Billy Johnsson Gear/Euqipment

[remote meteor]

A thread to showcase fun WIP's.

As some of you know I'm a 3D modeler from the start and have been modeling for the past couple years. What I haven't done that much are, clothing/equipment. So I decided I'd start making some and document it.

JPC - Wip

[calm geode]

Looks great, can’t wait to see this

[remote meteor]

Here's one I made a bit back, you can already see my improvment on the JPC which is more recent.

Do note, I'm still learning this since it's basically a 180 from hard surface which is what I've done before. With that said, any tips/tricks, shoot them my way please!

[delicate dome]

not bad what software did you use?

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I use Blender and Marmoset

[delicate dome]

nice. im not an artist by any means but i had used marvelous designer for a bit and was quite impressed with the outcome.

[remote meteor]

Yeah Marvelous is fantastic, however, I'm very much a novice there still so will have to learn it a bit more before I dive in to deep.

Sculpting in Blender can be quite limiting when you're doing clothing Ive noticed.

[delicate dome]

hey your still leagues above anything i could make in blender

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Progress on texturing, this, I'm not good at yet haha.

[supple crescent]

Your HP is pretty good, I think you just need to add some variation to your base colours, a lot of fabric has minor specs of different shades in them, which when you look from afar kind of blends into a colour, I can try show an example, or if you look at some of the vanilla clothing it’s really well done in them too, but 3D model wise, it looks great

This is a very worn look example, but the principle is the same

[remote meteor]

Fantastic, great tip.

[supple crescent]

A sort of cheat code I use, doesn’t work for all but can work for some is:

add a “Fibers” texture, and only add height with it, very minimal height (.03 or something) so it’s really only barely visible in the correct lighting, and add an anchor point to that

Add an “Occlusion” smart mask and set you micro details both to true, and your Micro normal + Micro Height to the anchor point.

You should see it adds the occlusion to all the low spots of the fibers mask

In the occlusion only have colour + roughness and essentially make it the deepest black with the highest roughness (so it’s matte)

Then just adjust the opacity slider to very low so it’s barely visible and that will give you some shading in sort of a fabric style

Like I said though it doesn’t work for all fabrics, but it’s good to try 😄

this is assuming your using substance painter

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I'm using Marmoset Toolbag atm. However, thinking about switching back to Substance. Will for sure try that then!

[supple crescent]

Marmoset just hurt my brain when I tried it haha, but you gotta use whatever you feel comfortable with

[remote meteor]

Did something similar with this. Not happy yet but in the right direction.

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Ignore my guy arms lol

[thorn steeple]

what arms?

[supple crescent]

This is 10x better man, looks great !

[uneven orbit]

he looks like Elon Musk

[honest hemlock]

Solid base. The folds you are sculpting are a little to sharp I would use a more rounded brush.

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Yeah, just getting a hang of the possibilites rn. But you're 100% right for this particular vest.