Hasbeen's workshop
Hey fellow item creators, after several years of lurking at Polycount I think it is my time to post some stuff that I have been working on outside work.
I've been wanting to try the workshop for some time and the last couple of weeks I finally got started. I decided to do something for the warlock, my personal all time favorite
Submitted items:
Warlock set: The Apothecary by Hasbeen
Cinder by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Eyestalk Staff by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Caged Eye by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Mask by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Pauldrons by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Remedies by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Surgery Tools by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Bracers by Hasbeen
I've been wanting to try the workshop for some time and the last couple of weeks I finally got started. I decided to do something for the warlock, my personal all time favorite
Submitted items:
Warlock set: The Apothecary by Hasbeen
Cinder by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Eyestalk Staff by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Caged Eye by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Mask by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Pauldrons by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Remedies by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Surgery Tools by Hasbeen
Apothecary's Bracers by Hasbeen
Replies
From the get go I should have considered the limitations of the dota hero shader, it is actually pretty powerful but trying to do layered materials was not the best idea. As you can see below, I started out with a more cylindrical shape for the glass jar which was a bad idea since I wanted to bake the highpoly eye inside the jar to get some nice masks to work with.
It just didn't give me the nice spherical shapes that I had hoped for so I changed the jar to fit the eye better. Here is the final highpoly and the vertex colored masks I baked to help me with the texturing later.
The next problem was getting the glass shading somewhat believable, my first attempts was quite milky.
To counter that I turned down the colormap quite a bit and changed the shading to metal, which I think worked quite well. To get some of layered effect that I was aiming for, I toned down the color of the eye and moved most of the intensity to the self illumination channel to reach the final version.
My next plan is a matching staff with the second demon eye mounted in a chain
Edit: fixed image links
Afterwards I have been replacing each element by highpoly versions. The chain and wraps are done just done in max, while the wood and eyestalk have been through mudbox
Btw I hope that I can figure out how to move the fire effect from the original staff into the iris
The rig also took quite some time to get right, on my first import the eye got rotated some 78degrees when skinned to the cloth bones on the staff.
I thought I wasn't allowed to change the bones at all, but after some debugging I figured out that I could counter rotate the cloth bone before the skinning, to fix this issue
Now on for some better texturing, crits are welcome
black eye looks better
How you can you import that to dota? the swinging eye...
regular baked animation?
Just one thing, the bottom part of the thing he got on his right hand looks flat.
Warlock set: The Apothecary by Hasbeen