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>>571193
Drawing, yes.
3D, no.
It still takes way too long (you will earn less hourly than working at burgerking) and porn customers are the worst clients you can think of.

If you want to get quick money, do stream commissions. Streaming your session and shit out drawn sketches every 10 minutes for $15 to 20 bucks a pop.

>>571193

Only if you are stupid fast at 3D to be worth it hourly and/or have a huge existing following. You can't just begin right out of the gate unless you can somehow pull off a near recreation of Pixar-tier stuff.

>>571197
This guy gets it

>>572086
For a start, let's consider what you're trying to emulate.
Quixel has numerous custom-built scanners around the world that are each tuned to capturing different types of objects, but by and large it's simply a very accurate, automated method of photogrammetry.
What they do is basically construct a large box containing in it all possible lighting, filtering and capture equipment, which can isolate a roughly 2x2 meter area from any kind of outside light source (they even do this at night just to make sure), and it automatically captures and processes all necessary images on the spot.
The only real thing that seperates their results from just doing the plain way is specifically the high degree of standardization and color accuracy across all assets, and that they can do it on a dirt road outside instead of a studio.
Even if you don't care for that degree of perfection, the basics of this type of processing still apply: you need a camera with a very wide dynamic range, multiple lights you can set up from every direction, and polarizing filters - a glass screw-on filter for the camera lens and flexible gel filters for the lights. The first phase is to light the surface you want to capture from 4 to 8 different angles and take a shot of each one, the second phase is to extract the albedo and specularity by taking two additional shots with all lights on, one regular image and one with the mentioned polarizing filters fitted. make sure to mark the positions of where all filters are "in phase" to make sure none of the lights are producing reflections.
Polarizing filters will remove all reflections from the surface of an object, so you can produce a nice albeido map from it, as well as using the difference between it and the regular exposure to produce a specular map.
To actually process the images you shot, you need Substance Designer 6 or 2017, as it has nodes specifically designed for this, where you input the directionally-lit images and it figures out the rest.

>>572089
Getting on to equipment, a camera with a sensor which has very high dynamic range is preferable as photogrammetry goes to shit if you have blown highlights or crushed shadow detail, not a problem in a studio or with otherwise very controlled lighting, but you can't always depend on things going your way.
Luckily such cameras today are nowhere nearly as expensive as they used to be, you want something equipped with a modern Sony sensor. This could be a Sony A7-series camera, or a Nikon D8xx, even if you have to get it second-hand. Stay away from Canon.

For lights you generally want some sort of daylight-balanced source with a high CRI rating, a poor color rendering index may cause issues with metamerism - colors shifting hue due to poor light properties. Our eyes aren't especially sensitive to this, but camera sensor very much are. You can get away with around 2-4 lights but of course the more you have, the less work you'll have to do moving shit after you set them up.

>>572089
Hi! Thanks for all that very interesting information. Saved it for future reference.

One thing I'm wondering is how they do all their additional maps. They offer:

>Ambient Occlusion
>Cavity
>Gloss/Smoothness
>Roughness
>Normal (Tangent-Space)
>Displacement
>Bump
>NormalBump
>Opacity
>Translucency
>Fuzz
>Brush

Is all of this calculated from geometry, color and albedo?

>What they do is basically construct a large box containing in it all possible lighting
Interesting. This would explain why their tree scans appear to be chopped off, but I'm not sure how they would deal with something like these scans: https://megascans.se/library/packs/lava-field

>custom-built scanners
It was time for me to learn electronics and optics anyway, and I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty.

>To actually process the images you shot, you need Substance Designer 6 or 2017, as it has nodes specifically designed for this, where you input the directionally-lit images and it figures out the rest.
I was more thinking about doing my own software for this, which I plan to open source together with the scans (free for non commercial use).

>you need a camera with a very wide dynamic range
I really wanted an excuse to buy one.

yes i can help you

>>571833
I wouldn't believe a thing this anon says, I can help you

I recommend Blender's internal renderer with Approximate Gather turned on. It's one of the best Blender features.

>>568139
daz3dfree.com

skyback.ru, Russian site that has a lot of stuff and generally pretty clean.

zonegfx.com

what do you guys use to verify models before printing? I've been using shapeways because I can't find an alternative that works. would be great to have something i can run on my desktop rather than online

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Why are my finger bones lifting away from the mesh? Shouldn't it be bringing the mesh with it?
>>567518
Don't slicers verify that a model is solid? I think Meshmixer has a "make solid" button.

>>567795
God damn it every time I ask a question I figure it out half an hour later. Turns out vertices has associations with other vertex groups, despite having zero weight in them, so when i tried to rotate one, it tried to meld between them. Going to Weight Paint -> Clean 0.01 fixed them.

fucking bump

>>572042
co doislicoeuglcr eeeeee

>>571784
skp could fill this niche so easily if google saw the benefits of integrating UV mapping into the product. New plugin WrapR is pretty exciting and looks to do what needs to be done.

Hidden surface elimination done BY HAND in 2017. As pointed out in the second video, in '94 we had tools that did that for free, automatically and robustly on a Pentium.

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>>571784
It's crazy how backwards level design feels nowadays. Brushes just felt like much more streamlined and designer friendly way to build world geometry. I think that when Unreal Engine became popular people got this idea in their head that brush based geometry was a thing of the past just because UE's level editor tools were so horribly unoptimized and unstable. The truth is Epic are a bunch of lazy fuckers and instead decided to divert their criticisms instead actually bother to address their broke ass tools.

It's sad when your million dollar game engine has worse tools than a game that came out in 1996.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1pM55k4WM

>>571961
learn to model > look at bullet reference

Spend a night or two on the streets of Chicago.

>>571963
priceless :DDDD

>>>/aco/1488253
post all your lewds here

>>569564
>>569567
Good work anon, the first time I haven't had to remake the thread.

Couple of Qs
1. How the flying fuck does rigidity maps work? I must be doing something wrong cause I thought rigidity maps meant making rigid clothing like armor without worrying about it distorting in the chest. Good luck using hoops in your clothing too..

2.Everyone seems to make amazing textures. Is this from scans or are they painted? And either way, how do they do it?

3. Has anyone tried animating in cycles or 3dmax? Iray takes too long for me so I'm hoping there are alternatives.

shameless self bump

>>570375
need moer hi poly texture

>>570375
pls gib .obj

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>>571856
>moving static objects away from their light baked positions after light baking

>>571857
nope, this is after a bake that took around 25 minutes. no fucking with the scene.

enlighten just shits its pants when you use modular geometry

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>>571857
>moving static objects

I know our board is pretty slow but I just wanna let you know I'm still around, waiting for you to be a hero

>>571768
Here you go: https://expirebox.com/download/6e2f0b3c5d423a8b85336c6b9aba7426.html

There are missing textures and it's set up to use VRay, which I do hope you're aware of.

>>571790
Thanks, brother

You are very kind. Have an amazing life, for you're one in a million.

oh wow. employers in my area don't even speak to you unless you have a portfolio demonstrating everything they want

>>569304
First off, why the fuck are you making a thread and not cramming this shit in right now, and up until the interview? Second, are we talking about Vector particles, HLSL/OpenGL particles, or just Unreal systems? If just Unreal, you should easily be able to learn the common knowledge of particles within a week, especially if you're good with particles in Maya.

t. vfx support

>>569309
Unreal "Cascade" system particles. On a bus right now.

The role they are asking says "only one year 3d modeling required" but they basically want someone who can do literally every facet of game design that isn't hard coding. Might be pretty unrealistic, but I've not worked for a true game studio before, just as a 3D generalist in commercials.

they are an expanding startup.

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>>567848
I'd fuck that

nice. but i rather get laid

>>567848
If only it didn't say Republic of gamers

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>>571812

NASA has the complete model available for download on their website, and since they're a government organization its public domain

fastest way would be to download that and retopo it.

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>>571812