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neonnoodle posted:That's so cool! Is it Blender/Freestyle? Thanks! It's Maya. And I am hoping to do some more (and larger) pieces in this style when I have some free time. concerned mom posted:Love the style on this, how did you achieve it? I just make a flat black-and-white texture, add it to a blinn material as both the color and the ambient color. Then I drop the diffuse and the specularity down to zero. I render the frames as tiffs and then add a white background when I make it into a video. The somewhat grainy-looking effect is actually from compressing the gif but I liked it so I kept it that way.
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May 29, 2015 21:38
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Wireframe rendering question. In Maya, with VRay/MR/Software/Vector/Whatever renderers, I want to render a wireframe view BUT only render like, every 10th wire or so. The model is very dense so I'd like to show it's shape, but not have a ridiculous amount of definition in there . That even possible? Or do I have to physicall reduce the model?
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May 29, 2015 22:44
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Just do a retopo version.
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May 29, 2015 23:42
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mutata posted:Just do a retopo version. I've never actually retopo'd in Maya. Is there a good guide? I'm looking for something fairly automatic. This is a dense car model that was given to me by a client, if it involves doing a lot of extensive work by hand then I'll just tell them it's not doable. I was hoping for a quick way to just reduce the mesh size, but the "Reduce" function is pretty unusable. Now that i think about it though, maybe I'll do a PFX version.
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May 29, 2015 23:54
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 crossbow work in progress for pvk2, expect a timelapse video up soon edit: here's that video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTJyf8xHr8 Kanine fucked around with this message at 04:37 on May 30, 2015 |
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May 30, 2015 03:09
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Still a loooong way to go but some progress is better than none. I was told I couldn't make eyelashes because they wouldn't survive the process.  Might just do them later anyways. At this point I want to get all the major features down because I am running out of time. The foundry will be dismantled pretty soon and I still have to get the sculpt finished and printed / polished! Hair definitely needs at least two more passes. Anyone have any advice for strands other than the rake brush? 
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May 30, 2015 04:42
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BonoMan posted:I've never actually retopo'd in Maya. Is there a good guide? I'm looking for something fairly automatic. This is a dense car model that was given to me by a client, if it involves doing a lot of extensive work by hand then I'll just tell them it's not doable. I was hoping for a quick way to just reduce the mesh size, but the "Reduce" function is pretty unusable. http://www.3dartistonline.com/news/2014/11/3d-tips-retopology-in-maya-2015/ It's pretty simple these days. I think you could get something workable after a short while.
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May 30, 2015 06:27
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So it took the better part of a the day but I just finished my first model in Sculptris. Any critique is welcome, I've just dipped my toe in 3d modeling and I can use whatever help I can get.
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May 30, 2015 06:58
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sigma 6 posted:Still a loooong way to go but some progress is better than none. I was told I couldn't make eyelashes because they wouldn't survive the process. In my opinion; don't do the hair strands at all. Think of the hair in blockier thicker shapes; especially because small details like strands will be prone to breaking or not molding properly. This hair is good at symbolizing strands without actually making any: 
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May 30, 2015 11:51
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So I'm working on an arch-viz type image, could use some feedback. The idea is it's a futuristic housing development advertisment where a bunch of condos are all linked together in the sky but can also split off and move around the and even hover down and pick a person up at work if they want to. The image will be one of these condos hovering back to join the larger group. Here's a few ideas for composition:  And here's my progress on the interior of one condo bedroom/home office combination, with a lot of temporary models.  Which of the composition ideas to people prefer, or do you have any idea for the floorplan of said cube condo thingy? The idea that the kitchen and bathroom would be in another, stationary cube. Not exactly sure how I'll get all this info across in one image, but I'll probably do several. Edit: Another quick, crappy photoshop of the kind of thing I'm thinking of: 
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May 31, 2015 21:04
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More sex toys as I try out colour schemes. The hard part is getting them to look the same in game as they do when you're texturing them outside of the engine. Substance Painter  Unity  Unity 
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Jun 1, 2015 18:15
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Are you using Unity 5? If you're using Unity 4, that does not have a PBR pipeline so your materials are going to come out quite different than they look in Substance.
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Ccs posted:Which of the composition ideas to people prefer, or do you have any idea for the floorplan of said cube condo thingy? The idea that the kitchen and bathroom would be in another, stationary cube. Not exactly sure how I'll get all this info across in one image, but I'll probably do several. 4th if any - having some connection to the interior space/seeing how desirable it is and also being able to take in the overall structure is better. it's still barely mid though, you've got no foreground at all. You could probably do something similar to one of ours. get right up close to the unit, if not inside it.  If you're doing interiors the scale that you've shown in your preview it should have a mezzanine and more layering too - there is no apartment in the world outside of warehouse conversions with as much dead space as you've got in there. Thats what, a 40ft cube? cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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Jun 1, 2015 18:55
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mutata posted:Are you using Unity 5? If you're using Unity 4, that does not have a PBR pipeline so your materials are going to come out quite different than they look in Substance. Unity 5, the skybox appears to make a big difference, as it should.
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I'm pretty sure substance has a substance -> export setup, otherwise something like the gloss channels get messed up (I was looking over someone's shoulder as he fixed it and made it look the same in game)
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Jun 1, 2015 19:59
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cubicle gangster posted:4th if any - having some connection to the interior space/seeing how desirable it is and also being able to take in the overall structure is better. it's still barely mid though, you've got no foreground at all. Cool, thanks! Your images were what inspired me, so I'll definitely take any advice you care to give. Cube size it 25 ft by 25ft. I'll look up some apartment floorplans to get a better idea of how people actually organize apartments.
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Jun 2, 2015 00:59
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You can use this as a reference:
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mutata posted:For scanning objects? That will be neat if it's accessible, but only useful for so far (you'd be limited by what objects you had on hand as well as the physical size of the unit). I'm more interested in material scanning like what Ready At Dawn did for The Order or what Megascans has. Not needing to be beholden to a 3rd party library of materials would be awesome. The tools mentioned in the Epic talk would be precisely for people that don't want to be beholden to a 3rd party library of materials. The delighting is for when you scan your own large objects and want to remove the shadows from the albedo to get a nice, clean, base texture. Ready at Dawn and the Megascans materials were authored the same way. Minor correction: The Ready at Dawn materials were scanned slightly differently, but the process is very similar. You still want the delighting stuff for when you're scanning objects in an environment where you can't control the lighting. Gearman fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Jun 2, 2015 01:25
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Ccs posted:Here's a few ideas for composition: Definitely seconding #4 but with a closer shot. I'm really curious how these things would work (attaching/detaching from the others, staying aloft and moving) and a close-up would show these best, as well as the fact that it's a condo and not just a generic building. Ccs posted:The idea that the kitchen and bathroom would be in another, stationary cube. I dunno, maybe it's because you call it a "condo" but I'd definitely like to see the entire unit (kitchen, bathrooms, and all) inside the single free-floating cube. That's just me, though. If you're looking for resources to measure rooms or apartments/condos, Architectural Record has a lot of recently built projects which often include floor plans: http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/building_types_study/TypeIndex.aspx?bts=MR. They only have a scale rather than specific dimensions, but it should be enough to get you started.
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Gearman posted:The tools mentioned in the Epic talk would be precisely for people that don't want to be beholden to a 3rd party library of materials. The delighting is for when you scan your own large objects and want to remove the shadows from the albedo to get a nice, clean, base texture. Ready at Dawn and the Megascans materials were authored the same way. Ah, so it IS a material scanner and not a photogrammetry thing maker. Awesome. Yeah, I heard a lot about the Ready at Dawn tech back when I worked for one of their former producers. Awesome, I'll need to keep an eye on that Epic stuff.
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Yeah, it's to help you get better albedo maps from your scans. The process they're trying to help streamline is -> plug HDR map in to Max/Maya -> import scanned object -> bake IBL to texture -> use inverse of IBL texture to remove lighting information from albedo. There are some tools out there already that can help streamline this a bit, but it's a far cry from being able to just select an HDR map, select an OBJ, and get a pristine Albedo. It'll be a big time saver for sure.
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Can their tech generate normals and gloss? RAD's would using multiple lighting sources and cameras and such.
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Normals yes, gloss sort of, but not really. The scanning that Epic showed was outdoors, which is typically only a single camera scan. You can get great normals and albedo from that type of scan. You can also have an indoor rig with a small number of fixed location cameras and lights and rotate the object on a turn table. With that particular method, you can get great normals and albedo, and can get gloss as well but it's a bit more difficult as it requires a scan with filtered light. The RAD material scanner used a small number of cameras and lights to scan materials that didn't move at all. The light and cameras surrounded the material, with custom software to trigger the lights in various configurations. This will give you a great albedo, normals, and gloss, but it is unsuitable for scanning anything other than textiles and very flat materials. It is possible to build a scaled-up version of the RAD texture scanner, but it requires a significantly larger amount of cameras and lights. Such a rig is usually reserved for facial motion capture, or full body scanning. Edit: There are also laser scanners, scanners that rely on projecting an image, white-light and IR scanners, and a whole bunch of similar scanning devices, but they are still fairly expensive, and the mesh is not significantly better than those produced through photogrammetry with decent lighting. As a bonus, you can get albedo and gloss for free with photogrammetry, which most of the other methods typically do not capture. Paul Debevec and his team at USC recently scanned Barack Obama using several scanning technologies and techniques, there's a pretty cool video of it here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/share/watch-first-ever-3d-print-president Gearman fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Gotcha. Albedo and normals go a long way. I can handle gloss myself. GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
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A single camera can work fine as long as you have a polarizing filter for it. It basically attempts to take out all the lighting of whatever you're shooting and will generally get you a fairly close to albedo result.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:58
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And generate a normal map too? Huh?! CAN IT?! HMMMMM?
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Jun 3, 2015 05:23
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 working on bb8 from the new star wars film
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In game render tests and I've thrown together a web page to commit myself to the project. http://www.projectpixel.net Needs more lens flare.  
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I wonder how many thousands of man hours have been lost accidentally clicking "Motion Capture" instead of "Reset XForm"
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Gearman posted:Normals yes, gloss sort of, but not really. The scanning that Epic showed was outdoors, which is typically only a single camera scan. You can get great normals and albedo from that type of scan. You can also have an indoor rig with a small number of fixed location cameras and lights and rotate the object on a turn table. With that particular method, you can get great normals and albedo, and can get gloss as well but it's a bit more difficult as it requires a scan with filtered light. The RAD material scanner used a small number of cameras and lights to scan materials that didn't move at all. The light and cameras surrounded the material, with custom software to trigger the lights in various configurations. This will give you a great albedo, normals, and gloss, but it is unsuitable for scanning anything other than textiles and very flat materials. It is possible to build a scaled-up version of the RAD texture scanner, but it requires a significantly larger amount of cameras and lights. Such a rig is usually reserved for facial motion capture, or full body scanning. Yeah the RAD system was for scanning flat materials. The same concept can be attached to a sphere of cameras to capture full 3d. With a fast enough system you can actually capture moving 3d. The infinite realities blog had a bunch of useful info when I was looking into things a few years ago http://ir-ltd.net/blog/ You can duplicate the RAD system roughly with a couple of flashlights and a camera (in fact, the original system used was using a photography light with a diffuser and just physically moving it around a piece of cloth, then photoshopping the results. The system we built just had software do all the processing and let us tune to the specifics of our hardware rig. Paul Debevec is like the leading expert on this poo poo. I've had the pleasure of seeing a few different presentations from him. 3d scanning is pretty awesome but it's not going to supplant 3d modeling for a lot of uses.
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Some rough footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huaC2dhheTk
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With the Steam summer sale going on, anyone with any experience in Allegorithmic's Substance Painter/Designer know of any reason I would want to buy the Live version on their website instead of the Steam versions? If I go with Steam will I not get something I'd get with the Live version, like these "Monthly Drops"? I really want this software but I don't want to miss anything, especially for a measly $30 discount.
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KiddieGrinder posted:With the Steam summer sale going on, anyone with any experience in Allegorithmic's Substance Painter/Designer know of any reason I would want to buy the Live version on their website instead of the Steam versions? If I go with Steam will I not get something I'd get with the Live version, like these "Monthly Drops"? You can activate your steam copy at Substance site to get it from there as well.
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SinineSiil posted:You can activate your steam copy at Substance site to get it from there as well. So I wouldn't be losing out on anything if I buy the Steam versions and register them at the Allegorithmic website?
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KiddieGrinder posted:So I wouldn't be losing out on anything if I buy the Steam versions and register them at the Allegorithmic website? quote:Painter Indie
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SinineSiil posted:I got this on substance site after linking it with my Steam account: Alright thanks a lot, much appreciated!  If anyone else is curious, here is the link for the Steam bundle. 10% isn't much, but better than nothing.
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KiddieGrinder posted:Alright thanks a lot, much appreciated! It has gotten 40-50% discounts during big sales btw.
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Wow, they really went for it with the naked fat lady scans huh? Might want to consider that link not work safe as well. Obviously if you're in a professional environment where you use anatomical reference it's fine but just to be on the safe side...
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