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dont be a fucking meme

>>547934
Better off looking for old articles on Quake 1/2/3 modding and development. I think Paul Steed had some articles.

Download some low poly models from old games on Models Resource, check those out.

Think of the model as just a carrier for the texture because the texture is going to have all the details and highlights / shadows of the intended form. Depending on how close it is, hands are either going to be boxes or geometric mittens. Small things like single chains or draw strings will either be right on the main texture or on a flat plane as a texture so it can animate.

Keep joints in mind. Backs of knees and elbows should be edges for easy deforming.

Can't find the old articles I read a year ago, but http://quakewiki.net/archives/modeling/tutorial.html there's still all sorts of era-genuine low poly guides and tutorials out there.

>>550761
>tfw it's a song I recognize
Also nice work

>>550761
That's cute as fug

>>550713
select the camera, go to its settings, set it to ortho

>>550720
but the rotation ?

>>550721
rotate the camera like you'd rotate any other object

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>>550679
>2017
>not injecting your marijuanas

>>550689
d o w n w a r d s p i r a l never ogre

actually not bad at all.
the thing that seem fucked to me are the shadows. but i can't really blame you for how shadow is calculated.
something that raytrace engines can't replicate is glare and deep level of shadow.
for example: when the sun hits the car from a certain angel you either get glare/dusk because the car is shiny. on the other hand u also want shadows from the building in the back

>>550680
thanks for feedback. I willl correct the shadows and try to improve them.

>>550633
That looks tedious as fuck. bundle decompiler can rip unity exes, can't it access webgl apps as well ?

>>550633
You use ninja-ripper, but you have to use firefox.

I would suggest against it though, they models come out artifacted without weights or bones (causes difficulty with posed models) and with some of them you can't get the uv's.

I would say the best and most reliable way to rip models is to practice with reference and get good at re-making them yourself.

>>550672
I dont want character models/textures.

>>550571
zBrush, Maya/3DS, Substance with Quixel DDO as base textures. I could suggest Marvelous Designer as well but you could make all of that without it.

Would first try to photoshop these tech stuff over acual photos

>>550574
>Substance with Quixel DDO
Elaborate anon.

Lathe is great though, for example in archviz you can use it to build all sorts of profiles from pipes, to handles and doorknobs, to candleholders, vases or sink faucets.

There are pretty much two directions you can go. You can try to look up paid tutorials centered specifically around modeling in maya, which are bound to be better and more exhaustive than the basic tutorials provided by the software developer (which as a rule are almost always crap). You could also try looking for youtube if you don't have money and can't/don't want to pirate, though I can't guarantee the quality or coverage will be as good.

The other thing you could do is follow a project-based tutorial that's related to the field you're interested in, and is done with Maya. That would teach you the specific Maya tricks you need to get your shit done.

And if you're a regular 3ds max user you should also google "3ds max (feature) equivalent maya" for any tools you rely on, most of them should have a maya equivalent.

If you want to improve Maya modeling experience probably you will want to use plugins. KTools, CreasePlus, froTools and so on

Do a specific project. Nothing teaches a program like having to solve actual problems.

Also modeling is done in Rhino & Grasshopper right now, but I guess hardware won't be the limiting factor for those two shits.

>>550464
If you budget is 2000 EUROS, (rougly $7000 on my currency), you won´t afford a big rig, but that´s based on my previous assembly locally, where i´m limited to overpriced crap thanks to muh country.
Octane demands the most expensive graphic cards for GPU rendering, as does UE4. INTEL will always be the most reliable choice, on an ASUS motherboard. My corsair hydro cooler and power supply units have been holding well against the heat here.
That said, who will tell you what you´re going to assemble is not us, but you local hardware supplier. Check what´s available and for what price. Modeling is always RAM-hungry with Zbrush, but since you said you won´t be using those, my recommendation would be getting an intel i7 on an ASUS motherboard with 16 Giga ram - the ideal for 3d is to have as much ram possible, but octane is GPU hungry so you´ll need at least two 4giga ram geforces for it.

>>550466
thanks for your input

yea I'm looking for at least gtx 1060 or 70s, fortunately they're not that expensive here. Gonna need more RAM tho, we do very large projects and Rhino has come close to using 15GB, so I want some buffer there.

From researching a bit it seems I should just buy some gaming rig. Will probably be a tad more expensive but at least it will get here in time.

>>548433
ask your faggot dad

>paying for pirated software

you first make the basic shape with zspheres then use what i think called "adaptive skin" to give it some form and test the movement of the limbs.
then you can choose whatever polygroup you have and inflate it even more before getting to the sculpt itself

I'm actually using adaptive skin in the pic (with density set to 4). Tried messing around with its settings but none of them seemed to improve how the geometry conformed to the zspheres in any significant way.

dont use classic skinning

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>>550486
If you reduce the time between auto-saves you will often lose less progress on your project when things go wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnEQja0jBXs

>>549315
whats that from?

animals usually don't have blueprints. you should be able to model them from perspective

Can't help you with such website but look up 'on growth and form' by wentworth thompson. He analysed animals mathematically and made very good illustrations about their proportions

>>550452
You tried Google Images? Just google shark cross section or something like that.