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by the way you may ask what the problem is by looking at the main picture but its actually fucked up for most of the mesh

>>511284
I'm not sure what you're asking. Is it baking tutorials/pipelines, an introduction to normal maps, ...?

no im asking if i should be baking high poly to low poly normal maps for beveled edges. for example a door that has all details modeled instead of being a normal map (those innter squares that intrude and extude out) still have a high poly bake for the edges of the door. this could count for any model with hard edges like that but im using this example

>>510859
except dont post shit artists like OP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZD22zMnUY&ab_channel=koooolalala

whats the problem ese ?

It appeared like the faces were fucked judging by the shadows. I realized it was the "smooth" modifier that gave this appareance. Yep i'm retard.

>>511308
uk ok

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Benedict

>>510804
>>510805
kek
these are actually good. They are rigged right ? Is there any way to export them as FBX ?

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>>510806
I'm not really sure.

Have Emma.

>>511132
People who claim these things are done in Blender are trolls. 99% of people who claim they did something like that in Blender did it in Max; the remaining 1% are fat nerds who spend all their time doing nothing but modeling in Blender in order to stick it to the man.

It says it was done in Houdini

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>>511138
>>511139
>hurr it was made in houdini
>hurr it was made in 3dMax
>hurr blender is incapable of letting you use it for the most basic modeling shit

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?390354-Blender-Astromonkey

>>511204
>it's hard to make something without first having an idea of what I want to make

No shit. This is just fundamental to design; even (good) authors "sketch" their ideas (outlines, stream of consciousness, rough drafts of story ideas, characters, settings, etc) before they set out to write a novel.

If you can't draw 2D, get good references

>>510392

>>511239
If you sketch in graphite and render a finished image on top of that with paint or whatever it is you like to use, you're still starting and finishing in 2D.
Anyway, I'm a painter first and 3D artist second, I was just wondering if anyone outside of 3D sculptors got away with making original works with a completely 3D workflow since I meet so many 3D artists through college who don't produce any original work at all and just create stuff purely from referencing other people's work.

so what you want to do is lower the settings to shit and boom done and done.
also use luxrender.

set # of samples to 1?

>>511275
Change samples to like 100 or even 50 or lower.
Set the resolution to be the one you want to be the final hi res and change the percentage below it to 50% or lower.

>>510518
google substance painter, substance designer or quixel

>>510562
whats the difference between them?

>he thinks node materials are difficult

The user.

>>511002
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>>511002
hmm think he is right there must be problem between the chair and the keyboard...

>>510903
Also it might be worth pointing out that I've only used texture mapping before, so I have zero experience with materials.

>>510903
I've found that if you create the surface of the water, as you would normally, and apply a decent water shader or even just glossy, it looks fine.
Just set up a point light, or a spot at the correct angle, and the water will do the rest.
Even better if you get a circle with the moon textured on as an emission.

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>>510906
You can create the surface by using the displacement modifier with a cloud texture at a low setting.
Or by going into edit mode, subdivide to a number and using the fractal option to displace vertices. Then smoothing it with a subdivision surface modifier.

Both methods produce nearly the exact same result. Pic related, Left is fractal method, right is texture displacement.

In terms of setting up materials for a game engine, I'm not totally sure. I don't use blender's game engine so I don't know what types of materials it's capable of. You should be able to get a decent glossy material out of it though.

Most of the reflections come from the angle the viewer is at, and how low the moon is to the water. Play around with placement to find what works.

Max & Maya

They each have trial/student versions, just give them all a run for a week to see which one fits you.

Fuck if I know. I love each program so much. They have their strengths/weaknesses. Can't really stick to one, tbqh.

Max for modelling.
Maya for rigging/animation.
Cinema for vfx.

I'm proficient/experienced with all 3 and can't do without them.

>>510593
>2 side views
>no front view

Nice

How much detail would you need ?

>>510599
btw how didn't it occur to you to draw the front side?

I read an old tale about this once. Something to do with an ant

>>510520
the only way to impress someone in this day and age with animation is to have your animated result really tightly syncd to the audio

>>510520
>Convert a irl/2d porn scene into 3d porn with perfectly synced audio
>put it on a patreon
>Make money
>Show him how you made money
>...
>Profit?

He would never look at you the same again... wether that is a good thing remains to be seen

>>511042
ilm uses mental ray for a lot of their large heavy scenes that would crash vray.

mental ray gives you more control, almost to the point where you have no idea if a attribute will really have a noticeable effect

vray gives you a nice result faster, but mental ray can achieve the same result

Could someone post a guide to the best Vray render settings for if you're churning out animations? I'm on an i7 and it almost takes up 4 minutes per frame.

> different material settings
> different light setting
how are you trying to make a comparison if they're not even the same scene

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i like making small animals, but sometimes its tricky to texture them

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I've been working on this small airship