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Post by Morell on Jan 27, 2020 10:50:41 GMT -5
Current status:solving effects for second vid Intro sceneCOMPLETE Inverted castlewaiting endingworking on ------------------------------------------------------------- I've discovered america, sort of. (at least that is how we say it here) I've found how to use sculpting in Blender and learned about other cool building tools I loved in other software being present in Bledner. So I thought that I could redo 3D scenes with the 3D model of the castle to be more detailed and little more up to date as it isn't THAT hard as I thought. Despite the roofs of the castle being quite fine in the vids, the rest is rather simple and small sized video won't be that much larger but would be much more sweat to look at. From looking carefully at the vids there is castle at the cliff of course, but not far from it there is right on the vid a village and bridge across the lake. (I might dump the bridge...) Here is the cliff I've made so far... rough, I'll add more details (I happened to form a cave from the other side XD) Working little random at shaping that terrain. I would also add some mountains to the background around the lake as the castle is situated in the mountains. Ideas? Rants? XD
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Post by Esco on Jan 27, 2020 22:15:35 GMT -5
I'd recommend showing me the assets first as you go. While I like the idea and admire your determination, I also think it is much more involved than you may realize. There are 3 vids in the game involving the castle. All 3 would need to be redone.... not just 1. Or I couldn't use any of the new ones. Having 1 new one and 2 retro ones would stick out and just not look good!
Also, the idea of "dumping" details from the original vid (like the bridge) does not sit well at all with me. I will say that up-front.
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Post by Morell on Jan 28, 2020 13:22:58 GMT -5
The only problem I'm aware of now is that I cannot use my online account on 3D stock webpage for showing you the progress. So I will be using screen recording put on youtube, if you are okay with that. Okay, no dumping, accepted. Will keep you updated.
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Post by Esco on Jan 28, 2020 22:28:50 GMT -5
That works fine for me Morell.
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Post by Morell on Jan 31, 2020 10:23:14 GMT -5
I am little in a hurry before work, because I will be working the night and sleep next day so I hope to get feedback before I can continue working... to get some effectivity. Sorry for the length of video but I hope that it will be still worth watching. And about the sound quality and my speaking... tired and going to work 12 hours... Can't be helped much and I was holding camera in hand. XD (best seen at the highest avialble vid quality) And here is the rendered picture: EDIT: I got stuck on which texture to use on the castle. (I'll finish the ground once I put the castle into the enviroment (already building it) to make it all fit together) Well, just like girl in the clothes shop... Which one? (be sure to look at the links so you can see all the details, these spherical previews are little illusional) www.textures.com/download/3dscans0538/134580www.textures.com/download/3dscans0056/127571www.textures.com/download/3dscans0058/127590
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Post by Esco on Feb 2, 2020 16:26:43 GMT -5
Hi, Mo. Sorry if I made it sound like I literally wanted to view every asset as you went. Let me clarify: I mostly wanted to view it bit by bit as you progressed BEFORE you do anything tooooooo labor-intensive. The reason being is that I really don't want you to spend a week on something painstakingly tweaking and modifying it... only to then have me turn it down. I don't want to waste anyone's time and efforts like that, it's cruel.
The quality of the vid was fine. And yeah I know what it's like to do 12-hour work days. So far, it seems good. Texture-wise since you asked my opinion, I'll pick the middle one. But ultimately, if you decide to use another one it's fine.
Don't feel rushed to do this though. You have plenty of time before I'd need the vids anyway.
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Post by Morell on Feb 2, 2020 17:06:20 GMT -5
I spend way more time on searching on internet how things must be done rather than on doing them. Like 30 minutes on DuckDuckGo and then about 10 minutes in Blender applying and testing it. (along with other things, today I've finished my taxes papers. XD) Oh, rushing... hell no, I cannot stay at one thing too long, except the work... (which isn't whatsoever nice) so I don't do this all day or so. Not more than about 30 minutes a day? I won't spend on this any more time than is enjoyable for me. I have other projects and time wasters in my life. XD (like now unfolding papercraft of life sized chitauri scepter) So far on building a castle I've spend about 10 minutes, and much longer time figuring out, what the hell is wrong with that f*** win10 X-box games recording feature I use for recording. Sigh... there is probably no win 10 feature except win Update, which is not buggy and poorly written. (Took me quite some time to even stabilize win 10 on my PC and prevent monthly blue deaths) I'm recording my work on the castle now as I'm interested, how long it will take to build it and because I want to make speed vid. Also tried to rip skeleton from PSP Dracula X-chronicles, but that failed. I'll have to find either some online or draw one. Both can work. Bats swarm for the vid will be easy, I already have model I unfolded for papercraft, extracting model from pdo file is no problem for me, it just needs texture edit. (and then bones and flight animation, which shouldn't be hard on low-poly model) ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Got ill so got also some extra time. So I've put together basic castle... now I have to put on the textures and move it on the scene, where I'lll beggin working on many details like windows, doors, skeletons, ...
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Post by Morell on Feb 10, 2020 9:56:30 GMT -5
Put on some basic texture, now it looks way better, dumped previous roof texture, fixed some textures settings. Now it really looks like the castle. Found nice clock for the Clock Tower. Castle is in basic form complete. I used vid of inverted castle to deduce buildings of the castle as well as the intro. Also changed plans, better to do details here in separate file, will be way easier. Good news: I've managed to make true displacement work. (makes textures to bump exactly as the previews I've posted earlier) Bad news: using displacement makes memory usage jump skyhigh... I'll keep it as possible improvement, but I must manage to get everything to be under 16GB (or rather 15GB) of RAM memory... which gives me crazy idea of using portable SSD as extra RAM... I must keep that in mind too.
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Post by Morell on Feb 14, 2020 10:35:24 GMT -5
Added few details and many windows. I will add more windows once I draw texture for them as they will have glass and also chapel windows.... I think that I'll get graphic for them right from the game. If I make too many posts, stop me, Esco. I try to keep it within reason. Also did test render with water and background... It is starting to look interesting...
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Post by Esco on Feb 14, 2020 16:35:33 GMT -5
That is looking awesome! Don't worry about the # of posts for something like this here. It's fine.
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Post by Morell on Feb 19, 2020 3:10:27 GMT -5
Finished the doors and details in main tower and Clock tower, as they will be taken from closeup in final vids. Will now move the castle to the scene. Dead and udead will wait as I've got nice idea that cannot be added here and now. I've got my nose on undead in World of warraft as transfer into Blender from Wow is possible with attached skeleton and animations. (although there is some convertion size problem) So to the vid, first part is progress of building the castle, speeded up 10 times. Didn't record all the progress, sorry, but there is enough for anyone who is interested in how to build castle in Blender. Second part is camera testing render. I didn't like the roof texture on the render so the last part is edited little more, speeded up 2 times another look around the castle. First orthographic, then perspective view. So I'll be moving the castle to the scene and will work on the bridge and other assets. This one feels complete just enough. Although I might edit texture settings further later. -------------------------- Okay, transfer between the blend files went smooth and I've put all I've finished so far together and made another render. Whoever wants wip wallpaper for free, download before I get my DA account unBANed, after that it will be for points. sta.sh/024bw1c6fuh6
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Post by Morell on Mar 6, 2020 8:34:14 GMT -5
Hello again. I Bought new notebook so I had to spare a week in turning the computer I bought into computer I wanted to buy. Turned out that touch-screen (most likely) requires 2GB of RAM, which was not written anywhere in the specs of it, so I got angry. But even with usable 6GB RAM (from which 2,5 takes Win 10 and other programs) I can work and play. So I got little delayed with the 3D. Still I got angry, but I had reskinned the rocks, especially under the castle it was awful. That took me time. Now I also created the bridge and columns around it, looks interesting. Also I got to convert papercraft back into 3D model of bat... dumped lower side of wings, which was red as it was making a mess during animation... see the vid. I think it looks pretty nice as it is.
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Post by Esco on Mar 7, 2020 1:40:13 GMT -5
Wow.... that is a nice bat. For something that will be so little that is a LOT of detail!
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Post by Morell on Mar 7, 2020 9:47:08 GMT -5
Actually it is low-poly model, I found it very decent, most details are on the texture, which is not so big either, 512x512. (texture can do a lot on visual effect) The animation could be done more detailed as well, but I thought that more detailing was useless. But man, bats are amazing...
This particular one, or rather the source I used to make this one I found few years ago and it was the most low-poly yet good looking bat I could find. Still struggling about skeleton model, don't like the wow one that much...
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Post by Robs ON on Mar 10, 2020 14:15:33 GMT -5
Hey Morell, that's looking A-W-E-S-O-M-E. I love the way that you are setting the hill and castle. Contrast is very good. Totally amazing. Maybe we can to have a full moon with bloody sky as global light for environment instead the blue and also a fog and Blur on the background to have a better integration of all things and some items on foreground as aquatic leaves and few cracking wood pieces (maybe also a rusty chain) in the water when you set the composition. What you guys think about it? (Speed paint of color key below) .
I'm Also posting a reference that i did as 2D animation drawing for Bat flying movement with frame numbers markers to help. Your model and rig are awesome but the movement maybe need of a little adjustments for the bat's wings to look even better
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