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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026
Here is the final for Nightcrawler. Check out other renders on the full page:
https://polycount.com/discussion/238748/marvel-rivals-nightcrawler-fan-art/p1?new=1
https://polycount.com/discussion/238748/marvel-rivals-nightcrawler-fan-art/p1?new=1
JGavinFischer
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026
Ruz said:New Cycles render for the new year - tough to get interiors to render noise free without a bit of 'fast
nice
alamin
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Re: Where have all the promising projects gone?!
social media, the hunt for fame an money wrecked that, together with gumroad.
while i do understand the urge to make a living from ones outputs, i do think these sorta wrecked the whole free sharing momentum we had back in the days.
while i do understand the urge to make a living from ones outputs, i do think these sorta wrecked the whole free sharing momentum we had back in the days.
Neox
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Re: Where have all the promising projects gone?!
Passion sometime ago started to be exploited by "entrepreneurs". free art test etc were used to get things for free. So everyone started demanding cash for everythig. That was very clear in 2D less in 3D but still. Now there is complete lack of trust. Passion was monetized and abused to the point that no one wants to coop anymore. That was not a problem when everyone knew everyone and exploiters were easy to pinpoint but now its a massive industry. Things like job postigs being in fact data hoarding scams are new normal. Finding people you can trust and depend on online is almost imposible now. Social media promoting "how to start" and not how to finish is a second thing. its realy hard to find good quality knowledge as well. Everyone is starting out. Easy sketchy solutions that are good for most starters will be on top of search because it generates more views, so we averaging down
sarayel
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Re: Do you think polycount a dying platform?
Im like *this week* fresh to the forum and I've been super impressed by all the resources here. This place is a treasure trove of knowledge and information. But I was only able to get here through Pinterest, funnily enough! It might help to set up a community youtube channel, maybe?
CroakMarden
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Re: [GODOT4] [Released] 3D Playable Winter Game Environment Demo made in Godot
UPDATE #03
- updated soroundings
- blockout seems to be done so next will be shader setup for texturing
- updated soroundings
- blockout seems to be done so next will be shader setup for texturing
jedenjenda23
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Re: [GODOT4] [Released] 3D Playable Winter Game Environment Demo made in Godot
UPDATE #02
- continuing with new shapes since the environment was kind of boring.
- blocking out some rough colors as well to test the overall mood
- temp lighting
- continuing with new shapes since the environment was kind of boring.
- blocking out some rough colors as well to test the overall mood
- temp lighting
jedenjenda23
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Re: [GODOT4] [Released] 3D Playable Winter Game Environment Demo made in Godot
UPDATE #01
The environment is inspire by 18th century painting of Dutch people skating on frozen canals. I will try to put something lighearted into environment story as well. As you can see the main focus point of this scene is a town bridge entrance gate. The town it self will be low fidelity vista asset but the rest of the environment will be traversable. I also put a lonely cabin at the edge of the forrest for players to explore.
There are still some improvements for the terrain, layout and reference gathering to be done, but the overall idea is roughly there.
- blockout done
- basic reference list done
- started working on asset list (currently in progress)
- exported blockout into Godot to test collisions, setup and to establis pipeline (using .Gltf format)
- got FPS controller working (reused one of the templates for now)
The environment is inspire by 18th century painting of Dutch people skating on frozen canals. I will try to put something lighearted into environment story as well. As you can see the main focus point of this scene is a town bridge entrance gate. The town it self will be low fidelity vista asset but the rest of the environment will be traversable. I also put a lonely cabin at the edge of the forrest for players to explore.
There are still some improvements for the terrain, layout and reference gathering to be done, but the overall idea is roughly there.
- blockout done
- basic reference list done
- started working on asset list (currently in progress)
- exported blockout into Godot to test collisions, setup and to establis pipeline (using .Gltf format)
- got FPS controller working (reused one of the templates for now)
jedenjenda23
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Re: Clayform Sculpting App
Noth said:@Vexod14 that's part of why I want to build something, I wanted to go back to Zbrush and didn't have a license, I never bought a persistent one, I just had them from work but that changed eventually. I couldn't go sculpt for then fun. I couldn't justify the subscription for an occasional use, since I wasn't using it for work either. I really want a low cost option in the space. I do want to support something like retopo, but again yeah I think if you could just edit the base mesh model then you wouldn't really even need retopo.. you know? skip retopo but offer UVs then export base + HP for baking in Marmo.
@Neox still happy to hear your thoughts on the sculpting there and going back and forth from modelling/sculpting there. I haven't got into that, it's been on my todo list for ages.. I've read plenty about Blenders geo cap and lag in higher targets since it's all on the CPU -- have you ran into that yet? I imagine it's more of a, switch to modelling your low poly to sort things out, switch back to sculpting after once you've lowered things -- not sure if it works like that but seems like a good bet for a software that has it all.
Also I set this up to feel like ZBrush so alt is masking, ctrl+alt out of the mesh is discard mask, I just need to setup invert mask. Smooth is shift (is that what you mean?) I build mask and smooth to be their own brushes too, but they have special alternate hotkeys that mirror ZBrush so the muscle memory for some is just there.
it might be just my lack of knowledge but no matter which smooth brush i used, extension/addon or built in the first pic is the best i could manage inside blender, also using edge flow, relax and other per vert/edge/face methods. But zbrush's alt smooth is just far superior as shown in the second image
Neox
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | May - June (102)
Hey there, don't know if it's okay to post still, but I wanted to show final renders since I've managed one last effort to finish the thing 
Godot - added a custom "specular" shader to have stylized highlights. Debatable if it's payed off, but I wanted to try. For science! Also, now I know just a little bit more about lighting, so there's that.
Though I couldn't replicate eye refraction exactly, because I had trouble converting texture data from tangent space, so it looks off. Still, had to stop somewhere:
Blender - same materials, but it's basically an emission shader with a single "fake" light object to simulate lighting. Refraction works as expected in this one:
It's been fun
Godot - added a custom "specular" shader to have stylized highlights. Debatable if it's payed off, but I wanted to try. For science! Also, now I know just a little bit more about lighting, so there's that.
Though I couldn't replicate eye refraction exactly, because I had trouble converting texture data from tangent space, so it looks off. Still, had to stop somewhere:
Blender - same materials, but it's basically an emission shader with a single "fake" light object to simulate lighting. Refraction works as expected in this one:
It's been fun
stray
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