Blender Practice

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

RE: Blender Practice

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Very cool Mate!

stevelois · ...

Awesome base Malk smile

Sly. · Unreal Old Friend

Yep, I agree. Though I wonder if 512x512 is a good choice, wouldn't 1024x1024 be better?

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

nice job

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

No worries Sly, I'll create large textures. The point is I want it to look good and 'readable' with lower-res textures as well. For instance, the UT2k4 health base has some small details which require pretty high texel density although you'll never notice those tiny bits in-game.

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Looks tops Malk!

Really liking the little pipe details and the worn blue paint has turned out very nicely!

You should post this on the new UT forums!

Heimdallr · Unreal Old Friend

Nice work !
You could add a texture like cp_specfloorgrate2 (technic texture with the movable light) on the branch of the object.
Or the movable light which move with a specific loop.

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

Lord_PorkSword wrote:
Looks tops Malk!
Really liking the little pipe details and the worn blue paint has turned out very nicely!
You should post this on the new UT forums!

...+1.....oh yeah

Sly. · Unreal Old Friend

UT3 was codenamed envy.
Guess what I am right now.

Your skills are awesome, now post it over at the UT forums!!!11!11!!1oneoneeleven1!

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

So with Blender 2.80 test builds being available now I just did some tests with the new viewport renderer called 'eevee'.
Blender now has PBR shaders and reflections in real-time as well as some post process effects(bloom, dof, ao). This makes it easy to go from blender to UE4 since the same model will look almost the same in both applications now. No need to fiddle with different scene setups, editing your textures etc. ..

Here's 2 blender screenshots straight from the viewport:
(I posted the same models earlier in this thread rendered in UE4)

Achernar · Amateur UT mapper

Looking good Malk!

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

yup....looking impressive !

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

+1 to both comments!
Very nice work on the topography for the scopes too Mate. I can say that now I have had some experience with modelling! wink

Did you do a high poly version to get the height map for the texturing or was that 'hand painted'?

-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Tuesday 18th of July 2017 11:17:34 AM

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

Yes, for these kind of models you should usually use a high poly model for baking a normal map.

The only part I didn't model on the high poly was that little grid pattern. It would've taken too much time so I just used an additional normal map, added and tiled multiple times in the material.

high poly

high poly base wireframe (no subdiv)

low poly

low poly with normal map

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

I just noticed that you can actually do a high res opengl render when using eevee. My previous pics have been screenshots with lots of aliasing...

Achernar · Amateur UT mapper

The detail in the scene looks fantastic! Texturing and lighting is very pleasant on the eye. Good job.

mAlkAv!An · calculating Pi by hand

Here are some more shots with the recently integrated SSR (screen-space reflection):

Some high poly models (3 million tris) rendered in the viewport at 60fps :)