Small WIPs that do not need their own thread (2012)

Love the design! Is this going to be used in a project?

 

Hopefully.

 

Here's a pretty damn action-packed video of multiplayer survival mode in action. It was great fun to record!

 

Hey man!! I like your style, keep it up! Love this sprite!! I love that you've offsetted the sprite's hands!

Btw you should make all 8 directions! I'd honestly love to see that! hehe

 

Thanks

Err, i seem to of sub consciously copied the zombie sprite from The Other Brothers(Which i consciously stole colors from )(the eyes look nearly the same) but i don't know, the game would be very different so i hope that is OK...
But if it is a problem i will quickly change my sprite to have no resemblance to there sprite.


Anywhoo, here is an update:

 

This is looking NICE!... I need to figure out how to do this using Vue...

 

Here is a shader test using the webplayer... I may consider using the web as a testing ground for my game...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/158971/Xavier/WebPlayer/XavierPendragonWeb.html

 

Grape model. 512 tex. Probably it will be used only for GUI inventory item, becouse ingame it would be quite hard on performance (22k triangles).

 

A clip from the previous vid (which was far too long!!) highlighting the multiplayer coop gameplay:

 

www.alvergast.com

 

looks nice!
i hope you have had a look at the ats mobile foliage shaders – so your vegetation nicely bends ;-)
i could not think of any better fitting project: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/136752-ats-Mobile-Foliage-released

lars

 

Oh my gosh! that looks great

 

how do you do those? multitexturing?

 

Hi there!
I'm still quite new to scripting in Unity and have never been much of a programmer, but I've started a small project to get a grip on some scripting, including basic editor scripts.



It's a path system with every node storing preceding and following nodes, thus allowing paths and meshes with directions.
...I'm not really sure it's as useful as I thought it would be when I came up with the idea, but I've already learned a lot through working on it so far.

If you want to check it out just download the package. To create new paths use the 'Create'-menu or take a look at the 'Paths'-menu-window. Add nodes via the paths-menu or an existing node's PathNode-context menu.

 

The ground feels a little flat, and the texture doesn't fit in well with the rest of the scene. Everything has a sort of smooth, hand painted look, whilst the ground looks very rough and noisy.

Excellent work, regardless of the previous point.

 

Woah! Sexy stuff!

 

Actually just one 2k map. Yep in engine then additionally splat maps or detail maps are applied, but main visual appeal is from 2k diffuse, normal and spec.

 

Pug I am always wondering if those dogs are sad all the time judging on their face experession and eyes.
Thats my second model using Zbrush fibers for fur, sadly fur just doesnt bake really well in normal map becouse raycasting somehow bakes every fur from different dirrection isnted of only one which is why it doesnt look good enough from all dirrections.
Fur cage:

 

That looks so realistic even from up close!

Hey what do you use to bake? I use xnormal! It works pretty good. Be sure to try farfarer's unity plugin for xnormal, it gives great tangent normal map baing! http://www.farfarer.com/resources.htm

 

Thanks dogzerx. That is really interesting information, i never thought that different softwares render normal maps different. I will defenetly try it on next model and will post results. I use Xnormal, Mudbox and Topogun for baking. I usually switch from them every few weeks just to experiment a little, but ye mainly i stay on xnormal becouse for meshes with 3 milion polys or above it outperforms anything else. For terrains i use Mudbox becouse Xnormal has problems with displacement baking if Uvs are not from raw 3d modeling app (max or similar).

 

@janpec: Tbh only just found out that each tool had different baking methods!

The xnormal tests I've done with characters are great!

I retopoed the wizard girl, with very little polycount, and I love the results:

This is only 2843 tris!


And this is 13340, almost 5 times more triangles!

 

Excellent job on retopo, i told you that you can get this down to 2k tirangles without any detail los.

 

Face etc are really good.

 

Hi everyone,
Here's a little video of our first project
Everything is still very raw at the moment!

 

Might be for underwater competition. Gonna test Farfarers normal baker on it tomorrow.

 

Janpec, the pug and crab look amazing. You are quite the modeler and texturer.

 

Oopps.. Double.

 

He has a somewhat stylized face models... Just looking to the eyes and mouth I can already recognise any of his characters.


Gimme dat crab pls!
Me gusta.

 

Really impressive!

 

good to see that my chances of winning are low

very good job dude!
where did you learned to model and texture like that? classes?

 

Thanks logotom, i learned trough online tutorials here and there, the rest of it was by myself trough experimenting. As for texturing part i am really grateful to have Mudbox arround, becouse i am really anti- Photoshop texturer since 2d is not my area

 

Really like the face and hair on her, dogzerx

 

So you're telling us that you self-taught yourself to make such amazing models?!No classes/university studies...?
But you have some knowledge in the arts background,don't you?

Also is there any difference between Mudbox and Zbrush?I'm looking forward to buying one of them and I can't really decide...

 

Looks good. The only thing I would change would be the text color. Some times you can't read what it says (like when it goes over the sky).

 

It's pretty easy to teach yourself this stuff. All of the information is out there on the web for free in some form or another.

Just takes time and practice... lots of practice


ZBrush/Mudbox... eh. In my books, Mudbox is far easier to use at first, much lower barrier to entry. ZBrush is complex and convoluted but I think in many regards it's a far more powerful program than Mudbox. I started on Mudbox but after I got to grips with ZBrush, I prefer ZBrush

 

cool, didn´t knew mudbox had a good texturing capabyility , im going to try that out right now!
i hate photoshop texturinh

 

As you said no school, however i am quite good at clay sculpting and have been able to make good clay models since 10. It is interesting that from clay to 3d app you cant transfer almost none knowledge. Really barelly anything, and if you dont know how to use software you can wipe your ass with that knowledge On other hand it is interesting that from 3d sculpting to clay you can transfer a lot. There is alot of technicalities or anathomy that you have to learn in order to make decent models, all that really makes difference once you get back there.

Yep as he said, its practice and tutorials.
Mudbox is the easiest software i have ever used. I would dare to say that it is easier than Unity. Mudbox is like combining UDK and Unity together. You get extremely fast results with great visual results, and no glitches, pipeline problems or anything..Zbrush has more features for sure, but that doesnt mean that it is 100% better software for someone to use it instead of Mudbox. It just means that is great to use it along with Mudbox becouse there are some features in Mudbox missing. Texturing in Mudbox is far more powerful than Zbrush. Unless you are polypaint master it would be hard to create similar results to Mudbox becouse layering feature in Mudbox and color correction is top notch. When it comes to sculpting Zbrush is way ahead of Mudbox. In speed, freedom, subobjects name it. This leads that if you can use it or afford it use both, becouse both cover different areas better. My pipeline always starts in Zbrush and ends in Mudbox.

 

Janpec, your animals are so intense!

Ive been working on this hand painted stylized character:

 

woey, here's a chibi car for another iOS project



WrrrrrOOoooooOOOOmmmm

 

I would say that 3D coat is the best software for painting in 3D.

 

Free font for personal use, Commercial use if donation is pledged.

http://www.4shared.com/file/P7p9Q6Xt/FlexiBendi.html




(V is different on the download, not at home to update image)

 

A sample would be nice if you want ppl to download it . )

 

messed around with the trial. Couldn't resist to kill it with postFX

 

ooh, nice. It's looking good.

 

We don't have the time or resources to do such excellent graphics as most in this thread, so here's a few very short videos of multiplayer cooperative play.

It's serious fun.

 

Realy impresive systme i love your game is possible to talk with you on skype?

 

If thats the case, you clearly havent used Mudbox yet Sorry there is no way that 3d coat is close to Mudbox texturing capatibilities (speaking as user of both softwares).

@ Florian Schmoldt Very nice scene and car. Those reflections sold the scene.

 

??? What's this awesomeness? You did this in unity? More info please!

 

Thanks guys! Glad you like it.

Yes. Those are direct screengrabs from the exe. I'm pretty impressed myself. There's no magic going on.
The scenery itself is very lowpoly. The car was done by a friend. Around 30k tris.
I've rendered the env-cube in 3dsMax and baked the lightmap in unity. Mostly with area lights.
The result looks a bit different from what I got from Max but since its more about bright reflections, its close enough.

and...tons of postFX
I've used nearly everything, unity has to offer.
DoF, Bloom, Noise, SSAO, Vignette, Chromatic aberration and a very green color correction.

Unfortunatly my trial expired but I will release a webplayer as soon, as I get my license

 

It looks so awesome!