Hello friends, I am learning Blender and was pointed this way to post about Blender things. Here's a very unfinished castle hallway I'm working on I hope you like it. 
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Feb 2, 2021 02:28
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Stay safe, Blender Ghost.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:46
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I am heartily lmao'ing at myself right now for spending way too much time trying to hand-wrap a plane around a torso to make a top, then figuring out how to use the cloth modifier.
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Feb 15, 2021 02:05
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Manifisto posted:sympathetic lol, anyone who has used blender for a while has tried to do something the hard way before learning there's a much easier/more powerful technique Dang, the cloth stuff is like magic now that I've spent some time today figuring it out lol. I didn't know if I was going to be able to make a top that didn't actually go around, uh... the top. I had to tweak the friction settings and what not all over the place, but it worked. Was able to take thing on right and make thing on left. Sarashi wraps in Blender!   Still gotta texture it and all but based on the lines the mesh should be able to provide the actual look of layered wraps I think. Art is cool. ---------------- |
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Feb 15, 2021 07:46
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Nodes are one of those things that look completely insane and unnatural until eventually you mess around with them enough and suddenly they click and you realize how the process works. The biggest hill to get over is figuring out that it's very easy to make simple designs that look really good (sand is super easy, rocks are super easy), and then you just combine them to make them more and more complicated. There's a lot of tutorials online that will just straight-up show you what combination of nodes they use, and then you can tweak their setups to figure out what role each node plays and figure out how to tweak it to your liking, then eventually move into combining multiple tutorials into more and more complicated shapes Yeah nodes are crazy when you get into them. I'm finally grappling with them now because I'm working on my first character. The thing I've noticed about characters is that while there are a thousand free textures online for wood, metal, cloth, etc... there are almost zero (that I could find) for things like skin or hair. And I have have zero experience with photoshop so I can't make my own yet. So I decided "screw it, let's see what I can do for skin just using nodes". Some youtube video clued me into the "voronoi texture" node, and while the video didn't help me much otherwise, knowledge of that node and what it's about was a godsend. So I spent some time yesterday screwing around with nodes and this is what I got. The nodes  The result (just the skin is the relevant part)  This isn't like, professional level or nothing but I'm really happy with how it turned out for how gosh darn simple the nodes are. Look at that the tree! It's just a base color, a ramp, and two voronois. One voronoi guides the color ramp to smear the skin tone and make the body paint, a second voronoi is the bump map. There is no image texture involved. And this is just a first attempt thrown together during a late night, caffeine-fueled experiment session. I'm sure it could be refined much further with some time. Maybe something similar will work for the hair too! Nodes, man.... nodes. ---------------- |
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Feb 23, 2021 00:20
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Manifisto posted:that looks really good for a first crack at it! Thanks for the information. I'm glad I posted and got clued into "principled hair exists" because otherwise I'd probably have spent an embarrassing amount of time throwing nodes around the standard BSDF first. I will probably tweak the displacement (and a lot of things, generally, I'm not near done) but I'm not necessarily going for photorealism and I'm not trying to make the "human with wings and funny colors" kind of demon so somewhat leathery or rough skin may be good. For the skin maps though, where do you get them? I've searched around for texture sites and found some good ones but none of them have really any selection of hair/skin unless I'm looking in the wrong places (very possible). Or do you mean paid libraries? The cycles comment is funny because the first video I looked up on skin turned out to be Eevee only and just straight didn't work in cycles, which the uploader didn't realize lol. I don't know the ins and outs of Eevee vs Cycles, but I like cycles so far because I feel like I have a much easier time getting lighting to feel good with it. ---------------- |
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Feb 23, 2021 00:53
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Manifisto posted:well I happened to come across this, which includes both normal and displacement maps: Nice! Thank you. I missed these sites somehow, saving them now. I've been using mainly cc0textures.com and cgbookcase.com for textures, and they ain't got the goods for organics. Also, I have no idea why it didn't occur to me to do a direct google image search instead of only going through libraries. My shading game is just beginning 
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Feb 23, 2021 01:47
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Well I did it folks. I finished my first character ever. She certainly ain't perfect, but for a first go I'm very happy with what I was able to do. I've been tinkering with her for weeks trying to figure out all the different elements it takes to make a full character.    There is definitely more I'd like to do and improvements I'd like to make. But it's kind of like that moment when your halfway through a new strategy game and you're looking over your horribly built empire and think "ok this build sucks, but I get it now". The foundation of this one is flawed, but now I understand. So it just makes more sense to start another than try to hammer this one into shape any further. The mesh itself is flawed. I've got so many backups and alternates and high poly pieces and low poly pieces strewn all over the place in different collections that it's hard to keep track of things. There were mistakes made early in the process that hamper going much further, but I've learned a lot about workflow and organization! If anyone has feedback/compliments/criticism I'd be happy to hear them. ---------------- |
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Mar 11, 2021 20:47
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I have zero animation experience so all I did so far was attach the rig and make that very simple pose. I can tell I didn't do it quite right, because some parts act funky, and I actually had to cheat with the eyes because they were not cooperating at all. So I just detached them and placed them manually. So yeah, no animation as of now. I'll check out the mixamo thing though. Maybe I'll try redoing the rig and see what I can get going. ---------------- |
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Mar 12, 2021 00:10
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