The random model thread!

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not sure if this thread is for asking questions but any Zbrush users know how to approach high-to-low-poly when there's a bunch of holes that you have to convert into an opacity map? (colors are the desired low poly)

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Baking pieces separately, but that would be my general advice not in any way specific to Zbrush..

Actually, this is something I could use some understanding on as well. So aside from exploded mesh baking and setting the different UV islands to different smooth groups (standard baking practices)... what does one do differently than a normal, non-open mesh?

Another prop i made recently

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Low poly (with 478 tris)

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And at the end you get :

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I still need to work on the texture though (which is only a 512² btw, diffuse + spec, no normalmap)

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Just working on some Unreal Tournament 4 environment art. Started a stone brazier yesterday.

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EDIT: Some additional work a little bit at a time.

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Just keeps getting better. update as of 8-1-2015

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The alarm light being used in a level (Yellow emissive lights). Does this make me an environment artist now?

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Nothing like a simple alarm light for Unreal Tournament 4

Made my first model ever. I think I did an OK job with 0 experience with working with meshes(besides source 2 alpha & beta), and no experience with 3ds max. It's a barrel, clearly, but there is much wrong with it. The texture doesn't tile worth crap, and the baked shadows and highlights are way too pronounced. I made it over a month ago, but hopefully I can make the time to create a 6 panel wooden door. I'm still trying to wrap my head around working with meshes, like how to create cuts in 3ds max so I can actually start forming the panels for said door. While I'd like to figure it out on my own, I may not be able to, and tips are greatly appreciated!

Maybe run through a tutorial or two to get up to speed on some different ways to use the tools in 3dsmax - I think this free 5-part series is decent for beginners. Even if you don't want to jump right into a high/low poly workflow and follow the tutorial to the letter, you can still take away some techniques about working with meshes.

Not sure where I'd post this but I felt that making an entirely new thread wasn't a appropriate. So I thought I'd post it here: it's a Photogrammetry tutorial made by one of my colleagues at the school.

Always shoot with RAW, for characters, shoot inside with a good light setup and a neutral background so you can mask out the object you want, and use a tripod Always bring a macbet chart and create a color profile, color correct your photos in adobe camera raw or similar. Remove vignetting and chromatic abberation, but don't sharpen the images as it adds artifacts and noise and don't correct the lens distortion since agisoft compensates for that during alignment

Here is my mopst recent random model:

https://skfb.ly/GUuM

That is fucking nice man!

Quote from knj

That is fucking nice man!

Thanks man!

Quote from Pampers

Always shoot with RAW, for characters, shoot inside with a good light setup and a neutral background so you can mask out the object you want, and use a tripod Always bring a macbet chart and create a color profile, color correct your photos in adobe camera raw or similar. Remove vignetting and chromatic abberation, but don't sharpen the images as it adds artifacts and noise and don't correct the lens distortion since agisoft compensates for that during alignment

That's some really good advice, thanks!

Hello guys,

A slight update on this. I have tried to make the blade look a bit more interesting and worn. I have updated the sketchfab model and attached a screenshot below:
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I'm working on a fancy stairs models

I think its the perspective distorting it (it is a curved staircase after all...) but does the upper half bow downwards a little?

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Started meshing my Unreal Tournament level. Probably prematurely but I will be able to get some glamor shots more quickly. Good exercise.

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I think its the perspective distorting it (it is a curved staircase after all...) but does the upper half bow downwards a little?

Yes it is, slightly. Almost everything is curved actually... ^^'

Ortho views:

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Goddamn gorgeous! Polycount/texture size? I need to push myself to make more detailed assets like that!

Quote from kinggambit

Goddamn gorgeous! Polycount/texture size? I need to push myself to make more detailed assets like that!

Thank you very much. Yeah ... well it's a quite expensive but i did my best to reduce this. The thing is that i'm not using a normalmap (because of the lighting issues it brings), so everything is in the geo in order to make nice curved reflections when the texturing will be done.

So, the model is in 3 parts :

• The steps and all the pillars : 8 302 tris (wireframe). The texture is a 1024x512 texture, here's the UV.
• The handrails : 4 092 tris (wireframe). The texture is a 1024x512 texture, here's the UV.
• The big round pillars : 8 x 1017 = 8 136 tris (wireframe). The texture is a 512x512 texture, here's the UV.

So, 20 530 tris in total for the whole stair, it's quite a lot but i think it's worth it. I'm glad with the result i get for now, I still need to work on the collision model and the texturing obviously.

Quote from leplubodeslapin

Thank you very much. Yeah ... well it's a quite expensive but i did my best to reduce this. The thing is that i'm not using a normalmap (because of the lighting issues it brings), so everything is in the geo in order to make nice curved reflections when the texturing will be done.

That's actually not a bad thing as there is a discussion on polycount regarding placing information in a texture map (normals) versus just simply modeling the geometry and adjusting the vertex normals to properly reflect the desired lighting and smoothing outcomes. You might take a look at it here.