General discussion

[ebon python]

lmao thats the inspiration

If anybody has ever played ability wars, it'll be something kind of like that but I was either gonna have a progressive unlock system or a system where people buy "tiers". Each tier has its own class of weapons

i think the tiers would prob be my best bet cuz it would be cool

[brazen crag]

IBM blueswitch terminal

still wip

[ebon python]

how do i ui

im actually cooked

[hearty temple]

Elevator shaft (Heavy W.I.P.)

[gilded pine]

love that

[crystal grail]

idk evil ass gun system

[quartz socket]

Looks great but maybe not tall enough? Can't tell without a first person screenshot
Awesome work nonetheless

[toxic summit]

helllllo chat, am i allowed to post art here

very sketchy art

[ebon bear]

newest Sherman

[wraith igloo]

Shermaaaaaaan.

[ebon bear]

it fall...

[sterile rivet]

You are, yeah

[toxic summit]

randomass sketch i worked on, i added post lines to it to make it more rough

[frozen stream]

is that titanfall 2

[frozen stream]

the SheSheSheSheSheSheSherman

[hearty temple]

Thanks for feedback!

[tardy ibex]

wth is that suposed to be

[hearty temple]

Progress (remade some models to meshes)

[merry stag]

Is this a good scale for this desk I made

[vale crescent]

for rushing this to salvage some sleep i think it turned out alright. obviously not very to the ibm 360, will add the interface on the top panel soon.
395 faces (server alone, not tapes) which for the purposes of roblox i should've just combined all the flat faces and dealt with the ngons oops (i barely know what i'm doing)
tape design is copied directly from qserf because this is intended to be for a qserf themed showcase

[fleet zealot]

comparing what this was yesterday, it already looks fire, good job

[toxic summit]

Big monster

Biggfehwywgys

[tardy ibex]

ah

[merry stag]

a

[hearty temple]

thanks

[versed roost]

'sketchy' wdym

[versed roost]

'Tartaros' Is that intentional

[toxic summit]

It's a sketchy drawing

Like sketched

[versed roost]

I guess

Yea you can post that 100%

[hearty temple]

lmao, this is the temporary name of the topside

[versed roost]

oh okay

[hearty temple]

And I've been working on this for over 10 hours now.

[hearty temple]

||help me...||

[ebon bear]

Not really

Make it more higher abit

Unless the chair is short and yeah

[ebon python]

Too many spears you guys think?

.

[tardy ibex]

chonk ship wip

[distant violet]

boo! improved hallways

[static abyss]

FINALLY: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-uidragdetectors-studio-only-beta/3109263

[hoary nacelle]

YOO

[crystal grail]

HOOOOOOOLLYYYYYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIT

[hearty temple]

NO WAY

[crystal grail]

man this makes me want to make a window system on Roblox

but like I have no power at home rn so

[static abyss]

This addition is literally so overdue it's not even funny.

[hoary orchid]

generator ig

[hearty temple]

Nice

[hoary orchid]

'

[mystic pawn]

I love icosahedrons

the "volumetric lighting" is literally just particle emitters

[hearty temple]

🔥

[lucid hatch]

Very nice

[open bronze]

messmer the impaler but.. robloxified (and purple). actual nightmare to animate in r6 but oh well.

[fleet bobcat]

that would actually scare the shit out of me if i saw that in-game

[mystic pawn]

omg it is the icolight

the dirt and grime on the windows was placed by hand painstakingly using parts with decals on them

bc idk how to texture

but ill most likely change that eventually

[hoary orchid]

just letting you know that sounds really unoptimized

so I'd suggest replacing it in the future

but it looks great

[crystal grail]

made another trinket

this time is for a friend of mine

[crystal grail]

updated my slop 🤑🤑

here's what it looks like in game

[tawny flare]

whar are those white spots

[ebon bear]

light?

[tawny flare]

ohh

ok

[hearty temple]

✨

[toxic summit]

Big red mooooooo n

[hoary orchid]

fire

[static abyss]

Very nice.

[frozen stream]

THE UNITED BYTES OF CON

[brazen crag]

is there a release date planned for this? it looks super cool

a pixel art facility game where u can socialise? (im guessing)

count me in bra

[mystic pawn]

sign

[frozen stream]

MULTIPLAYER PPG

[stoic tapir]

very nice wow

[open bronze]

Added the movement, damage and stun animation events so now he can bully a test dummy properly
(it’s doing more damage than it looks like the dummy just has a lot of health)

[brazen crag]

bro wtf this is so cool

[toxic summit]

Fanart of someone's character they make in a comic except I put her in a burrito

[frozen stream]

yea

[frozen stream]

bro DID NOT check his corners

so can you have like

uhh

custom maps

[brazen crag]

omg lets goo

when map creator

🙏

also what engine are you using to make this and what app are you using to draw?

[brazen crag]

oh damn

didnt know that paint.net had that

[lofty lynx]

DMR Meltdown captured from a single reacops employee mere moments before thermal runaway and collapse. The photo was barely recovered.

||Original picture: #☢️┃qserf message||

[idle forum]

I don't think photos from 1985 would be wide like that

[sterile rivet]

mods, 4:3 him

[frozen stream]

bro got an iphone 15 pro max in 1985

[lofty lynx]

I tried to use the gimp curve bend tool but its a bit broken for me

to give it that VHS-era look

[humble cedar]

should i make the coolant pump grey or nah?

i wanna have colour coded pipes but im not sure if i wanna do that for pumps too

[ebon bear]

i like blue more than grey

so it doesnt make the Core chamber look boring

[humble cedar]

that is a good point

my main concern is the blue sticks out + not sure if the pump looks too good in blue

maybe when i add heatant and hyperfuel lines it'll look better

[sharp apex]

it looks good in blue tho

[coral hull]

It sticking out is a good thing

I like it

[mystic pawn]

totally not inspired by innovation blacksite

[teal loom]

Beautiful

[copper marsh]

Anybody familiar with Blender Geometry Nodes? I need help with something
I have a single plane mesh with a solidify modifier and a geometry tree that creates 10 instances that transforms them upwards, and randomly shifts and rotates them
In the Mesh, I have a vertex group of verts that I want to randomly move for each instance, so I put the blocks at the end of the instancing tree

The problem is that the Geometry input for Set Position receives Instances rather than literal Geometry I think, thus I can't select individual verts to set their position; anybody know how can I convert the instances into geometry so that this can work?

I have checked that the verts translation tree works when I replace the Instances input with a Geometry input from the group input

Okay just as I ask that I literally have an eureka moment and figure it out lmfao, I'm so dumb

I just had to make a new node for moving the vertex

[hoary orchid]

sometimes explaining the problem helps you figure it out

[copper marsh]

I guess so lol

[neon obsidian]

literaly me often LOL

[hoary orchid]

anyone have any good ideas on a nice model to make to add to my portfolio?

[blazing sigil]

i managed to make this thanks to listening to tally hall and lemon demon for 5 hours straight

[fleet zealot]

its fire but you gotta work on that floor texture somehow

the top? fire
the bottom? too obvious its roblox

[spark obsidian]

kinda agree

[crystal grail]

this MIGHT be portal 3

[naive elm]

invest in a programming duck

[brazen crag]

i think it looks great

i dont know how any other texture will fit

[idle forum]

real

[idle forum]

This would look so much better if it was actual PBR materials from Portal 2, instead of just flat textures

[teal loom]

THR 1000

[river moss]

Other way around

[teal loom]

Omg chat an SST responded to my message???????

[hoary orchid]

wha?

[teal loom]

1000 THR?

[river moss]

1000 THR

[hoary orchid]

ah

[teal loom]

Or is the eepiness getting to me

[river moss]

Both, probably

[teal loom]

Fair

@hoary orchid Either way you should model it

[river moss]

If you want to make it accurate, it is huge

So keep that in mind

[teal loom]

Or just export it as an FBX 💀

Also didn't they say it was the biggest man made structure or robot

[hoary orchid]

what?

?????

[river moss]

Thats not at all what I meant

[teal loom]

Basically FBX imports are huge

Try exporting something as an FBX and importing it

[river moss]

Alex I wasn't talking about exporting...

[teal loom]

You said make it big

[hoary orchid]

no they aren't, they just use different scaling

[teal loom]

Correct?

[hoary orchid]

you can just scale the finished model no matter what

[river moss]

Yes but what I meant was the 1000-THR is a huge build and has lots of stuff in it

[teal loom]

Ohhhh

[river moss]

So it might be difficult to make

[teal loom]

You meant complex

[river moss]

Tomato tomahto

[hoary orchid]

i mean a large build like that would look good

[teal loom]

Fair

[teal loom]

Yes

[river moss]

Actually I wouldn't even use complex because it's kind of basic, there's just a lot that you have to make

[teal loom]

It doesn't seem that hard

[river moss]

Ergo not complex

[teal loom]

You can split it into :
Legs
Body
Neck
Head

[teal loom]

Ergo meaning?

[river moss]

Therefore

[teal loom]

A word that I understand!!!!!

Oh wait it has those small buildings

If you're lazy like me just use a cube with an image texture

[fleet zealot]

it seems too clean imo

[copper marsh]

This has been some awesome progress

And amazing that it's lasted for so long

[crystal grail]

does anyone know how to fix this https://gyazo.com/316b50a1947ef173924ea93035678794

they use hinge constraints

this is my first time doing somthing like this as well

[spark obsidian]

the constraints might be turned the wrong way

they all have to face the right way

[river moss]

I wouldn't even use hingeconstraints, animation would be way easier

Via tweens or rigging the door and using an actual animator

Hingeconstraints are exploitable and aren't very reliable, at least from my experience

They're also terrible for adding depth to animations

You may not want that which is fine but if you wanted to spice up your work then hingeconstraints become harder to work with overtime, not to mention it adds more work to your scripts

[hoary orchid]

and id imagine performance heavy

[river moss]

I dont know how hinges work performance wise, but I know if you don't use tweenservice correctly it will eat up a lot of network

Which is a whole other topic

[neon obsidian]

i primarily only use hinge to make stuff spin (like fans or etc)

but thats really it, i dont think it put alot of strain of performance

[crystal grail]

alr cheers I’ll try using tweens tmr

[river moss]

Yeah I can agree that hinges are much better with rotating objects like fans, and are also very easy to set up compared to tweens and even animations

Well I mean…doing straight up animations are gonna be the hardest and most time consuming option but it theoretically takes the least resources to execute

[brazen crag]

omfg thats so cool

[humble cedar]

hovertank

the tank that hovers

[ebon bear]

🥶

bread finally make tnak

[humble cedar]

at the back we got 2 large engines for forward thrust and counteracting recoil

and you can see a bit of the hover treads

[humble cedar]

thought id make a hovertank since hovertanks are cool

[lofty lynx]

some really crappy unfinished concept art of a realistic catalyzer panel for the dmr

not expecting to follow lore

[brazen crag]

barrel

[sterile rivet]

i smell shading errors...

[brazen crag]

yeah

i tried to do what u told me

didnt do to much

sadly

[sterile rivet]

I'm gonna have to teach you to manually mark your edges aren't I

[brazen crag]

mhm

yep

[worn apex]

new engine shield + 2 types of it

[tawny flare]

how do you even make that

[burnt salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-the-frog-meme-memes-gif-24277198

This looks so good

Which version of the RS-25 is that?

Oh and why that?

[stoic tapir]

Damn nice

[toxic summit]

Idea is that the gas giant look is a facade for the dead planet full of diseased lifeforms, not done yet but these massive fake mountains supported deeper into the planet by well tons of natural and metal supports creates the facade

[humble cedar]

pretty cool

[copper marsh]

how did you get the cover bends to look so dynamic wow

[jagged grotto]

Holy shit

That looks incredible

[humble cedar]

WIP startup

oh ffs OBS forgot the pixels again

[burnt salmon]

I like the mini core

[humble cedar]

i tend to like to do things on a smaller scale

• this project is more on the side so i wanted to keep things small for quickness

[humble cedar]

also to address the flaming mouse in the room
yes there is heatant but it does have a lore excuse and is somewhat played for comedy

(its industrial waste dyed red thats being dumped into the core since its a dimensional anomaly)

[neon obsidian]

I really love the design of this omg

[humble cedar]

thanks

i am pretty proud of it, though i do feel sometimes that the laser setup is a bit too dmr-ish
buut i think its okay since it has a bunch of other original aspects + the game isn't that serious anyways

one part i'm proud of is the reciever cooling lines, which i imported the reactor model into blender to make

thus making them more hose-like

[sharp apex]

omg TINY

[burnt salmon]

Full Size Version

@dense storm

[dense storm]

Thx

[mystic pawn]

potential map for my game

[lament heath]

https://tenor.com/view/waah-waa-sad-wah-waaah-gif-25875771

you erase lore, you erase me

[lofty lynx]

Recently learned how to download/upload recorded songs on my electric keyboard, here's a bit that I've done
||(Song: "A Town Called Hometown" by Toby Fox, even though the title says that)||

Sorry about the volume

[brazen crag]

yoo

[trail peak]

Floodlight

[brazen crag]

satellite (doomsday device) thing i made in gmod

camera footage after it exploded

[stoic tapir]

very nice

[surreal vine]

control room in progress

[surreal vine]

most are placeholder right now

[ebon bear]

@pearl loom Neo warfare X Screenshot, havent add any news decal on the F-4C phantom lol, the amount of decal is like 85 or something

[pearl loom]

niceeee

[shadow orbit]

welcome back to another episode of redy's covers

(big iron alternate version)

[crystal grail]

sorry redy but you sound like lemon demon .sob

[shadow orbit]

ill take that as a compliment thank you very much

[shadow orbit]

(continuation to #general message despite it being low-effort) bro what are these two WORKIN on?

[fresh rampart]

I was bored so I tried this with basically no knowledge, and as my first try, I think it turned out ok (Pls ignore the tent sticking through the ground)

[fleet bobcat]

pretty decent, may have to adjust the fire though to prevent the flickering, i'd also suggest making the eyes glow just a little bit brighter. Other than that stuff though, that's really nice.

[ebon bear]

@frozen stream @clear oyster First Aeronautica Skin 😭

[frozen stream]

god

good

very nice

[clear oyster]

YOOO BALLLER

yo dm me if you need money for a plane

(pls no 1 million wp ones)

[ebon bear]

how much bro even have

😭

[clear oyster]

2m

[ebon bear]

what

bruh

[clear oyster]

2 million

[ebon bear]

😭

rich ass

[clear oyster]

im balling

[ebon bear]

Making plane rn

[clear oyster]

dang

[ebon bear]

guess what plane is it

[frozen stream]

mcdonnel douglas

[clear oyster]

mcdonalds

[ebon bear]

cool

they knows

[sterile rivet]

A dc-3 right?

[ebon bear]

Yes

[sharp apex]

i don't really like roblox's shadow render distance setting

The Obelisk

[shadow orbit]

coming soon...

[jagged vessel]

Oh god

[lament heath]

who will he be tonight

that’s the question

who will redy be tonight

that’s the question

[tawdry fox]

Is that a fucking furry

[shadow orbit]

do you care if it is

[jagged vessel]

Is it a specific lamb per chance

[tawdry fox]

very much

wait

ITS THE FUCKING LAMB.

[shadow orbit]

[tawdry fox]

WHO WILL REDY BE TONIGHT

WELL I DONT KNOW

MAYBE A LAMB

[chrome glade]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1172303560231362631/1272643839080796170/xz15-XVHGrbLd7dg.mp4?ex=66c796ef&is=66c6456f&hm=b6e65a13a0742db3a3723e1172625a0260978fc9409fcd32aecc87465b5a3860&

[jagged vessel]

You became the thing you swore to destroy after you created it

Epsilon-8 thanks you for your service as director

[shadow orbit]

and where is this forced resignation coming from

[jagged vessel]

The deepest pits of hell

That’s where

[shadow orbit]

man im a frequent member, i got picked for a reason...

[jagged vessel]

Touché

[jagged vessel]

Can I renew my epsilon-8 membership please

I’m only in it for the swimming pool

[shadow orbit]

fine, but dont bring up the double life while youre down there, i dont want the others getting suspicious

[jagged vessel]

Alrighty sir!

o7

[fleet bobcat]

lol

[frozen stream]

WHO IS GRU GONNA BE TONIGHT

DAS DA QUESCHUN

[fleet bobcat]

you sound so enthusiastic lmao

[crystal grail]

I dont think so

[naive elm]

old project dump incoming !!!

the various old UIs (and actual websites) I have designed from 2020 to now

• a mockup of a campus navigation app
• a todo app
• a discord bot that allowed you to make virtually any command using a block builder (or Lua, if you preferred)
• an Instructure Canvas 3rd party app because theirs sucks absolute ass

(yes, all of the canvas screenshots are actual data from my 2020 classes (i hate it))

[naive elm]

https://cdn.realsgii2.dev/s/B5VMl2.gif

https://cdn.realsgii2.dev/s/iLiev2.gif

[ebon bear]

Long ass Wings

[naive elm]

https://cdn.realsgii2.dev/s/YIgChn.gif

https://cdn.realsgii2.dev/s/bg0ba9.gif

[ebon bear]

Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp

[distant violet]

I've found an old screeshot from one of my games from way before

It's earlier version of one of my projects

[distant violet]

They're hitting table 17 times with a hammer

[brazen crag]

goodshit

[jovial thunder]

didn't know they dropped infra part 4 👀

also your web dev stuff looks really good

[shadow orbit]

The final version of REDY2353 - Double Life has been finished
Dedicated to a certain @thorny hemlock who influenced me to turn over to the other side

[jagged vessel]

oh dear lord

redy

what happenedc

[shadow orbit]

please tell me how you think i did song-wise, the album cover was made in advacne

[jagged vessel]

mmm

let me check

[jagged vessel]

its good

[ebon bear]

@fathom nacelle tada

[fathom nacelle]

Ah.

[ebon bear]

shit is complex

[fathom nacelle]

Indeed.

[humble cedar]

thought i'd experiment with building spacecraft in studio

python class prototype stealth corvette

a failed prototype stealth ship that used heavy ECM combined with specialized design features to avoid detection

testing showed that it didn't really work, however lessons from its development lead to the improvement of low observability orbital mines

an interesting design feature is the lack of laser turrets, as the standard nuclear pumped lasers used on starships would emit too much waste heat
instead, high velocity coilgun turrets and missiles are used as the primary weapons

[chrome glade]

The album cover is literally https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1172303560231362631/1272643839080796170/xz15-XVHGrbLd7dg.mp4?ex=66c9912f&is=66c83faf&hm=c7a82159c44c56d16c82c3d64961c6f4abbf29630ce3abdb3753c6b37f010fab&

Yoo thats sick

You kinda sound like tristan

[brazen crag]

OMG STOP LEAKING MY GAMEING!!!!!

[ebon bear]

i made the thing smhhh

i didnt show entire the game stuppod!!!!

[brazen crag]

U SHOW MY JALLWAYS!!!!

[ebon bear]

YOU DIDNT EVEN USE IT!!!!

okay

[brazen crag]

WE DID

[ebon bear]

ik,,,,

[lofty lynx]

why did you upload that video💀

[winter marsh]

e

what i make in roblox studio

maybe i will change the voicelines in the future

[toxic summit]

Question; what shluld I draw other then a reactor

[winter marsh]

Idk

[pearl loom]

A plane

[toxic summit]

Aight

[teal loom]

I love the building

How did you make the reflections?

[winter marsh]

thats just the futurelighting

[teal loom]

You didn't do anything?

[winter marsh]

when we talk about the light reflection the no

[teal loom]

The floor seems way more reflective than the default roblox materials

Did make the material yourself?

[winter marsh]

you just need to use the metal material

[teal loom]

And you just added a texture and set the parts transparency to 1?

[winter marsh]

the part is still metal i just pot a textur on it

because the part is set to metal it reflects

[teal loom]

Just a plain texture?

[teal loom]

And the part's transparency is 0 or 1?

[winter marsh]

just that

[winter marsh]

to 1

[teal loom]

Oh

[teal loom]

Makes sense

For the light, did you use a point or surface?

Some UI I made using Photoshop (imported into studio)

[naive elm]

making something for a company

[stoic tapir]

not really relates to qserf or anything but here's some movie props I'm making

[frozen stream]

redy raised to the power of 2,353 what

[shadow orbit]

yes

[carmine bronze]

UI for a ELS creator

black boxes will house a preview

[frozen stream]

a UI designer's dream is a programmer's nightmare

[merry stag]

How to bevel cube in blender and shade smooth it (tutorial) 🤑

1. Open blender
2. Press tab to open edit mode
3. Press 3 to be in face select mode
4. Press A to select all faces
5. Press Ctrl+B to Bevel (the more you move your scroll wheel up or down give you more or less bevel)
6. Go to the tab with the wrench icon and press add modifier and add a Edge Split modifier
7. Exit edit mode by pressing tab
8. Right click and press shade smooth

i forgot it doesnt track my mouse

i was trying to be slow

[kindred kettle]

tutorials when u look away for 1 second

[merry stag]

True

[kindred kettle]

do one for vertex paint (more specifically these buttons because these are awesome

[merry stag]

I haven't learned that yet

[kindred kettle]

WHAT!!!

[merry stag]

I should probably

[kindred kettle]

its quite simple

[merry stag]

What even is it

[kindred kettle]

its for when you want to paint only what you select in edit mode

[merry stag]

I am pretty experienced but have no clue what that is

[merry stag]

Alright

I'll consider doing it

And maybe make a blender tutorial thread

[kindred kettle]

its like this (ignore da music

like literally 0 people i know outside of the ones i told already know this

[winter marsh]

I dint know because i just use blender for modeling and only for that

Thats what i modelt before

[kindred kettle]

omg its you

[winter marsh]

Huh?

[kindred kettle]

hello vro

[winter marsh]

Who

[winter marsh]

Oh

[sterile rivet]

does anyone know why my uvs get squashed?
(left is substance painter, right is the exported texture)

[winter marsh]

Why does that look kinde like a skybox

[sterile rivet]

It is a skybox

[winter marsh]

Ohh

[sterile rivet]

Oh it's padding it for some reason

even though I told it to not do that

I fixed it now

[winter marsh]

Nice

[sterile rivet]

I may end up using this skybox for something later down the line

[chrome glade]

Scp cb ahh

[sterile rivet]

I tried my best to replicate this sky

[kindred kettle]

the fog.

[trail peak]

I need help with scripting claimable lab workspaces

[night spruce]

I don't really make a lot of things but I made this ragdoll art that represents all of my "lore" characters if that make sense and don't think it's worthy enough of a thread

used to build like free model houses n shit but that's all I have to share (right now)

maybe if I get back into drawing

[brazen crag]

i think you did really well remaking it

[toxic summit]

Qsp also suggested stuff here and there for this

[Those who have minecraft role know what the /e is abt]

[pulsar apex]

i build, i don't script, here are some tweens for a light that i somehow made work.

[pulsar apex]

sadly no tracks yet

[jovial thunder]

nice

you makin pbcc v2 or something?

[strange kelp]

le castle bravo

[kindred kettle]

pop goes the wiesel

[frozen stream]

pop goes the wieRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

[tawny flare]

someone should make a giant diesel engine and use it to run a computer

[brazen crag]

omg pee bee cee cee

[brazen crag]

mm explod tanker

[tawny flare]

what is edgbspilt for again

[pulsar apex]

but its not

[brazen crag]

pee bee cee see?

[copper marsh]

that is really cool

woah my chat was scrolled

[copper marsh]

still, that is really cool

[copper marsh]

and this, how'd you make it?

looks great

did you do it in blender

[sterile rivet]

I used both blender and substance for it, i unwrapped a cube in such a way that I can easily crop out the individual sides, then subdivided the cube and smoothed it into a sphere, keeping the square uvs
Then in substance, baked the mesh maps and used position gradients to make the colors of the sky itself (the white line is for figuring out where the horizon is)

Then exported the textures in 4k, cropped out the top, side and bottom faces, and uploaded those to get the skybox

I can show what the uvs look like

[copper marsh]

that is a really weird tactic

I thought you'd just make an hdri and convert it into a cubemap

but that sounds very versatile

[sterile rivet]

This is what the uv map ended up as

Then with percentage guides in gimp i just cropped out squares

[sterile rivet]

✨ I have no idea how that works ✨

[copper marsh]

in blender you know how you can make a camera to render a scene obviously

you can make a 360 camera

[sterile rivet]

I see

[copper marsh]

and it renders the scene into an hdri image like this

[sterile rivet]

Interesting

[copper marsh]

which is just another way of making a sky like your skybox, so you can convert them

but ngl I think your method is very versatile because you could like, "paint" details into the sphere

and that way they'll be added directly

this method you can't exactly do that

[sterile rivet]

Yeah, I figured since the sky I wanted to make was only really a simple gradient that making it in SP would be easier

[sterile rivet]

That absolutely

Although it's easier to use for skyboxes that don't really have any intricate details in them like buildings and such

[copper marsh]

hell you could use the noise generators in to make like clouds and everything

that is very good I'll keep it in mind

[sterile rivet]

Oh yeah

You know what I'll go try that right now, i'm curious

Once again continuing my habit of not using the painting feature in substance painter
I do everything with generators and filters

[copper marsh]

this is looking like a counter strike source skybox lmao

[sterile rivet]

True lol

I love messing around with these things though

With triplanar it should all be seamless too

[merry stag]

splitting edges for shading is all i know

[tawny flare]

does it have any real benefit for roblos modeling

[merry stag]

Well I can show you what it will look like if I didn't add that modifier

If you don't add it the shading is really messed up

I'll get an example

well in some cases you need it

Like this

That's without it

This is with it

@tawny flare

[tawny flare]

it seperates the funny part

[kindred kettle]

shade autosmooth

[strange kelp]

This is my first time working on those GFX so, yeah suggestions are appreciated

[copper marsh]

edge splitting is not for shading, it's a pretty subtle mistake
shading you can mark edges either via the automatic angle thing, or by individually marking edges as "sharp"

what edge split does is to literally split edges, so you have overlapping vertices and edges; the shading is a side effect cause from the faces no longer being connected

[merry stag]

alr

[copper marsh]

This effectively means nothing if you are going to put it directly into roblox, as they handle geometry differently

but it can complicate it literally anywhere else

[merry stag]

thats good to know, I always thought it was for shading

[copper marsh]

me too

[copper marsh]

also this looks darn cool, great job

only thing I'd point out is that the photocopied effect does not seem fitting, I'm not sure how it should behave with color but something about it seems off

[toxic summit]

Okay question, I want to be a game dev or atleast game concept artist.
Issue is I dont know if I should do Roblox development or Unity since the thing I want to make has been my pride and joy for so long

[stoic tapir]

just start learning, start doing it

look up tutorials

[sterile rivet]

Depends on how you want your game to look visually
If you want to go for a more creative art style, by all means go for unity since it has a lot more freedom in terms of rendering

Roblox games are always gonna look like roblox to a certain extent

[mystic pawn]

do you think slimmer cooling tower or wider cooling tower looks better

[toxic summit]

I want to make my game its own thing, like unique with a linear storyline

But my friends only know how to do stuff on roblox and say I should do it on rblx

So idk anymore

😭

[sterile rivet]

So a singleplayer linear story game?

[toxic summit]

Yeah

[sterile rivet]

Okay yeah for that I'd definitely say that unity is better, roblox I'd say is quite heavily centered around multiplayer aspects

[toxic summit]

Yeau

Yeah

[sterile rivet]

And another bonus is that with unity games you can play them offline, which is always a bonus

[toxic summit]

Also I don't trust rblx modding communities

And I'd want my game to be moddable

[sterile rivet]

Yeah

[naive elm]

good thing im doing both

these are actual functional UI

[fleet bobcat]

is that what i think it is???

[stoic tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-do-it-m-grooberson-paul-rudd-ghostbusters-afterlife-let-me-take-a-look-gif-23724676

[winter marsh]

fuel system

[winter marsh]

i need to get this alarm

i need to find a place where i dont hear any background sounds

[red venture]

just isolate it

[winter marsh]

What do you mean?

[red venture]

the sound

isolate it

[winter marsh]

I still dont know what you mean by it and how that should even possible

[quick vault]

This SST guy typing a whole ass essay

[teal loom]

Spc?

[river moss]

Alright so, here are some things you should consider when deciding this

1. Capability
   Roblox is a 3D oriented engine tied to a platform while Unity is a general purpose engine where you can publish your work on several different platforms. You can also achieve many more things more efficiently than Roblox, such as 2D and VR. Roblox can do both of those things, but it's nowhere near as good as Unity

2. Costs
   Roblox studio is free to use regardless of your income, however nearly every transaction that is made within your game gets reduced to about 70% (with indirect transactions such as avatar item purchasing being lower, which are referred to as commissions). Unity will cost based on your revenue, but is also free to use.

3. Multiplayer support
   Roblox instantly takes the W in this category. Even though its connection to a platform was the caveat in a previous category, its a major advantage here. Roblox has FREE multiplayer support. If this is the type of game you want to make, having multiplayer support would normally cost a lot of money since data isn't being stored on the computer but rather through cloud services where other users would have to see on their end.

4. Learning Curve
   This is more of a subjective category, but since Roblox is a platform made for kids, having a better learning curve is natural. The interface is easier to understand, the coding language is easier to learn than Unity's, and the building system within roblox allows you to skip the traditional learning curve with 3d modeling

In summary it really depends on what you're going for. Do you want to learn a harder engine that is capable of doing more things or would you rather use an engine thats easier and connected to a platform which allows free hosting and moderation of your players, albeit limited

[toxic summit]

Alright, but which one is better if I don't have as much people available to help me [specifically friends]
And should I learn blender alongside roblox

[river moss]

If youre a beginner developer I highly advise not learning blender right now, its quite difficult to use and you dont want to make the process of building too jarring

Just mess around and make things work, that should be your main focus right now

[toxic summit]

👍

[river moss]

A problem with a lot of beginner developers is that they shoot for goals they cant reach, which causes severe demotivation

Youre a student so you shouldnt act like youre a very capable developer right away, its okay to be inexperienced so long as you improve along the way

[toxic summit]

Thank you so much

I think I'll try unity because I Don't want to limit myself to roblox

[river moss]

Okay, what skills would you like to pursue?

Are you artistic or do you like making things work

[toxic summit]

I'm both but I lean Into artistic more

[river moss]

Well choose one of those before practicing the other but you’re looking to become a modeler

Im not sure if unity has a built in building system but yeah this is a circumstance where I would recommend installing blender

[toxic summit]

Alright👍

[teal loom]

Step 1. : don't

|| I'm kidding ||

[toxic summit]

I'll be watching a fuckton of blender tutorials

[teal loom]

But if you want to learn blender, just practice what you want to make

If you want to work with realistic models, consider doing a more Subdivision focused workflow

[river moss]

Here are some keybinds that you pretty much have to know when using it #general message

[toxic summit]

Im planning to go like, stylistic yet a little nit realistic

[toxic summit]

Got it

[teal loom]

You should do a more Low-Poly workflow, especially if you're making game assets

[river moss]

If you want to be realistic, use references. Lots and lots of references.

[teal loom]

If you're good at texturing, low poly models won't be a problem

[teal loom]

For this, I encourage using the import images addon, comes preinstalled with blender

I also love working with vertex tracing

[toxic summit]

Aight

[toxic summit]

Will do sir

[river moss]

Low-poly = Low polygons btw. Your work sacrifices detail but it aids in making your game run smoother

[river moss]

As alex said though, give it some balance and texturing can easily hide this

[toxic summit]

Ik, I think I can blend the model in well

[hoary orchid]

also make sure to distinguish between low poly performance and low poly style

[toxic summit]

With the low Polynesia. R3kjhwd

Fuck

[teal loom]

As I know anything about texturing (my blender crashes when I try to texture paint)

[toxic summit]

Ik, I ll go for low poly performance

I'm just thinking bout one thing and it's rlly stupid 😭

[teal loom]

What is it?

[toxic summit]

Inthe future, is it really better to know all the skills to make one biggish game alone or have a team to do so, and if not alone How would i get help

[teal loom]

If you wanna make a simple game like ultrakill make it only yourself, if wanna make a big project get a team

Where everyone's specialized

[river moss]

Ultrakill is not simple at all its made by a whole team of people

[toxic summit]

Yeah

It's not even finished yet

[teal loom]

It is?

[river moss]

If you have a friend who can code then thats your best bet but you can also pick up C# knowledge yourself

[teal loom]

I meant simple as in the graphics aren't very complex

[toxic summit]

Doesn't matter anymore, I'm going with roblox ig :/

My friend convinced me.

[river moss]

Yes, Hakita, PITR, Victoria Holland, BigRock to name a few

[toxic summit]

[teal loom]

You shouldn't feel afraid to ask questions

[river moss]

Well its more on what YOU want

Not whoever convinces you the best

[teal loom]

As a community, we don't want to be toxic and laugh at people who ask "stupid" questions

[river moss]

This is your passion

[teal loom]

We want to be good and treat everyone with respect

[toxic summit]

Ik they keep on saying roblox is better but it feels like she doesn't get the fact that I want this to be my passion and I want to decide a platform for my idea of 4 years to be on..

[teal loom]

Some platforms have their cons and pros

[river moss]

Roblox is better and terrible for its own reasons
Unity is better and terrible for its own reasons
Literally every engine out there has its ups and downs

[teal loom]

I feel like roblox is filled with cashgrabs and thus actually good games fail while crappy simulators rake in a ton of money

[toxic summit]

Exactly

[teal loom]

Scratch has no cons

/jk

[toxic summit]

Thats my reason to being resentful to roblox

[river moss]

Just because your friend says roblox is better it doesn’t mean you have to force yourself to use it

[toxic summit]

I have to also scrap the storyline I planned and make it multiplayer based for it to slightly suceed

[river moss]

They may think its better because its downsides dont outweigh its upsides

Other developers think differently

[toxic summit]

Ig

[river moss]

Its all about perspective and preference

[toxic summit]

Alright

Fuck, what if she's reading all of this

Ughhhh the stress kicks in again

Sin e she's inthusserver and I said way earlier I'd ask general desc

[river moss]

I use roblox studio because back then I was some ten year old kid who never made a game before and since the option was there I decided to go for it
Six years of that lead me to here, but I can recognize that not everyone may like roblox studio for the reasons that I do

[toxic summit]

Thank you

[river moss]

Honestly you should just try to make a simple project in both engines to see which gave you a better experience

[toxic summit]

Holy shit

I should of thought of that

😭

[river moss]

Dedicate a week, maybe even a month, to making something simple to test out their functions

[toxic summit]

I will

[kindred kettle]

go all in

[river moss]

Real friends would encourage you to follow your passions regardless of what path you choose

Unless its illegal or something i dunno lol

[toxic summit]

She is a rlly good friend but I think she's having mood swings from it being so late

Idk.

[river moss]

That being said its always easier to have someone help out, but again this is your choice to make

[toxic summit]

Alright

I think I should sleep now

[river moss]

Also when you get to unity, youll need to install Visual Studio for coding

[toxic summit]

It's 4am rn

[river moss]

That or Visual Studio Code Im not entirely sure

[toxic summit]

Alrihht

[river moss]

Goodnight then

[toxic summit]

Time to eeep

[tawny flare]

we lov autosmooth with sharp angles❤️

[kindred kettle]

this is why I don't update to 4.1/2

[river moss]

Steam autoupdated it for me and I’m too lazy to go back

But it did make me discover them so I’ve definitely been taking advantage of them

[kindred kettle]

oooo

[stoic tapir]

https://www.youtube.com/@zerobio
i recommend this guy
learned most of the functions off of him

[toxic summit]

[winter marsh]

Damn thats a long text

[kindred kettle]

chat gpt

[river moss]

Just realizing this what the hell 😭

[kindred kettle]

im not saying it is but everytime somebody does like that style of message

chat gpt...

[red venture]

look up on Google on how to isolate specific sounds

to eliminate background noise

[brazen crag]

i love this dude

he is very straight forward

[winter marsh]

Or i go into the game files

And extract it from there

[tawny flare]

what would you do if the references you gathered have a bunch of detail conflicts

and their sizes are off

[winter marsh]

i cant finde anyting about that the only things it shows me is to extract audio from a video

[kindred kettle]

it's from actual images of the tank

not blueprints or models

[copper marsh]

that looks so awesome dude wtf

[sterile rivet]

Thanks man ^^

[static abyss]

Is that a rail line on the bottom?

Looks amazing.

[pulsar apex]

minitrains

[sterile rivet]

Yessir

It's gonna be for small gauge trains, similar to those found in infra

[static abyss]

So many people around me talk about Infra. I should look into it sometime.

[sterile rivet]

Oh you 100% should

If you like anything that is moderately industrial, you are going to love infra

[sterile rivet]

This is the kind of train type I want to try to add

[pulsar apex]

i love minitrains

[sterile rivet]

Infra in my opinion is the only game to not fuck up an on-a-rail section

[pulsar apex]

maybe

[pulsar apex]

whats your favorite part of infra?

ok i gtg

[sterile rivet]

Either the stalburg water plant (i love it) or the hydroelectric power plant

[pulsar apex]

i like those too but i also enjoy the coal power plant

[sterile rivet]

The game just has so many good sections

[pulsar apex]

theres also a bomb on the conveyor belt

[sterile rivet]

I deadass love just these pipe hallways

[pulsar apex]

they are a w

the game is meant to have like 40 hours of gameplay

ok now i really do need to go

bye

[sterile rivet]

It is also a treasure trove of reference images

[sterile rivet]

bye bye

[lofty lynx]

Some of you may have seen my upload here about this previously
I got a USB Stick recently so I can now take recorded songs from my Electric Keyboard and put them on the drive.
Here's a (this time full) play of A Town Called Hometown by Toby Fox

sorry if it sounds messy
I never manage to do this in one try

[merry stag]

Desks I made

[covert stag]

fireeee

[fleet bobcat]

Very nice

[tawny flare]

well what if that happens

[kindred kettle]

either way it's realistic because the vehicle can be modified to look like that

that's why you use real images

it's the method

[tawny flare]

ok thanks for the tip

[tawny flare]

if you model a vehicle of some sort

what mesh would you start with and what part of the vehicle

example is a tank

[kindred kettle]

cube

base of the hull

[tawny flare]

very cool

[kindred kettle]

this is my original cube

and its basically the entire hull

[tawny flare]

damn

if youre facing complicated shapes

like modelling a helicopter or smth like the rosomak

what would you do

[kindred kettle]

give up

but nah idk

if there was no other option probably just use subd mod

(subdivision modifier)

[tawny flare]

oh

[kindred kettle]

my turret is made with this

its honestly up to how detailed and exact you want the shape to be

[tawny flare]

oh ok

[frozen stream]

this looks like the service tunnel in hl2 to kleiner's lab

woaw

[sterile rivet]

I could see if I can add a little hl2 easter egg or something

[lofty lynx]

got bored in fourth period of school so I drew a Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor

[frozen stream]

'alright class please pull out your notes'

[fleet bobcat]

NGL that looks sick af

[fleet bobcat]

Fr

[lofty lynx]

dang thanks
A lot of people next to me just found it weird lmao

[fleet bobcat]

Me personally I love all things nuclear, so seeing others that like nuclear stuff to is amazing.

[pulsar apex]

this is the stuff i like to draw

[pulsar apex]

infact somewhere i have one that is based off of the rbwr diagram

from memory

[hoary orchid]

@neon obsidian

cherugian rocket

based off

http://www.astronautix.com/n/naahatv.html

[tawny flare]

does anyone know how to do this

[kindred kettle]

do what

the pattern?

[brazen crag]

yeah

the black and red part

[strange kelp]

control desk wip

[burnt salmon]

What's its thrust to weight ratio?

[hearty temple]

looks awesome 👍

[hoary orchid]

not really sure but I'd probably be on par with the stats in the page

[mild scroll]

dmr in my style

[fleet bobcat]

very nice

[winter marsh]

Cat

[frozen stream]

make it deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile when you click it enough times

[winter marsh]

Cant do that . The booth is for a event that a other group is hosting and small Events are not allowed

[frozen stream]

😭

[winter marsh]

Idk if it would be allowed that the cat eats you

[kindred kettle]

I love detailing

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1256306721136054323/1278674587017810023/image.png?ex=66d1aa02&is=66d05882&hm=cf316945303400197c3a5d5697277106a4c29eb327cbb80444e2777b84caaae9&

[frozen stream]

is that a tank barrel

[kindred kettle]

yup

[winter marsh]

He is working on a whole tank

[worn apex]

https://streamable.com/1le7em

[winter marsh]

im rn reworking this . thats a game that i started back in 2020

here is a little sneak peak

i mean when im at a level where i can do this at my own , why should i remake my old game

[kindred kettle]

you can see more of my tank in. my own thread here

[naive elm]

i need ideas

how do i break up the content and make it a bit more interesting
what do you guys think would make this look good

[lusty walrus]

mabye some deco? and also a little image to go along with the thing? similar to how discord has their threads?

[naive elm]

an image would be good

the question is what image would go there

everything on this page would be UGC

[lusty walrus]

hm

[naive elm]

although this is an ai-centric project, i could use ai to generate one

[lusty walrus]

if its related to quadratics for example, mabye an image of a simple quadritic formula?

[naive elm]

i could def look into this

[lusty walrus]

mayhaps some sort of backround as well? something like a tile of symbols could look good

[naive elm]

something else i could do is make the layout itself more interesting

which is the primary "boring part" imo

[naive elm]

too decorative for the design language i have here

[fleet bobcat]

could do a simple gradient, if possible

[naive elm]

where

also gradients add to heirarchy which could be a problem

[fleet bobcat]

ahh i see

[lusty walrus]

I mean something like this (excuse how shit it looks, I made it in like 2 seconds)

[naive elm]

same answer stands

[lusty walrus]

dang

[lusty walrus]

what exactly is the goal of the website? seems to be for math teaching, but then you are saying its AI focused

Im a little lost

[naive elm]

both :)

[lusty walrus]

so a math teaching website with an AI assistant?

[naive elm]

kinda

imagine https://deltamath.com/ but with AI

[lusty walrus]

I see

quite a neat concept

if the practices are similar every time you could add a progress bar, to show their understanding of the topic

[naive elm]

not what im focused on

im focused on this page

[lusty walrus]

ok, I see

looking at it, it does seem a bit "empty" is the best way I can put it

how about letting things take up a bit more space?

[naive elm]

precisely

[naive elm]

how so

[lusty walrus]

take the completing the square practice, you could add some more info, like "20 questions, timed quiz" or something

give some more info, make the things a bit bigger

[naive elm]

problem is that none of these have concrete data

question counts can vary

practise is infinite, and homework can vary depending on how many questions are incorrect

[lusty walrus]

if you store certain data, you could give an estimate on time to completion based on their proficency in that topic, or similar topics.

mabye have it suggest certain topics over others, depending on certain data

[worn apex]

https://streamable.com/2x2cpf

[lusty walrus]

looks good! I will say that the light reflection on some of the rocks do look sorta off, but overall real nice

[tawny flare]

yea

[hoary crypt]

DMR Investigation Report( I cant send the google docs link for some reason)

[kindred kettle]

you can make it with actual geometry

or make it a texture

[tawny flare]

do i just boolean

[kindred kettle]

i would do

intersect

ok so wait let me do it

[tawny flare]

ok

[kindred kettle]

so basically u get the thing u want to make to be like this

[tawny flare]

mhm

[kindred kettle]

then like this

then intersect it with the cylinder

(ignore radial array

then u just delete the excess geometry

make sure to also clean up the boolean as well

[tawny flare]

is there a more efficient way

[kindred kettle]

yeah

textur

[tawny flare]

because i did that last time

aw

[kindred kettle]

but idk how to texture lol !!!

[tawny flare]

i know hwo to do it

but i dont want to

its a really iconic

part

[bitter rampart]

based off of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2HDPb1PLxs

[hoary orchid]

how the fuck

[bitter rampart]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1263906983627718799/1279092265943306353/2024-08-30_17-55-31.mp4?ex=66d32f00&is=66d1dd80&hm=76badeaab72fed219f06f58b8d65e96e665f20dc78f65a634e7fdca299a6da8c&

sound was very quiet

[burnt salmon]

okay so

that is fucking awesome

[tardy ibex]

self propelled artillery unit

[worn apex]

added a special layer above the water to have actual good looking reflections reflections
https://gyazo.com/ec4dde4dc20400271f1918f37dfa349c

[kindred kettle]

holy moly

i LOVE stylized tanks that make no sense when you try to rationalize their design

very awesom

[tardy ibex]

lol

[tardy ibex]

thx

im making a mortar version

smth like this guy

but with the same body

[kindred kettle]

one single strafe from an aircraft and its over....

[tardy ibex]

true..

aa version soon

(never)

[fleet bobcat]

add calming music to that and i'd fall right asleep

[hoary crypt]

Progress

[tawny flare]

ammo compartment 😨

[bitter rampart]

ty, it took forever to make

[dense storm]

Try to recreate this desk, anything i could improve (buttons etc will be made later)

[frozen stream]

i think it should be less slanted

and the top part more extended

and also disconnect the extruded parts (top and slanted)

[dense storm]

Alr, thanks for telling me.

[sterile rivet]

Can I give one little suggestion?

[dense storm]

Sure

[dense storm]

Oh those are actually not connected.

[frozen stream]

oh i see now

but the gap should be wider then

[sterile rivet]

If you're already doing this, good going
But if not, I highly advise keeping a blank dummy next to anything that's supposed to be ergonomic (i.e. desks, control panels, furniture) so you have a good reference for how big everything should be
For example with this sort of a desk I'd advise you make the surface that has the actual buttons/controls on it begin at a height of around waist to lower chest so that it's not too low either

With that ridge I'd guess you're supposed to be able to sit at it but I could also be wrong

In general it's good practice to always have a dummy next to what you're building 👍

[dense storm]

Oh yes i actually was using a dummy for this desk building, let me just see how high the desk actually is.

So this is the height rn, im going to make the control panel a bit less slanted and extend the top part a bit like Unit suggested.

[ebon bear]

it too

for me, the thing look like this would be better

or this

[dense storm]

I see, i will look what i can do, im working on improving it right now

[ebon bear]

alright cool

[dense storm]

Ok so i tried the best i could and experimented a bit, made it a bit less slanted and the top part a bit more extented.

[static dagger]

nametags i made

im making one for admins too lol

i will never forget about admins

[frozen stream]

i am cooking up something

[static dagger]

made one for admins

and sst

[carmine badge]

I just spent 30 minutes selecting a bunch of stuff in Studio only to accidentally deselect everything by right-clicking on a tree.

[ebon bear]

Ctrl z

[carmine badge]

Studio doesn't include selections in your undo history.

[ebon bear]

But f3x does,,

[carmine badge]

Didn't know it was available as a plugin

This should be helpful

[static dagger]

guys

who wants name tag'

very stylish

confy

and clear

and color full

and you can get it any color you want

even trans

[ebon bear]

No

[night spruce]

Aren't you using Jordan's nametag as a base?

[static dagger]

skyfall gave me it

idk who jordan is

[sharp apex]

https://discord.com/channels/346444423271415819/1138495845411606558
these are the original

[burnt salmon]

Is there a Supervisor badge?

[sharp apex]

i'd guess supervisor would be considered "B"

as it's not really a QAC rank but it's not as low as security

[kindred kettle]

STOP F3X PROPAGANDA

[sterile rivet]

qcmdutl supremacy

[kindred kettle]

what hex did you cast on me

[sterile rivet]

FIREBALL

[winter marsh]

beautifull even in its unfinished shade

[burnt salmon]

Correct. We are not QAC

[brazen crag]

my art is getting better

i feel it

[sharp apex]

fredder fazber

[stoic tapir]

make the underside a bit higher

[tawny flare]

ricoche

[last jacinth]

This goes hard

[modern maple]

tall industry

some may recognize what this is going to be

[stark dune]

What can I do to improve the top part? (The blank cylinder)

[sharp apex]

add some detail to it
maybe a ridge or some panels

panels are stupid easy you just duplicate the cylinder and then intersect it with a part

[brazen crag]

parkour..

[brazen crag]

omg it is the

misato tower

[sterile rivet]

god i love that

[stark dune]

Can you give me an example?

[sharp apex]

ya ill send an example when on pc

[teal loom]

What should I make in studio (I need to get my hidden devs builder role)

[brazen crag]

house

[teal loom]

Ok but what kind

Cardboard box, mansion

[brazen crag]

uhh

japanese style