General discussion

[rotund sparrow]

i have remodeled one of the pbbcc coolant production machines

[copper marsh]

Hi, making negative/not constructive comments is not allowed, if you keep doing it you'll be removed from this forum, thank you!

[vague mesa]

Lambda core laser

[vernal granite]

flags

lots of them

i can give a list of the names if anyone is interested

[quartz olive]

Could almost taste that lemon lime flavor on a hot summer day

[hushed shell]

Hell yeah

[vague shore]

w vexillology

❤️‍🩹

[hasty jungle]

generica mentioned

[vernal granite]

true

[vernal granite]

Logo of the GTH Petroleum corporation, i've also included a diagram showing my process for the logo

the first two designs were based on Horton Spheres

[hushed shell]

Nice

This is my logo

I swear I've sent it here

The logo here was part of the inspiration

[hushed shell]

I should make an infographic of this

[junior ridge]

Sorry, I want to share a core game that is about to be completed.

[naive elm]

how did you shade the text? it doesn't seem to match the background's shading

idk it looks odd but looking at it closely makes it look correct

[cursive mulch]

hm...

[fleet bobcat]

damn that's cool

[vernal granite]

I realised this too, fixed it

This one is more red as well

[naive elm]

much better

text seems to be a projection and makes the perspective weird but at small sizes it shouldn't be too noticable

[vernal granite]

yes! this is my first time working with spherical logos so im still learning how to properly do this

[pearl loom]

experimentation

(valve likes to hide the correct textures for things)

[pearl loom]

i found the textures after having to go on a treasure hunt into the depths of portal 2’s files and also by having to use 4 different programs that do different things but now it looks noice

[vernal granite]

yay worldbuilding

[naive elm]

be careful using trademarks in stuff like this

as one who has dealt with trademark law i can tell you this would not be considered fair use in US law unless it was actual information (not world building with a fictional company)

general rule is if it does the same effect with a different name then it's not fair use

[hushed shell]

updated

[prisma bay]

i drew rivulet from rain world

[hushed shell]

I unfucked the ligthing

[loud moon]

oh my this is beautiful

all of these modeller tryhards and you have me doing ts 🥀

[cursive mulch]

Thank ya thank ya :)

[loud moon]

those light effects 🤤

[cursive mulch]

its actually an open source module on the devforum

let me grab the link to it

Super easy to use

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/lens-flare-system-easily-usable-by-builders-or-scripters/4021857/99

[stoic tapir]

oh wow

[pearl loom]

yeah they use the same texture(s) for multiple things so it was hard to find the correct ones

[merry stag]

[loud moon]

death

[loud moon]

oh thank you!

[hoary orchid]

advice don't use text like that

it's not good performance

[cursive mulch]

My pleasure!

[loud moon]

yeah ive seen 😭

eventually i just removed it

[hoary orchid]

you can use a text label

[loud moon]

yea

[hushed shell]

Aufhhgahggah

I'm trying to do those indicator lights

[stoic tapir]

its not as hard as you think it is

Im guessing thats a metal detector so Ill model one rq

[loud moon]

i cant really make the actual advanced stuff

just simple things

[versed coral]

🥹

it’s peak

[prisma bay]

MAGNUM OPUS

[teal loom]

yo am i missing the plot

[stoic tapir]

I just showed some ways to model

[dusty vault]

it’s beautiful

[prisma bay]

thank you!!

[brazen crag]

why does the model look so clean

[stoic tapir]

shader & cavity

[teal loom]

first time im seeing someone use the bevel modifier for a non destructive workflow

rlly cool

[stoic tapir]

yeah I learned quite a few things from some other sst guys, its really helpful

(Looking at you bob)

[teal loom]

avg blender user would collapse at the sight of cad

and its poly count

[cursive mulch]

autocad inventor:

https://tenor.com/view/boomrain-gif-12188122755867575406

also hi

[teal loom]

ive seen someone who used cad for studio

[cursive mulch]

dont mind me, grabbing my backrooms vid to share with friends

[teal loom]

tap into fusion

[cursive mulch]

but but my four years of training on inventor & revit!!

[teal loom]

i remember someone made a cad and asked me to make a blender anim of said object

lo and behold 3 million fucking triangles

[cursive mulch]

i remade the dmr fuel cell back in like 2019-2020 in inventor and iirc it was 45k

[teal loom]

turned the state bought 3050 laptop into a turbine

[teal loom]

https://tenor.com/view/folk-druski-sona-instagram-instagram-meme-gif-18271404859547050805

[naive elm]

Jim

[brazen crag]

alright thanks!

[pearl loom]

Oh yeah definitely

CAD is an experience

[worn apex]

Honestly I found cad way easier

Though I use plasticity not fusion

[pearl loom]

I unfortunately have to use fusion

[teal loom]

for complex models yes, it is easier, but poly modelling allows you to have total control over optimization and other parameters

[worn apex]

Yes but you don't really care about optimization in cad, if you want cad for games its a long process

Cad is sometimes used for weapons since its easier but the process of turning it into game ready models is way longer including using zbrush for smoothing and possibly retopo or doing retopo by hand or in other software, pixyz could also be used for importing cad into poly

Plasticity does have some poly export functions unlike fusion

[hushed shell]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/401133173360295937/1483419393428947186/Relay_Shine.png?ex=69ba8577&is=69b933f7&hm=32c6a8fc5369dedd3d252651d2a5522d2a0ac99884876c3ad3a0ebc0c5ae5da6&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1423&height=800

indicator lights done

[teal loom]

poly export?

fusion can export .fbx

[teal loom]

making weapons in blender is kinda annoying

i could actually try the cad-retopo workflow

and compare the 2

[worn apex]

As far as I know that's where it ends, in plasticity you can change curve length, max edge length, angle, etc

[teal loom]

bevel steps?

that's imo the biggest issue since for the smallest bevels u get like 6 edges

[tawny flare]

evads development
courtesy of the whole team

[sharp apex]

Is he okay

[hearty yoke]

headache :(

[cursive mulch]

do you have any ibuprofin

https://tenor.com/view/headache-headche-anime-anime-head-ibuprofen-gif-18228540310724805165

[tawny flare]

y

[naive elm]

logo threw me off

i immediately thought of Republic Services

-# granted i am a huge truck nerd so that's probably why i first arrived at that

[hoary nacelle]

I don't Ibuprofen will do anything on this one

You might wanna get Ketamine

[tawny flare]

should probably vacate the area

[lone inlet]

should i audio record the whole QSERF's meltdown phase 2 thingy with music and everything but no voices

[brazen crag]

why

[naive elm]

that's how you get a DMCA notice

I know Jalvent sends those out

[lone inlet]

i'm not using them for comercial use tho i just wanted to know how the thing was like

neither distributing or selling or anytihng

[naive elm]

it's published by itself on platforms like Spotify and YouTube

[lone inlet]

oh lemme check

yeah it is

thanks

[hoary orchid]

really? wow i imagine it's tedious

[naive elm]

I don't imagine so

it's likely much easier on Roblox

-# considering how qserf got taken down by a forged DMCA notice...

[lone inlet]

why

[naive elm]

people thought they were funny

[lone inlet]

oh

[worn apex]

this made me start watching evangelion for some reason

first time too

[zinc crane]

Bus driver lanyard

[tawny flare]

fuck yeah

its rlly good

i love evangelion smuch

[vernal granite]

The lanyard looks awesome!

[zinc crane]

Tysm!

[tepid ember]

extremely wip

I love gritty and blocky looking stuff

[naive elm]

one big plug

[tepid ember]

close enough

[tepid ember]

not proud of the head piece itself

might redo it later

slightly more like it

[primal river]

goober!

need to get some eye textures made

[primal river]

fully rigged + skinned mesh using emissive maps!

[naive elm]

this unlocked a core memory i completely forgot about 😭

im learning so much about myself this year

[cursive mulch]

@tawdry fox pixel texture v2 dropped

[tawdry fox]

this reminds me of something i did that i cannot share

also, yummers

[cursive mulch]

i kinda went hard on the texture

no my texture doesnt have the watermark

[tawdry fox]

"THIS IS A WATERMARK MOTHERFUCKER" absolutely peak

i need to redo my AMOLED texture

i made the red pixels too big and it makes it magenta

[cursive mulch]

omg

[tawdry fox]

up close @lav

[cursive mulch]

just like real oled monitors

LOL

oooh thats nice

[tawdry fox]

ping fail my beloved

[tawdry fox]

this took like a solid

2 hours to do

i couldnt figure out how the math for it worked

[cursive mulch]

dayum

really?

wait howd you make it

is it not just a tileable image

[tawdry fox]

yeah i didnt know how to make an angled amoled texture

its tileable

it just sucked to figure out how to make it a clean tile

[cursive mulch]

so trippy

[tawdry fox]

oh my god

[cursive mulch]

oh my god

wow

that is so cool LOL

reflections go craycray

[tawdry fox]

how 😭

[cursive mulch]

roblox cubemaps

i just made the pbr texture on the lights

[tawdry fox]

damn

my method is a materialvar

[cursive mulch]

for

[tawdry fox]

reflections

[cursive mulch]

oh rly?

[tawdry fox]

yes, it works very very well

albeit its kinda low res

EXCEPT FOR THISSSS

[cursive mulch]

[tawdry fox]

theres some reflections

[cursive mulch]

oh my lordy

[tawdry fox]

this is like the regular one

okay THERES the room reflections i wanted

@cursive mulch ohhh thats how i made amoled

okay yeah time to redo those

blam, and theyre open source

FUCK

THEYRE GREEN NOW

they do look far better though

alright lets see if i got it

[tawny flare]

how do yall even do this😭

[tawdry fox]

fuckkk its magenta :(

[tawny flare]

comparison

the strategic zone might be bigger than tokyo3 itself

[tawny flare]

is this substance designer

[tawdry fox]

no, figma

[tawny flare]

o

[tawdry fox]

okay

i think i got the pixels good

significantly better

@cursive mulch oh my god

[cursive mulch]

[tawny flare]

need more pixels

[tawdry fox]

be- OH MY GOD

for context

[teal loom]

aren't these

super bad for optimization

+1 drawcall for something you won't pay attention to

[tawdry fox]

probably

the ui needs a redo anyways its ooold

[tawny flare]

something tells me these do not have enough pixels

[prisma bay]

retina dispaly

[naive elm]

i don't get why you would need aliasing on any monitor unless

• you do culling on it to not appear in most instances OR
• the premise of your game is a camera

our eyes are pretty good at not being aliased

[tawny flare]

not sure if these count as creations but im pretty proud

[naive elm]

nice rtx textures
-# #photography

[tawny flare]

ty

[zinc crane]

Radiation Detector

[hearty yoke]

that's rad

[lone inlet]

free water!!!

[vague mesa]

Fuel waste pool

[stoic tapir]

Wow that is very nice

[zinc crane]

Tysm, lol

[hoary orchid]

is this the painted red medal material with the wear removed?

it looks good

[zinc crane]

Hmmm i think so, i forgot lmao

[prisma bay]

some barrels, meant for the Innovation Inc. Thermal Power Plant!

[hoary orchid]

wait are you a dev there now?

[prisma bay]

naw, i saw an oppurtunity to contribute to something so i did

[hoary orchid]

first laser vs my newest one comparison
the new one is not done with texturing yet, materials are somewhat done but not decals/normals

[tawdry fox]

perhaps some other types of warning labels? only those kinda feels bland

otherwise i like it

[hushed shell]

Literally

Wtf did I do wrong

Wdym it's not a valid member of workspace

[lone inlet]

If the script is on Workspace and you assume the coin is the script’s parent, then it will assume the coin is Workspace which is incorrect

Oh and if you make each coin have the exact same player added event, and the touched event has no debounce (bassically the same script you just shared)

The thing will lag a little

Now the problem is when you add like 100 coins

[hushed shell]

Oh alr thanks

[lone inlet]

i fixed the message a little i made a error while typing now it'sgood

[hushed shell]

Is the fix something like

CollectionService (CollectionService:GetTagged(), CollectionService.TagAdded/TagRemoved)

I'm only making a basic obby so it shouldn't be much of a problem

[lone inlet]

does your coins have tags?

[hushed shell]

No

What are tags

[lone inlet]

tags are those

it's like to say something is something

idk

how to explain

they're just literally tags

[hushed shell]

Oh

This is my first time hearing about it

I can understand it

[lone inlet]

there is also attributes in which you can add more description like this

Coin says what it is

and the 5 can be per example the quantity of money you get from that coin

[naive elm]

you know how you can hashtag something on like twitter and then search for all posts containing that hashtag? same concept
you can give all your kill bricks a tag, say KillBrick, and then use one script to do something like: ```lua
local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService"); -- Basically TagService

-- A global variable for consistency and standardisation
-- This should match the tag you gave every part in Studio
local TAG_NAME = "KillBrick";

-- Define common logic for all of our kill bricks
function registerKillBrick(object: Part)
object.Touched:Connect(function(touched)
genericKillIfExistsFunction(touched.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"))
end);
end

-- Handle all currently existing entities
for _, object in CollectionService:GetTagged(TAG_NAME) do
registerKillBrick(object);
end

-- Handle all future entities
CollectionService:GetInstanceAddedSignal(TAG_NAME):Connect(registerKillBrick);

instead of having an individual script for every door in your game

you can handle all of the doors in one script using this

great for performance but also for maintaining updates to your entities

[lone inlet]

He’s using super Mario world music for an core game. Next thing he sees is a lawsuit

[naive elm]

nice creation

[vague mesa]

A giant lawsuit

And theres no way to escape

[pearl loom]

nintendo ninjas crying with joy seeing him say this

[lone inlet]

He’s going to get in big trouble

[vague mesa]

Becoming an food for nintendo

[carmine badge]

baby's first control room

[limpid sigil]

Man I love my SSD❤️

Wonderful ssd fr

[limpid sigil]

God

Damn.

[lethal cloak]

Does anyone have any tips for buidling good walls

Each time I try to make one it ends up looking trash

like this one for example

[civic torrent]

simplier the better

theres a large misconception that walls actually require that little divider between the colors but irl you never see that

pretty sure it started as a result of the SCP:F genre but oh well

[lethal cloak]

Is it fine if its a just a wall, no detail or anything

[civic torrent]

if you look around in any commerical building walls are just that, walls, with a poster, maybe a baseboard and/or a crown molding

[civic torrent]

well you'd wanna have texture, add maybe like a placeholder poster or something but at the end of the day the player doesn't care for your walls, the lighting makes up for it.

[lethal cloak]

k

[civic torrent]

like these

its all just a plane with the exception of maybe a supporting beam/aesthetic purpose

Here, i found a perspective of the room before adding in all the final big props

(wall on the left is the screenshot with the E annex)

[lethal cloak]

Where do you get those caution decals, I really want hem but i cant find them\

@civic torrent

[civic torrent]

The danger stuff? That decal and prop was made by another developer

i did the pipes shelfs and barrels

[lethal cloak]

I guess I will start with a room

[stoic tapir]

oil

[hearty yoke]

oiI

[stoic tapir]

Materials, increment changing, and color theory

if youre beginning, use .25 studs for walls, if you wanna get extra control use 0.1

Ideally you should use .1

[hoary orchid]

what do you mean by increment changing

[stoic tapir]

changing the studs

the amount you can move

for snapping

[hoary orchid]

so are you saying you should change it while building?

[lethal cloak]

Is concrete a good material for a wall

Or should I texture is with bricks

[stoic tapir]

For precision yeah

[stoic tapir]

If its custom 🤷‍♂️

Depends on the purpose of the area

[hoary orchid]

oh yeah that makes sense

[naive elm]

large misconception in modern architecture

buildings from like the 70-80s use them

for a game like qserf it makes sense

if your game is past 2000 then it's technically out of place from the era

[vernal granite]

WIP

[teal loom]

is this kogao?

[civic torrent]

ya

[civic torrent]

cool actually didnt know that thought it started with all the scpfs generation and those hallways

Like these

With all the depth

[teal loom]

i used to build for it until ellusive left

glad ur making so much progress in building

[civic torrent]

oh it ended now

I need this speed im kind of jobless

lmao

[lethal cloak]

How do I get good lighting

[prisma bay]

This is #1100141894824099871. Please stay on topic with a channel’s given purpose, per Rule 5.

[lone inlet]

oh sorry

[teal loom]

future, stay away from surface lights, abuse point lights, if you're good at it use spot lights

[tawdry fox]

nonono

both lighting techs work well for what they do

[teal loom]

i feel like with shadow at some point it limits ur potential

[tawdry fox]

if you want good lighting, choose a system that fits your environment

[tawdry fox]

both have ups and downs

i largely prefer voxel tho

[teal loom]

be good @both 🤫

[teal loom]

voxel/shadow (soft) only work well on outside environments

[tawdry fox]

voxel and future

[teal loom]

if u really wanna do a simpler style that's completely fine

[tawdry fox]

can my images send lol

mmm

with game 1 it feels very

it feels natural

power failures look great too

[plain silo]

son whats going on in picture 3

[tawdry fox]

minor issue

[tawdry fox]

this is futures biggest issue, heres voxel again

[lethal cloak]

Heavy Containment

next hallway will be a futuristic design

[sharp apex]

i like that

[lethal cloak]

ty

[cursive mulch]

i wish theyd add a falloff amount per light

so you could adjust it and blend that better

[civic torrent]

like the idea a lot, but i will say it feels tall (might be tripping) and the build feels too "rounded" imo, but honestly a unique design is a unique design so A tier

[lethal cloak]

Im gonna prob add detail like pipes and stuff to the top part

[plain silo]

this color seems off and imo doesnt compliment the color scheme of the build

make them less bright bro wtf

perhaps those less saturated

[teal loom]

supposed to contrast the orange

[teal loom]

floodlights from heaven

[plain silo]

Also @teal loom send discord inv

[teal loom]

still indev

im not the owner

[plain silo]

ok

[teal loom]

and he doesnt want people in until we get a lot of stuff done

[plain silo]

yeah thats fair I won't argue cuz im doing the same thing basically

[brazen crag]

the yellow monolith of cherenkov radiation

[hoary orchid]

wait is this like scp

uh

the mtf one

where you play as a mtf squad

at a hostile site

[tawdry fox]

legends say its 2000, 2500, 3500, 6000, degrees

[brazen crag]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1073584881302515813/1188609088901369986/Adam3.gif

also very cool stuff

[teal loom]

yea

[civic torrent]

Hmmm reminds me of something

[teal loom]

IT'S A TRAPEZOID HALLWAY

with a double door at the end

and pipes

🤫

thx for the reff tho

u should tap into tarps on double pipes

[stoic tapir]

I sorta agree with ops, turn down that bloom just a smidgen
Tbh I dont see the problem with the color of the tarp, however, im curious as to why its up there in the first place

It would make a little more sense if it was some half ass way to stop a leak, but even then, theres better ways to show that

it seems as if the hallway has been under renovations regarding that tarp and the lights, but there could be some more ways to signify renovations taking place,
some things to consider would be why renovations are being done in the first place

skipping ahead though, thigns such as:
-missing bricks (expanding on the mising bricks, make it look like they took bricks out just to run pipes behind, and they never made it look pretty
-sections of wall missing, as if they were expanded
-markings on wall signifying wiring or utilities behind the wall, measurements, or places that need to be repaired
Also do remember less is more, you can fill up a room with props, but then try to take away what doesnt feel necessary

that annex could have originally not been there, or have been an entirely different room, so maybe you could play on that by making it look like they cut a chunk of the wall out and then built up a frame for the door

[stoic tapir]

lil tip for this as well
if you're going to be putting utilities in that upper area, lower the lights and make them suspended on some steel cables or small frames. If you keep them where they are and put a bunch of utilities up there it could make it seem like the utilities were added after the lights were put in.

If its a heavy containment area for something like creatures or prisoners or what not, you'd want all those vulnerable systems out of reach, perhaps cover them up with some grating as well

[teal loom]

oh wow this is a lot, ill definitely take into consideration but for now i really gotta finish the map, it'll be procedurally generated but i need to be extra careful with how stuff tiles

either way im planning to do a redux of sections i deem not taken to their full potential, either after or before the release

[lethal cloak]

Thanks

I’ll take that into consideration

[civic torrent]

Been wanting to experiment more with tarps and that stuff actually did dip into it by putting such over a crate,

My biggest weakness is decals and such tho tbh cant make those at all

[teal loom]

the pipe tarp was hella easy to do, just blender physics and some decimate

[civic torrent]

more or less texturing is the hard part

[teal loom]

like finding materials or actual texturing?

[plain silo]

and subdividing

[civic torrent]

like making these textures

haven't been successful yet mainly because i have no clue on how to make holes in substance

[teal loom]

opacity

[plain silo]

what am I looking at

is this a camo net?

[civic torrent]

yeah

[plain silo]

yeah yeah ik

[civic torrent]

terrible quality

[plain silo]

no ik what you mean

ur good

[teal loom]

opacity fill layer

black mask

[plain silo]

I think sp has a couple camo textures ready, M81 and UCP if I recall correctly,...., and holes could be done just like quantic said via opacity

[teal loom]

fill to the black mask

[civic torrent]

heh see i dont own it

If buying isn't owning stealing isn't pirating or something

[teal loom]

bro jus pirate it

[plain silo]

deadazzzz

its gonna work the exact fucking same

😭

[civic torrent]

that what my quote means 😭

it's quite literally the motto of the pirating community (or was at some point)

[plain silo]

I've been working on pirated painter for a...couple years now? most of that isnt even texturing just making environment textures but oh well

[civic torrent]

Surprising adobe hasn't gone after my sp yet, it did get my illustrator and photoshop but im debating just switching over to like inkscape or something for decals

[teal loom]

the use the mat

[teal loom]

fym

[civic torrent]

they took everything but substance painter

should probably find their malware that fought its way out of the incinerator

[teal loom]

i think you didn't do it correctly

you can't just use it and then the drm dips

you either didn't set up the drm correctly and from the start it didn't work

because it won't let u do anything

or you accidentally deleted it

i hope you disabled the firewall, WiFi and windows defender while running the drm

[civic torrent]

I didn't open photoshop for 3 months and then they came knocking, my assumption is something in the firewall was changed in the network protocols. Could have also been a small bit of their geniune service survived somewhere on my SSD and then attacked like the automatons

[civic torrent]

my method doesn't require that, it just disconnects adobe and their GS from the internet completely

firewall + blocking a couple permissions

on another note we kinda walling this chat with anything but development

[teal loom]

idk it seems like a lot of extra work

bypassing the drm is miles easier

[civic torrent]

took me 5 minutes

a program exists that does allthat

[hoary orchid]

keep up the good work i love the original

[lethal cloak]

Added this text, will add the ventilation next

(As well as remaking the lighting

[civic torrent]

while im here i want to ask if you guys can tell me what looks off and ways i could improve to help on other projects

(yes its KOG stuff)

I honestly think it's just lighting and terrain but maybe im wrong

[hushed shell]

Perhaps it is the lack of colour?

You could colour the containers

[fleet bobcat]

Sorta in agreement, just lacks life and color

[naive elm]

BF2 ahh font 😭

[naive elm]

old build i dont think i've shown

[naive elm]

i would also like to note it is sometimes still used even in modern architecture for a jump in material

-# ignore the fucked normals

[stoic tapir]

feels very bare bones

the dock, checkpoint, building

[civic torrent]

In what way? Like not enough props or…?

[stoic tapir]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1101168449855684678/1486549842099699775/FHh8h8sjzIigtWVHbLVAfU0Oj8.png.webp?ex=69c691ad&is=69c5402d&hm=d16921b59de612a5515e0a12951a325bf99273938a056926941038186e7e0f30&=&format=webp&width=2268&height=1216
this dock for example, doesnt really seem like a dock

now this is a bit overkill, however it paints a better picture

[civic torrent]

Oh, i made it like the car ship loading docks but it's straightup for just people

[cursive mulch]

more fun tweaks to stuff and also DOORS!!

[unkempt zealot]

that is so cool

[fading spire]

OMG I LOVE IT

[dusty vault]

AWESOME stuff per usual mr lava!!!

[civic torrent]

amazing work but what is that tool you got in your 2nd slot there?

[unkempt zealot]

hey wait a minute...

[cursive mulch]

uhhh

[cursive mulch]

@civic torrent @unkempt zealot @dusty vault

warning flashing lights and loudish audio

[unkempt zealot]

absolute cinema

[civic torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-emotiguy-emoji-joecoin-picardia-gif-6942129677861222879

[neat blaze]

it might be the relatability or real content as you can see there

i cant quite put my finger on it

[dusty vault]

oh my gosh it's that tool i made 😭

[tawny flare]

ammo boxes

[hushed shell]

Light them on fire they are cold

[rotund sparrow]

set a ship full of them on fire

[plain silo]

I adore this but im gonna hold your hand when I say you NEED better textures 😭

[cursive mulch]

For which part

The wallpaper or

Because trust me I know

[plain silo]

wallpaper yeah

[cursive mulch]

I've tried looking and there's nothing good online

I've gotta make it from scratch

And thats effort

So eventually I'll get to it

Probably..

[plain silo]

I could send u my shit

wallpapers wise

plus carpet if u want

[civic torrent]

IS THAT~ ATD? inspection stickers?!?

[tawny flare]

ye

GR 0005 and 0012 is the equivalent of UN 0005 and UN 0012

[cursive mulch]

Omg

that stuff looks very spicy

I wouldn't be against you sending them over even if just for inspiration in creating my own 🙏

[brazen crag]

looks nice!

[tawny flare]

mm

[rotund sparrow]

https://klipy.com/gifs/alert-cat-alerta

[loud moon]

miam miam (ignore the placeholder)

[tawny flare]

[tawny flare]

@kindred kettle real type 74

[kindred kettle]

Tank!!!

[tawny flare]

should i add more back detail

[kindred kettle]

dude lwk wait a few hours for me to wake up

[tawny flare]

mailing you one APHE round via tank express

[naive elm]

@queen laurel

[queen laurel]

Round turret on a triangular hull 👎 👎 👎 👎

[naive elm]

better than some of the T's tbh

[mint girder]

Holy crap swissconsin

[tawny flare]

e

[surreal vine]

I made the back shell in addition to the car. Livery and spoiler not mine

[tawny flare]

@meager patio u should post stuff here

[meager patio]

hmm

true..

boiler room

[brazen crag]

very boiler

[mint girder]

Industrial goodness

[surreal vine]

gridfill

poke faces and extrude

i love grid fill

i FUCKING LOVE GRIDFILL ♥️

you can make one of these almost

LOOK HOW AWESOME THIS IS

ITS SO AWESOME

[tawny flare]

sum sum slight

spoiler: picture implies that the person has committed suicide

[meager patio]

waiter, waiter, guns, please

[rotund sparrow]

theres a peak in my soup

[teal loom]

son 😭

bake this to a plane

[surreal vine]

i deleted it

[tawdry fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95yqFhJ8SMY trailer i made for garteon's april fools (ill post areas i worked on in a few hours)

[vague mesa]

Innovation labs trailer my beloved
nostaliga

[tawny flare]

@kindred kettle hull jumpscare

[kindred kettle]

leopard maybe

[teal loom]

april fools

[hoary orchid]

finished this laser

[stoic tapir]

looks familiar

[hoary orchid]

are you talking about it because it is based of that

[stoic tapir]

ahhh

I see

Its very very nice though

[hoary orchid]

thanks

[sharp apex]

fw it

[tawdry fox]

do note that in some images theres things i didnt work on

[tawny flare]

evil tanks

[stoic tapir]

oh no what did they do

[teal loom]

they were evil

duh

[stoic tapir]

https://youtu.be/2pvbobc1kJg?si=pzHWOjRAYKA8nxSQ

Thought this may be helpful for others

[tawdry fox]

star citizen my beloved

[dreamy bone]

does anyone know where to get this texture nowadays? someone else asked the same question like a year ago but the uploaded texture on the creator store is no longer usable

[naive elm]

i just use a painted concrete brick texture from ambientcg

[dreamy bone]

thats what im using currently, i just figured if anyone still had it that'd be better. i like the stylization of that texture in specific over most of the rest of what i've found to be honest

[tawdry fox]

oh i actually have that

[dreamy bone]

oh thank you very much!!

[tawdry fox]

works best as a materialvariant

also works well as a texture

[mystic pawn]

omg someone finally using studs and inlets correctly

[gilded cedar]

is that fraud

[tawdry fox]

yes

[surreal vine]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-eyes-camera-security-nightvision-gif-12739426533096511488

[tepid ember]

something about fancy particles

[hoary orchid]

is that from the same thing?

because that's a rather large style change

[tepid ember]

hmm yeah

though uh

I was gonna add more detail to the overall thing

okay that already helped quite a bit honestly

[pearl loom]

i feel like this was inspired by trg

[tepid ember]

you'd be correct there

[shadow zenith]

Hai, I was listening to the meteora album and I got inspired
Actually this is the first time I try to do a swiss style design

Please don't scold me if I missed anyone..

[tepid ember]

giving marathon for some reason

[pearl loom]

i knew it!!

[teal loom]

reminds me a lot of how i promised the world does their album covers

[tepid ember]

another layout I was experimenting with. not a fan though, feels too generic

rough main structure draft. I'll make sense out of it eventually, I'll take a break for now though

[lone inlet]

that one reminds me of an game

[tepid ember]

hm?

[lone inlet]

it was a core game i just can't remember the name

[sleek hatch]

acg type layout

[fleet bobcat]

Neat

[pearl loom]

Very cool

[civic torrent]

firedoor

[naive elm]

hello black mesa

[civic torrent]

oh lmao, never even played it

[rotund sparrow]

remade those underwater oil drill things in pbcc

[shy mortar]

Mesh / Texture / Final

[fleet bobcat]

Not bad

[tawny flare]

even more crates

[jovial thunder]

i love burger crate

as sun tzu once said, thou who can deploy a burger king to any battlefield in the world within 24 hours shall be victorious

[tawny flare]

and they say shakespeare is dead

[dusty vault]

oh these are beautiful

stunning work! :^)

[tawny flare]

thank you

[brazen crag]

i have wanted to go near them since the first time i've ever saw them
really nice work!

[unkempt zealot]

pbcc if it was made by the pressure devs

[tepid ember]

yeah.. was thinking of that

[fleet zealot]

Whats your inspiration for making the textures on these? They're amazing

[tawny flare]

this

[shy mortar]

Big Brother is always watching

[stoic tapir]

Very nice, id tinker with the lighting a bit though

[shy mortar]

Dont even get me started on it, lighting is my biggest enemy.

But what would you suggest?

[stoic tapir]

do you have any better images of the area?

[shy mortar]

Yeah

gimme a moment

[stoic tapir]

ah great hmm
theres actually some building advice i could give as well but ill start with the lighting

its a little bright, so you should first lower the brightness, anything below 2 should work
make the angle really high and the range a little low

building wise... some end tables for the seating

[unkempt zealot]

i’d change the floor to be less reflective

like carpet or something

[stoic tapir]

this too yeah, good thinking

almost looks like a tarp or leather rn

[shy mortar]

Yeah i know

its cause the material pack i use has this weird carpet

Its cause the texture is good, but the roughness just messed up

[stoic tapir]

ah

[hoary orchid]

you could insert a white image as the roughness then

[shy mortar]

did not think about that!

funny, it already is a white image

[hoary orchid]

oh wait

huh

then insert a black one i guess?

[stoic tapir]

white is visible black is invisible no?

[shy mortar]

no clue

[stoic tapir]

should be...

try black

[shy mortar]

im just going to change the material atp

[stoic tapir]

it might be the starter material..?

if its a metal

[shy mortar]

it carpet

[neon obsidian]

for roughness, black makes it very shiny while white makes it very matted

[shy mortar]

both made it shiny

[stoic tapir]

black seems to have made it extra

[shy mortar]

well that will be a problem for tommorow, see yall!

[neon obsidian]

huh interesting,,

[hoary orchid]

that's what i thought

[stoic tapir]

anywho
I got a question for yall
im trying to look for some more "professional" blender channels
any of you guys know of any channels that make longer uncut videos?

[neon obsidian]

i don't have any in mind atm... i did stumble upon this which is more like a course

by ryan king art

[stoic tapir]

alrightt

[neon obsidian]

so perhaps take a look and see how it goes

[vernal granite]

its a railway mule! wow! (wip)

[stoic tapir]

[fleet zealot]

Amazing. Did you by any chance waych a specific video to learn how to do texturing like this? Is this from blender? I'm only asking because id love to try jt but I'm not sure the route to take lol

[hoary orchid]

this is done in substance painter using models from blender, keep in mind no one video will teach you texturing, it may take upwards of hundreds hours to get to this level, but there's a lot you can do just starting off

[vernal granite]

finished product

[prisma bay]

heres how they look in game compared to the old barrels (probably a bad area but this is all i was given)

making something is only half of it, its when you insert it into what it was meant for that makes it really pay off

[fleet zealot]

Makes sense

[tawny flare]

i did the texturing in substance painter
for the style i just search up references of real ammo crates, crates in general

then associate said references to the texture project

for me if i want to make something look realistic id first think about its use and purpose

something like an ammo crate will have explosive warning markings and UN IATG codes for transportation

[fleet zealot]

makes sense..

[lone inlet]

the red thingy looks kinda weird to be honest

[stoic tapir]

https://klipy.com/gifs/perfection-michael-fassbender-1

[shy mortar]

if its the floor, we were trying to fix it yestersay

[tawny flare]

you should

[tepid ember]

monobloc chair ❤️

[fathom forge]

Something I made for my small project:

[sharp apex]

@tawdry fox one of your devs is leaking ur shit

reminds me of how I used to make buildings plan

i like it

[cursive mulch]

the great wall of crts

[gilded cedar]

in the cargo bay. straight up lifting it. and by 'it', well, lets just say.. my crates

[naive elm]

amanda + backrooms

[vague mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-gif-8615366534957835354

I love crts

[tawny flare]

a formidable daily driver

[sharp apex]

0.04 mpg

[tawny flare]

oh my days

[unkempt mirage]

THE crunchynooby 😱

[tawny flare]

yes!!

[small valley]

peak

[tawdry fox]

fuck yeah

[tawny flare]

ye

[ashen star]

How do I start a github.io website

[quartz olive]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1158926863444488335/1489005309753298974/wp2qnwv.gif

[naive elm]

do you know html

[ashen star]

No

:c

[naive elm]

GitHub.io is static file hosting
you write html files and then host them there

[ashen star]

Ohhhh

[naive elm]

my website for example can be hosted there and you see how complicated it is

[ashen star]

Yeah

[serene loom]

Where did you find the reference for that

[tawny flare]

the lav or

[serene loom]

Yeah

[tawny flare]

2002 komatsu lav

[vernal granite]

WIP world map and some basic lore which isnt final

world map inspired off of the wikipedia maps

[wild nova]

Don't know if this belongs here but what are yall thinking of this..

[stoic tapir]

Thats

wow

[carmine flame]

Way to go Roblox!

Shooting yourself in the foot once again!!1

[naive elm]

private server income for developers will likely tank but income from gamepasses will likely increase as well
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-roblox-plus/4567894

[wild nova]

Isnt there discounts for gamepasses for plus users?

[wild nova]

Also I am genuinely pissed off alongside others who basically build for fun and now its all paywalled

[naive elm]

that's what the latter references

for private server income, even if a user has 30 private servers with 1.5+ hours each, only 5 of them get the share of robux

[wild nova]

...

That is so..

Also another thing rn is basically to upkeep your game u have to pay 60USD annualy not saying its issue for big studios ofc. But like..

[dreamy bone]

Make a platform ENTIRELY reliant on people willingly creating things for others
Fuck the people who create things directly

[rotund sparrow]

from what i see theyre basically putting those big game studios in the lead since their games earn them more money

[tepid ember]

sucks.

I don't like roblox for a reason

[modern vector]

Why are the wheels so low poly

[vernal granite]

exciting progress

[tawny flare]

cuz

[tawny flare]

low poly excavator

mr bob returns as our official unit of scaling

the 12nd vehicle to join the ever more growing list of miniature vehicles that will be placed in the map

[tawny flare]

https://tenor.com/view/rebel-half-life-2-smoke-smoking-resistance-gif-14891207299970589061

[tawny flare]

next on the list

[fleet bobcat]

already posted in my own post, but i liked it so much, i think it should go here too

A little background I was making for a drawing im working on

[stoic tapir]

dang howd I miss this?

[pearl loom]

Very cool!!

[fleet bobcat]

ty!

[tawdry fox]

very early stages on my anti-burnout project

[hoary orchid]

👎

Time go fishing

[tawny flare]

low p oly done

[tawny flare]

@unkempt mirage i think you'll benefit immensely from this https://archive.org/details/eva-collection/(画集・設定資料集) ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：序 全記録全集ビジュアルストーリー版・設定 資料版/page/321/mode/1up

[unkempt mirage]

THANK YOU i was going insane from the low quality screenshots i had to scrape from sketchy places

[tawny flare]

ur welcome

[raw epoch]

My unity game which i don't have a name for yet, first build: https://youtu.be/lClgjmKadMc

[stoic tapir]

lemme guess

90% of those were from the tires alone

[sleek hatch]

i have absolutely no clue what this is but keep it up!!

[tawny flare]

yeap

[brazen crag]

reminds me of the HEMTT tractor

[tawny flare]

it is the hemtt tho

[brazen crag]

it is?

god damn

looks hot

[tawny flare]

friend

heavy duty

just blockouts

[merry stag]

cool

[plain silo]

You know I think the front of the vehicle is too high poly

[tawny flare]

nah its not trust

[small valley]

okay wt# its so big

[tawny flare]

ueg

[brazen crag]

dear lord

[devout grove]

They were once united as one

[rotund sparrow]

one of my friends recommended me make a cover of duet from omori

so i did

ofcourse very unfinished

[tawny flare]

ts fir

[mint girder]

Beautiful logos

[devout grove]

Thanks

[silent tendon]

Does anybody know how to make decals that look like the worn paint on concrete?

[fleet zealot]

Changing the transparency helps me slightly

[tawny flare]

how this doesnt trip over is beyond me

[vernal granite]

Made the soundtrack for the 44 Cent Store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61PxS1McGPQ

Yes, its intentionally supposed to be off-putting

[sharp apex]

you did a very good job on that 😭

[naive elm]

use a mask in Photoshop or similar program

you can find a basic wear mask online

and then paint in blacks for the edges to make them look chipped

[stoic tapir]

When you're making worn paint, you have to ask yourself: "why is this worn, where is it located, what is it exposed to"
then look up some real references. in most cases paints are layered up.

Take this image for example. The red blocks with the number 10.
first would be the black paint square, then the red ontop of that, then the white text. Each layer would wear in its own way, including the material. Since this is outdoors it'll probably wear faster, compared to something indoors up on a wall, which would not wear as fast, though it could get dirty and that would slowly discolor it.

what you want to do is make the initial vector design, and add a grunge layer to it

Then subtract the grunge layer

Heres paint wearing on asphalt

[tawny flare]

truck

[naive elm]

🔥

[brazen crag]

HEMTT 🙏

[sharp apex]

very heat

[mystic pawn]

im trying to add a bevel here but the shading gets all messed up

anyone know how to fix this

[vague mesa]

still WIP btw

[naive elm]

the modeller

[silver granite]

I think i should use this thread

[tawny flare]

john

[vague mesa]

lousy ladder

[lethal cloak]

Threshold.

[surreal vine]

john me

[tawny flare]

oh my god john truck

[civic torrent]

to those whom this might interest~

i've been trying to figure out different ways to make my builds more optimized and the context behind this is differentiating materials from the interior to the exterior of a building or room to hallway...

The way im currently doing it is by having, say my wall thicknesses are 1 studs since all my doors are the same thickness, if I have an exterior brick texture, it would be a part that's .5 in width and the interior would also be .5 in width with another texture, such as in the screenshot...

I was wondering if anyone has better methods for this? (assuming you use material varients and not textures)

This screenshot fits better

[tawny flare]

car

[jovial thunder]

this is how everyone else does it, not really any other way
HOWEVER, something i planned to test eventually was using a mesh with 5 vertices (1 face and one vert to give it thickness) to make walls

technically since that mesh would be reused so many times, it would be quite the optimization

[brazen crag]

dude that's so fucking cool

[tawny flare]

tysm

[brazen crag]

np

[jagged vessel]

this will be your sanctuary.

[dawn bay]

who here lowkey informed on CIA documentation

illustration will be the end of me

💔

[dawn bay]

shitty ass pdf converter

[stoic tapir]

Modular building kits are a way to build as well

Ideally would be better if they were textured off roblox though

[tawdry fox]

(flashbang warning, placeholder asset)
im learning godot for a CS project, check out this UI i made for it
if anyones wondering, the ui system is called Linear, meant to express the consistency and ease of use of it
the other systems are called Pathfinder and Logical, being the map system and the entire codebase itself
This project aims to be an app that i might continue development on past its release, as its not only fun but it aims to be a more accessible app which could potentially be repurposed in the future

[sleek hatch]

mmmm yummy squishy sounds

peak

[tawdry fox]

squishy???

those are click sounds

[sleek hatch]

yeah im bad at finding proper adjectives

[loud moon]

this is actually sick asl but you should probably invest in more segments for the wheels 😭

[mystic pawn]

https://discordapp.com/channels/346444423271415819/1101168449855684678/1493472316984922162

[loud moon]

oh wait its small?

[mystic pawn]

yeah

[tawny flare]

iz small

[mystic pawn]

anyone got any ideas on what I can do here (this is a particle accelerator and this is the main beamline)

looks kinda boring

idk what to add

[stoic tapir]

Try looking up images of real particle accelerators & nuclear reactors

as well as makeshift lab equipment from organizations like NASA and the DOE

[loud moon]

ooo this already looks really cool

[tawny flare]

add boxes with foil covers

[mystic pawn]

anyone know how I can properly wrap this on the curve without it looking weird? I cant just use round bevel due to texturing

[serene loom]

Idk

[mystic pawn]

figured it out

might get rid of the metal pieces on the pipes they stand out too much

[limber shadow]

dunno why but it reminds me of either a jet engine or a rocket engine

[pearl loom]

looks fire

[mystic pawn]

im remaking it manually for better topology and optimization

tedious as heck but the other option is having 10000 tris and terrible topology

[tawdry fox]

We have working windows and android ports of the app now, we just need to finish and continue testing and we should be good

[vague mesa]

moon

[quartz olive]

Advanced crew escape suit

[vague mesa]

so yeah my game development was almost caused burnout

so ive decided take some break and decided to recreate most funny scene in portal 2

[raw epoch]

🔥 most valid reason ever

[pearl loom]

Hello! This is part where I kill you!

[tawdry fox]

Another update on Guideline, we have working Linux, Windows, and Android ports. The app runs on 32 Bit, 64 Bit, ARM or otherwise systems.
The UI also scales with display size (which was painful to do). An option to scale personally will be added later.
Since we have very wide support ranges for devices, this device can run on very old devices, for example we made it run on a 13 year old android phone.

[raven heart]

Had a bit of a brainwave

[vague mesa]

finished

[vague mesa]

ive decided to fix it

and heres the final version

[mystic pawn]

anyone know if there's any way to make cables with a texture

[tawdry fox]

the text thing in the center is a debug placeholder, but its startign to actually function

[serene loom]

Is that the part where he kills you?

[rotund sparrow]

it might be the part where he kills you

[quartz olive]

built a suit up room for the suit showcases, The gordos are ready for launch ⚠️

[pearl loom]

it’ll probably be bad for optimisation

[naive elm]

worse than ropes? if you do it right it won't

@mystic pawn i have a hexagon mesh that's rigged with like 10 bones. you can do something similar and see if you can bake the topology. it'll be the best way to do it

[quartz olive]

A mix between a meme and a creation

[tawny flare]

is this a hail mary reference?

https://tenor.com/view/gem-finding-gem-gem-alert-jasswa-looking-for-gem-gif-4573895384736430461

[quartz olive]

Yes

[brazen crag]

in hailmary we trust

[raven heart]

School project. I wired everything and codded this

Creator corner indeed

(I want to kms, this shit pissed me off each second)

[raw epoch]

What does it do

[pearl loom]

whar is this

[raven heart]

Simulation of a natural catastrophy. In this case, coastal flooding. We had to find ways of how an engineer would counteract these.
@raw epoch @pearl loom

[pearl loom]

oh that isnt so bad for the solution (im an engineer)

[raven heart]

yeah obviously. We had to follow strict stuff. LIke 250€ budget, have specific dimensions and shit

made it much harder

ALSO

we had to find ways of measuring

in this case elecronically was the best

(We worked on that since january)

so we WORKED A LOT

[night spruce]

inspirations sometimes comes from the most interesting of moments... part 1/3

ignore the last 1 second

[hoary nacelle]

Looks good!!!

And i agree with the message in the middle

[fleet bobcat]

Holy peak, curious how long it took you to get the basic body though especially since cube to human can be a bit difficult

[night spruce]

dress blues and suits are really easy to transfer over from block to a blank model reference image compared to other outfits

especially since her scarf covers the collar

compared to this year old sketch i had going on before i got my new pen, man i'm a lot better

[jovial thunder]

oh is that what that is?

pretty cool

[raven heart]

It fucking took my sanity however

[pearl loom]

sick art

[night spruce]

gracias

if I'm up to it I think I'll add rokishi and ice in the background

[quartz olive]

venusian sols in 1997

[tawdry fox]

new roblox ui stuff came out and i made this

[tawdry fox]

godot app im working on, i got the online database sync to work

[pastel ember]

sprinklers r important

[cursive mulch]

LET SGOOO

BIG FAN OF THIS

🔥

[pearl loom]

cuz it includes hvac?

[cursive mulch]

fire suppression!!!

I recognize those grooved fittings anywhere

[pastel ember]

Cat 3406 fire pump, ansul hood suppression system, and mxl-v fire panel

I think im like number 1 fire systems person here

[rich kettle]

:)

[pastel ember]

@cursive mulch some more pictures of the fire equipment that you might like

[cursive mulch]

o hmy ghoodness

this is very delectable

thank you