The random model thread!

[tomm]

why not brighten up the alpha planes and use a single darkened rectangle behind? the thing is you're duplicating the entire mesh with little to no gain.

but what do I know, I'm no foliage expert 

[grapen]

51 minutes ago, tomm said:

why not brighten up the alpha planes and use a single darkened rectangle behind? the thing is you're duplicating the entire mesh with little to no gain.

but what do I know, I'm no foliage expert 

No no, not the entire mesh, only about 100 tri's  the outer layer casts shadows and adds depth to the inner layer. This is my first attempt at making foliage so I'm no expert either, just trying to figure out what the pro's are doing.

Currently weighting in at exactly 1000 tri's (wut). I added a simple plane "ridge" along the top so that it would'nt look so straight and unnatural. I think it helped some.

Edited December 29, 2016 by grapen

[Sigma]

@grapen: I havn't done foliage, so take this with a grain of salt. But my opinion is that by creating hedges the way you have done, it still looks very unnatural because the sporadic foliage that does stick out is still too uniform in both shape and size. I think you could probably achieve a better outcome using multiple planes with transparency settings and rotating them to more-or-less fit your desired shape (but not perfectly to suggest it was cut by hand without perfect measurement). You could still use an interior plane to prevent transparency from going all the way through. The other thing I think may be inhibiting your hedge is the size of the leaves themselves. For a hedge, those are some huge leaves I think. Just my $ 0.02 on this one. Maybe yours will look better when paired with other hedges and I'm just full of it.

[grapen]

1 hour ago, Sigma said:

@grapen: I havn't done foliage, so take this with a grain of salt. But my opinion is that by creating hedges the way you have done, it still looks very unnatural because the sporadic foliage that does stick out is still too uniform in both shape and size. I think you could probably achieve a better outcome using multiple planes with transparency settings and rotating them to more-or-less fit your desired shape (but not perfectly to suggest it was cut by hand without perfect measurement). You could still use an interior plane to prevent transparency from going all the way through. The other thing I think may be inhibiting your hedge is the size of the leaves themselves. For a hedge, those are some huge leaves I think. Just my $ 0.02 on this one. Maybe yours will look better when paired with other hedges and I'm just full of it.

Thanks for the input! I agree that it's not the greatest I've seen, but I think it'll have to do for now as I'm strapped for time and have so many other props to make. I'll consider your technique if I ever redo the model or make more foliage! Here's an environment shot for scale, I think the leaf size works, I've seen all kinds of sizes out there on Google

 

EDIT:

Here's a comparison with Valve's hedge that I think utlize the technique you mention, but seems to suffer from its own problems

Edited December 30, 2016 by grapen

[K]

Some new props for a future csgo map (wip) 

Nothing special...just part of study.

[Pivac]

Learning texturing with Substance Painter. Barrel model created in Blender.

[Squad]

Looks nice!

Did you use any tuorials for this? Just asking, because I'm learning SD and Blender too.

[Pivac]

1 hour ago, Squad said:

Looks nice!

Did you use any tuorials for this? Just asking, because I'm learning SD and Blender too.

Thanks   This one is completely my own, but I have been working with Blender for a few years now and for learning Substance I used tutorials from their site and Youtube channel.

[Thewhaleman]

20 hours ago, Pink Flamingo said:

Guys i dont know is this the place but i have some questions about blender and hammer sdk.
I have some detailed and textured 3d models in blender and i want to export and use in my cs:go map. But the problem is there is no up-to-dated tutorial for that. I can export to smd file via source plugin in blender. But some guys on forums says " you need to have a texture." Well hey! Its already textured" How can i split uv material from 3d object in blender. If someone knows or did this before, please help me. That would be awesome.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you've texture your model in blender, and now you want to export that? If so you're going to have to learn about baking textures, it's not terribly hard, but I think that's what you're asking. 

[leplubodeslapin]

I guess he downloaded a .blend (blender files) of a finished model and he wants to use it.

You can extract the texture from the UV Editing window :

Find in the images being used in your .blend the one you want to extract in this list :

And then save it :

 

But make sure you have the rights to do this and don't forget to mention the creator of the asset.

[Vorontsov]

Don't download models from the internet unless it's for learning or to use as reference (gun model makers tend to download .cad files of certain parts and keep them around for reference or pop it into zbrush and dynamesh)

[KOLARI]

First time car modeling. Some bumps there but cant bother with it anymore.

Edited January 10, 2017 by KOLARI

[-HP-]

Here's a few tips:

- Throw a high spec shader on it WHILE you model, you'll see the pinching errors a lot better.

-  Fix your pinches before you move any forward, there's a lot of them! If you wait too long it'll be harder to make changes to the geo, because the more tesselated the mesh is the harder it becomes to make big changes.

- Throw some quick materials on there so you can start reading the diferent materials right away, just drop a low spec black material to plastics, high spec glossy paint to body, etc.

- Don't stop now, wtf you're almost done lol

[KOLARI]

Can you point places which need need work / are pinching, I see some obvious ones but not that many.

[-HP-]

Are you using max? You have a lot of wonky vertices not flowing as they should, and it's creating pinches in the sub-d surfaces. When I start getting this on my meshes, I take a step back, get rid of a few edge loops, select the problematic areas, throw a relax modifier, and start to model the shape all over with a better vertex flow.