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Re: Powerful new tool for critiquing your 3D Models
Maybe it would possible to add a bookmark feature that acts as clean screenshots. Notes / draw overs could be saved per bookmark while still allowing for free orbiting of the model by the reviewer if they wish to do so?
jStins
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Exactly like that.
I do stuff like this on the regular, and if I require 100% precision, I don't boolean them, because Max's boolean adds Parkinson's to vertex coordinates. For small parts or non-important surfaces like internals, it doesn't matter.
For the major surfaces of a CNC'd hero prop, I do 'em manually.
First I pseudo line up a cylinder with the wall, and plan out how many segments I want on the cylinder.
Then I cut into the wall to add verts to where I want the cylinder to end up.
Then rotate the cylinder with angle snap so one of it's faces lines up with the wall.
The rotation amount equals (360 / No-of-Cylinder-Segments / 2).
Snap-drag one of the cylinder's verts onto a vertex on the wall
Perfect intersection. Without practice it takes 10 minutes, with practice it takes 30 seconds.
I do stuff like this on the regular, and if I require 100% precision, I don't boolean them, because Max's boolean adds Parkinson's to vertex coordinates. For small parts or non-important surfaces like internals, it doesn't matter.
For the major surfaces of a CNC'd hero prop, I do 'em manually.
First I pseudo line up a cylinder with the wall, and plan out how many segments I want on the cylinder.
Then I cut into the wall to add verts to where I want the cylinder to end up.
Then rotate the cylinder with angle snap so one of it's faces lines up with the wall.
The rotation amount equals (360 / No-of-Cylinder-Segments / 2).
Snap-drag one of the cylinder's verts onto a vertex on the wall
Perfect intersection. Without practice it takes 10 minutes, with practice it takes 30 seconds.
Thanez
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Re: Do you think polycount a dying platform?
Well it’s really up to you the members to post your stuff, share your tech questions & findings. There’s just no community without direct involvement.
Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing more community-promoting things around here… recaps, contests, interviews, etc.
Adam did a bunch of this back when he was running things, and R13 before him.
We do have the ongoing bimonthly env art challenges, thanks to Pinkfox!
Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing more community-promoting things around here… recaps, contests, interviews, etc.
Adam did a bunch of this back when he was running things, and R13 before him.
We do have the ongoing bimonthly env art challenges, thanks to Pinkfox!
Eric Chadwick
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Re: How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?
We don't put AI generated slop in our games. Let's just ignore the plethora of technical issues for a moment and focus on the humanity of it: There is a shared feeling we all have when we see AI, and it's disgust. When you read an email written by ChatGPT, do you feel the love, or do you think "this person could care enough to write a gd email"? The same thing with games. We care about our players, we that our game works on the $3000 pc they bought in 2022, and respect them enough to not expect them to pay for something we got for free. AI in games is fine, but my opinion is that those games must all be GPL due to the nature of the content that made it. AI companies stole everyone's art to make their product, therefore it is only fair that anything with AI must be GPL. Legislation for this is coming, just wait and see...
DigitalDirectSA
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
you can rotate the circle so instead of straight edge in middle you get the quad side of circle meeting this flat piece, thus solving your issue and giving you natural bevel as in referenceTomthehyperbeast said:Hi everyone, is there any way to solve the complex pole here where the red cylinder meets the cyan surface? I tried to chamfer the edge but it's still there. Thank you.
HAWK12HT
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (102)
Just finished the base for the lowpoly going to do a high poly sculpt pass next to add in some details and damages that are in the concept art before moving on to texturing.
Smoggybeard
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Re: How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?
its funny that you assume that we are all using this AI workflow . To me , most of the fun is still trying to produce something artistic.
maybe I am just old fashioned, but where is the fun in typing in stuff to produce art?
maybe I am just old fashioned, but where is the fun in typing in stuff to produce art?
Ruz
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Re: How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?
I'm all for new tooling and tech, constantly have to evaluate new things and solve problems for my day job. So I'm not a Luddite.
I think AI does have a place in tooling, but in my experience it is currently limited to assisting with filtering large datasets, and it requires a human with subject-matter expertise to verify the output.
The hidden costs are also still all compelling reasons to push back against this tech.
I think AI does have a place in tooling, but in my experience it is currently limited to assisting with filtering large datasets, and it requires a human with subject-matter expertise to verify the output.
The hidden costs are also still all compelling reasons to push back against this tech.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: How are you actually handling AI-generated mesh cleanup before engine handoff?
I would like to see AI work on the boring parts... do nice UVs for me, bake my normal maps properly, auto-assign materials for me, weight the bones nicely, etc. But I'm hearing that none of the boring stuff is worth the work, because it's not enough to drive a bunch of revenue.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (102)
I've fallen behind with this, but not because I wasn't working on it.
Mostly I've spent all this time trying to figure out style. At first I was using standard PBR materials for texturing, but it looked... noisy? Muddy? Boring? I would attach screenshots, but with all the running around screaming and switching textures, I've somehow accidentally overwritten the earlier attempts.
(Which is really puzzling, because I distinctly remember making a project copy specifically to make these screenshots later. Oh well)
In any case, the result was like the last screenshot, but shinier with highlighted edgewear.
Since then, I've re-sculpted some parts to reduce details and switched to Specular model.
In Blender it looks like this (eye parts are not worked on yet):
Haven't been able to replicate this look in Godot yet, but I've been reading about various Lighting Models (though any complex math makes me feel faint)...
Is it wrong? Should I've just adapted to standard PBR or Unlit instead? Am I overthinking things?
Mostly I've spent all this time trying to figure out style. At first I was using standard PBR materials for texturing, but it looked... noisy? Muddy? Boring? I would attach screenshots, but with all the running around screaming and switching textures, I've somehow accidentally overwritten the earlier attempts.
(Which is really puzzling, because I distinctly remember making a project copy specifically to make these screenshots later. Oh well)
In any case, the result was like the last screenshot, but shinier with highlighted edgewear.
Since then, I've re-sculpted some parts to reduce details and switched to Specular model.
In Blender it looks like this (eye parts are not worked on yet):
Haven't been able to replicate this look in Godot yet, but I've been reading about various Lighting Models (though any complex math makes me feel faint)...
Is it wrong? Should I've just adapted to standard PBR or Unlit instead? Am I overthinking things?
stray
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