Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Pesky topology.

I was playing about with the Quadriflow remesh today instead of the boxy voxel thing and it was quite good in terms of the number of faces and how it maintained the details of the sculpt. But the quads wouldn't follow the form correctly and some of the resulting edge loops were just bizarre in the way they spiralled around the model.

Topology!
But I'm still determined to not do it by hand in the proper way.

Quadrille? But quads must be related to square dancing... Bizarre spiralling, modern jazz ballet?

That looks like high quality entertainment.

And I'm back here cos I've just had a brainwave about my problem. I duplicated my model. Set the duplicate to "shrinkwrap" to the original and that let me select the edges to move and rotate them via proportional editing to fit the flow of the model better.
And it sort of worked!
Sort of.
Makes a bit of a mess of the edges close to the symmetry axis but that's easy to fix.

(as always)

Not as as I was an hour ago but still a bit

There's still something wrong with the wrists so I'll probably have to ditch this one but at least I learned something.

Clarification: I was referring to myself when reading anything about anything done in Blender.

More " -ness" from me again.

Today I tried to experiment with the Rigify Addon and quickly realised that I don't really know how it works.
I did watch a tutorial beforehand but my result was ..erm... rather different.



I also fiddled with the multires modifier to try to add details to my all-quad model and that worked a little better. It's not as lumpy as my usual Dyntopo stuff, and you can shape better lines and edges, but I can't get the same level of details without it repeatedly subdividing the whole model causing quite a bit of slooooowness.

I think I have now sorted out most of the base people materials, and when I got to the last one I noticed a couple of checkboxes in the fbx importer that automatically set up things that I had been doing manually  I then went back through all the characters again because I discovered that all the textures had been set to add mode instead of normal which explained a lot 

 

Oh, the little bit on top of the lower eyelid is supposed to be a wet little highlight. 

I didn't understand what that was. I guess that should be set to transparent too.

EDIT: Still not getting those highlights or the reflection in the eyes.

I have specualrity and fresnel on those transparent bits, I also had to invert the transparency maps for them (and all the others). I probably spent more time fixing the eyes than the rest of it.