000138awesome!
>>1000284I make those short clips when I'm working on some aspect of my own "animation system", which is really a number of patches on top of Blender 2.76. For testing purposes.Since the Blender developers seem to be busy discussing HRT brands or whatever they do at the compound and I happen to be a developer as well... But don't worry because nothing of what you see is ever going to become mainstream, just enjoy the clips if you like them.
>>1000274The guard has taken me twice as long as every other aspect so far, so I'm tempted but gotta do it right.>>1000277I put some but not enough, didn't have time to do the grooves before work. I didn't have a reference of the top of the wings, didn't know they were diamonds. Making the golden crest on the hilt was easier but makes the inset for the pommel harder.
>>1000207The color isn't set on stone. I myself am not really satisfied with it. It's too aggressive. I want something softer. I'm hoping for something that will make people think, "oh, that's a flower!" Maybe a soft pink with the inner petals in a lighter tone.
>>1000316it looks a lot better with opaque materials than with the transparent glass material. I could see it looking good if it stays opaque and was textured nicely, but as of now with the glass it looks a lot worse than it does in the grey opaque viewport
>>1000320Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it's because the glass just looks bad, or is it the interior that is not interesting enough?I could make it into an opaque visor, but that's a completely different aesthetics than what I'm going for... It's supposed to be cute and delicate, not menacing.
>>1000287Thank you anon-kun, I'm glad you like it
>>1000316If you're going for a flower bud, then I think the design is bad. Because all of the detail that marks it as a flower, are very high and on top of the head, where it's barely visible at all. Looking from the front view image, it just looks like a huge cone head with a notch in it. I thought you were going for cone headed aliens.What I would do, is begin the bevels of the petals much lower on the helmet. the outer most pedals would look better lower. Like one of the outer petals should bevel around the ear piece. The visor itself is part of one big petal, and so it terminates lower too. And then fill in more petals from there. You don't have to follow the lines I drew exactly. I might have drawn too many petals. Dunno. But it should get the idea across.As for color, perhaps make the outermost petals a different color from the rest. As flower buds tend to show, the outer/lower petals seem to take on the color of the stalk. Which is typically green. But you can make it not-green. Since purple appears to be her color scheme, then make the outer petals purple, so they fuse with the rest of her suit. And then the rest of the petals are that gray color metallic color you're using for trim. Or perhaps, a brighter whiter tone. But then it transitions from white to a third color. Like a pink. Again, you don't have to follow my color scheme exactly. But I'd advise not sticking with a single monotone purple for the entire head. It makes everything look too uniform. Doesn't help convey a flower.
>>1000378Thanks. That makes sense. I think I got the method down now that I can do this in a few hours instead of the days it took me the first time around.
Does anyone have a vid or can tell me how to do animations with multiple camera angles? As in switching between cameras/removing them after the angle is done with? Not sure if I've explained that very well.Is it just a case of having cameras in the scene and keyframing them as you need them?
I have a question about a problem: I imported my fucking model to mixamo and downloaded the animation with mesh so i can have the rig ingrained in the mesh since i dont have a rig, but the fucking model came back with wrong materials like the hat which is transparent and i don't see any fucking way of fixing it.
>>1000316Why not a gradient? Like those lotus flowers
>>1000529The turnaround is shit, but the model is good. I think the texturing is a little to clean, but that's really just my personal opinion. Not everything needs to look weathered.Nice job, anon. Proud of u.
I rendered some gems. I wish I got more colorization on more sides of the gems, but I think this as is look really nice.
>>1000531thanks man. i think it looks a bit too clean as well, i was kinda cautious with the wear and tear because i didn't want to make it seem like i just lazily threw some edge wear and dust filters, while they look cool they also make too much of a presence, so i just made it them very subtle.
>>1000561>i didn't want to make it seem like i just lazily threw some edge wear and dust filtersLiterally me when I make a weapon
new toon shader I started working on. Still got a ways to go but this improves on stock
Took a break from human head to work on cat head.It's an old model, but revitalized with all new cleaner topology.I'm trying to get over my fear of texturing, so I painted it a little.Added fur. It cost a lot of tris, but not too much. Nearly doubles the tri count. Which, is about the cost of an inverted hull outline. So it's not a big problem. I just wish I had a more efficient method.I wanted to do something very different for fur. Inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfgxtbXPPkTried to recreate it in geometry nodes. But it seems some coding is required to truly make it work.Also encountered what I think is a bug with sampling points in geometry nodes.I also revamped my eyes system to require zero geometry nodes. And a lot fewer shader nodes. Basically, I figured out that using texture coordinates set to object, and making the object an empty, get all that data I was transferring from geometry nodes automatically.Discovered a pretty bad flaw in my eyes system though. Eyes can look wonky from the side. But luckily, it should be fixable by just having good eye topology.
Makin a hover bikeNot sure if I really like it, but I'm probably just gonna finish it since I want to make a good number of these.
im so fucking slow holy shit.
>>1000584Are you using blender? If so, are you using the layer weight node?
>>1000591Don't give up alchemy lab kun, I believe in you, 's looking good so far
>>1000597using maya. I tried blender, but couldn't get the results that I wanted. Here is a version 2.
>>1000643test with imported suzanne. Getting closer (have constant line widths of a few set widths that respect dot product) but still am missing a lot from the shading technique I use when I execute a specific rendering style in ink in traditional media with fineliners
>>1000652Not bad, but I think the problem with toon shaders is the ambiguous shading of large areas that don't really mesh well with the line. Like it doesn't come across as actual shading like you'd see in an illustration, but moreso just a 3d artifact. This isn't just a problem with yours though, it's an issue with like 90% of toon shaders.Which is why I think the best toon shaders don't even bother shading. It's mostly flat colors and lines.
>>1000586Check it out. I figured out how to make fur with textures.It took me HOURS to figure out how to give these faces proper UV coordinates. They're all individual squares, so it should be easy. All I had to do was plot the 4 corners of each square to the coordinates (0,0,0) (0,1,0) (1,0,0) and (1,1,0). That's literally it. It took me FOREVER to figure it out. And the solution ended up being relatively easy. My solution avoids the UV unwrapping node too. Which is great, because that node is slow.After that, I stumbled into another problem. The textures were not in the proper order. As in, ones that should be in front, were in back. It was some kind of depth issue. At first I thought it was because all the squares shared UV coordinates. So I fixed that by making them sit next to each other. Because the texture repeats, they still showed the texture normally, save for the depth problem that persisted. Then I changed the blending method from alpha blend to alpha hashed. That fixed the problem. Don't know why, but alpha blend seems to have depth issues. Which is a shame, because it blends better than alpha hashed, which is all grainy. Alpha clipped also works, but I don't prefer the sharp edges it creates.After that, I came up with a way for the fur to lay down. I might not be able to sculpt it. But at least, when it's laid down at an angle, it covers more of the underlying mesh, and it appears to give the fur a pattern. Rather than just sticking straight out.From here, I can improve it by making better and more varied fur textures. Plus, refining the weights that affect fur length.I also fixed the sampling problem from before. It wasn't a bug, it was user error.
>>1000693Thanks for the feedback dood. This is what I'm going for. Line weights set by physically switching to different set width fineliners. A "reflective" style where the outside edges have lots of specular fresnel, always. I saw this style in a book on drawing and shading comic book super heroesI am trying to translate this into a shader as a challenge. I tried the built in toon pipeline of prman to get the above, but now I feel like I have to explore the prmanOSL node
>>1000708looks like osl in prman has practically no features and blender is much more full featured
>>998180I am this anon >>1000138Made more clothes for a not-Fallout but smaller in scope (you have a safehouse and select locations a-la Hitman Freelancer, instead of there being an open world) and with anthros I'm creating with a coder man. We're using Unreal 4.If any sound + music guy is interested to join our team feel free to share your portfolio, if your work suits our project I'll get back to you, cheers
I was able to redo the petals with minimal effort yesterday. That's a lot more petals, redoing all the nice washouts will take a while. Whether it will look like a flower or not only after shading to know. >>1000511That's an interesting idea. In the end, I think I'll end up having to unwrap this and paint a base layer by hand.
>>1000774
>>1000138furry freak
>>1000789I can't deny it
>>1000795Based
Reposting from /v/.After identifying a problem with my eye projection method, I got to thinking on how to really make a circle that's impervious to edge distortion. After some experimentation, it seems like a way to do that, is to project everything onto the camera. This is something I've done in geometry nodes before. But shader nodes work a little differently. It wasn't as intuitive. Still, after some node bashing, I got it working.The webm displays a circle getting distorted by edges at first, and then it's swapped out for the new nodes, which display a circle impervious to edges.I'm still uncertain about how to make the circle stay in place. Because it's a projection back onto the camera, the circle is always centered on the screen. I need to figure out how to offset the position in such a way that it sticks to point in space.
>>1000138>>1000761Oh shit nice. Do you have a wireframe?
>>1000836Thank you, and sure, here's a general view one from the front
>>1000223You can use rightclick>"Pin" in UV editor to lock in the unwrapped vertices. If you hit unwrap again it will unwrap every "un-pinned" face based on the pin vertices
>>1000853Sounds nice. I can't make it work though. I can pin the vertices just fine. but selecting unwrap makes all the unpinned vertices unwrap in full scale. taking up as much space as they can. Not following the flow of the pinned vertices at all.
>>1000866Did you ctrl A> Apply rotation and scale ? Also on the UV panel , press D or check bottom left for the Unwrap settings , try messing around with them
>>1000874>Did you ctrl A> Apply rotation and scale ?They're applied and neutral.>press D or check bottom left for the Unwrap settings??? Pressing D gets zero reaction from blender. Literally nothing to see in the bottom left. What function did you think was assigned to D?Wait, I just figured out the problem. After I pinned the vertices, I was independently selecting the loose vertices and unwrapping them. The solution was to simply select the loose AND pinned vertices. I guess I should have tried that, but I didn't think of it.
>>1001034this rat seems familiar, is it from an anime or something?
Sketched out a ref sheet to model fromReference on the rightBeetles and bugs are icky as fuck though, was feeling queasy just looking at IRL references.
>>1001058Beetles are beautful though how could you possible be yucked by those? They're adorable, you should look at the sheer intent those little fuckers push balls of shit around like their life depended upon it, it's inspiring man
>>1001055Friend's OC heavily inspired by Sakuya
>>1000429is it transparent or the normals are just flipped?
Super super cute
>>1001085>>1001140that's why it felt familiar, an aspie, it's a small world try setting your color management to Standard when working on NPR models, Filmic is the default for Blender and it looks dark and washed out
>>1001141That's something I noticed as I was texturing, Blender's colors looked washed out and nothing like the colors I was putting down in the texture itselfBy the way, what does NPR stand for?
>>1001143Non Photorealistic Rendering, as opposed to PBR which stands to Physically Based Rendering (realistic)
>>1001140Texturing is so exhaustingSpecially when I have to export to single layer > confirm overwrite on CSP every time I want to see my changes
>>1001221Right, don't texture 3d models in clip studio paint.If texture painting in blender bothers you that much, use an external program that's designed for 3d texturing like substance painter.But really texture painting in blender should be fine.
>>1001231>substance painter>SaaS shit>Adobe shitNo.
>>1001232Right, I mean it's your workflow, whatever, but I really don't see what about the texture on the character really requires you to open up an external program to paint onto a UV mapped texture instead of, you know, painting onto the model directly.
>>1001231How do you keep substance painter from shitting all over the entire texture map when you paint on model and happen to get a little too close to the edge of the UV? Its horrible. Shit scribbles all over the place.
>>1001236I don't use substance painter, I manage with blender's built in features.It's admittedly not the best but it beats manually editing in CSP.Texture paint has that problem too sometimes, just make sure you're only painting on selected faces and if there's a problem with seams use your clone tool and have a large enough margin between UV islands.
>>1001231Blender's built-in texture painter leaves a LOT to be desiredCSP's brush engine alone makes it my go-to for anything 2D. Plus, I find it much more convenient to just export the UV layout and overlay it on top of my texture in CSP and work that way. Realtime updating is literally the only thing missing from my workflow
Skin stretching test
>>1001406mogged by the cute lil rat maid a few posts above
Hey guys, I spent 3 hours modeling ears then when I was finished turns out Link has elf ears.
>>1001451im mean just go into scuplt mode and drag out those ears until they look elvish
>>998180Modeled, rigged and textured my double barrel shotgun, for the most part anyway, I only need to add some damage detail to the Diffuse and generate height + roughness + metallic maps. Might make some color changes too
:thumbs_up:
>>1001515It's done, a double barrel shotgun and a sawn off variant I easily derived from it
>>1001579Textured the shells as well, NOW it's done
frogga
I wish /3/ was as active as /ic/
>>1001653I don't.
What does /3/ think of my third ever character head sculpt attempt?
>>1001685Here it is with added hair, I didn't make the hair, I just added it to see how it would look.
>>1000134>2m verts in a pointSounds like you're the idiot.
>>999134>To be reborn as my fursona.
>>1001515>>1001579>>1001601this looks awesome, good job
Here's a sculpt I made today. I'm still learning how to make animal faces.
(untextured) gun
pew pew
>>1001761>>1001779It's a nice, tight, low poly model. And yet, I still think it would look better if you spent more polygons rounding out the ears.
>>1001848It's not low poly, I tried the low poly style for this model initially but I'm too used to quads and good topology and every time I made a triangle I felt like I was being stabbed. So instead I pulled out every 3D modeling technique I know and didn't particularly care about the poly countIt's around 12k polys I think (and 2k of those are the frilly skirt under the outside skirt) but I agree, it would've come out better if I had spent more polygons rounding out the earsI also set it up for VRM for funsies. This was the initial prototype, I fixed the hair and added a blink shapekey and my friend already debuted it on his stream :)https://files.catbox.moe/crfv6m.mp4
>>1001221there are a couple tricks, you can save your clip project file as a psd instead, Blender can read photoshop filesI've just heard about a plugin that auto reload files but I haven't tested it yethttps://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/auto-reload/
>>1001852>12k polysThats still considered low poly. It just isn't what people think of when they hear low poly, theyre thinking ps2 or n64 looking ass shit.
>>1001852>but I agree, it would've come out better if I had spent more polygons rounding out the earsYou should do it, if it's not too much trouble. Looks like you use blender. So go to your addons/extensions, and go to F2, and enable the function that preserves UVs as you edit.(pic related)It shouldn't interfere with the UVs you already have. It should only place new geometry where it thinks it should go, in relation to the UVs that are already there. Still, it would be prudent to create a new UVmap over in object data properties. Because when you create a new uvmap, it copies your current uvmap. So in case something goes sideways, you will have a copy preserved.Alternatively, you could just billboard the ears. Using Alpha to cut out a perfectly round shape. And then sticking the billboard in the front of the rest of the ear shape.>>100187812k is higher than your average PS2 game model. Check it out: https://polycount.com/discussion/126662/triangle-counts-for-assets-from-various-videogamesFor example: In the first Jak and Daxter, Jak's model was 4,000 tris. In the second game, it was bumped up to 10,000.For Zelda: Wind Waker Link was 2,800 tris. twilight Princess Link was 6,90012k seems to be right on the cusp, where a PS2 game might push that high for a complex model. Or a PS3 game might go that low for an economical model. For example, Alan Wake's model is 13,437 tris. And Alice from Madness Returns is 11,748 tris. Those are on the low end of the PS3/Xbox36 era. That era seems to average about 18k.
>>1001686>>1001685Looks ok. I see the vision. You have to define the lids of her eyes. It's an intimidating task, but needs to be done. Best start learning now, so you're not 50 heads deep, and still struggling with eyes. Also the shape of her lips could be defined a little more too.
>>1001852>frilly skirtGIWTWM
>>1001886Ah, thank you anon! Yes, you are right, I hadn't made anything like that yet. But where can I get textures for it? How does texturing work?Currently working on this btw
>>1001888You're asking the wrong guy about texturing. But I know that you need to retopologize before you think about texturing. Or, you can say "fuck texturing", and just paint on top of your sculpts. Some people do that, but it's not recommended if you're trying to create a fully poseable character that can be viewed at any angle.So start looking up retopology and UV stuff first. Learn how to unwrap and texture a simple box first, to get the general idea, and then move up to more complex shapes.
>>1001889ah okay, thank you.
>>1001731Thank you anon-kun, I'm pleased to hear you like it
Polish man wip
>>1001852How long have you been modeling for?
First attempt at body modeling, it feels like I'm just going through the motions. Gotta start somewhere right?
>>1001918This was my very first on this boardhttps://warosu.org/3/thread/993026#p993227
Modelling a hospital room.
I did this pretty much entirely in 3/4 persp, it doesn't shit itself in a basic turnaround, right?.Anyway, i was an utter fool to think that i could go beyond donuts, i'm 2 gay 4 this.Peace.
>>1001942wow amazing i love itblog?
Amost done, needs some rigging adjustments. Will probably sculpt details on the body one day
>>1001967Doesn't look too bad what do you think?
how are we looking? struggling with arms and shoulders, I feel like they're always either too big or too small. plus idk what to do with the shoulder topology here to make it deform well without adding a shitload of extra geometry
>>1001565>>1001761>>1001779>>1001852how do you texture?
>>1001967>>1001969really cool anon :)
>>1001981hey I'm a retard and i just read the earlier posts, disregard this
>>1001611I like him
>>998180I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.
>>1001973why hair so hard
>>1002101adjustments
beloved chinese daughter
