#chamferzone

[cryptidm0ths]

ohhh got double tagged by @kalmeria and @exmeowstic

last song : gendering teddy by the narcissist cookbook at least according to spotify but probably some random enstars music for youtube autoplay when i was doing dishes

currently watching : i just finished watching idolish 7 and havent picked up anything else yet no the next plan of things to watch is all of gabriel aguiar's vfx tutorials followed by chamferzones 3d modeling tips

currently reading : do visual novel count bc im playing through ai : the somnium files and it does require reading imma be honest i havent read much in the last year and the dyslexia is kinda worst bc out of practice

current obbession : him- enstars do you know that i m sosososo normal about enstars and himeru in particular i havent been rambling about this to every person willing to listen for the past year

appologies am unsure ofwho to tag so euu go wild i guess :]

[calebwarwick]

This took me maybe 30 seconds to render. 30 SECONDS!?! Are you kidding me. Stuff like this in college would take me hours to render . . . #mech #hardsurfacedesign #substancepainter #blender #blender3d #b3d #cgi #3dmodeling #eevee #digitalart #rendering #cyberpunk #chamferzone #metal (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0mLHFBnvEu/?igshid=fpbg32covzba

[ravenkult]

Mech Tutorial - 3Ds Max 2017 and Substance Painter by Tim Bergholz | ChamferZone https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4VEW1

[loueyw]

ChamferZone has some great tutorials.

[derickalpha-blog]

Triangles, Quads & N-Gons

When I started 3D modeling I had a lot of frustrating time to understanding how models topology should be like and this video cleared things up for me. Thanks to ChamferZone for making this tutorial.

[ngone3d]

Tips & Tricks for UV Mapping props for the modern blender game artist

No, this isn’t any different from my post in Blender Artists. I just decided to move it here because linking to my tumblr boosts my ego just a bit more than linking to a dead Blender Artists thread.

This is more for intermediate users, I expect that you already know how to uv map, but are curious to know about a few tools you might not have heard of or a few time saving workflows.

Useful plugins

“I used to think blender's uv toolset couldn't or didn't need to get any better. Then I saw this video“ - Warmaster Horus

UV Packmaster 2 Pro ($), I pack my UVs by hand but from the results  seen, this script is as good if not better.

Tex Tools, absolutely essential for game artists.

UV Squares ($ but not really it's on github), not "essential" but it's a nice time saver.

Useful Tutorials

_“Scarred,afraid, the flatten mapping button is in a different shape in this non blender tutorial so abstain from it I shall“ _- blenderwarrior420

Chamferzone's "Unwrap special" & his Machette asset creation tutorial, which is a 100% free from start to finish by the way.  He uses max but if you're comfortable with 3d you shouldn't have a problem figuring out what the blender equivalents are.

Polycount wiki this page in particular.

CGBoost's 20 UV Tips & Tricks

Unique Tips I've picked up along the way

I've run out of fake quotes to create so I'll stop now - fdfxd

Tip - 1, The pin tools exist for a reason.

shocking I know.

But say you've got to unwrap something like this pistol grip (the same pistol grip of the amazing oscar nominated krinkov aks 74u you can get it's autograph here!!!! ) So you place your seams, as you would. Then you unwrap only to find.... Distortion! Might not seem like much but it will(and has) show if  you say... slap a diamond pattern texture on this grip, like i was planning to do.

So what to do now? Go on BA forums and complain?  Convert to using the tools of the ruinous powers?  Not quite yet I have a solution

Project from view while having the "view"(camera) be perpendicular to the surface. We're not done yet, this causes another problem This is where the pinning comes in, In your UV Mode, select all the coplaner faces, and hit p(or right click and click pin) Then unwrap, and your troubles are no more(for the most part, maybe unpinning some of the edges near the bottom will yield better results.)

This isn't where the usefulness stops

Say you've watched that Tim Bergholz tut that emphasised that the borders of your UV islands should ideally be straight for perfect baking at any resolution

But what happens when you get a piece like this? With the pin workflow you can fix this no problem

Tip 2 - Using Materials to keep track of how much texel density each bit needs

This trick I learned recently while modelling a handgun that I haven't  uploaded  at the time of writing this

But, this whole trick is based on the principle that not every bit needs as much space in the uv map equally, some bits are going to be on the player camera more often so they need more space.

Say this is our prop (I wouldn't put the seams this way in actual prop by the way, just an example)

I'll create 3 materials Assign them based on how close you'd expect them to be to the player camera.

After you're done with that, do the next two steps for each material.

Select the faces linked to the material. Make sure nothing else is selected

Using the textools addon, set the texel density to the appropriate numbers and apply. in this case I decided,

UV_High (the highest texel density) - 256 UV_Medium - 128 UV_Low - 64

Tad overkill, you're free to experiment with better values.

After you've done all that, select all the faces of the object and pack.

Now most of the detail should be concentrated in the areas where the player will spend the most time looking at.

That's all for now. It's worth noting that I'm not ex-ilm,bungie,mlg,etc god modeller, I'm just a random talkative(in public forums behind edgy avatars, god knows I can't speak irl or in dms) prop artist

So if I get anything wrong, feel free to correct.

[unity3dforyou]

If you're looking for AAA quality weapons for your Unity project, look no further. ChamferZone brings you 22 modern firearms all with high resolution textures and beautiful meshes. #gamedev #unity3d 70% off today only during the May Madness sale. https://t.co/dGvNa7FvXD https://t.co/OBcH14Gg2c

[calebwarwick]

An earlier version of the Mech. I think the whole thing all in all took about 80 hrs. . . #mech #hardsurfacedesign #substancepainter #blender #blender3d #b3d #cgi #3dmodeling #eevee #digitalart #rendering #cyberpunk #chamferzone (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jHTkxng1C/?igshid=98gf05gi4hv8