🎨marathon-community-art-chat

[modern fractal]

I really we hope we get an arena mode out of this, sometimes I just want to skin 7 billion runners

[quaint steppe]

I mean it would certainly fit in-universe

Choose a faction sponsor and get forced to fight to the death

[modern fractal]

Arena for this seems like a really good idea, can make it like halo with pickups and stuff since that’s already a system within the game

Or they could make gambit 2,,,

[quaint steppe]

Glorp

[safe peak]

a doodle because a video of Recon's dumbass spider exploding on herself made me laugh
||https://x.com/Timothy_Mark7/status/2039518819044164053?s=20||

[quaint steppe]

Awesome

[open minnow]

Shaming that Spider is a fun one

[quaint steppe]

Someone here is having some fun ! 😼

5/6

[outer chasm]

#me

[quaint steppe]

Which one? 🤨

[outer chasm]

[quaint steppe]

Based

Im getting much better with quickly posing very happy with my progress

[tribal mulch]

KEEP POSTING YURI

[quaint steppe]

Yall are FIENDING for it fr

[tribal mulch]

i mean personally i prefer anything with assassin yaoi but yuri is more popular here and i still welcome it with open arms

[outer chasm]

assassin yaoi 🤤

[storm birch]

Not mine

[opal yoke]

[warm vector]

Is there a way to get the art off this Bungie Steam Update thing? https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3065800/view/500602553546834696?l=english

[outer chasm]

right click, save image link

https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/45276530/24d85df6fe6b87c7096471acf7f69dd2a8fa1234.jpg

ok I know that that look suspicious I'm just sending the link to show proof, you can then press the link (that you copied) and right click the image again and press save image :3

[outer chasm]

alternatively you can click "open image in new tab"

:3

[quaint steppe]

😭

I am having ENTIRELY too much fun

[outer chasm]

something malicious is brewing

[quaint steppe]

Soon!

[inner hatch]

heheha 🚬

[quaint steppe]

The E should be an A

[versed jasper]

EA SPORTS

[inner hatch]

dammit

[quaint steppe]

Epic fail! trololololol

[outer chasm]

escape will make me typo

:3c

or rather escepe

heeheehee

[inner hatch]

duranduran

[pearl arrow]

bro she does NOT have allat

[quaint steppe]

See that's like ACTUAL porn-brain fanart imo 🥀

[pearl arrow]

its kinda fire tho

[quaint steppe]

Nah I don't like when artists completely mess up the proportions

[pearl arrow]

stylistically at least

[quaint steppe]

Sure the style is nice

Ain't what I was commenting on though lol

[karmic locust]

where do we see this design of durendal?

[open minnow]

Cursed

[round jasper]

Pixelated with the Cryo Archive missions

[inner hatch]

and this too but it's harder to make out

[quaint steppe]

This design goes so hard

[karmic locust]

hoooooooooly

[inner hatch]

ikr

gonna be tough to blend some of the wires and hard surface stuff with the knight aesthetic

[quaint steppe]

I am losing my mind

[slate summit]

I love this so much. So cuteeeee

[daring folio]

https://marathon.is-best.net/

[slate summit]

What was it. The thing has been deleted?

[quaint steppe]

I think so yeah, was this one, I saved it for reference lol

[slate summit]

Oh zamn

Polython

Wait a minutes thief that hand is a bit grabby lmao

[quaint steppe]

LOL didn't even notice that tbh

[slate summit]

That's probably why it was deleted lol

[quaint steppe]

Perhaps...

Whoops!

[slate summit]

Lol

[slate summit]

Yo It looks really good

[modern fractal]

holy shitt

[slate summit]

Gotta love that Vandal is still wearing a shirt lol

Only one out of the three to still be wearing something. I love how she never takes it off lol

It's a cute little detail imo

[rocky spear]

lol

[versed hinge]

Feels the aura

[tulip kiln]

lmao i didnt see that till you pointed it out

[slate summit]

Lol

Gotta love some Yuri

[quaint steppe]

ty!!

[slate summit]

Omg it's amazing!!

[quaint steppe]

😄

[slate summit]

Remember to add bingus at some point 👁️ 👁️

[quaint steppe]

Shoot youre right

[slate summit]

Yes

[quaint steppe]

Boom

[slate summit]

Yay

[quaint steppe]

Epic

[slate summit]

Where's triage btw. Did he die before getting there lol

[quaint steppe]

Awww the eyes glow

[slate summit]

Oh that's so cool

[quaint steppe]

Shoot I forgot him

[slate summit]

Lol

[sour creek]

OMGGGGGG

[outer chasm]

mods kill the bot please

https://tenor.com/view/moderators-gif-27480573

egads!

I forgor you have to downlaod it first

[quaint steppe]

Yesss this one is so cool

[outer chasm]

thank you mods

[slate summit]

HOT and scary

[sour creek]

perfect combo 🥰

[slate summit]

Yes

[quaint steppe]

Ok this is insanely cool, someone had a model available with like, full functionality, all the faces, a liquid thingy too??

[slate summit]

Oh that's cool

[quaint steppe]

Alright I gotta sleep ill finish triage and med bot tomorrow

Then figure out materials and lighting, bleh...

[remote patio]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWcHVwGkT38/ this is INSANE

fully articulated recon figure

[quaint steppe]

Whaaat that's nuts

[remote patio]

for real

[outer chasm]

nuts.. 🤤

[quaint steppe]

sus amogus

[outer chasm]

😼

[slate summit]

Oh that's amazing

[remote patio]

marathon community casually just spawning one of the sickest fan made art I've ever seen, many such cases

[slate summit]

I love this community so much lol

[quaint steppe]

With an art style as eye catching as it has it's not surprising. Very great art community ❤️

[remote patio]

I agree, the art direction is phenomenal in all aspects. initially that is what really caught my eye when I first heard about the game coming out

it was evident that it would draw in many great artists

[quaint steppe]

Yup same

[slate summit]

yess

[quaint steppe]

https://x.com/i/status/2039024194629914755

This actually looks sick as hell

😼

[slate summit]

legit looks pretty cool

[gusty fox]

we need this for easter

[hollow flower]

nice lol

[slate summit]

yes

[quaint steppe]

made me laugh irl

[slate summit]

haha

[warm vector]

What. I was asking cause it didnt let me.

[outer chasm]

oh, strange, it worked fine for me >w>

[quaint steppe]

The red background image?

[warm vector]

Yeah no, I still cant. Bizare

[outer chasm]

guh

[warm vector]

Yep

[outer chasm]

well I sent the link to the image so :3

though it's fair if you don't wanna click a link from some random person

[quaint steppe]

Dope

[quaint steppe]

U seem trustworthy lol

[outer chasm]

I mean maybe but it's about the principle :3

I can download the image and dm it if you want

[warm vector]

Oh just seen that. Thanks. Yeah I dont go around pressing links aye haha. I didnt recognise the site so it went over my head

[outer chasm]

do you want me to dm the image? :D

[quaint steppe]

[warm vector]

Yeah, u can paste it here even Im sure they dont mind haha

[outer chasm]

oh wait I can do that can't I

there

[warm vector]

Thanks. How weird that it wouldnt let me but let u right click it (I even tried on 2 devices)

[outer chasm]

how did that not occur to me </3

[gusty fox]

holy shit is the lovecraftian elements in the game just "peep the horror"

[outer chasm]

I did it on firefox if that means anything <w<

could be a browser related thingy

[warm vector]

Perhaps.

[quaint steppe]

Oh I betcha it works in browser but not the steam app itself

[warm vector]

Nah tried that too.

[quaint steppe]

Strange

[warm vector]

Actually cant wait for what I assume will happen with an art station magazine for this game/bungie devs permitted to flood artstation with their work for this game ect

[outer chasm]

there is a website that displays a bunch of in game art

lemme get it

[warm vector]

Yeah I got it the tau ceti one

[outer chasm]

oh nvm then x3

[warm vector]

Its very cool (thanks thou haha)

[quaint steppe]

The

[gusty fox]

The

[slate summit]

Bingus

[gusty fox]

[quaint steppe]

Escape will make me.... i forgor

[slate summit]

Human

[molten pier]

Weird question but how come I can't see my kills/deaths anywhere? Like I looked everywhere in the codex,the weapons themselves, was wondering how my K/D is but I can't find it

[quaint steppe]

Wrong channel, and it's not listed anywhere, probably because devs want peoples to focus more on gameplay and lore rather than maxing stats

If I had to guess

[molten pier]

Thought so thank you

[quaint steppe]

No problem

[mint vapor]

YES!!! I love it milk

[cedar storm]

escape will make me broke

[robust dirge]

escape will make me... wait, somethings not right here

[quaint steppe]

@dreamy solar check it, new render in the works

[dreamy solar]

i wish Recon stepped at me like that

[quaint steppe]

Knew it heh

😂

[quaint steppe]

@dreamy solar gonna go crazy when you see this one lol

[quaint steppe]

Bro mr. Cheeseburger it's a nice chill environment. No one even opened a burger (yet...)!

[balmy barn]

fair

[dreamy solar]

naah i dont really like it

[dreamy solar]

this one is HOT AF tho

[quaint steppe]

Fair lol

[quaint steppe]

Facts I saw it a few days ago it's beautiful art

[fervent isle]

Niceee!!! the burger!!!!

[quaint steppe]

Don't bring your shit into this channel too

[candid ravine]

Ouch

Seems oddly unwelcoming

[quaint steppe]

^ anyone here is free to look at this person's message history

[candid ravine]

Please do

[quaint steppe]

Yeah you aren't welcome here, maybe take the hint

Said yourself you were gonna leave, what just lying as usual?

😐

ty mods for deleting those

[main rampart]

Too much art?

[wintry grail]

something happened here

[tribal mulch]

noooo i missed somethingggg

[quaint steppe]

No. Just a troll being weird in this chat too

[quaint steppe]

Look through "Daiaru" chat history to see what I mean. The weird stuff about my and others art was deleted but you can see how they're a troll

[main rampart]

Seems like we get a lot of those these days :/

[tribal mulch]

doesnt show most of their messages lol

[quaint steppe]

It's wild

[versed jasper]

Totally Marathon Art

[main rampart]

Damn thats sick

[sand grove]

john halo?

[versed jasper]

Jon Haler

[wintry grail]

John Mhartlon

[versed jasper]

John Fanta

Surprised to see the Halo community so upset that Master Chief is getting different armor coatings when they never bat an eye at Doom Eternal doing the same thing 5 years ago

[wintry grail]

they doing what to john

[versed jasper]

DEY BUBTR AMBTER CHEBF INDA SODER

[wintry grail]

i mean doom eternal was the typa game to hace skins? do you mean skins like for multiplayer for halo?

[versed jasper]

Well, Eternal was primarily a campaign focused game, and Combat Evolved 2026 is campaign only,

Eternal is the sort of game to have skins though, I agree. Some I really like, others I'm willing to accept even if they are stylistically out of place

Doom The Dark Ages also has skins even if it is Campaign only

[wintry grail]

Wait is that re-remaster of combat evolved a separate game?

what happened to the master chief collection?

[fervent isle]

nice

[versed jasper]

Yeah It's a re-release of CE with additional levels

[wintry grail]

what de hell, and no multiplayer? not even co-op?

[versed jasper]

A feature I'm very grateful of too because it's gotten me some important opportunities.

[versed jasper]

Campaign Evolved.

[wintry grail]

nice skin

marton guy

[fervent isle]

John would’ve wiped out the Pfhor without breaking a sweat.

[open rose]

Was this ever finished? Would love to have it as a wallpaper, it's honestly very cool

[versed jasper]

I've made better, but this one I hilight because it's used in official advertising

[wintry grail]

thats so sick

[versed jasper]

John Halo would have smeared the halls of The Marathon with the enemies of mankind in like 5 hours

[fervent isle]

Same here! I’d totally use this as a wallpaper—this is so sick.

[quaint steppe]

@raven axle

[hollow flower]

would love those as VR chat avatars

[quaint steppe]

I wonder how tricky it is to adapt a blender model for vrchat?

[balmy barn]

I second this

[versed jasper]

Probably not that hard, so long as the models have an armature, weight painting, and maybe some other features.

[quaint steppe]

Neat

[versed jasper]

Might have to remake materials depending on how you upload it. Idk what texture system it uses but some avatars I've used have PBR Specular

[quaint steppe]

I could send you the ones I have, as far as I know they have full armatures and automatic weights

(Blender models)

[hollow flower]

i wouldn’t know the first thing about setting it up, sadly, but it would be awesome to have them available somehow. i occasionally like popping on to check out worlds folks have made

[quaint steppe]

Fair

[tribal mulch]

a friend of mine has ported a (private) void model, took him a few days of fucking around

[candid ravine]

please do

[slate summit]

Hii girls did I miss anything

[candid ravine]

Just a typical mornin, honestly

[tribal mulch]

also send these to me if you can? im sure i could get someone to upload them to vrc

[slate summit]

Fair enough

[gusty fox]

it's a complete remake in unreal engine, with three extra "prequel" levels

what's possibly going to happen is they will remake all the games up to 3 and then start a new trilogy following the H3 remake. Considering how bad 343's halo trilogy has been received they might want to retcon all of it

MCC will still exist but not on playstation like the remake(s)

[jade schooner]

Sketched a Mr. Mjolnir

[slate summit]

OMG I DIDN'T SEE THIS ONE SO FREAKING ADORABLE!!!!!

[versed jasper]

You missed a really good Event Opal really would hate to have missed out on

Should have been there.

[slate summit]

Lol

"Rookers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains"

[tribal umbra]

Some destroyers have all the luck lol

[versed jasper]

And some don't.

[tribal umbra]

That’s how it be on this bitch of a Tau Ceti

[candid ravine]

A Y O

[wintry grail]

343 retconning all of bungies halo...

[tribal umbra]

It hurts that a series I grew up loving is in the hands of a company that will just abuse it for profit

[wintry grail]

*will keep being abused and used and thrown against the wall like a plushy sopping wet in milk

making a loud thud

[tribal umbra]

: (

[wintry grail]

Okay but seriouslt halo used to mean something man, halo 3 was literally on the top of the world back in 2007 and 8

[gusty fox]

no they're going to retcon their own halo

CE is going to stay pretty much the same

[hollow flower]

bungie halo ended at the end of the trilogy

[gusty fox]

I'd say after reach

[hollow flower]

yeah odst and reach but basically all the same era

[wintry grail]

reach was the only good 343 game, thats my hot take

[gusty fox]

reach wasn't 343

[open rampart]

When someone doesn’t remember Reach

[gusty fox]

343 is H4 and onwards

[open rampart]

Spartan Assault and Halo Wars 2 were fun

[wintry grail]

as far as i recall people who were involved in halo reach were the one who then became 343

?

[gusty fox]

a lot of 343 is people from bungie, but Bungie itself developed Reach

343 wasn't a completely new company that had no bungie devs

[stiff jolt]

HOLA ALGUIEN EN ESPAÑOL PARA JUGAR?

[gusty fox]

#lfc-any-zone

[wintry grail]

Yo hablo español pero no puedo jugar

[zealous kiln]

343 is just a splinter from Bungie entirely
Reach was the last Bungie game. 343 was just set up to hopefully preserve the integrity of what Bungie was building but obv Microsoft is too strong

[gusty fox]

that ^

bungie parted ways with microsoft and MS wanted to keep Halo going so they started a new dev company, that being 343. A bunch of bungie devs went to 343

[wintry grail]

we need to send phil spencer and bill gates to the gravemind

[gusty fox]

Blame Nadella, Spencer's been cool and Gates hasn't been in charge for years

[wintry grail]

they cant keep getting away with it

[gusty fox]

Nadella and co are the ones who pushed for the shittification of their products

[wintry grail]

gates still deserves it for making windows 8, 10 and 11

[gusty fox]

win 10 was Nadella tho?

and it was a good windows too

[wintry grail]

Okay we can send Nadella to reach too

https://tenor.com/view/boldtalkforsomeoneinglassingdistance-halo-reach-gif-13025870

[zealous kiln]

Just wait until windows is just a cloud ai service and you don’t own anything ❤️

[gusty fox]

Matter of time

[gusty fox]

Yeah, and all the AI folks

[wintry grail]

triple AAA gaming is so ass bro

Eberything so ass bro

[zealous kiln]

Ser marathon is AAA

[wintry grail]

we only got marathon and indie games

[gusty fox]

Eh yeah most new AAA aren't great, but all the games I play are AAA

[gusty fox]

and AA like E33 and Remedy games

Marathon is AAA tho

[wintry grail]

I did say marton

[zealous kiln]

E33 is indie

[gusty fox]

hell they ain't

[zealous kiln]

Wym they even won best indie game!

[gusty fox]

i think one or two of their indie wins got revoked too lmao

[zealous kiln]

Yea cause of bs tho. I agree that they don’t fully constitute as indie because of the funding they ended up getting later in dev, but the reason they were stripped of that reward was dumb

[gusty fox]

nah it was valid

[zealous kiln]

They used like an ai placeholder, that wasn’t meant to be in the release copy, which most games especially now are already doing

Absolutely was NOT valid 😭

[gusty fox]

valid reason to revoke a reward esp when they have the whole sob story of being a wee little developer and it all being hand made and shit

[zealous kiln]

But it was handmade
You know what placeholder means right?

[gusty fox]

most of their wins were for the story of creating the game rather than its actual quality

[gusty fox]

If i trace over AI art to make my own stuff does that make it handmade and my own?

[zealous kiln]

What? That’s just not remotely true

[gusty fox]

i don't think the game was GOTY good

[quaint steppe]

Didn't it have a mid-large dev team and massive budget?

Wouldn't call it indie at all

[gusty fox]

budget was over 10mill and they had contractors

[toxic bough]

Wip

[gusty fox]

not indie territory at all lmao

[quaint steppe]

Yeesh yeah def not indie

Game awards means nothing anymore tbh

[zealous kiln]

That wasn’t what was happening tho
The example used was newspapers around a trash can or lamppost whatever it was
They want newspapers there, the plan is to put a placeholder there and then revisit it with actual textures that they would replace it with. It’s not drawing over that’s disingenuous

[toxic bough]

I wish the one in numarathon is still called the Zeus or something

[gusty fox]

It's the same thing in essence though

[quaint steppe]

True, this piece I saw earlier today (not mine) was pretty fire too

[gusty fox]

I need this to happen to me

[zealous kiln]

Not in the slightest

[gusty fox]

okay

[zealous kiln]

Newspaper is always going to look like just newspaper…. So they put newspapers on what they wanted to put it on and again replaced it with correct newspaper textures idk why this is a difficult concept when all games are doing these steps.

[gusty fox]

Just because other devs are doing it doesn't make it right lmao

[zealous kiln]

Also to say that the rewards weren’t about quality I feel like is shortsighted but you’re entitled to your opinion and there’s no reason to argue over it

[wintry grail]

Im so tired of GenAI bullshit

[gusty fox]

Regardless, they use the AI assets as a base for replacements, the placeholders are seldom very different from the final asset

[zealous kiln]

Just because (the entire gaming industry)

[gusty fox]

Awards are like 50% a popularity contest to begin with

[zealous kiln]

Well in this case the difference would be the writing on the newspaper

[gusty fox]

E33 being an ex-Ubisoft dev when Ubi was bombing and being hated on hard, on top of the wholesome story around its creation made it net more awards than it would've without all that

I'm not saying the game is bad but it would've won like half the awards if it was the game as it was without any stories

[zealous kiln]

And also the excellent sound design and ost, the graphical fidelity, character designs, story writing, even before the game awards it was already averaging like a 9/10 for most ratings

[gusty fox]

ehh

[zealous kiln]

Again your opinion is your opinion and I’m not going to argue it. But I do feel like some of this animosity may be a bit manufactured tbh

[quaint steppe]

I watched a full playtbrough and the writing was downright corny most of the time

Graphics were nice but mostly just seemed like UE5 asset and post processing spam

[gusty fox]

I'm not feeling any animosity against it, I finished the game and liked it but I don't think the game is as good as most make it out to be. Though I'm glad it clicked with folks

[gusty fox]

It really game me assetflip vibes in some places lmao

[slate summit]

The hells going on

[zealous kiln]

I don’t mean you specifically but more the random hate it started getting only after the game awards

[gusty fox]

Ah okey

[wintry grail]

the last thing i see before the bingus reveals itself as durandal and sends me to the door dimension (NU burger injection)

[hollow flower]

how about that marathon huh

[gusty fox]

people can't be sprinting a marathon 😔

[zealous kiln]

Does someone still have the “mara what” meme?

[wintry grail]

people gotta endure a marton, not speedrun it

[zealous kiln]

There it is

[balmy silo]

https://klipy.com/gifs/say-that-again-11

[sharp elm]

Hello everyone

[quaint steppe]

I think alot of folks including myself were genuinely shocked that a massive budget, contracted, mid size dev team game using UE5 which was also quite graphically demanding won *indie game of the year"

Which yea probably resulted in some hate

[gusty fox]

Yeah definitely

The hate memes were really funny though I gotta say

[wintry grail]

wait you mean claire obscure?

[gusty fox]

yeah

[wintry grail]

Yeah nahh that shit is at the very least like AA or something

[quick arch]

Indie game just means Independently. Meaning they had no publisher for it

[wintry grail]

Silksong should of won

got me hooked for the rest of the year

[quick arch]

I didnt enjoy it then again im not a huge fan of Metroidvanias

[wintry grail]

ah thats pretty smooth man, i like the spining

[zealous kiln]

I mean we keep saying massive budget!!! And 10 million is big but considering AAA games are also having budgets for 100 million+ which is 10x more on the baseline, 10 million is considered kinda stringent. As for the team size, it had a size of just 30 people and I think Larian studio is still argued to be “indie” when it’s in the 300 area

[quaint steppe]

Larian??? LOL

Bro just making shit up now alright

[wintry grail]

id be careful with the sound effects tho my ears almost bursted with the charged attack

[runic shoal]

Does anyone hear like destroyer? Cuz I like destroyer https://youtube.com/shorts/CN78-qDcEsw?si=ZYDEBI0H025M9WGJ

I just made peak

[zealous kiln]

Huh? You don’t remember when bg3 came out ig

[runic shoal]

Exactly twin

https://tenor.com/view/marathon-arachne-destroyer-gif-7019312937960688454

[quick arch]

BG3 was hated after it won cause it was a honestly the best game of 2023

No game that has come out since has been as good if not better than BG3

[runic shoal]

I cannot send gificus gg

[quaint steppe]

I don't recall seeing anyone call Larian an indie studio, it's gigantic and has been around for years and years

[zealous kiln]

Idk about that second part but it certainly is like top 3 of all time

[runic shoal]

Destroyer to peak

[zealous kiln]

Yea there were several articles and posts asking if it’s indie because again keep in mind indie means they self publish.

[wintry grail]

Destroyer: Okay lets destroy this marathon and get the durandal outta here

[runic shoal]

Real and then you put Korn behind him and he’s even cooler https://youtube.com/shorts/CN78-qDcEsw?si=0uCzq-YIN6iXPjr1

[shrewd hamlet]

I’m so unbelievably happy that the rooks are uniting (I haven’t even played that shell)

[wintry grail]

slay

🔥

[quaint steppe]

💅

[tribal umbra]

I’ve seen people on Reddit complaining you can see the destroyers with his helmet on but how else is he supposed to kiss his teammates

[quaint steppe]

Lmao

He does have nice lips 😼

[quick arch]

If anyone has a Keyboard that can do videos and stuff here’s a video file me and another guy worked on to get the roses from the Tranquility Room

Lil example of its application

[versed jasper]

It's his cross to bare.

[edgy matrix]

I love ur stuff! are you on bsky or insta by any chance?

[versed jasper]

Instagram, but I'm not much of a p0ster on social media.

artstation is really the most reliable place I post art on,

[quick arch]

How good is art station? I’ve been needing to find a new site other than behance for my “portfolio” work

Back in my day we hoped for a Dribble invite

[versed jasper]

Artstation is designed with portfolios in mind.

https://www.artstation.com/kuddlykraken Have a look for yourself.

[quick arch]

Hell yeah. I do a lot of social media styled work, could I use to supplement it? Like use it to post 3D work/twitter stuff? Or is it more for professional work

[tribal umbra]

An inspiration to us all

[quick arch]

I don’t want to clog the site up

[versed jasper]

It's pretty much used to feature any form of artwork. 3D modeling, 2D art, textured models,

Anything that will impress an art team you should put on there.

[quick arch]

Alright alright. I used use Carbonmade/Behance etc but I’ve just been needing another outlet

[quaint steppe]

I love artstation tbh. Does it have any filters/restrictions on AI stuff cluttering it up? I know deviantart went completely down the shitter

[versed jasper]

It does. There's a tag you can add to your uploads that indicates AI is used or AI not used.

I haven't seen any AI art in my exploration of the website though

[quaint steppe]

Good to know!!

[edgy matrix]

ah yes fellow genAI hater 🤝

[quaint steppe]

Abhorrent devil tech

[quick arch]

We hate Gen AI. It takes nothing to make something

[edgy matrix]

fr, genAI is not art

[quick arch]

I can’t say anything tho since me and my buddies use it to shitpost and make low effort/exaggerated photos

[quaint steppe]

🥀

[sand grove]

ok mr 40k tech priest

[quaint steppe]

Even that can still be done better by humans

[quaint steppe]

Honestly? Yeah my attitude towards it only grows more fanatical over time

Can you blame me? Half the websites and apps I interact with daily now try to cram AI shit down my gullet

[quick arch]

I got the skills in photoshop. We mostly used it for our Super Battle Golf World tour that has a outrageously long name and a image that is just so hard to look at

[quaint steppe]

I have to interact with people IRL who glaze and use AI for LITERALLY EVERYTHING, they talk like half dead, lobotimized zombies, and cannot think for themselves on any project, creative endeavor, or assignment. It's just fucking sad. I asked my team lead for a senior year capstone project what his agenda for the meeting was and he said "I'll just generate it with Claude right beforehand."

So how else am i supposed to feel about it? Should i be grateful that it turned half my graduating CS class into actual fucking morons, or exacerbated stupidity that was already there?

🥀

[quick arch]

You hate AI cause art. I HATE Ai cause it’s made the shit I use a paid cause everything is vibe coded with no checks to make sure stuff works (looking at you windows)

[quaint steppe]

Oh yeah that just blew my mind when I read Microsoft was forcing portions of Windows updates to be generated by AI

[zealous kiln]

AI at this point especially the way it has been used to abuse multiple field is just downright evil

[zealous kiln]

It’s just tradition at this point to not update windows for as long as possible 😭

I’d still be on windows 7 if feasible tbh

[quaint steppe]

Real

[quaint steppe]

@sand grove surely you've met people like this irl too right? It's not exactly a rare thing

[quaint steppe]

Stuff like this day after day after day, it's all he talks about IRL too

I'm just so tired of it all

[tropic kestrel]

man this is strange

"i was talking to an ai today and wanted multiple voice options"

[quaint steppe]

Even in our mid project presentation in front of classmates, the professor and sponsor, a member of our group loudly and poorly read directly from a huge AI wall of text that he'd generated. For minutes. It was so fucking embarrassing my face was going red.

So yeah I'm just a teensy bit biased against AI.

🤷

[tropic kestrel]

i think ai has some use but not in any of the fields i have seen it in

[quaint steppe]

Yeah that's the guy that isn't the group leader, absolutely fried in the brain. Essentially an AI addict

[quaint steppe]

I will clarify that whenever I say AI it's usually shorthand for Generative AI

[ionic bramble]

Recently did a “team building” call where we “competed” in an vibecoded trivia web app with slopped up questions where the guy that “won” was clearly copy-pasting answers from some chat bot

[quaint steppe]

Jesus, that's so inhuman

Must have been awful to sit through

[ionic bramble]

We started making fun of the questions part way through, so that part was pretty good

[quaint steppe]

Fun lol

[ionic bramble]

Just gotta make sure I look more closely at that one guy’s code in pr review

[quaint steppe]

Oh yeah and the shit cherry on top of the shitpile of this project is that the entire codebase from the sponsor company is you guessed it, vibe coded.

[tribal umbra]

The ceo of the company I work for has been trying to push us into using ai and I just sent this screen shot in response

[tropic kestrel]

people use ai for all the worst things they could be using it for, like why tf are "developers" using ai for "Vibe Coding" when they could do some cool stuff and like make background npcs in games have reactive dialogue or something like that

[sand grove]

sadly yes

[tropic kestrel]

when i first heard about gen ai i thought it would be cool and that was like the first thing i thought of but i have not seen it done once except for like the convince girlfriend to let you leave the house simulator thing

[quaint steppe]

Even then, games don't need infinite generated dialogue, it will never sound right or be as ethical as hiring human voice actors

[ionic bramble]

To be honest, that sounds worse

[quaint steppe]

Then can you somewhat understand my harsh attitude towards it?

[sand grove]

oh sorry found a better photo

[tribal umbra]

Oddly fitting an ai discussion is happening in a marathon community

[tribal umbra]

That’s bad lmaooo

[quaint steppe]

It is apropos to the game lolll

[fervent isle]

AI is undoubtedly an unavoidable technology these days. But personally, I don’t want to end up like a monkey that has given up on exercising its own brain and just sits at a typewriter typing in prompts.
Maybe one day, it’ll even churn out a work by William Shakespeare. (I’m being sarcastic.)

[quaint steppe]

It's only unavoidable if people cave and give in to exactly what the AI companies want.

[tropic kestrel]

i wasnt thinking necessarily of ai voices but more like, dialogue system where u can type and npcs have responses that arent pre written
or just like reacting to situations and talking to each other
and i would only consider it for background characters and stuff

[quaint steppe]

This doesn't even necessarily require generative AI though

[tropic kestrel]

u would need that for generating text right?

[ionic bramble]

I would prefer a canned text response

If the dev can’t be bothered to write it, why make me read it?

[tropic kestrel]

those are great but i do think that after a while of playing a game you start to recognize all the reused dialogue lines that npcs have and it Would be more immersive if they had unique responses to things.
anything that isn't background characters shouldnt have ai generated dialog especially if its something relevant to the games narrative but just for random npcs responding to stuff like bumping into people or being attacked it would make it a little more immersive

[sand grove]

its funny because embark is actually walking back its ai voices and started getting some real voice actors now that they have all the money in the world

[ionic bramble]

I don’t think any of that would make for a more fun or interesting game. Not sure what you mean by “immersive”, but it doesn’t sound like anything I am looking for in a game

[versed jasper]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[unique sluice]

You can hate AI but if you hate AI so much you start behaving irrationally or starting witch hunts with artists I fully believe you're just taking things too far. If your hate for AI turns you more annoying than the people that think AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread you should probably just stop talking about the topic for a bit to calm down lol

[quaint steppe]

Alright we went way off track with this AI discussion my bad guys. Lets get BACK ON TRACK

[quaint steppe]

Respectfully, you are a clown

[unique sluice]

I don't care. Some of you anti AI people are worse than the people that treat AI like it's perfect

[gusty fox]

lmao

[unique sluice]

You bitch, you moan, you witch hunt, there's no nuance in your thinking, you see AI and start acting like a rabid dog. Chill the fuck out

[slate summit]

Lol same

[hollow flower]

go away

this is not the place to crusade for AI.

[crystal river]

Me when I’m in the circus

[gusty fox]

real

[slate summit]

Hiya sorry was gone for a bit went on a small walk

[quaint steppe]

Bro whipped out the ol' rainbow wig and round red nose 😭

[crystal river]

Small walk

[sudden tangle]

lf1 for silver or gold na

[tribal umbra]

I think a pet slot would be a cool addition to the game

[quaint steppe]

Epic

[crystal river]

Vro is gonna start riding a unicycle and have polkadots on his body soon

[quaint steppe]

Brochacho

[balmy minnow]

All glory to the Hypnotoad

[crystal river]

Anyway i think im gonna make marton fanart soon again

[quaint steppe]

😮

Delectable

[sudden tangle]

im high asf posted in the wrong channel mb

[quaint steppe]

How tf r you planning to play RANKED while high 😭

Good luck...

[sudden tangle]

cause im better 🤷‍♂️

[unique sluice]

This is what I mean btw

[quaint steppe]

Bros built different

[sudden tangle]

10 win streak so far

[crystal river]

Get outta here bro 🥀🥀🥀

[crystal river]

Big W

[quaint steppe]

Sheesh

[quaint steppe]

Ohhhh moderators! 🗣️

[unique sluice]

Well, on the bright side I don't gotta worry about being replaced with AI 🛌🏽

[slate summit]

What did I miss

[quaint steppe]

A clown has arrived

He honks his big red nose for our entertainment

[slate summit]

Oh some gonk trying to say gen AI is good. For art no it's not it's not a good thing and it's thankfully falling apart

[quaint steppe]

Using cyberpunk slang = mega based

[slate summit]

There have been uses for it in the medical sector though such as cancer detection which is a good thing

Generating images is just not good

The point of art is creative expression not just for 5 milliseconds of entertainment

[hidden veldt]

Very

[ionic bramble]

It’s a mixed bag on that front too https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2025/08/30/physicians-lose-cancer-detection-skills-after-reliance-on-artificial-intelligence/

[slate summit]

Yeah

It may have some uses but it's hella over hyped and most of what it's being made to do is not good for anyone involved

It's ultimately a pattern recognition system which can have uses but art is not one of them

[unique sluice]

I never said that. Like I said, you people see AI and start acting like rabid dogs.

[quaint steppe]

Yep

[slate summit]

Alright then

[unique sluice]

All I said was try not to be more annoying with your hatred of AI than the people that hype up the most mid thing in existence. Idk how that was defending it

[slate summit]

Oke

[hollow flower]

k move on now

[slate summit]

I cannot be bothered talking more about this cus I just went on a big walk

[hollow flower]

more yuri!

[slate summit]

Anyways marathon Yuri, have I missed any more liquid gold

[zealous kiln]

Ya guys why aren’t you worried about the OPTICS of hating ai 😠

[quaint steppe]

Getting the addon to "hide ignored/blocked messages" is a life saver tbh

[lost jetty]

Enjoy a quick Durandal fanart, dear runners

[storm birch]

Joseph Cross

[grim nacelle]

This goes without saying but genuinely all of you are so talented and its such a pleasure scrolling through this channel on a daily basis

[quaint steppe]

❤️

[slate summit]

Yes everyone who makes art here is epic

I can make art but not people so unfortunately I will probably never post anything here

[lost jetty]

Man absolutely same, the only complaint I have is recently there’s been a bit too much off topic stuff, but who cares when the art is still worth checking in for, every single day

[edgy matrix]

I REALLY need to do some Void art asap, I love him sm

[tribal umbra]

Incredibly rough draft combining 2 things I really enjoy

[velvet musk]

I love how alberto mielgo just changed the original characters faces for his animations, made the eyes bigger and remove the purple irises🥹

This Guy is truly the goat of modern animation

[quaint steppe]

Most impressive thing to me is that all of his teams character animations is keyframed from reference footage rather than motion capture 🤯

[velvet musk]

FR

[shrewd hamlet]

moar vandal

[edgy matrix]

yooo I love your style!

[orchid harbor]

agreed, the style is really pretty ❤️

[spark reef]

heyo does anyone have anny r u n n a h memes?

[orchid harbor]

not as pictures, no

oh nevermind

[spark reef]

good one runnah

[umbral carbon]

Lol

I'm posting these two again because I love them

[quaint steppe]

Clean af

[quaint steppe]

I gotchu, custom made

[shrewd hamlet]

Thank you!!! I love the shape design of all the characters man they’re awesome

[shrewd hamlet]

Thank you!!!

[quaint steppe]

No prob

[edgy matrix]

Do you have a bsky or insta? 👀

[shrewd hamlet]

I do! @shrewd hamlet on Instagram and blue sky

[edgy matrix]

✨follow'd✨

[orchid harbor]

oooooh didn't see void yet, he looks sick

[rapid ivy]

Nice nice

[tribal umbra]

Been really wanting to make an edit using the song Do The Evolution but idk if the vibe fits tbh

[edgy matrix]

you can MAKE it fit!

that's why amvs exist UwU

[umbral carbon]

Eyy thanks! Working on a new piece!

[hazy aurora]

Thoughts so far?

[orchid harbor]

thats fire

[spark reef]

where _gantry runnah

[edgy matrix]

yo this fucks

[storm birch]

Not mine

[edgy matrix]

credit?

[tribal umbra]

My wife

[storm birch]

https://x.com/peterchai58

[orchid harbor]

I wish you many years of marriage

[tribal umbra]

Thank you brother

[fervent isle]

I wish I had her visor. Then I could use an echo pulse to scan the hallway before stepping out of my apartment and make sure no one’s around...…so I can avoid running into people.

[orchid harbor]

you could put cameras outside you door? :]

[tribal umbra]

Hack the WiFi and use it like sonar lol

[fervent isle]

Wait, is that in MIDA’s new contract?

[hazy aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/piano-bruce-almighty-keyboard-keyboard-warrior-fast-typing-gif-3416345

No gifs???

Tragic

[hazy aurora]

I've made a lot of improvements from my first edit

[slate summit]

And she is mother in both

[shrewd hamlet]

Seen! Followed back!

[versed jasper]

Meme by Geezaws on Twitter
https://x.com/Geezaws2/status/2039740413024534716
Original image by poly_chef on Twitter

[edgy matrix]

I mostly post on my insta stories so it's ok if you wanna unfollow lol

[tribal umbra]

Don’t know if this counts but the poppy song is a banger imo

[storm birch]

Not mine

[slate summit]

She's soooo pretty I love glitch

[storm birch]

https://x.com/i/status/2028878575630520634

[tribal umbra]

How it feels falling for the trap bag

[slate summit]

she scary (and cute)

[quick arch]

I wish there was skin that covered the mouth. I dont hve a right with face features

[slate summit]

realistic transition goals /hj

[daring folio]

https://marathon.is-best.net/

[royal rover]

hey guys is there a meme channel somewhere? here’s a meme i made for twitter

[young cypress]

Need more artwork of recon looking tacticool, goes hard

[sonic hill]

+1

[slate summit]

+2

[zealous kiln]

+3

[young cypress]

My tacticool recon collection must grow

[slate summit]

yes

we need more tacticool recon and we need more yuri, we need MORE

more art less fart

[tribal umbra]

From x user moonveiil

[slate summit]

coooooooooooooooool

[soft quiver]

Didn't have many reference images of the current Marathon ship so i kinda just reimagined it.

[quaint steppe]

Wow, pretty 😳

[slate summit]

legit ima defo do that style of makeup in the future

the x lip stick is just too cute not to

[quaint steppe]

The lipstick X is so eye catching

😼

[slate summit]

yes

once i transition and am hot i want to be eye catching

[rose pivot]

Can any help me with boss fight or could I join any one trying to do it and help

[winged creek]

We do not need more Yuri, it's time for Yaoi

[slate summit]

how about both 😼

[winged creek]

Marathon yuri ratios marathon yaoi rn

Let's be real

[slate summit]

that is true

[covert slate]

why you gotta pit two six bad bitches against each other

[slate summit]

i feel like void and triage could be an interesting paring

[quaint steppe]

Goals fr 🔥

[slate summit]

yeah

[quaint steppe]

LOL exactly

All the characters are attractive in their own way

[winged creek]

I love how destroyer looks like a homophobic chud ❤️

[slate summit]

ima be exercising a lot when i get to uni and going on E legit im probably going to look a lot like vandal (i have a face shape like her already lol)

[covert slate]

the most homophobic man alive and his boyfriend

[quaint steppe]

💀 😭

[winged creek]

I am the mpreg emoji in real life

[quaint steppe]

Hell yeah

[slate summit]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306389618089787454/1361419061652881529/glitched-image.gif

[quaint steppe]

😳 hello.

[winged creek]

Epic embed fail 🤣

[slate summit]

all gifs are like that on this channel

[winged creek]

So you KNEW and you STILL TRIED

https://tenor.com/view/bungie-marathon-bungie-marathon-void-true-gif-7100404200135171214

[slate summit]

well it got the message across

[rapid ivy]

That’s what I’m talking about, more Destroyer love please

[winged creek]

Like more destroyer love in the gay way

[slate summit]

awsome!

[slate summit]

yess

its kinda funny how and this happens every time. I adopt parts of my fave characters

[unique sluice]

Anytime I see this dude and his art I just think of the Harkonnen dude from Dune part 2

[quaint steppe]

Yesss Feyd-Rautha

[unique sluice]

Yes lol

[quaint steppe]

God that movie is so peak

The black and white gladiator scene was incredible

[unique sluice]

Dune part 3 releasing this year I think

[slate summit]

yes it does

peak will return and bring spice to tau ceti 4

[tribal umbra]

I ❤️ my gay best friend

[versed jasper]

Destroyer love you say

[karmic locust]

Rook in fishnets please

[slate summit]

👆 🔥

[versed jasper]

I'll see what I can do.

[vital gorge]

More buff Vandal sketches by AmateurUnleaded~

[slate summit]

yes mam i will extract for you 🫡

boop for her

[quaint steppe]

Oh man this is turning out better than I could imagine

Raytracing + reflective metal = 🤩

[slate summit]

IT LOOKS SO GOLDEN

poor rook

its like that one meme image of all the dead people holding up society

[quaint steppe]

He's chilling I paid him 1 prestige salvage lol

[slate summit]

someone should do that but its just rook

[slate summit]

fair lol

also triage all happy and proud of his drones like if they were his special chickens is supper cute

[tribal umbra]

They’re all friends : )

[orchid harbor]

destroyer's point of view be like:

[quaint steppe]

😼

[slate summit]

dommy girl

[quaint steppe]

That render is so well done tbh

[gusty fox]

if you want smoother curves set the edges going around the logo as sharp and then apply smooth shading to the object

[slate summit]

smooth shading sounds like some early 2000s band

[winged creek]

Or mark the seams as smooth

[gusty fox]

or auto smooth shading, unsure which one would work best

[tribal umbra]

Yall are crazy talented to even know this stuff : )

[quaint steppe]

Hmmm a more harsh backlight might work here

😮

[slate summit]

ooo

[gusty fox]

it only takes a couple youtube tutorials, you could do it too

[quaint steppe]

Hmm ok, how do I do that?

[slate summit]

i love how proud tirage is that's my second fave bit

[tribal umbra]

I’m sure it’s mostly time

I unfortunately don’t have much free time

[knotty jungle]

knowledge ≠ 'talent'

[orchid harbor]

bingle

[slate summit]

bingus is so freaking cute

[tribal umbra]

Fair enough, I appreciate the effort y’all put into the craft

[slate summit]

i hope they make a plushie, please make a plushie devs if your watching

[gusty fox]

go to edit mode (Tab) with the logo selected, press 2 on your number row, hold Alt and Shift and then select the outermost edges (this should automatically select the whole edge line rather than a segment of the edge), with that selected right click and then "Mark Sharp" will be there, got a light green icon thing

Then exit edit mode, select the object, right click, apply smooth shading

[worthy badge]

I was actually doing well as solo in ranked, now it's back to getting destroyed in the freezer of doom

[gusty fox]

By doing this you can selectively add smoothness to objects without adding geometry, saving you render time

[winged creek]

The lose everything ship for many is the gain everything ship for a few. I love cryo

[gusty fox]

If you do want to add smoothness while also adding geometry (better for closeups generally) you can do all of the above and then throw on a subdivision surface modifier

[worthy badge]

Tbh I love getting destroyed, I hate when my vault is too full

[slate summit]

dying is actually super fun in this game lol

[prisma shore]

what a barter

[gusty fox]

zamn

[quaint steppe]

Whoops I forgot the other side llol

[slate summit]

never thought i would say that but its true

[winged creek]

At least you don't get shot in the back of the head by some hobo with a Makarov and everything goes black instantly

[quaint steppe]

100% one of the best parts of the game, never understood the complaints about "dying too many times" like it's so clear that it's a core part of the experience

Just like Elden Ring for example

[slate summit]

yeah its really fun

[gusty fox]

it's funny, i care less about dying in this game than i do in something like battlefield 6

[winged creek]

You should clip your deaths too, take something away from each one

[slate summit]

i hate where my eyes immediately went from this angle lmao

[prisma shore]

a good firefight is worth dying for

[quaint steppe]

😼 boy I sure wonder

[winged creek]

Them BUNS

[quaint steppe]

LOL

Ok the intense backlight was 100% the right move look how clean that shadow looks

😮

[slate summit]

vandal got a bakery zamn im jealous (of both her and thief)

[gusty fox]

btw you can add negative brightness to your lights, fun to play around with

[quaint steppe]

👁️ oh?

[slate summit]

looks so cool

[winged creek]

Don't flame me but I think thief kinda got diaper butt

[gusty fox]

lmao yeah

[slate summit]

lmao

[gusty fox]

you can also apply shaders to lights if you want like light patterns or for it to be multi-colour

[slate summit]

i mean i wasn't jealous of thief for that, just that she has that vandal bakery all to herself #thandal for life

[quaint steppe]

Nah it's just kinda what you get with a full robotic body + legs connection

[slate summit]

thief looks squishy

[quaint steppe]

@gusty fox How can I make the ray tracing look less "grainy" in the workspace?

[gusty fox]

what's your sample count?

[quaint steppe]

Erm, let me find it

[gusty fox]

they gonna be in here, second from the top

[slate summit]

oh god so many options

[quaint steppe]

Ah, mine's only at 16 , bro im cranking that shit up

My laptop can handle it

[slate summit]

my nightmares always have shit like this lol

[gusty fox]

yeah go like 64 or 128, then set denoiser to OptiX if you got an Nvidia GPU

[quaint steppe]

Is it better to use EEVEE or "Cycles" render engine?

[summer canyon]

“I dunno, izdat me?” 🥀🥀🥀

[gusty fox]

Cycles is the raytracing one

well pathtracing

[quaint steppe]

Ah

[gusty fox]

Make sure to toggle GPU compute, that will be under the engine option

You can also toggle to use both CPU and GPU if your GPU isn't very fast, it might speed up renders

[quaint steppe]

I got a 4080 in this laptop it can handle it. Interesting the "Denoise" checked seems to introduce some blurriness

[gusty fox]

yeah in viewport the denoiser isn't gonna look the best, but in render its gonna look much better. Your 4080 could easily handle 256 samples too

[quaint steppe]

Well, idk, with 256 it lags a decent bit in viewport

Maybe because of intense lights + extra light sources?

[gusty fox]

Viewport samples you can go down to like 32, viewport is only for your visualisation

[quaint steppe]

Hmm ok

[gusty fox]

Also if haven't already you can go down to "Colour managment" you can change the default contrast, I like to go with medium high contrast, I think that looks the best

[quaint steppe]

Ooh that does look nice. The noise is still a bit overwhelming in viewport tho. Should I try lowering power/intensity of some lights?

[gusty fox]

I wouldn;t worry about it. Hit render and see how that looks

[quaint steppe]

Ok first I need. good camera angle

Dang with EEVEE I can run 1024+ samples in viewport no problem 🤑

absolute peak

[gusty fox]

Control + Alt + Numblock 0 to set camera angle to your current view

Then Control + B to set a render region when you're in camera view, saves resources when repositioning the camera

[slate summit]

its looking awsome btw

[quaint steppe]

ty 🙂

[quaint steppe]

Bro how many hotkeys does this program have my god 😭

[gusty fox]

a fuckload, i barely know half

[slate summit]

https://tenor.com/view/vandal-glitch-marathon-bungie-marathon-konata-gif-7103855727044957176

[winged creek]

Blender is hotkey simulator

[gusty fox]

I've been using it for a few years and I feel like I;ve barely scratched the surface

[quaint steppe]

Hmm path tracing might take too long to render each individual shot, about a minute or 2, looks like with 256 samples

[gusty fox]

Yeah you can try 128 samples, usually still looks good at that count

[slate summit]

i mean that doesn't seem to be *too * bad

[quaint steppe]

oh btw the "ctrl alt numpad 0" it did set a camera region, but it was a decent bit smaller than my viewport , how can I adjust that?

[slate summit]

when i render my videos it usually takes like 5 minutes

[quaint steppe]

Uh oh i made it lag real bnad with the denoiser HELP

lol

[slate summit]

lol

[gusty fox]

you can scroll in to zoom in closer to the camera view, you can click the little lock icon (attached) so that you could control the camera same way you control your view. You can also edit the FOV of the camera and add some depth of field or not by clicking on the camera in the object list (second and third image) and then use the properties panel

[gusty fox]

I wouldn't recommend adding denoiser to the viewport unless your viewport samples are like 12

[quaint steppe]

ye I learned the hard way

[gusty fox]

Also, when in camera view, you can use the Numblock . (dot) to zoom in on a selected object

Sometimes you get an issue where you keep zooming in and then the zooming in slows to a crawl, doing that ^ resets it and makes it work again. This also works in edit mode if you want to zoom in on a specific part of geometry

[quaint steppe]

Hmm "emissive" for the surrounding icosphere looks nice too

Wow

[quaint steppe]

Oh for this I discovered I can just hold ctrl + scroll wheel and move the mouse, to move straight ahead rather than zooming

Actually I guess it is zooming, just easier to control

Smoother

[thorn sonnet]

Yuri 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[quaint steppe]

😼

[slate summit]

we love yuri

[thorn sonnet]

Truth nuke

[quaint steppe]

Yes, they even have a nucaloric cheesburger for 2

[slate summit]

[slate summit]

so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

man they are both so pretty

god damn i want that for myself lol

[quaint steppe]

Real

[gusty fox]

all it takes is selling yourself to cyanc

[slate summit]

honestly worth it

god thief is so pretty in that skin

and vandal

fuccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkk so pretty. so hot

[quaint steppe]

Holy moly I could mess with lighting all day

🤩 🤩 🤩 🤩 🤩

[slate summit]

so beautiful

god everything about this game, its community, its world its all so beautiful

it really is like staring into something i haven't had for so long

[quaint steppe]

Right? It's pretty incredible

Hm what about orange

[slate summit]

every colour looks awsome

[gilded bone]

@agile cairn

[slate summit]

wait what about rainbow 🏳️‍🌈

[quaint steppe]

Sounds pretty WOKE!

[slate summit]

hehe

[quaint steppe]

@gusty foxOh yea how can I make that outer sphere, reflect more colored light onto the inner subjects?

I have it set to these settings rn

[slate summit]

btw just a update, worked a tiny bit on yurithon today but really i couldn't get into a flow state today

though i did figure out more about the character's backstorys

[quaint steppe]

Progress is progress!

[slate summit]

Yes

I really Wana talk about but no spoilers lol

[gusty fox]

It'd be easier to either make the light itself multicoloured, I think you'd have to make a pearlescent material for the outer sphere to get that effect. That or set each face of the sphere to be a different colour

Or actually gimme a min

[slate summit]

All I can say is that the cinematic trailer is cannon to it as well as all current cannon material to the main game

The cinematic trailer is particularly important though

[quaint steppe]

👀

Peak

[quaint steppe]

Hmm interesting. There's no, like, reflectiveness number I can crank up?

[quaint steppe]

Gulp

Uhhh, how do I do that

[gusty fox]

I think that + higher reflectivity should mget you the effect you're looking for

[slate summit]

I can also say what the slogan of the story is which I think might give you an idea for how it's going to go.

"Escape will make me human"

[covert slate]

escape will make me gay

[gusty fox]

Right at the top there's a bunch of tabs, go to Shading. Change to rendered view. Select your object, then click this little thing (attached), looks like a copy sign, this will make a copy of the shader you currently have so you don't lose it when making changes here (you can change shaders by clicking on that tiled sphere on the left).

Shift + A, type Voronoi, plop that in somewhere, then drag from the little circle that's next to Colour into the Base Colour in the Principled BSDF shader. Play around with voronoi settings to see what they do. If you want to change colours, make it more or less saturated, do Shift + A and then type Hue and click "Hue/Saturation/Value" and then drag that on top of the line that connects the voronoi and the BSDF, release to plop it on when the line connecting the two turns brighter. This adds the shader inbetween the two and auto-connects it

[quaint steppe]

Guh.

Alright, here goes

[gusty fox]

It's not super complicated, it just takes a lot of steps

[slate summit]

I mean it is Yuri so yup

[gusty fox]

If you want to go for a different look you can disconnect the voronoi by doing Control and then dragging over the line with Right Click, do Shift + A, go to Texture, and then try one of those. Each give a different effect and are fun to play with

Magic Texture can look like this

[fervent wind]

Sharing this compiler piece I did recently. Gonna do a Phor fighter or MADD next (probably the phor)

[gusty fox]

thats so sick

[quaint steppe]

Ooh trippy

[slate summit]

NGL I forget that the photo exist lol

[quaint steppe]

Ok this looks absolutely wild

🤯

[gusty fox]

yeah you can go crazy with the shaders

[neat reef]

Someone should draw a few runners in Ed Edd and Eddy art style cause....yes

[quaint steppe]

Really appreciate the help so far btw ❤️ btw, is there a way to make an object itself emit light?

[versed jasper]

commissions open if you're looking for it still lol

[quaint steppe]

😼

Rook but freaky: Frook

[gusty fox]

Emission submenu in BSDF, you can plug in the texture(s) into the colour

[quaint steppe]

Oh excellent

Is that only in "principled" ?

[gusty fox]

You can add a seperate Emission shader if you want but it does the same thing

[quaint steppe]

Gotcha

[karmic locust]

Oh I didn’t pick up u were offering comms 😭

I’m okay though thank u

[strong pelican]

https://x.com/calcal56435626/status/2039849612429726123

[versed jasper]

all good

[quaint steppe]

Looks sick

[quaint steppe]

?

[hidden veldt]

Oh shite wrong server 😅

[slender sequoia]

Everyone talks about vandal thief but nobody talks about destroyer assassin

[quaint steppe]

Dont worry I shall provide 😼

[slate summit]

It will come

[slender sequoia]

Hell yeah

[slate summit]

Just learned a random fact I feel like sharing. Guess this can be used in art in some way perhaps (idk).
Turns out bees can freaking count, they can do subtraction and addition

[quaint steppe]

Man i cant describe how happy I am with this

[quaint steppe]

Aura

[karmic locust]

https://tenor.com/view/langosta-matemáticas-funny-animals-writing-gif-14366473

Damn it

[quaint steppe]

langosta-matematicas-funny-animals-writing-gif yes so true

😭 🥀

[karmic locust]

It’s a gif of a lobster writing numbers and doing math

[quaint steppe]

Wow!

[karmic locust]

https://youtu.be/W8As1BwHVE4?si=lsEvOFhwLSN5cCg5

Just writing numbers whoops

Swear i remember it doing addition

[slate summit]

I like how it's just holding onto the pen and a person is making it write them lol

Bro must be so confused

[slate summit]

The lighting reminds me of the mask for some reason

[karmic locust]

It probably thinks writing is cool as hell

[slate summit]

I mean it's a uh I think it's a crayfish not a lobster. But anyways it's probably just a bit weirded out lol

Anyways I gotta sleep see ya runnahs

Night

[karmic locust]

Some crustacean idk

The vid and gif says lobster so I just went w that

[tribal umbra]

Another mid edit of this trailer from yours truly

[quaint steppe]

I dont know how that cinematic is so good, like it defies reality

Some of the shots literally look photorealistic

[safe depot]

seriously. i think ive watched it 30 times since it dropped.

[quaint steppe]

@gusty fox so with emission, looks like I can only choose 1 color for the light/material. Is there away to make the emitted lighting, match the colors of "magic texture" for example

[soft quiver]

Im not toby but are you using blender? If so are you talking about an emissive surface or a normal light?

[hidden veldt]

It is really good I’ll say that

I’ve watched it 6 times lol

Not including the reaction video of one person

[orchid harbor]

I only wish that when the song went "I'm a thief" that it would cut to a clip of thief but other then that, it's pretty fire

[tribal umbra]

Badass idea honestly might edit that in later tonight

[quaint steppe]

Uh, I think either one would work, basically looking to have the "magic texture" on the sphere or middle text and have that emit multicolored light

[quaint steppe]

Closeup of Destroyer & Recon - modeling a lip bite was quite a bit more difficult than I thought it'd be

@grave atlas 😼

[restive minnow]

now give her fishnets XD

[hidden veldt]

⚰️

Yall crazy here…

[restive minnow]

ITS A JOKE

A LONG RUNNING JOKE FROM TWITTER

[hidden veldt]

Nah cuz yall know they gon do it bc the originality

Auto what

Origin*

[restive minnow]

i mean i wont complain

hahahahha

[hidden veldt]

I’m crying

[quaint steppe]

lol I believe the OG was this post 👁️

[hidden veldt]

Bunny suit is insane

See yall are wild

[quaint steppe]

It is wild for sure

[hidden veldt]

I don’t even think runners would have that ability. They’re not designed for that.

[quaint steppe]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1sb05sk/render_i_put_together_featuring_all_shells_bingus/ Posted some renders on the main sub if yall want to give it some love lol

[outer chasm]

I mean vandal was jury rigged by mida

[quaint steppe]

If I knew how to model it I would haha, seems tricky though 🤔

[hidden veldt]

Jury rigged?

[hidden veldt]

Use mesh decal and form it using form tool

[restive minnow]

shes so cute in it

[hidden veldt]

Bro.

[quaint steppe]

👀

[quaint steppe]

Ur sayin it's wild while simultaneously telling me exactly how to model it 🤔 curious!

[hidden veldt]

Well what can I say.

[restive minnow]

man of culutre

[hidden veldt]

I mean.

[quaint steppe]

my honest reaction

[hidden veldt]

⚰️

[restive minnow]

im the one on the right

[outer chasm]

ragebaiter vs ragebaited

[hidden veldt]

YOURE WITH THE ONE ON THE RIGHT?? HUH

[quaint steppe]

Profile pic does NOT check out

[hidden veldt]

Anyways

Must go make that 8 page document say 200

Buhbye

[grave atlas]

NICEEEE the lighting looks so good!

[abstract forum]

SUP, CHOOM. WHATCHA DOIN IN MAH HAULER?

[restive minnow]

thats so fire

[quaint steppe]

Thanks!! 😊

[grave atlas]

omg the angle on this is insane I love it so much

[pliant echo]

Some Assassin practice. 😊✌️Ready for colour. WIP 🚧