Adventures across the 3rd dimension

*when you spend a day not getting anything done because you're a lazybum and has been for years and it hasn't been fixed. Oh, and Gandalf.*

After much doing of nothing, I finally tried a couple of grave stones... They're really very serious. But as serious isn't the same as funny, I'm not very happy with them, so I'll just have to try again tomorrow...

(I tried a bit of "sculpting", too, but... eh... I think it just adds way too many polygons to my items...)

It adds way too many polygons to everyone's items.

Charlotte wrote:

(I tried a bit of "sculpting", too, but... eh... I think it just adds way too many polygons to my items...)

The idea is that you create the high poly sculpted version with all the detail and bake that down to the low poly version to create textures that replicate the high poly detail you sculpted 

But I want to use the same general stone texture for all of it

Decimate. Retopologise. And other technical words.

Or just keep the high poly model so that everything slows down and then crashes when you try to unwrap for the UVs.

The sword modelling didn't work very well.
So I've gone back to the lumpy axe.
I've subdivided (MORE polygons! ) and tried again to work the edges and details. I've also played about with the materials/textures to add some more bark details to the wooden handle and increased the reflective part of the metal. And I've also found the bloom setting and that helps too!

 

Just need to fiddle to include the HDRI texture reflection without it appearing as a background.

And I think I'm mostly done with modelling/texturing now (even though he still has no legs.) I think it's now time to merge things and work on the weight painting so that I don't have any last minute surprises when it goes wrong.

Oooh, I made a bit of progress with the weight painting after my sulky post in the wip thread. You can weight paint the body and then transfer those weights to a nearby mesh and early tests suggest that this may work with the straps and buckles.
But I am struggling to attach the hair.
I don't know how that's supposed to work with particle systems.
Will investigate.

EDIT: Internet suggests that I need to have the Armature modifier above the Particle System modifier in the stack.

Yay, my Orc is now fully rigged...

 

The deformations are far from perfect but I can move and pose him a reasonable amount without leaving his hair behind and his straps now don't fly off under the strain.
Eyes rotate on demand and I can open and close his mouth to make some weird screaming expressions.
Still not sure about the brows. They do look OK but I was thinking of using Blend Shapes/Shape Keys to add some more expression to his face and seeing as the hair emitter is a separate object then that probably isn't going to work so if I do go down that route then the eyebrows will disappear again.
I suppose I could do it by adding a couple more bones to the armature.