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#26
Posted 12 May 2014 - 06:51 PM
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#27
Posted 12 May 2014 - 08:28 PM
http://www.indiedb.c...ds/the-dark-mod
(Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...)
#28
Posted 13 May 2014 - 03:18 PM
You can only export one model. Well, you can export multiple models, but only one will be loaded in Darkmod, so you have to join models before export. You can have multiple materials inside one LWO.
There is another problem. Material name in Blender can have maximum 63 characters. That means that some longer material names from Darkmod will not fit.
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#29
Posted 13 May 2014 - 07:24 PM
Are we sure that id tech 4 can read vertex paint from LWO? I assume it can.
Yes, as long as the material shader is set up to use it.
Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop
#30
Posted 14 May 2014 - 11:57 AM
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#31
Posted 15 May 2014 - 06:45 AM
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#32
Posted 15 May 2014 - 11:01 AM
Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop
#33
Posted 15 May 2014 - 03:07 PM
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#34
Posted 15 May 2014 - 03:08 PM
Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop
#35
Posted 15 May 2014 - 03:11 PM
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#36
Posted 01 June 2014 - 01:12 PM
This is awesome. Its a highly detailed complete house, both inside and out. I walked around it for a wile, but rendering it would be extremely slow because if you want to e.g. render an image in one of the bathrooms, it has to STILL render the entire world in the background. The house isn't split up layer-to-room, its split up by windows on a layer, doors on another, ceilings on another, etc.
We need computers that are about 1000x faster than the hardware we have today. Then we can have games that use the cycles engine in real-time!
Edited by lost_soul, 01 June 2014 - 01:14 PM.
--- War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
#37
Posted 27 June 2014 - 06:13 AM
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#38
Posted 10 July 2014 - 04:54 AM
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#39
Posted 10 July 2014 - 06:31 AM
http://p3d.in/NBvYS
https://skfb.ly/zXs9
You can bake normalmaps in Cycles too. There's a feature added which was not in old renderer - a cage.
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#40
Posted 17 September 2014 - 05:03 AM
No lies, just yesterday morning I was still swearing at Blender and not much able to do anything beyond render that damn monkey (Blender users will know what I mean). An hour after that swearing session I found this modeling vid. It needs a few million more views. It's crazy how it's gotten so few, because so far this is the best Blender modeling how-to vid I've come across. Proof?
A few hours after watching that, I was looking at most of a horse. He still doesn't have a head and is still very rough (and his conformation needs tweaking: slightly pigeon-toed), but:
(caveat: sculpting in clay, wood, and stone is something I've done a lot of, so my first attempt results may reflect that)
So anyway, just posting this here as a reference in case anyone else has Blender but is still swearing at it.
Edited by Nic75, 17 September 2014 - 05:14 AM.
#41
Posted 18 September 2014 - 12:01 PM
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#42
Posted 20 September 2014 - 06:09 PM
Intersecting mesh in a poseable model isn't a good idea, because it can make the mesh skew and stretch in ugly ways. If you want to see what that looks like, download Daz Studio (it's free), use google to hunt up a free user-made/user-morphed character, and move it around. The reason why its "skin" does very strange things is because of intersecting geometry, which affects UV unwrapping.
Then there's also what I've been learning about today: intersecting faces, if merged, result in multi-edged ngons, and reducing them to quads is essential in order to get a good UV map. I'll make my next model with edge loops (she says sheepishly).
#43
Posted 22 September 2014 - 04:03 AM
The beam through the wall example is intersecting mesh, which is bad on a calculation level: some game engines go "WTF?!" and you get lag and stutter.
Maybe some game engines have a problem with it, but the Doom 3 engine does not. Other than the slight loss of efficiency from rendering extra unseen geometry, there is no problem whatsoever with embedding a mesh in a wall or floor if it suits a mapper's purpose and they don't have the time or skills to create a modified mesh.
Of course it's best to avoid overlap entirely when creating new models, because they may be used lots of times and you want them to be as efficient as possible.
#44
Posted 25 September 2014 - 08:47 PM
Maybe some game engines have a problem with it, but the Doom 3 engine does not.
That's good to know. Thanks.
Of course it's best to avoid overlap entirely when creating new models, because they may be used lots of times and you want them to be as efficient as possible.
If I'm reading "lots of times" correctly, then: 1 candlestick with overlap, duplicated 10 times in the same room/area = that overlap multiplied by 10. And yeah, that doesn't sound good.
I'm trying to learn this modeling thing right. Ol' horsie ended up looking okay, but my topology was terrible, and I won't mention how many thousand faces went into this:
Lesson learned: hammers are much easier than horses

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#45
Posted 14 October 2014 - 08:01 PM
@7:16, Holy crap! Look at that!!! and its real-time too...
It makes me want to cry that this never got added to the core GLSL renderer. It also seems as though this project died out, sadly.
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#46
Posted 20 December 2014 - 07:17 PM
Running with dual GPUs is pretty cool. You can use one for cycles rendering and the other for displaying, (or gaming). It gives you a speed boost because your single GPU doesn't have to display the desktop and render the physics. It also gives you more memory to use, because that single GPU's memory isn't eaten up by the desktop/window manager.
You do not even need SLI, either.
Edited by lost_soul, 20 December 2014 - 07:23 PM.
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#47
Posted 28 December 2014 - 03:15 PM
Im using 3DsMax, not Blender, but I can recomend you this tutorial website: Digital-tutors . Im using it pretty often and its impressive how much you can learn in so little time. Ive got a bit of 3D modeling on universitty, and it seems that this site is even better than real life tuttor. It is payed, but usually you can take a look at a few first videos from each course for free. And if that course is what you are looking for, you can either pay subscribtion, or..
Edited by PPoe, 29 December 2014 - 05:57 AM.
(Im not a native speaker, sorry for all miscleanous caused by my english..)
#48
Posted 29 December 2014 - 05:52 AM
snip
Probably should keep this bit to yourself and off the web/not in the forums.
Edited by Lux, 29 December 2014 - 06:00 AM.
#49
Posted 29 December 2014 - 05:56 AM
I know that its moral grey area, on the other hand, in some countries the subscription is still very costly, mainly for peoples with little to no income (students etc..). The legaly payed subscription is definitelly the better way, but I decided to mention this possibility as well. Maybe that was a bad idea.. Anyway, its a great site and everyone should know about it.
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(Im not a native speaker, sorry for all miscleanous caused by my english..)
#50
Posted 11 January 2015 - 02:52 AM
I purchased DVDs from the Blender Foundation before, even though I was allowed to copy them. I would rather buy content than subscribe to anything. *EVERYBODY* wants you to subscribe to something these days: music, TV, online gaming, usage of fitness equipment... Before long, I'll need a subscription just to sit in a chair.
I again cannot understate how awesome using two GPUs in the same machine is with Blender Cycles. The 4 GB card can be crunching away on a render, and you still have the other card to game with or do anything else you would normally do. The machine is still super-fast, because the CPU is basically free too.
Also, they're making a better renderer for real-time graphics in Blender. That is exciting to see.
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