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Welcome to the ninth iteration of the digital 3d art thread!
Post your models, textures, renders, sculpts etc and of course questions here.
Useful links and such
Steam Community Page - is this active? I don't know but I'll add it on this list anyways.
Digital 3D art v8, v7, v6 and v5 - could be nice I guess.
Beretta 9000 video tutorial - 4 hours long video tutorial on plane modelling a pistol in 3ds Max.
The Polycount-wiki - a catalog of information aimed at artists in game development, whether professional, student or hobbyist.
Texturing tutorial - learn about observation, structure, shape and frequency. Some text and a ~60 minutes long video.
How u model dem shapes? - hands-on mini-tuts for mechanical sub-division modeling.
Modeling Joan of Arc - tutorial on modeling, unwrapping, texturing and skinning a character in Max and Photoshop.
A Comprehensive Look at Hard Surface Modeling for Video Games - video tut on high/low poly modeling, unwrapping, and baking.
- PM me if you know of a tutorial or whatever that is worthy of this list.
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Getting back to my issue, which was the last post:
Something's wrong and I don't know what
My settings:
Example:
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Set Min Rate to 0 and Max to something like 4. See what happens.
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In the Adaptative subdivision part..
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Nope, still the same
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1k+ yrs ago loving children was normal and even encouraged in some cultures. Our current culture finds it horrible, that's why people in the current culture find it horrible.
October 2011
5,902 PostsHow about changing AA filter from area to something else?
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Anyone know why when I convert a 659MB avi into mp4 using vlc media player, the converted video plays less smooth than the huge avi does?
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I'd like to know a solution as well
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Use SUPER
direct DL:
http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
It's free, and friggin awesome.
Site:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
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Finished the first frame of our film today, huzzah!
As well as a test comp of the room, which is very overdone... I pretty much tested every single effect and technique I'm going to use in compositing on this single frame. Lens flares, lens dust, chromatic abberation, grain... fucking everything. The final edit will be done on a shot by shot basis, so don't crit it too much... just wanted to share it :)
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Thoughts on what to improve or fix? Thanks. Made this in school.
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texturing go
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How should I go about modeling a gun grip? I tried using my (extremely limited) knowledge of subdivision modeling, and was planning on cleaning it up.
I'm terrible with modeling curved surfaces if it's more than just a sphere or portion of a sphere.
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Just thought I'd post my old Weapon model renders. Shame I lost this model. I was proud of it. :P
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Did another normal bake of those steps. Right now, they have ugly, fake gradient AO. I'm trying to bake the AO from the sculpted mesh to the low-poly mesh, but it's not working, as the low-poly clips with the high-poly. Even when I use VrayDirt with the option set to include no other objects but itself, it still causes issues.
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1k+ yrs ago loving children was normal and even encouraged in some cultures. Our current culture finds it horrible, that's why people in the current culture find it horrible.
October 2011
5,902 PostsDamn why did FP add that weird scrolling thing when the image is going over the border? Now if it's a big image I need to first scroll to bottom of the post to get to the horizontal scrollbar and then scroll it and move back up. So annoying. I liked it more when images went over the border.
Sorry a bit offtopic but it's kinda relevant here.
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are you using a cage?Did another normal bake of those steps. Right now, they have ugly, fake gradient AO. I'm trying to bake the AO from the sculpted mesh to the low-poly mesh, but it's not working, as the low-poly clips with the high-poly. Even when I use VrayDirt with the option set to include no other objects but itself, it still causes issues.
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The scrolling thing with large images is really fucked up.
So rescaling images would be apriciated.
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Yes. Pushed out enough not to clip with the highpoly. The normal map baking isn't giving any issues.
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Look up a shit ton of reference material. It looks like you're going for a Revolver style so maybe start there. From that use the reference to adjust the model until you get it looking how you want it, with a believable level of realism.How should I go about modeling a gun grip? I tried using my (extremely limited) knowledge of subdivision modeling, and was planning on cleaning it up.
I'm terrible with modeling curved surfaces if it's more than just a sphere or portion of a sphere.
Right now, it looks a bit too thin and would be uncomfortable to hold. Maybe use a FFD modifier to thicken it?
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update on my model from the v8 thread. made a lot of changes. obviously still heavily wip / unfinished parts
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What was this modelled in? looks fantastic!update on my model from the v8 thread. made a lot of changes. obviously still heavily wip / unfinished parts
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Thanks, I use Autodesk 3ds Max 2010.
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hmm what are you baking with?
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Tried two manners of baking. Using a VrayLightMaterial with the color map set to VrayDirt on the highpoly, which in turn was set to ignore any object but itself. Second fashion was also using Vray, using blank, white materials, some environment light, but that also returned weird results.
Going to try it with Light Tracer now.
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it's another step to export but might i recommend using xNormal (mostly because you can put it on the gpu) and the results are always fantastic
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I'll check out xNormal. Heard good things about that, and I have a decent GPU, so if it's a tad faster, it'd be great.
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also it's really great with padding settings and whatnot. the only downfall to using the gpu versus cpu is that it doesn't support AA, so you have to render it at 2x your target resolution and then scale back down to half size to get good AA. It's still loads faster than cpu based renderings even considering that.
oh and it comes with some great photoshop filters like normalize normal maps and normals -> cavity which works great as a diffuse/spec popper.
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Xnormal produced the AO. Turns out it wasn't my renderer being weird, just that the AO looked different than I expected. Each step is six triangles, and I'm pretty happy with the results. Need to add more moss/dirt against the underside of the steps though, since that would be the most logical place for it to be, aside between the large stones.
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I love fluid simulations:
The triple wave thing near the end is just awesome.
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What do you use to mesh the particles? If it's the RealFlow internal one, could you share the settings?
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Im using blender, the thing is calculated as a mesh.
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Made a quick mockup of my weekend project to fabricate, I'm excited. (Casting concrete)
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are you going to put charming vintage objects into the holes and then put a pane of glass over it all?
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That's an interesting idea, the design is actually a sampling from Frank Lloyd Wright's Robbie house which I visited a few weeks back.
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Oh, speaking of Frank Lloyd Wright I never showed the finished model of Fallingwater (Had a month to do it and I'm terrible at making terrain right now... and we were forced to use Blender with the internal renderer):
(those are the edited renders and I didn't make the guest house because it wasn't part of the exercise)
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gotta say Scotchair, i'm a massive fan of your work. was reading your blog for your time machine movie, and it looks fantastic. really nice attention to detail and everything has so much character.
here's something i've been working on, trying to get the hang of Nuke and colour grading:
currently finishing my BSc animation degree and i'm about to start a course at Escape Studios doing Animation VFX Professional, really hyped for it!
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Did some more buildings, Turning out to be a fun little diversion from NYC.
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I find it both inspiring and depressive that you can make such good quality buildings in a few days
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Although I only have done five buildings for the project I decided to roughly lay them out and fill a scene just to get an idea of how it will feel in the end, I like the way its looking.
Ultimately I'll have around 20-25 unique buildings, I think I'll make three more tomorrow.
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