nightwolf Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 It certainly looks interesting Captain! What are you using?
Captain Falcon Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 It certainly looks interesting Captain! What are you using? It's all done with C++ using DirectX 11. One of my assignments is to make a game engine and this is where I'm up to at this point. That shading isn't required but it's something I wanted to look at and was reasonably happy with my result. There just doesn't seem to be that much out there for DX11 aimed at beginners so it's slow going at the moment. I might try doing a black and white filter as well now I'm thinking about it.
Captain Falcon Posted April 11, 2012 Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) Grey Scale Black and White (which naturally looks a lot better at certain angles due to a lack of things in my scene) And finally, Cel Shaded with a border That last one too me some working out but I got there in the end. Right now the bordering is set to only show on the landmass but I can easily turn it on for any other object. Having it on the water and/or skybox produces some strange results for them (probably due to their shape). Certain angles look better than others but I think I'm getting there. There are multiple ways of doing the lines so I could always try a different way if I am that obssessed by it. Edited April 11, 2012 by Captain Falcon
Llama Juice Posted April 21, 2012 Posted April 21, 2012 When I was in college the professor showed us an interesting way to make a fake easy border around your models. His method was to take the mesh, scale it out a very small amount, flip the normals, and set the new mesh to be a flat, unshaded black. The problem there is that you double your triangle count, but... meh. I dunno if you'd be able to do a similar technique using a shader or not, but... that's the knowledge I have on the subject. That's just a screengrab of Maya's viewport renderer.
Captain Falcon Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 When I was in college the professor showed us an interesting way to make a fake easy border around your models. His method was to take the mesh, scale it out a very small amount, flip the normals, and set the new mesh to be a flat, unshaded black. The problem there is that you double your triangle count, but... meh. I dunno if you'd be able to do a similar technique using a shader or not, but... that's the knowledge I have on the subject. The shader has full access to alll the vertex information so there is no reason why I couldn't do that in there and it would prove quicker than doing it on the CPU as well since it's all parallelized. I did see that technique online, I think it was in the wiki page, and whilst you always end up increasing your polygon count, they suggested that it was a matter of scaling and reversing the normals on the polygons that would have been culled. As an artist, I guess that's not something you would normally be dealing with but for a programmer, that is something I can tell the system to do and though it would take longer to code, I'd imagine it would probably be less system intensive overall.
nightwolf Posted April 26, 2012 Posted April 26, 2012 That's odd, I'm pretty sure you can do that effect in 3dsmax without needing to do it that way at all, but it's been a while since I've bothered modelling..
Supergrunch Posted May 4, 2012 Posted May 4, 2012 This may be a slighty weird/badly placed request, but I'm trying to create a simple 3D animation involving an axb table, which rotates through 90 degrees, leading to a ax1 table, which in turn then extrudes in the new dimension to produce an axc table. My main problem, then, is that I want text labels in each cell, and these need to remain front-facing throughout the process. Plus, this should ideally be embedable in a powerpoint or similar presentation, and I'd like to avoid using too much complex software if possible. Is there any simple way of doing this, or would it require a proper 3D animation package?
Tissue Town Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 So, has everyone given up? Or has anyone done anything new recently?
Captain Falcon Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Here, have a cup... Gotta start small right?
Tissue Town Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 Here, have a cup... Gotta start small right? Cool cup. That least piece I did was this - Currently working on Morrigan
Captain Falcon Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 Cool cup. Not really, but it's the first time I've ever used any modelling software and I figure it's something that would be useful to be able to male small models of stuff so the easiest way to get to grips with software like that is to follow some basic tutorials and that one looked pretty basic. Not looking to do anything particularly elaborate but just make some things I can drop into levels to populate them and give them a bit more life.
Tissue Town Posted March 30, 2013 Posted March 30, 2013 Good stuff, well good luck with your studies. It's pretty easy once you get the basics of modelling, especially hard surface.
Jamba Posted August 27, 2013 Posted August 27, 2013 Hmmm... finally got a new PC so it's back to the 3D board of things. Been ages and @Tissue Town is making me silly jealous! Excellent anatomical tone in in your Poké Girl TT, think you need to look into the material settings on her face though as she's looking a bit plasticky and manic! :p I'm starting back with some UDK to get myself back into things. I don't class myself and naturally artistic in the conventional sense so I'm hoping that I'll be able to get some design on.
Ashley Posted August 27, 2013 Posted August 27, 2013 Started learning Unity 3D and considering picking up Blender to do some model work for it (nothing too fancy, just to add some flexibility). Can anyone recommend any good tut sites for it? Familiar with Maya, but wanted to try something open source because of monies.
Wesley Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 Started learning Unity 3D and considering picking up Blender to do some model work for it (nothing too fancy, just to add some flexibility). Can anyone recommend any good tut sites for it? Familiar with Maya, but wanted to try something open source because of monies. http://cgcookie.com/blender/
dan-likes-trees Posted April 27, 2014 Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) First time trying out 3d Gotta start somewhere! Edit: Oops. Gotta start somewhere in learning to post images too. Edited April 27, 2014 by dan-likes-trees
Blaveloper Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 I have started making simple and unrealistic stuff in Maya (swords, guns, bottles, etc.) a while ago. Now I switched to characters. I can say making game characters of any kind is an insane job to do for somebody with a programming background. At least it's not as hard as making music.
Cosker Posted September 28, 2014 Posted September 28, 2014 I really have to start on my 3D projects. Made a small knife so far. Not good enough to show :P
M_rock Posted March 21, 2015 Posted March 21, 2015 I wanted to make a chibi robo WiiU mockup a while ago, but that never happened. Ended up with a chibi robo model though: Might end up rigging it sometimes, but I'm really horrible at that so far :p
dan-likes-trees Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 This is a great thread! Started messing around / trying to recreate things with C4d again this week. Super-basic but thought I'd post as a starting point, see how I prgress in the future sorta thing
M_rock Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 I love this one, the lighting and style is so great! Great work!
dan-likes-trees Posted August 7, 2015 Posted August 7, 2015 Been a while since I've had time for having fun with all this
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