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I autisically save everything so hopefully I can help give back to a board that I love on this god-forsaken Mongolian basket weaving site
Previous Thread: >>1009306
Daz youtuber's and general guides:
https://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials
Wpguru, Parmy, Travis Davids (Marvelous designer), Thundornd, CgBytes, Kelvin Jin
(Pruned some long inactive suggestions from past OP)
Bridges: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-bridges
Suggested Blender Bridge: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/
News: Daz 2025 -ALPHA- has been released.
https://www.daz3d.com/blog/daz-studio-2025-alpha-release
Major complaints are viewport performance and various missing features.
Support for Filament has been added to MacOS version as well as filatoon.
Some anon created a cool character morph. Meet Quinn! https://mega(.)nz/file/rmZQWLKZ#lh4aluWj6drjfPLkW7FVAUVDaOZZqJfqjoAvsREDo7U
Post more Quinns!
Post anything Gunt related or of a Guntish nature
>I want to use the Gunt model
Gunt's model should be here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r0MbQRcUnbRGwzS4wRSYEfjrLFUoP3b6/view?usp=sharing
Old nuked thread:
https://warosu.org/3/thread/918176#p963992
https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/PartPacker
Have a 3Ds Max/Maya question? recently started a project? Or simply want to complain about Maya crashing?
Previous thread: >>
Discuss and post anime styles in 3d. From figures to celshaded models, etc.
Recommend Youtube Channel :
https://www.youtube.com/@user-sy9do4tr4h
https://www.youtube.com/@yuucg5187
https://www.youtube.com/@mmcganimetic
https://www.youtube.com/@fusako3d
https://www.youtube.com/@user-pp2os6zr2d
https://www.youtube.com/@ShionMgr
https://www.youtube.com/@kurukuma
https://www.youtube.com/@menglow2122
Sculpting:
https://www.youtube.com/@leslyzerosix4359
https://www.youtube.com/@aurelien4280
https://www.youtube.com/@Yudit1999
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMjnnUF3eJFe3jMRfUKMt0qK5zKIpxy1t
I like little girls
it has more story than that but in general it will be comedy shorts where she lives somewhat traumatic and funny experiences, it's like a lolcow or something, it sounds kind of boring but I think it will work, anyway this thread will be to show my progress and receive criticism or death threats or maybe everything will ignore me I don't know.
you can ai generate anything in high fidelity, then cram it into an ai mesh generator like this and crank out slop with textures suitable for games, film, whatever, with minor tweaks in a fraction of the time it takes real artists
huggingface dot co/spaces/ilcve21/Sparc3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZx3oePBwuo
I'm not interested in a full career, I'm too old for that and already have things going on in my life, I just want to fulfill a childhood dream of "modelling like a pro".
previous thread >>1003156
I struggle to create any environment in less than a month that is going to be rendered in a still frame. what kind of magic do these people do?
Specifically, I’m really interested in how characters like pic related were modeled and textured to look semi-realistic and expressive (especially textures because I’m still terrible with them)
Feel free to post low-poly or just your favorite models/textures from the games of the good old era of games
![images[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/3/1748113444939602s.jpg)
This is now my current level.
I need to start from scratch.
fuck this timeline
>Had a PC port in development with export features tland everything you could wish for that was near completion and almost ready for release
>Got canceled at the last minute because if media molecule layoffs
I will never forgive Sony. Fuck wireframes, fuck meshes, fuck retopo, and fuck Sony.
I tried making fortnite 3D blender porn a year ago, I never got better, I never got better. I want to present the evidence of lack of progress as well as present the works of others, current day, that are performing better works. Could it be proof of talent?
Is he wrong?
...or is he a schizo?
Rules I will follow:
>Quality over Quantity.
>Must show a faithful representation of progress from beginning to end.
>Must finish each project that is started with a fully rendered portfolio quality image as the end result.
Clair Obscure : Expedition 33 uses blender in their Environment, props and character department, NOT SINGLE MAYA ON SIGHT, first sign of blender take over to become an industry standard
https://magazine.artstation.com/2025/05/sandfall-interactive-clair-obscur-expedition-33-art-blast/
Previous: >>1006887
Don't clown me too hard, first time trying to model a character (Laughing Octopus from MGS4)
Forge mode is unironically the one of the most intuitive control schemes for manipulating objects in a 3d space. It would make 3d modeling much more accessible, at least to casual users.
Tell me why this wouldn’t work.
https://youtu.be/c0Y5_MNYiPs?feature=shared
Janny pls dont delete, this is for research.
Pick up a free apprentice version today:
https://www.sidefx.com/download/
I'll start. How would I go about trying to study a model like this where its not shown in a orthographic perspective? I know its low poly but its hard to get a "perfect" reference to try to study through images alone.
>align plane to photo of object
>extrude plane
>have object
I'm an artist :)
WE MUST BYPASS TRIMBLE BRO'S
• What OS do you reccommend
• From what year
• From what method, site of downloading
Proven to be effective and resulting in using the whole product without limits.
Thanks for your info. Youre knowledge is appreciated and your contribution got lots and lots of respect. You know what the internet is 2025, thanks for your support anon.
So do people share their lewd models anywhere? Can't be expected to be on the normal places, right?
also readme.txt in pin is 404, FAQ did not cover this either
Files were extracted with FModel. You can get the unreal asset map on nexusmods right now. Game was made in Unreal 5.4. I'm editing in Blender, and I imported the .pskx and .psa with blender's native extension.
You can find the skeleton in the files at Sandfall/Content/Characters/Heros/Lune/SK_Lune_Placeholder.uasset
and the animation is at Sandfall/Content/Characters/Heros/Lune/Animations/BattleTurn/Lune_Idle_Base.uasset
for those who want to follow along.
I think the problem relates to the armature that comes with the skeleton in the .pskx, so I guess it's time to learn everything I can about armatures and posing models.
Now i'm trying port models from game "Megaglest" To Warcraft 3 world editor. Megaglest's models was in format "g3d", and i have a lot of butthurt to open them. But finally i dd it. But there's a new problems:
I can open them in blender 2.90 with special add-on. I can play their animation, and their textures are correct. Anything is good, right?
But to open them in " Retera's model studio", or "Matrix Eater 3d", or in 3ds max, i need to convert them to other format. And there's the first trouble.
Format OBJ - Freely opening in any other program, but absolutely no animation.
Format FBX - I hear that he can save animation, but in the practice, programs can't open this file with this format.
And i sacrifice the animation, to open model in Retera's model studio.. But when i did this, model has no textures.. And i wonder why?
When i trying to forcely wrap textures on model, program claiming the error. And i was trying various formats. Blp2, png, mtl, but nothing ever happens and i CAN'T UNDERSTAND. PLEASE HEEEEELP...
I want to get into commissions but I worry that I won't be able to satisfy the client's needs. And worse case scenario: they ask for a refund if I cannot deliver to their standards.
If it were 2d, then it'd be way easier to revise again and again, but I understand that 3d is a completely different beast and that revisions aren't as easy.
All I want is a 3D model of picrel so that I can 3D print him for my personal satisfaction. There's free Pepe 3D model but the face doesn't look like this one. Aaarghhh! It feels like shit that this is the first time I'm being scammed. Fucking indonesian.
So now they can keep investing their precious open-source funding that so many other FOSS projects thirst for, into useless stuff like the VSE (video sequence editor) that will never compete with proprietary or even specialized solutions, while somehow ignoring the many quality-of-life and useful ideas available in rightclickselect or in the ACTUAL CODE from pull-requests that people send them with useful additions, stuff that they refuse to add / ignore and let rot because they don't have to create a competitive product that sells, as it's already funded.
Blender gets to become this bloaty sluggish package that only "looks good" because there's no competition. There is no other 3D DCC package, and even if someone tried to create one they'd be discouraged from evangelist comments like "but Blender already exists".
But hey look, we changed the version number to 4. Hooray, that's progress, right?
Thank you, Blender?
More like get your shit together, Blender.
How do you place the bones etc.
Not exactly the dress in the pic, but that type of dress with the long "loin cloth", not sure what the name is. Tabard dress? Qipao?
The character that will use it "fully modeled'. As in, the clothing can be taken off, or replaced with other clothes. Do you make a separate armature for the cloth or is it part of the characters armature?
I made some attempts, but making it behave nicely, especially when the character is sitting is a struggle.
its a screenshot cause its originally a TGA and the filesize too large, its also in its orignal sRBG format. The file is also titles as "NWO", which is something i could not find any info on
I have tried the image non-colour and inverting the green, then though the normal map nodes, all of the options, creates awful flat shading on the mesh
If this requires a mesh in order to work let me know
>pic related
Trying to learn what to look out for.
Do I need to hit it off with someone? Where and how?
Do I need to change my personality? Do I need charisma? Apparently instead of being good at the job, I also need to learn social skills to an extent I don't know
I have never been in a professional environment besides college.
How do I even initiate things like these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0zEIV9N58
If there is a discord, forum, steam group, literally anything that's active where I can talk about this subject please LMK!
>It's all shape keys/blendshapes being controlled by the joints again
What are some actually good resources that actually focus on the joint-based facial rigging? It seems like everyone avoids it like a plague.
>Hurr I do it as a hobby
In today's economic climate dedicating this much time to a hobby, a skill, is a detriment to yourself. If you're young your hobby shouldn't have to take hours of grinding that net you nothing when those hours could and should be used to make you more financially secure. Hobbies are a luxury that most people can no longer realistically afford. If you can't make money from your hobby you are hurting yourself. That's not a good thing but that's the world we are in, and trust me I'm not happy about it either.
YOU WILL NOT MAKE ANY MONEY DOING THIS, MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE!!! Go learn a trade.
If you think I'm wrong, go ahead and tell me how you can make this a job 2025+ . Go on, prove me wrong.
I found two shaders on the internets and after some tweaking I got something I would try to use, but still, it's kinda meh, requires a lot of tweaking, and I'd like something better and more universal.
You can have it too btw:
https://blend-exchange.com/b/rGzgvO5r/ (the one I messed around with)
https://blenderartists.org/t/4x4-ordered-dithering-blend-file-included/1142358/9 (full screen compositor dithering, the later link, first one is dead already)
Discuss and post anime styles in 3d. From figurines to celshaded models, etc.
Recommend Youtube Channel :
https://www.youtube.com/@user-sy9do4tr4h
https://www.youtube.com/@yuucg5187
https://www.youtube.com/@mmcganimetic
https://www.youtube.com/@fusako3d
https://www.youtube.com/@user-pp2os6zr2d
https://www.youtube.com/@ShionMgr
https://www.youtube.com/@kurukuma
https://www.youtube.com/@menglow2122
I mean, is not a pose that is not realistic, nor is anatomically wrong.
Neither causes extreme strain on the body and can be sustained as resting pose.
I'm developing a game that allow players to write in a 3D book, and I want the writing system to support Markdown, mostly for the ability to embed and render images within the game.
example: 
However, after extensive searching, I haven't found a suitable solution.
Most available plugins are designed for documentation rather than allowing players to write and edit text dynamically. I also experimented with a web-based approach using an HTML widget and the Marked.js library, but having an HTML widget for every page feels inefficient (as far i know, if there is a more efficient way to use web widget then that would be awesome).
A bit more context:
>Many of my game collectibles are HTML-based IE making a system that allows you to use some links as objects for certain areas.
>The game relies on both internet data (about 30%) and local storage, using reference links like the file:/// protocol.
>Ideally, I want a solution that doesn't require downloading additional in-game data.
>My background is in web development, and I'm aiming for something similar to Obsidian for the book in term of functionality.
Idk what to do. Would love suggestions on how to implement this customizable diary system efficiently. Any advice or alternative approaches?
Here, a tutorial will be shown on how to do this from the basics.
It seems they both use normal maps, roughness maps, maybe even metallic,
yet they also use handpainted textures, and somehow also painterly looking photorealistic textures sometimes I guess?
Would you consider this the hardest type of stuff to work on?
Takes so much time and resources for heck nobody gives 2 shit about, might as well make it stylized with distinctive features
>learn some basics
>renders improve 2x
learn comp
how the piss do you get used to switching between different programs and software suites that use different camera/viewport controls?
Specifically,
I'm having to switch between blender, maya, and marvelous designer.
Unfortunately, I started and spent most of my time on blender. The Maya control set, is that more of an industry standard majority? I _think_ substance painter uses it for simple things like camera controls.
For those of you who do have to switch between environments, have you found a certain program's viewing controls are able to be adopted in all the competitors? I tried once to get Substance Painter to use Blenders, but it was something like everything but one set of key commands were unable to be switched which caused an insanity spiral of moving other actions around. This was 2018 or something though, maybe do-able nowadays.
Ahhghhhhhh I hate the shit outta everything.
In this case for example I bought a map where it came with a terrain that is just a flat plane, but I want it to be more of a cube because I want to add water and depth under it.
I will explain more in the comments
This is generated by Hunyuan3d Image to 3D AI. What do we think about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiwL74KyJQ
Anyway, she left the cocoon now and I'd like to get back to sculpting. But even more than before. So I was starting to check out tablets and I was horrified by the price of the nicer stuff.
My question is the following, you think old Cintiq still holding up to the current competition? I really want to try one with a screen but only second hand options in my area have Cintique (22,24,16 HD or not) for a price around 400-600€ (sometimes less, sometimes more). So should I try one of these even though they were released a decade ago?
Sure theres the easy stuff to get like open3dlab, SFMlab, Smutbase, some good stuff at sketchfab, and if you want something decent on Itch or Gumroad you have to already have found a good modeler in mind to find their stuff
Not to mention sometimes you can find models in animations or youtube with next to no credit so its near impossible to find sometimes, I get if its your own model you'd want to have private ownership but 8/10 times thats not the case
not being trolling, serious curious if there's anyone at this level.
Daz youtuber's and general guides:
https://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials
Wpguru
Parmy
Travis Davids (Marvelous designer)
Thundornd
CgBytes
https://www.laylo3d.com/
https://thinkdrawart.com/
Kelvin Jin
Bridges: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-bridges
Suggested Blender Bridge: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/
News: Daz Premier replaces prior subscriptions and doesnt add much aside from a free character bundle every month and some tools that are worse than using another software like blender or maya.
Some anon created a cool character morph. Meet Quinn! https://mega(.)nz/file/rmZQWLKZ#lh4aluWj6drjfPLkW7FVAUVDaOZZqJfqjoAvsREDo7U
Post more Quinns!
i am going to try to paint depth maps to sculpt 3d models ( only bas reliefs ) does it make any sence? will it work ? what should i be carefull about
also supports hybrid inputs (give it an image and text)
Try free online, no account needed:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
download models for free:
https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan3D-2/tree/main
*also includes a separate model called "Paint" for creating and texturing UV maps from a mesh input
*The output mesh is a trimesh object, which you could save to glb/obj (or other file format).
Every tutorial I can find falls short in all of the same ways. Either it's an outdoor scene where the inside of the house is a hollow unusable shell, a purely interior scene with no attention paid to the exterior at all, or it doesn't show you how to make a roof on anything more complicated than a perfect rectangle or L shape.. or it's a "modern" house that is just a cube with a flat roof presumably to compensate for modelling roofs being too complicated.
And then I've tried this method of extruding planes over an image of a floor plan and that doesn't compute at all because I always end up with this twisting labyrinth of walls that looks completely out of whack in scale no matter how much I scale it up in comparison to my character. And then how do you properly make a roof for such a thing? Or make stairs to a second floor or basement and/or add these things real houses have like a 2nd story where its just a room or two and not a 1:1 extrusion up from the first story?
I've tried to just not think so hard about it and just make it up as I go, using whatever janky methods I need to block something out but I always create a total mess of duplicate edges and overlapping that I'm not even sure how I ended up with, and just seem to be wasting time trying to brute force a totally incorrect way of doing things
When I play games and open a door from outside and walk into a house it feels like I'm witnessing black magic. I would do shameful things in exchange for the knowledge of how to take reference of a complex house and recreate it as a scene where you can seamlessly walk in and out of it- and not see a bunch of fucked lighting artifacts and the like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlbIkyUbMs
Is it just trial and error or is there some kind of tool that could make it exactly this size and compatible.
Pre-rendered, game graphics, whatever you got.
Resources:
Strive In-Depth Texture/Vertex Paint Function Breakdown: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ejZ9TrIFNwiawLcFj-XRtaO3Vg9TxD04sR8HKOaRkGI/edit
ArcSys Xrd GDC Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGjCzxJV3E&t=0s
ArcSys Xrd 4Gamer Article:
https://www.4gamer.net/games/216/G021678/20140703095/
Xrd Design Docs (Modelling, Rigging, Materials):
https://archive.org/details/GGXrd-design-docs/4Gamer%20-%20The%20Secrets%20of%20GGXrd%27s%20Graphics/
Blender Shader: https://github.com/Aerthas/BLENDER-Arc-System-Works-Shader
There's over 5 unique ways you can make objects vanish, 3 of which can easily be done by accident. When items don't appear in the final render you have to troubleshoot a million different settings to figure out why not. The modelling viewport NEVER matches the render output for some reason because the HDRI preview is not directly linked to the world render source. Same problem for hidden objects. For the love of god just render what is shown in the modelling window. Why in the hell would I want the render to be different from what I see in my work view? Accidentally miss click a macro? Sorry something retarded occurred that is impossible to troubleshoot haha. Radial arrays require an autistic method that includes empties (whatever the hell that is) and mathematics. Not a single software on earth functions this way to accomplish something so simple. Modifiers will not work several times and then suddenly function properly despite not changing a single metric. Apparently just deleting and reapplying them 4 times in a row will suddenly make them function as intended. Despite enabling certain options in the UI, they STILL do not behave as expected (orbit around selection enabled, doesn't work, MMB just zooms out randomly instead).
On a deadline and something occurred in your workflow that fucked up a render for literally no reason? Sorry the Discord support team are full of unhelpful assholes that refuse to actually do anything. Also good luck googling anything to troubleshoot buggy trash that happens. Blender has like 2 different names for menu items making it impossible to actually figure out what's broken.
I simply can't understand why or how anyone would make something this terrible and expect human beings to tolerate it. Nobody makes software like this. Open source was a mistake.
I want to retopo this model. I work in 3ds Max and found it to be lacking.
Are there any tools that would allow me to "relax" and curve some of the topology? I want to keep working on Mesh, but I also wish I had a smoother shape.
Or should I move entirely towards different software?
A thread for work in progress of your projects, for recently finished projects or things you'd like critiqued.
Previous >>1003386
* Create some kind of entry per project, with title, would be amazing to be able to manually set date from past for when you want to upload an old project
* Under this entry post screenshots/renders/files in form of images and videos and models
* Maybe some extra description field that allows leaving some extra notes and information on the project
* Maybe a comment section if someone wants to ask anything about it
* Maybe some kind of visibility setting that allows certain projects to only be visible to certain categories of people? For example I want to upload everything mostly just for myself to go through my stuff and get reminded of progress I made through time, but many of those projects are something that I probably wouldn't show to just anyone
What specifically do I need to learn to make it?
I want to add her to my scene
All of mine look like poor video game renders.
Will be grateful for any and all helpful ressources you could point me to.