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Use this thread to discuss things like good references, workflows, or just characters you find appealing and why.
For example, how do you design a character's face? What references would you use?
Brothers, the end of the year is nigh, may 2024 have been a productive year for you, and if not, may 2025 be the one. Amen!
Now please do go ahead and post your work-in-progress projects, recently finished projects, or things you'd like critiqued here, cheers friends.
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Unreal Engine has Landscape, yes, but I'm not interested in Unreal, I'm talking older games like Skyrim, Fallout 3, or even GTA San Andreas which I replayed recently, like how the FUCK did they create those massive open worlds? Especially in SA's case I find it especially impressive, as it has both kinds of environments one would be faced with in tackling this endeavour, both natural (countryside, deserts, mountains) and man made (roads, sidewalks, skyscrapers).
I looked up possible answers on G*ogle but all answers are just news articles glorifying (rightfully so) Beth's and Rockstar's open worlds, but there aren't actual technical details like what program they even used, settings, that kind of stuff, nothing that can allow me some wannabe to even begin trying to ape their work. I did find a very useful GDC talk going over modular kits [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAM27YbKZg ], but while great that video goes over buildings and interiors (they used 3DSMax, one could use Blender as well if they wanted to), not open world creation. They touch on it briefly in the video I just linked, but more on a conceptual level, like oh we first draw a map, then we define the coastline, then the roads etc. but I'd like to know, again, more technical details, like are these worlds created as a simple plane in 3DS/Blender, how do they go about texturing such a huge plane without using enormous textures, how do they export it into a game engine, do they import it whole or do they slice it up in pieces for optimization and whatnot, and so on and so forth
>Must have a budget of polys capped or lower to what a game from the year 2000 would usually have. Amount of triangles must be shown in the corner of each render.
>Everything must be made from scratch. No kitbashing. Sculpting/CADmodeling then decimating/retopo is allowed.
>All models must be uv mapped and fully textured and rendered in a realtime engine. No pbr.
>Textures must be low resolution. Maximum 512 by 512. Pictures and premade textures are allowed but they must be posted alongside the renders in their original and modified formats if they were not made from scratch. Showing UV layout is encouraged but not mandatory.
All of mine look like poor video game renders.
Will be grateful for any and all helpful ressources you could point me to.
I'm trying to create a simulation of bubbles going past an object with an collision tree. But I have no idea where and with which nodes I can combine them.
Anybody here who can help me on my way?
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
Now, lets see your Christmas themed renders!
Pre-rendered, game graphics, whatever you got.
>Do you even use the software you claim is inferior? If so how much time did you spend using it?
>Are you a professional?
>Are you criticizing the software as a whole or something specific? 3D is a vast artform with many technical hurdles. Some packages are better at doing one thing than the other.
I'm making a new /ueg/ then, please forgive the absence of links and other useful information normally associated with such kinds of threads but I was never a regular and therefore did not save them.
What're you up to anon?
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
I assume paid lessons have the advantages of showing the workflow, but I guess time-lapses also works?
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
post itt if you were a actually a member of cgsociety in the old days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlbIkyUbMs
>textured in substance
....
>uv / rendering in cycles
>featured / Top Row at at Blender Artists
What happened to that place.
Janny pls dont delete, this is for research.
I'll start..
>Live Boolean modeling Maya & ZBrush
https://hatchery1.gumroad.com/l/QZemE
![videos_tutorial[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/3/1724954932897589s.jpg)
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.
>giant AI answer with hallucination 100% of the time with made up parameters that don't exist and have never existed in the software
This is what you were afraid of "taking our jobs" and making tutorial makers obsolete.
Have a 3Ds Max/Maya question? recently started a project? Or simply want to complain about Maya crashing?
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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
Is this a good excuse to learn how to make porn animations in blender? been postponing learning animation and only did some basic scene modeling, but one of my bucket list thing was making porn of stuff like this
I want to learn the right way to do this so I can be a reliable and professional person for this job.
What are my options for creating 3D models?
Would love to know all the options!
You think it's a realistic idea/goal to set up a studio and iterate on it starting from my bedroom?
I'm a programmer and want to get into animation and was thinking about this from a gamedev perspective that really doesn't have the will to learn 3D animations the manual way. I realise how kind of dumb it sounds but I legit don't know anything about it but the logic behind doesn't seem so complex though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ZoThIkV8A
So... how much longer until i'm making looped WEBMs of furry porn and charging a thousand dollars per character commission?
it gets better... right? i feel like a baby just learning to crawl.
Without a reference I don't know how to make my animation look convincing. Are there any tutorials which explain the body movement ?
Sorry if I didn't explain properly, don't know how to quite explain myself.
Do whatever you want with it.
Is it better than a mouse and will it enhance my sculpting abilities?
What affordable model do you recommend? Not something super expensive. I've been looking at Huion since their reviews state they produce better things than Wacom, or should I get a wacom?
Am I wasting my time with tutorials?
>inb4 WHOA WHOA RAIN PUDDLES
Who the fuck cares
I got a creality Raptor and did some scaning.
Used Meshinspector to align my scans and to fuse them. The problem are these artifacts (red cirles in the picture).
I suspect the core problem is that I did not clean the pointclouds enough.
Is there a way to get rid of these artifacts in a "easy" way?
I tried to select them in Meshmixer and the delete them and fill the holes, but that seems a bit tedious and wrong.
Also: is there a 3D scaning general here?
>They lack an understanding of standardize workflows
>They refuse to learn Autodesk, if you give them 6 months to do so.
>They lack an understanding of UV Space and Texturing fundermentals
>They don't know how to Sculpt anything.
>If you give them a file from 3Ds Max/Maya they'll acuse you of breaking the scale because they don't know Blender uses a different scale system.
>They don't want to pay for any tools, but demand we buy blender tools.
>They don't know how to model SubD, Don't even know what a low, mid and high poly is.
We have gone through atleast 200 applicants for a junior role, it's doing my head in and the head is stress out.
Just learn the fucking thing, I don't want to teach you something you can learn from CG Gorilla.
Pick up a free apprentice version today:
https://www.sidefx.com/download/
The boolean modifier refuses to work and i've been coping by making empty boxes and filling them with sand and putting the positive mask and it leaks and it comes out like crap. I'm tired of doing this half assed. I'd like a proper mold for my mask that's airtight so I can make a mask I can be proud of.
>cannot do a simple walk
Why does this commonly seem to filter so many animators?
Is it really that hard to animate walking?
I want to create a game but can't find good models with modular head/body and good face rig vroid has limited face expressions
>zucc wants my :
>real name
>phone number
>credit card
>needs to see what I have in my room
>needs to be able to detect what I'm doing with my hands
>needs to be able to record any sound being heard in my room
>needs to record anything going on in my room through the cameras
>makes it so I can't sell the app anywhere else than the meta store
...is it worth it, bros?
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
Here, a tutorial will be shown on how to do this from the basics.
My PC just shat the bed and it's going to be a while before I can afford to fix it or replace it, so I'm trying to work with what I have. I have found apps for 3D modeling, animation, and even retopo, but for some reason nothing for rigging.
>tfw incredible point release with 27 coming soon too
any anons aware of this
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
Why does the right look so...cheap? I don't think it's JUST missing details or flat textures (except where the torso meets the neck for some reason), though it sure does not help.
It's got to be something in the materials, then? My first thought would be the lack of AO or self shadows, especially the . On the other hand, there are some moments that do show SOME self-shadowing. Either that or I don't really know the difference between AO and self-shadowing
It's my most expensive workflow, but also the one that delivers the highest quality so far.
I have now mastered 3D.
Meanwhile you were argueing like idiots about tools and making fun of me, I was mastering blender and Krita.
I'm now really happy with this workflow.
>still can't even set the viewport resolution
how can blendtards stand this piece of shit software? it's fucking unusable on a 6k screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1h25l0q/google_deepmind_presents_cat4d_create_anything_in/
Your most bestest super-duper render
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
Meanwhile you keep mocking me and masturbating to some NTR hentais, I keep working hard on my skills.
I'd like to know if it's even feasible for someone with a full time job (40h/week) and a family to get into 3DCG for a hobby that eventually turns into a side hustle/passive income type of thing. With AI tools being more and more used/abused and the market already being flooded with autists that go all in on the prospect of being able make a living without leaving their bedroom being my potential competition.
1. I can probably squeeze 6-12 hours in a week at most.
2. I have experience with 2d graphics but never really got into 3d
3. The goal is to create 3d assets and models for game development, as well as 3d printing models. (That would come later as I would need a 3d printer for prototyping and double checking my models for physical properties)
So my question is: is this even doable? Should I invest hundreds of hours to hone a craft that will bring me peanuts, if anything at all? How important is marketing and getting social media coverage? I'm at a crossroads here and need someone to let me know if I'll end up in a dark Forest of frustration and suicidal thoughts if I go that way.
https://x.com/VFXCentral/status/1868761763954728973
Is there a spline function or something similar to avoid doing 800 keyframes?
At this point I'm considering moving to some other software to acomplish my needs.
Ignore the random image.
Can I get a job with this kind of thing or should I forget about it. The rest of my life is going to be hell on earth, I never had a job. The only good thing I have in my life is that I'm not an incel (somehow I can land a gf from time to time, I think I'm good talking sometimes) that's all I have, also I like cute things a lot
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
Should i start trying to rig it?
Google has mastered the cheap, fast, AAA AI gamdev workflow...
Cris is FINISHED and BANKRUPT...
press F to pay respects.
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-foundation-world-model/
1- Have you ever taken one of these and modified the file for style?
B- Is there something cooler out in the wild? Like a movie/tv/game gun design that uses off the shelf parts to finish?
III- Is the answer no because every product eventually all looks the same because peak design is a dead end?
*- Do you find me attractive?
![1024px-Logo_Blender.svg[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/3/1732739460088225s.jpg)
Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces with supporting edge loops is not a alternative to chamfered edges. Not all smooth corners are the same. You "bevel" tool shits the bed on just about anything more complicated than your default cube. Your Booleans only work 70% of the time at best, even for simple object. This is not a way to live, and you should feel shameful.
>No basemeshes/kitbashing, everything must be modeled or sculpted.
>Complete low frequency.
>At least some mid frequency.
>High frequency is optional.
Requests are welcome and you are welcome to criticize and even post your own superior sculpts, no rules for you!
I have absolutely no knowledge or experience in modeling, but I want to port some Touhou models from GTA SA to Sven Co-op. Is there any way that I can follow which will end with the model being ported over?
what do i do?
workan with a model right now
As a broke anon with a few bucks, I want to buy a cheap but capable PC.
>model costs money
>money is aleady loaded with textures in to the model viewer
>rip content from browser cache
>free model
>find some course about landscape
>the instructor makes mistakes and "forgets" steps
>its all on camera
>some of his workflow is questionable even though I only have 2 weeks of experience
>the_final_straw.jpg
>I try to render my scene after having copied this guy's every critical decision
>blender breaks instantly
>update gpu driver
>turn down the amount of shit being rendered in the scene
>still crashes, almost had a bluescreen once
>find a fuckface geometry node that doesn't seem to make sense
>Instructor has the same geometry node / tree setup but his render was fine and dandy
>????
Should I find another course bros?
Thanks