🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[eager mist]

Take your favorite game. And make a First Playable Prototype all by yourself.
Just... one playable game level.

Not a full game.

Just 1 game level.

[sudden urchin]

Making minecraft would be dumbish so imma make cod

[deft pollen]

Guys who already work as an artist in game development, tell me please what pack of programs are you currently using for work?

[maiden tangle]

Blender/maya/zbrush/3dcoat are the popular 3d choices I see the most around here

Preference really at this point in the industry.. But blender is a favorite among indies

For good reason, the 2.8+ update was huge and very noob-friendly coupled with lots of youtube series around it.

[sudden urchin]

I am lerning blender too

Its rlly ezy to learn

[hoary bronze]

Not everything on it

[We have the same tag!]

[sudden urchin]

X

XD

[stray stone]

Maya, Zbrush, Blender, Houdini, Substance, Several custom programs, And if I'm on the realtime team, whatever engine the clients are using.

[outer halo]

@sudden urchin This isn't a social hang out. Good for you for learning, but keep this channel for 3D discussion.

[sudden urchin]

Sorry

How do i lock an object

So i cannot select it

In blender

[sudden urchin]

Can someone help?

I have turned the mirror addon on

But

Uts not working

[blissful relic]

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/144959/2-8-locking-object-from-selection

googled it in a few seconds

[sudden urchin]

Sad

I made a sword

But its all in one piece

I can't figure out how to colour it

Like i can't make any fancy uv stuff

I just wanted to add simple basic colours

(In blender)

[outer halo]

If you don't want to paint or texture it, and just want to use solid materials, you can select specific faces and assign a material only to that face.

[sudden urchin]

Oh...

I didn't know texturing faces was a thing

Thank you

[outer halo]

It's not texturing, you're just giving it a material. Texturing would be actually putting a texture on it (either imported or painting directly on it). Which would require doing some UVing.

[sudden urchin]

Oh ok rn imma stick to the basic materials and when i get some better understanding in the modeling then ill learn texturing

[eager mist]

Don't we all love big swords?

[stray stone]

I love when they are cleaned topologically.

[sudden urchin]

I made one

Ill get some colours

Then ill show tomorrow

[eager mist]

The biggest challenge for me is really the UVs

[stray stone]

There's more problems here than Just the UV's.

[eager mist]

Oh, so you are seeing problems? lol

[stray stone]

Why.... Given the blade is the largest part.
Why did you give the handle the biggest textel space?

[eager mist]

@stray stone
How would you split the big blade for texturing?

It's already mirrored so it's really fine.

[stray stone]

Well given you can use substance to texture. I would place it diagonally across the space.
If I really wanted to get more into it then I would split it horizontally and have an upper and lower half.

[eager mist]

It really makes no difference at the moment since Im using a 2K texture for all my FPS weapons.

[polar ledge]

Excuse me, i have a question

[eager mist]

There will be a lot of free space on the UVs.

[stray stone]

It does make a difference, quite a large difference in fact.

[polar ledge]

my grass on my terrain is looking kinda white but thee textures

is not

can somebody help me please?

[stray stone]

@eager mist You have given that blade less than 500 pixels in width of texture space.
Given it's teh largest part, I would want to make that the largest islance I can cause I can then pump in more detail.

[stray stone]

Check the material for your terrain.

[polar ledge]

but i can only put textures

[stray stone]

Also, it could be affected by your lighting setup. Check what that is doing.

[eager mist]

@stray stone
I totally get your point. But at the moment, considering how the prop looks in game. I'll better move on to another piece and finish this game

I'll keep this in mind for future props. Thank you

[polar ledge]

i changed the metallic now it's good :)

[stray stone]

👍

[polar ledge]

just

the specular i changed it but the terrain material dont change

how can i make change the material please?

[stray stone]

There's a material somewhere, I don't remember where. I don't use unity terrain that often.

[polar ledge]

ok

i test

[stray stone]

Which of these topologies is in game?

[eager mist]

The middle one is the low poly.
The one at the bottom is Sub-D.

The top and mid are the same

[stray stone]

@eager mist You can merge all these boxed verts into one in each.
And then the handle can be reduced in number around.
If you are doing low poly/Hard surface. Triangles are Ok. Take advantage of it.

I wouldn't use more than 8 around for the handle. Smooth shading will do a great job with it.

I would also bevel the edge of the blade, It will read better on screen and also provide an area for light to catch for that visual gold. It doesn't have to be much, Just not a sharp edge. 👌

And I can definitely see the UV's island size disparity between the handle and the blade. The blades texture is very blurry compared to the handle. This is because you have half of your UV's space dedicated to the handle. Something that is smaller and also going to be hidden by hands I presume.

[eager mist]

By reducing the grip that will introduce distortion into the UV. It's quite ugly.

I've made the changes that you asked and it was really a waste of time. For not much gain.

Im just reverting to the one I had before.

The bevel is the only change that could be worth doing. But it's such a tiny little detail.

In-game

[queen wind]

my model looks like this in game

"my" its a free model i modified

but it looks like this in blender

ohh its backfaces, but im not sure what i should do about that

i cant go through that all, there are hundreds

i used the solidify modifier which was a LOT of vertices but oh well

[eager mist]

Yes. You need to check Backface Culling with Blender

otherwise, you'll not going to like the rest

of the story

[stray stone]

You can select all of the faces and hit Shift + N. Which will recalculate them. Which should fix most of then.
If you use the face orientation option instead of back face culling, it will Colour the mesh red and blue, blue for the right way the the normals face. This will make it easier to see the faces that are flipped the wrong way.

[queen wind]

that messed more up tha it fixed

i just used the solidify modifier and its good

[errant plover]

Jesus Christ that SUV... You would be fired lol.

[sudden urchin]

is this too bad to be the first thing i made???

@eager mist

U said i should make something low poly

So i made one

It tool like 1 hour to get the base shape amd another hour to detail and colour

I feel this is good

And

I didn't know how to render this...

So i just took a screen shot

[eager mist]

Cool.

[sudden urchin]

Now.....

I shall tryinna make a human

And then a gun

Next animating

[eager mist]

Try 3D sculpting in the process.
Then retopology

[eager mist]

https://skilljutsu.com/gamedev-blender-3Dsculpting-basics.html

[visual lion]

Any environment artist here? Do you sketch before start modeling? Is a good idea to learn drawing?

[eager mist]

Yes

Many top artist model a rough version of what they want, then draw over the details, then continue to model, etc
Some artists sketch a scene first

Sometimes there are dedicated concept artists for this

[coral wigeon]

There's no right or wrong way to do it, which is simultaneously great and terrible. If there's no wrong way, then you can't get it wrong, but there's also an infinite number of ways to go about it. Sketching first is definitely a legit way to do it, and probably a good idea in many cases, but certainly not necessary.

[eager mist]

Just raw logic here
It takes a lot less time to draw than to do something in 3D

Anyone will strongly benefit from getting better and proficient at drawing

If you go watch ,let's say...
''Character Design and Modeling for Next-Gen Games With Vitaly Bulgarov''
You'll see Vitaly start with XSI, then switch to photoshop later on to sketch what he is about to do next with detailing

And then he brings it into Zbrush to make more modifications

[visual lion]

Since im alone, sketching will increase my time on everything but in the other hand I always well like I dont have a solid plan

[robust hull]

where can I find this scene for unity ?

[outer halo]

Where is it from?

[sullen plank]

'PICA PICA' is a demo and experiment using SEED's 'Halcyon' research engine and Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing API to do real-time GPU raytracing on Nvidia Volta GPUs. by EA

[idle frost]

bro

[misty lantern]

Looks great but what's with the crunchy render?

[sudden urchin]

Fabulous

[sonic ibex]

hey guys, I see videos where they stack rocks one on top of each other and using mesh colliders. Is that approach fundamentally wrong in terms of performance or is there something that I'm missing?

[timber tinsel]

Screenshot

[next sundial]

So, I've been working on a scene using a TV screen as was struggling to figure out how to just have an animated noise texture on it. While being stuck on that and a couple other issues I had totally forgotten that at some point, I want to actually play video clips, with audio, on this screen. Is that a possibility and where can I go to learn how to do that? Thanks!

[placid zealot]

Do y'all know of any popular artists who develop stylized (think clash of clans, civ6) style assets for Unity store?

[misty lantern]

Vague question
Kinda depends how do you want it to look

[next sundial]

How is it vague? I want to be able to have video clips play on a tv screen in my scene, with audio. I honestly don't know how to be clearer.

[next sundial]

Synty Studios is the only one I can think of off-hand...

but they're more low poly/stylized than simply stylized.

[placid zealot]

Thanks 🙂

Not quite what I was looking for, but very impressed either way by what their packs offer!

[errant plover]

@sonic ibexIf there is no player interaction with the rocks, then don't bother with colliders.

[sonic ibex]

yeah, that's what I thought, thanks!

[inland ledge]

i need to help to make a simple 3d game really quick

[slow arch]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

[slow arch]

What kind of?

[inland ledge]

tryna make a game like a maze and done

[slow arch]

Make multiplayer chess

[inland ledge]

i have to finish in 5 hours

chess is hard

i have 5 hours to do it

or i will repeat this subject

[slow arch]

Make a game where fire structure is in middle & glass of water is chasing fire & you have to destroy it by clicking on it

[inland ledge]

could u help me with it . like do it together

with me

got code error

[slow arch]

Which error?

btw I'm 14 years old

[inland ledge]

really

hold on lemme check back

[slow arch]

Is there any script

[inland ledge]

coollect a coin and i win the game

yes

[slow arch]

then show the script pls

[inland ledge]

oops

[slow arch]

I cant see the namespace on top

[inland ledge]

no namespace?

whats the code again for namespace i forgot

[slow arch]

Oh yeah that's the error talking about

[sudden urchin]

The Syntax of get component is wrong

GetComponent(TypeOf(Animator))

Probably

Its something like that

[slow arch]

Ok

[errant plover]

If that's for a school project, you are going to fail. Don't keep variable declarations in Update()

[lime pollen]

i think the fact that he's doing this 5 hours before its due is the real reason he's going to fail 😂

[sudden urchin]

Yea

Keep ur variables declaration out of any functions

Thats even gonna help u

Make all of em at the very beginning of the cod3

It will not get messy

[misty lantern]

I mean like are you asking for help with the static or the video? You probably looked at tutorials and got stuck with something, but with what?

What kind of monitor / tv are you trying to simulate, and how accurately

Are you more familiar with script or shaders

Does the static need to be overlayed on the video or are they separate things

[drowsy elm]

Hi how can i fix this, that you can no longer see the 3d writing on the other side?

[misty lantern]

What kind of object is the text
Canvas?

[drowsy elm]

No, 3d- objects - 3d-Text

[misty lantern]

Apparently you'll have to modify the shader or find a new shader that doesn't have ZTest Always, but getting into the built-in shaders is a huge pain

It's better if you use the Text Mesh Pro package, which has better text rendering and by default includes 3D text object that doesn't suffer from this problem

[drowsy elm]

Oh yea thanks

[burnt bobcat]

Guys how do I make my character look like the one I made in blender

[outer halo]

By making materials, recreating the look, applying the textures and assigning it to your character.

[burnt trellis]

while we're on that topic

What parts of a file get imported from blender without any problems usually?

[errant plover]

Everything should import fine. You just won't have the same materials.

[eager mist]

There are a handful of overloads for GetComponent - both GetComponent(Type type) and GetComponent<T>() work.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.GetComponent.html

[eager mist]

Unity's .fbx importer supports skeletons, animations, meshes, and material IDs. Lights/cameras will not be imported by design, and the .fbx format is just as incapable of storing complex materials an importer would be at adapting them to Unity's own material system.

[burnt trellis]

Oh neat, appreciate the help

[fluid oak]

Also blendshapes and texture files(if present in the file)

[next sundial]

Oh I see. Okay, sorry. In my mind everything made sense so I didn't see how it could be confusing, but yeah I see it now. And i don't know what I was doing before when searching for answers, but everything I was getting for results wasn't what I wanted, But I think I found a couple things now that might help. But to answer your questions, the static and video would be separate elements, though doing a nice transition from one to the other would be nice. basically this CRT TV is going to be the interface for the player to gather information and handle some dialog interactions through. So when not in use I want it have static on screen, which could be in video form or whatever works best. But when in use I want it to provide dialog and text options for the player to choose as well as play video clips that the player will get bits of information from. many of the video clips will be public domain historical footage and possibly some footage filmed myself. And I'm more comfortable with shaders than scripts.

[candid hollow]

Been working on a Luxury cruise yacht world for VRChat, and I need some help deciding on what to put in the middle of the room. Any thoughts?

It’s gonna be a place for people to hang out

[idle frost]

goty

[heavy kiln]

fountain

[candid hollow]

Ooo, that’s not a bad idea

[candid hollow]

I got it. A holographic image of George Lucas

[minor sparrow]

Made a base house generator for someone's game!

[low ledge]

https://i.gyazo.com/25171f557e5103a0202c11ae67102cce.mp4

3D print im working on

[candid hollow]

Mandalorian helmet?

[low ledge]

3D print adaptation for airsoft

[candid hollow]

Ah, okay
Would you mind if I asked for the file? I might be able to use it for mandalorian armor

[mystic olive]

What is the best series of videos, to learn Substance Painter?

[vague kelp]

Hi, all! I'm pushing some ideas around for a game. Is there a way for a model to have two separate sets of UV coordinates?

[misty lantern]

Yes, it's very common
Lightmaps are often stored in the second UV channel

[vague kelp]

Ah. Do you know how I'd do that in Blender? Is there some terminology I can use to start my Google adventures?

[tawdry valley]

does this look handpainted.. or shader magic?

[errant plover]

Looks like both A and B.

[sudden urchin]

To me it looks shader magic

[misty lantern]

Second UV channel

They reside here

[minor sparrow]

A little update to the tool:

Added the option to add more floors.

And added the option to expand the house (join houses together).

[vague kelp]

Much appreciated

[eager mist]

Hi, I am not skilled yet and would really appreciate some help with this. I am using Autodesk Maya 2022.

No matter how I try to map this character (In this case UV > Automatic) the top parts of the cloak, and various other parts, get cut up into their own isolated shells.

These isolated shells (highlighted) seem to be their own strictly independent components that refuse to merge or sew with any other shells.

I've tried looking up "how to reset UV maps" in Google to see how I can start from scratch, but all instructions I've followed have just led to this same problem.

[limber haven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/617561434901184522/868933081631948800/SS_nfp4mKWxox.mp4

thoughts?

(slight sound warning)

[lime pollen]

Dont use automatic mapping, manually select your faces and use planar mapping. I suggest looking up a uv mapping/texturing tutorial to see how its done

[burnt bobcat]

How?

[eager mist]

@limber havennice

Sound is weird, though

[limber haven]

how so? is it the gunshots or the footsteps

[sudden urchin]

Animating will surely drive me crazy

[sudden urchin]

Is it alr if i animate in unity itself or is it a bad idea and i should do it in blender?

[fleet harbor]

Hi, I am a programmer making a game, and I need a cigarette 3d model. Can someone possibly make this for me???

[lime pollen]

Do it in blender unless you want to make procedural animations

[spark ivy]

I'm receiving an error when I'm importing my 3D character: Maximum allowed thread group count is 65535 ( I think my model has too many polygons ) Anyway, is there a way to apply the textures on my model, without drag and dropping them in the Scene, because I can't deploy the model in the scene. All I want is to export it to .VRM and I can, but it's all white..

[sudden urchin]

Dont expect someone will do free work for u

[sudden urchin]

https://youtu.be/CXFLu8cityA

Hmm....

This is awesome

[sudden urchin]

How does one even make an animation in blender!!

Aaaa

[misty lantern]

If only the answers were simple

[sudden urchin]

Hmm

[errant plover]

@spark ivy looks like a shader issue.

@fleet harbor a cigarette model is very easy. Create a cylinder, scale it out, apply the scale, apply a texture. Its good practice.

[eager mist]

Made some improved renders for my battle axe

Continuing my Medieval/Fantasy 3D town project.
Currently blocking out the whole thing

[dire ermine]

Working on dungeon game assets with blender

[errant plover]

@dire ermine Torus01 Torus02 Torus03 Torus04 Torus05 name your assets 😛 Looks good tho.

[dire ermine]

Thanks, will do when export them 👍

[tribal ravine]

i still dont understand how game levels are made like an appartment room, where do i even start? Probuilder? Blender? i dont get it

These youtubers talk so much about the programming part of Unity but i cant find any tutorials on making the maps/levels and everything visual

[errant plover]

Make a base wall, a wall with a window, a wall with a door in it, all in blender. Export and piece it together in unity.

Some walls I made recently.

[eager mist]

very nice

[tribal ravine]

Say i wanted to make an alleyway, do i make the buildings on the side piece by piece or in Probuilder?

its things like this that my stupid brain doesnt know how to choose

[outer halo]

When you say piece by piece ... do you mean brick by brick? 🤔

[tribal ravine]

Haha nah mate

i meant like the buildings have windows on top and such

so doing them in blender might be easier

[errant plover]

Depends if you wanna be able to see inside the building.

If not, then make the walls and windows separate. Then you can drag and drop windows as needed.

[eager mist]

@tribal ravine
Why ProBuilder instead of Blender?

If you learn Blender now, you have that skill acquired forever after

There isn't really ''a way'' to do it correctly.
There are many.

As long as the game offers good performance, it's right

[wide palm]

Probuilder is pretty clunky, much easier to make stuff in blender I think

[tribal warren]

Generally, most assets you see in games are made in software like 3ds Max, Maya, or Blender. ProBuilder is a plugin for Unity, and is useful for blocking out levels and getting a sense of their overall design, but not necessarily creating finished pieces.

Here's a great resource on building environments:

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments

[eager mist]

see some people prefer to do it all in zbrush or else

[wide palm]

There's a adding called sprytile for blender that's kinda nice

[eager mist]

polycount is great

but they just give you refs

and the community... let just say it is a closed circle of friends

Take everything with a grain of salt

Wanna learn? find the artists who do use those workflows, get in touch with them

Most 3d artists arent on polycount

[tribal warren]

Yeah. I think one of the hardest aspects of learning 3D art, or anything like that, is piecing together the overwhelming amount of information available.

[eager mist]

It's nothing compared to programming

but it is indeed overwhelming at first

[limber haven]

i personally use pro builder for building levels and buildings cause it helps me get a sense of scale

also once i finish the model in unity i can import it into blender and finish it up

[eager mist]

cool

nice to see you got your own workflow and approach

nice

me, I just use a character ref in all my 3d scene

And sometimes some gameplay refs

jumping, crouching ,etc

I do it all in MODO and update the props in Unity or UE4

it's also faster to use 3d meshes than let's say using the Brushes to build geometry in UE4

those brushes get slower to build over time and tend to crash

I dont know about ProBuilder

in Unity

[limber haven]

oh that’s a pretty good idea

[tribal ravine]

well whats the point of going into blender for a brick wall

i just dont understand what i should be doing in Probuilder and what i should be doing in Blender

[eager mist]

Usually, ProBuilder is for Level Designers

to help them blockout a rough 3d map layout

it's not for 3d modeling for games

At least, that's what I understood from the concept

Im not saying it's not possible to do 3d props with ProBuilder

[tribal ravine]

ah i see like before it gets “art passed”?

[eager mist]

Im sure it's totally possible

yes

[tribal ravine]

Nah i dont wanna make 3D props with Probuilder

[eager mist]

Level designers usually spend like 2 weeks building and tweaking a game level
Then a 3d art team takes over it

[tribal ravine]

but say for example your making a pretty plain simple square room, do you make the room in ProBuilder or in Blender?

[tribal ravine]

well thats more for like big teams

[eager mist]

Artists generally use 3DS Max or Maya or MODO or Blender as a general 3D app (modeling, UVing, etc.)
Zbrush or else for 3d sculpting
Substance Painter to texture meshes
Substance Designer to create smart materials that they can either apply with SD or SP.

[outer halo]

Whatever you want. But you're going to want to fill that room with content, of which you're definitely not going to model in probuilder.

[eager mist]

Blender is the FREE alternative to 3ds max, maya, modo or zbrush

[outer halo]

Also, you're going to want textures, which you'll need to figure out UVs for in Blender. Doing all that in probuilder will be way harder.

[eager mist]

If you are making games solo... learn Blender for sure

or learn other 3d app if you can afford them

[tribal ravine]

i am and its great

[limber haven]

pro builder for sketching out, blender for final props

[tribal ravine]

Nah ive noticed that in most cases a skilled blender user is better than a skilled Maya, Cinema4D and such user

[tribal warren]

ProBuilder is great for "grayboxing." The idea is that you design the level in ProBuilder, then the art team creates the actual assets that will take over for the placeholders.

https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2017/09/how-to-graybox-blockout-3d-video-game.html

[tribal ravine]

so the equavilent of a solo game dev is Designing the level using something like Probuilder and then creating everything in blender and modulary plop them down to form the level right?

[eager mist]

A skilled 3D artist will be well versed in:

• 3D modeling
• 3D sculpting
• Texturing

[limber haven]

pretty much y

[eager mist]

many artists suck at sculpting

or texturing

[tribal ravine]

Oh mate this looks like a good blog thanks!

[limber haven]

yeah i suck at sculpting

[eager mist]

takes time

[limber haven]

haven’t needed to yet though lol

[eager mist]

it's oky

[limber haven]

games first person and i haven’t made any characters yet so sculpting isn’t a beast i’ve had to overcome yet

[eager mist]

But I'll just say.. you can go VERY FAR with just 3d modeling and texturing
Or... 3d sculpting

[tribal warren]

Just found it myself! That article is pretty good though.

[tribal ravine]

Are materials hard to form? i dont understand how people align a flat texture to a 3D object, Guess ill have to search up some videos

[eager mist]

But if you are a master 3d sculptor... SKY IS THE LIMIT

[tribal ravine]

Thanks guys you’ve really boosted my confidence in this whole level design thing

[eager mist]

@tribal ravine
No. You could just buy Substance Painter and a Subscription to their Smart Material Library...
ANd just use a library of already made substances

[limber haven]

uv unwrapping

[eager mist]

ciment is ciment. Wood is wood

leather is leather

[limber haven]

only problem, substance isn’t free and i’m too cheap 😎😎

[tribal warren]

https://artisticrender.com/the-definitive-tutorial-to-uv-mapping-in-blender/

[eager mist]

Substance is the cheapest 3d app of all 3d apps

[tribal ravine]

Also im guessing if your making an inaccessible building i should make the whole thing instead of modular?

[eager mist]

know that

[limber haven]

well yeah but i’m just not planning on spending money for my game

[eager mist]

To get my MODO license, it was like $2,000+ CND

[limber haven]

sheesh

[tribal ravine]

Thanks for the useful blogs!

[eager mist]

Then it's like 500-600 to upgrade

[limber haven]

i just don’t like subscription services

[eager mist]

me either

That's why I bought modo

[tribal ravine]

is there any free material websites that you guys use?

[tribal warren]

Glad to help! 😀

[limber haven]

there’s cc0 textures

[eager mist]

It's worth spending a bit of time to create for yourself a collection of essential Smart Materials

Concrete, Metal, Wood, Leather, etc.

[tribal ravine]

What are “Smart” Materials?

[limber haven]

i think it’s a substance designer thing

[eager mist]

Materials with modifiable parameters

Like you can change the height, add or remove grass or snow or rust

it's procedural

So you can make much easier transitions, let's say for a terrain.

[tribal warren]

If you're familiar with layers in Photoshop, it is a similar concept. A regular material might have a few maps, but Smart Materials have multiple layers built in, which are modifiable in the Adobe Substance suite, making it easy to change them and iterate new designs.

[eager mist]

more sand, more grass, more moss, now snow, more rocks

[tribal warren]

Check out some Substance Painter videos on YouTube and you will get an idea of what's possible.

[eager mist]

That is the thing, it shouldn't be compared to Photoshop

[tribal ravine]

Ahh like a material with a NormalMap and the others

that make it look more “3D”

[eager mist]

Because Smart Materials are using ''a process'' to build the texture, unlike stacked layers in photoshop
Meaning that by changing 1 node in a graph to build a smart material, that change is passed down to all other nodes

So you can change colors of all props in the game!

mass production

It's a process. Not images stacked one on top of the other to create a final image

https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/8l/gdcut3kalmyr.gif

But... it can take more time to build Smart Materials.

Because let's be real, I can just launch modo, grab random photos and paint over a mesh quickly to get something that looks oky

But then, it's hard to tweak, modify, etc. it

Pros and cons

With Substance Designer, the trick is to start with building the Height Map. Like 3D projection from above, similar to a normal map. But with tesselation

And then the rest comes easy.

GDC 2016: Naughty Dog's Texturing for Uncharted 4 by Rogelio Olguin
https://youtu.be/Vd-ZxCLqaBU

Rogelio Olguin was one of the strong pioneers of Substance Designer when it started to become popular

He was the first artist that I saw who was using 3d tesselation to build his normal maps

and height maps

and basically from there... he developed his workflow

basically using nodes to 3d sculpt a seamless texture

https://youtu.be/x0wT8dCXnW0

[tribal ravine]

arent you meant to do the materials in Unity?

[tribal warren]

Basically, you create the materials in another program, then load them into Unity. Unity is really just rendering them on screen.

[tribal ravine]

Ah i see

Also whats a good way to see how optimized your game is? i may do some development for the Oculus Quest which is a Standalone device so i have to be very careful as to what i add

[eager mist]

Unity and Unreal Engine they are game engines in the sense...
They are the platform that allows developers to integrate all things into one place

3d models, textures or materials, animations ,etc
Are all done outside of Unity or Unreal

And for 3d animation, video games and films have different workflows

For games, we use bones and joints, etc
For films (pixar ,etc.) , they use deformers

Deformers tend to be too heavy for game engines

real-time

For texturing, artists were using MARI for films.

But in recent years... as Substance Designer and Painter got better
The film industry also started to use Substance

so... we aren't sure where MARI is going. (it may die)

[tribal warren]

That's a good question. This may be useful! I'm not particularly well versed in that kind of stuff unfortunately.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html

You can use Unity's profiling tools to get an idea of how your app might run on a target platform. I suppose the old school way would be creating a demo build, and actually running it on the hardware, but that's not always feasible.

[eager mist]

Im not sure how different it is to develop for Occulus, but you should target 90 fps (frame rate) to offer smooth experience for the human eyes

the problem with most game projects is that the dev team literally cripple the performance by adding a hell lot of stuff
And then they try to go from less than 30fps to above 30-60 fps

which is quite a lot of trouble to ask for

I remember working with Unreal Engine 3, UDK
And our graphics programmer wanted to much to be next gen, he was ready to cut our FPS in half to just get dynamic lighting in

[tribal ravine]

Yeah pretty much 90hz is the standard but the Quest 2 Screen is also 2K and thats all running on an XR2

so Optimization is mandatory

atleast for the Standalone projects but for PC VR Games i can probably go alot more ham with it

[outer halo]

#854851968446365696 for where job and collab posts should go.

[grim heron]

Oh ok ty

[dire ermine]

More progress with Dungeon game assets i'm working on

[fair grove]

Hi ! How can I use Multiple UDIM on one mesh in UNITY ?

[tribal ravine]

im guessing those crates and such are individual objects?

[dire ermine]

@tribal ravine yes they are individual objects, just duplicated one crate and scaled for different sizes.

[tribal ravine]

Nice

[leaden jasper]

i think this might be the right place to ask lol. is there a way to make textures on objects scale automatically without attaching a script to each object?

[swift estuary]

Build your objects with probuilder (which will adjust UVs automatically) or use a Triplanar Mapping shader

[ebon otter]

ok question yall. I have about 2 years experince in Maya, and i want to start learning unity. is there no UV editor?

how does anyone edit the uv's on their model?

[outer halo]

You do it in maya and reimport.

[ebon otter]

i dont have the orginal file

just a unity prefab

[outer halo]

Well, the prefab has to contain a mesh, which has to be an FBX.

You can open that in Maya and edit it.

[ebon otter]

fair enough

sorry

[cosmic nymph]

I just accidentally found out that this actually changes the albedo when you import into Unity and it kinda hurts because now I have to make sure I didn't change any of these colors

[icy rose]

When using a SkinnedMeshRenderer does the root bone need to be a child GO or can it live anywhere? as im having an issue trying to use some pre made humanoids models, where if I take their mesh and root but put it in another object (so I can control it a bit more specifically) it never renders

[median siren]

Soon I'll be live making car models for my game, please set a reminder so you don't miss it!
https://youtu.be/WGC7p_C0bRY

[dawn ember]

https://twitter.com/harmony_hunnie/status/1420371952074698755?s=20

(€^•^) Harmony Honey {she\they) (@harmony_hunnie)

ramp! (:
#Skateboarding #BMX #PixelArt
#LowPoly #Blender #3DArt https://t.co/cBA2V2giAR

Twitter · Jul 28, 2021, 1:13 PM

[quasi verge]

opinions on my first attempt at a human-like model, rigged model and first attempt at animations? :3

i would send a gif if i wasn't a lazy coder

[eager mist]

If you want to make your own games
Do everything
If you want a job, do a specific thing very well. And get known for it

Decent first model, I'll say.
But compared to what the industry expects, you are... maybe 30% there

Ex:

[queen wind]

my car with about 122k vertices adds 12 mil vertices to the scene?

[misty lantern]

Subd gets applied when you export perhaps?

[queen wind]

its 122960 in unity

im having serious performance issues after switching to urp

[misty lantern]

Going to take a stab in the dark and say that something very much Not Normal is happening in your project in general

[queen wind]

found the problem

apparently each camera adds to the vertices count

which is very frustrating

i just want security cameras

ive disabled every camera and still have 4 million verts

[misty lantern]

Security cameras could be optimized a lot by calling camera.Render only a couple of dozen times per second, sequentially

Could even look more authentic

[queen wind]

well theyre not exactly security cameras

theyre external cameras on my car

its a game about storm chasing

theyre all being rendered to 256x256 render textures

which should be pretty fast but

my fps went from like 150 to 20

when i switched to urp

[misty lantern]

But yea usually performance isn't supposed to degrade with URP

[queen wind]

ive done everything i can to optimise

my terrain trees are taking up 20 million verts

everything looks awful after upgrading to urp too

but i have to because i need the vfx graph

[queen wind]

i did this and it didnt help at all

[misty lantern]

Yea well if your performance is dragging in the mud even without the cameras, maybe you should fix that first

[queen wind]

i really dont know what to do

[misty lantern]

Performance info is not going to be reliable before it's working normally

[queen wind]

my trees are 2k vertices, my car is 122k

yet theres 30-40 mil vertices

in the scene

[misty lantern]

Try making a new test scene to see if performance is broken there too? Then move parts of your main scene over and watch the vert count

The vertex counter might not be reliable anyway

Some people on the forums are reporting 50x the expected amount of verts

[eager mist]

After my tests, I got the best performance with URP. Switching to URP shouldnt drop performance.

Are you using scripts?

[queen wind]

the menu scenes work

flawlessly

but also have sorta high vert counts (about 700k, very small scene, one camera)

[queen wind]

yeah but the profiler shows rendering is taking up like 92% of the performance hits

im doing absolutely everything i can to improve performance and nothing is working

im gonna revert and show how it works better without urp and stuff

sadly this is much better

[queen wind]

how could i find whats wrong with my project

[misty lantern]

I wish I had some answer for that, but I've not dealt with this level of destruction
What I would do is not try to upgrade the project, rather pack the scripts and assets into a package and move those over to a fresh URP project
A bit tedious probably, but it should avoid this sort of mishaps

[queen wind]

are you serious

okay

[misty lantern]

Not sure if it's the best idea, but it's the only idea I have
Oh, after googling the issue, ofc

[queen wind]

this is awful my god

[misty lantern]

What editor / urp versions were you working with btw?

[queen wind]

2021.2

and

urp version 12

[misty lantern]

Beta version, could be unstable

[queen wind]

it was bad in 2021.1 as well

but

the input system package is awful

and it didnt work

at all

the only fix was to upgrade

[misty lantern]

Awful it might be, but it should work

[queen wind]

no it

doesnt work

it was a known problem

unity themselves said the only fix is to upgrade to 1.1.0

[misty lantern]

Wow

[queen wind]

which is only in 2021.2

[tribal warren]

Great first effort! Reminds me a bit of a Half-Life scientist, like he should be working in Black Mesa. You should post a gif if you get a chance!

If I were to offer some critique:

• The face looks great! But it looks a bit like it's been pasted onto his head, leaving his ears and neck feeling a little left out. Make sure to clearly delineate the forms of the body, and pay close attention to the silhouette.
• His clothes also feel somewhat pasted-on, or like body paint. You could potentially add some additional detail to the model, in order to more clearly show the weight and folds of the clothing.
• Parts of the texture are a little stretched, and the seams could use some work.

Other than that, I'd say you're well on your way. Would be interested to see some animation. Good job! 😀

[tribal warren]

Awesome! Shredding a secret half-pipe in the forest is on my bucket list. 🤙

[dawn ember]

hehe ur hip!! thx(:

[eager mist]

Me, I'm not upgrading Unity unless I absolutely have to

I download a version and stick to it

There is enough trouble as it is to make a game lol

not adding more troubles to my plate

[queen wind]

i have absolutely no way of doing what i want to do

i need big corn fields but the best i can find for an interactive grass shader is low poly stuff

i cant have corn inside the car

does anyone know how i could have a corn field not clip through stuff?

[eager mist]

Not sure what you are asking for

[misty lantern]

A field of corn is inevitably going to be pretty low-poly
GPU Instanced meshes might work for performance, but I don't know if they can be made interactive.
If there is a shader that makes it sway, it's possible to modify that shader to bend the corn to the ground where the car drives by drawing onto a rendertarget texture that modifies the corn rotation

https://forum.unity.com/threads/cornfield-performance-tricks.338204/ here's some discussion about trying to do a similar thing

[queen wind]

honestly instead of bending the corn i think im either gonna have the fields unplanted or face the corn when youre near it using an old shader i made

i just have to figure out the best way to actually get the corn

[queen wind]

this is my solution

it uses dithering

[misty lantern]

Decent and definitely performant!

[hollow jackal]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CR4KzQBqT4J/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

[eager mist]

hello, if here some people that uses blender could you help me?

this is a map for my game

but if i zoom out it starts to look like this

can i fix this, and if yes, how?

[errant plover]

Well why are you so far away?

Is the track flat? Raise it slightly up.

It looks like Blender is trying to use an LOD. Which I've never seen happen before.

[pastel steppe]

The geometry looks like it's intersecting

[eager mist]

@errant plover
No. It's Z fighting. It occurs in several 3d apps when geometry are close to each other

it often happens with decals

sometimes devs have to specify in which order things need to appear on screen

Lift the track up a bit, you'll see

@eager mist

Z-fighting that is caused by insufficient precision in the depth buffer can be resolved by simply reducing the visible distance in the world. This reduces the distance between the near and far planes, and solves the precision issue. However, in certain virtual environments, such as a space simulator, or a flight simulator, this is not possible.

[dawn ember]

https://twitter.com/harmony_hunnie/status/1420820084487081992?s=20

(€^•^) Harmony Honey {she\they) (@harmony_hunnie)

pool (:
#lowpoly #blender #skateboarding https://t.co/T44nk7vIkG

Twitter · Jul 29, 2021, 6:54 PM

[eager mist]

okay thanks. Didn't thought this is so complex

[deep shadow]

pool (:

[cerulean pilot]

https://twitter.com/SoulRBLXShibo/status/1420825202770989060?s=20
https://twitter.com/SoulRBLXShibo/status/1420839080905019397?s=20

Soul (@SoulRBLXShibo)

Dual Skeleton Blasters
#Blender3d

Twitter · Jul 29, 2021, 7:15 PM

Soul (@SoulRBLXShibo)

Dual Skeleton Cannons
#RobloxDev https://t.co/QrlsrjKHUY

Twitter · Jul 29, 2021, 8:10 PM

[eager mist]

Always dreamed of playing a Cubic Marshmallow character

[split timber]

why does the material render with these lines like this? Only when there's light on it.

apparently it's soft shadows causing it but why?

[sullen plank]

@sly reef #854851968446365696 For job posts location.

[turbid kayak]

Hey guys, I posted this in #archived-code-general but I think it would best belong here. #archived-code-general message
Here is the link to the question! I would appreciate any thoughts - I'm not well versed in texture art and thus have a hard time debugging these kind of problems.

[eager mist]

For text, usually companies would create a separate texture with words on it.
Then use Decals and place those decals on meshes

However, I've never seen this technique being applied to animated characters.

Since most 3D asset use Color map, Roughness, Metallic, Normalmap, etc.
I assume that it would be possible with code to add an extra texture for text, par character.

@turbid kayak
I asked the question on Polycount. So far, the answer is ''change the shader''.
As in, you should be able to add a new texture per character to add text.

[turbid kayak]

Gatcha - I tried to avoid having to write a shader and hoped to use the standard shader. I've used shader graph, but our project is in unity 2017 - no URP. For a little more info on the feature, it also allows the player to input custom names and view their avatar during runtime in the customization screen e.g. typing their team name in an input field and having it display on the jersey. Its why I decided to use this solution. I can set the standard shaders color map to the cameras output to do that runtime stuff as well as take snapshots of the texture and apply it to the characters. Most definitely costs more memory to do this, but the textures are only 1024x1024 with about 9 avatars to spawn in

I think regardless of the approach, adjusting the offset of a texture and the material by the same amount SHOULD make it appear no different right?

referring back to my first screenshot in my post - it just makes no sense why the texture would be smudged and torn like that in only that one area

[lapis jolt]

do you have any tutorial link as to how you made this

[cerulean pilot]

Not something people do tutorials on sadly it’s something you have to learn yourself

[errant plover]

@turbid kayak did you apply the scale on your model? Re-check the UVs. Also recommend upgrading as new LTS lines are released. Unless the boss hates it or something. I used Unity 10 years ago, I know it can be scary thinking of upgrading a project. I still get scared sometimes.

[feral cloud]

There are many people on Youtube who create guns

Time lapses

Ex:
Mech per day: MECH TWO PART 2 | By Tor Frick
https://youtu.be/duam8bKJysU

[leaden jasper]

ive got two questions, whats a general price for 3d models im considering getting a character done, but I dont want to overpay lol. Assuming this price may be too steep for me, are there any good tutorials on modeling people? ideally something relatively beginner friendly, ive done some modeling in the past

[eager mist]

hey i need help with my track. I importet my track from blender as an .fbx file into unity but unity somehow got rid of some parts of my track. Why?

This is how it should look like btw

*yes the light is also messed up but i want to focus on that later

[eager mist]

figured it out

but the light is still to bright

also figured this problem out

[sacred root]

When you exported your model, was there a light source in your blender scene?

[lapis jolt]

Ok

Do you have any reference images

[eager mist]

no i also already figured the problem out

[eternal cypress]

how can i make the missing part? (probuilder)

i want it to be a round convator.

[outer halo]

Create a square to fit in that corner, then bevel the edge at the far corner to curve it.

[eager mist]

Just tried pro builder 😫

Please... use Blender, 3ds max, maya or modo instead

[sinful night]

Hey I am working in blender and I have a model with different parts and materials, normally it looks like this

however if I join the parts this happens

Any Idea why?

[lapis jolt]

just change the red in material to gold and gold to red

idk why but the colours have inveretd somewhow

[sinful night]

I see

this happens after inverting the colors

also as a sidenote, how I do import eevee shaders into unity?

[chrome lily]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNqj66ndwXc&ab_channel=OneMinuteVideoTutorials

[sinful night]

Materials dont show up...

[outer halo]

You have to recreate materials in Unity.

[sinful night]

Hmmm, I see

[misty lantern]

As of yet, shaders/materials are incompatible between engines, technically, even if they use the same maps and variables
Solutions like the one above are experimental at best

[nocturne moon]

Is it possible to have a high quality subsurface scattering effect with the standard HDRP lit shaders?

I'm trying to set one up so it looks like this Blender render:

but so far this is the best I've come up with:

[misty lantern]

You should use more drastic lighting for testing the SSS, from this image it's hard to see if it's active at all
In the above image a big part of the effect is how thin parts are more translucent, and how shadows are visible through the object
That part is practically impossible without ray-traced SSS

[tribal ravine]

Hey do you guys always use physical reference pictures in your projects when your making an object or something?

[nocturne moon]

In the above image a big part of the effect is how thin parts are more translucent
Would this be possible with something like a thickness map or a subsurface mask map? Or would this still require ray-tracing?

[misty lantern]

It's worth a try

[nocturne moon]

alright, time to learn how make both of those

[tribal ravine]

Hey guys is Low Poly literally just making an object without a subdivision surface modifier?

[outer halo]

It just means the model as a low poly count.

There's no real rule on how to achieve that.

[tribal ravine]

is low poly harder?

[feral cloud]

No

[latent shore]

Any suggestions for games?

[feral cloud]

Sub-D modeling and advanced 3d sculpting are harder

[fluid escarp]

how can i fix this shiny floor when i hit play

its normal in scene

[sage talon]

hard to say...is it a light problem. maybe you animated light values also??

[fluid escarp]

all the lights in the house are disabled

[sage talon]

maybe you animated the material??

properties

[manic flint]

creepy vibe

[sage talon]

metallic, or something

[manic flint]

add some point lights bro

and a skybox

[fluid escarp]

idk

i dont think i animated the material

[sage talon]

did you change any vaues recently on the material?

if you did it while recording....

[fluid escarp]

no

i didnt even touch it until this problem happened

[sage talon]

check which property on the material chnages

[fluid escarp]

i opened unity and this suddenly happened yesterday it was working fine

[sage talon]

or it maybe a rendering issue

maybe post processing??

[fluid escarp]

yo

im having i weird error now

i cant move the player

why this happens to me

[sage talon]

in play mode?

[fluid escarp]

yes

[sage talon]

Mayeb you are animating the player

[fluid escarp]

no

[sage talon]

root motion?

[fluid escarp]

idk what that is

[feral cloud]

As a side note.
It does take longer to use Sub-D modeling or sculpt things in 3D to create a high poly model. However, the latest texturing worklows heavily depend on High Poly -> Low Poly baked normal map, curvature map, ambient occlusion, etc.

[sage talon]

tehre a root motion check box on your player. probably not the problem though

[fluid escarp]

ok

[sage talon]

I know that when you press play, your animator will take control of what ever object has an animator component on it. so maybe you have made lots of recordings which you didn't intend.

[fluid escarp]

u know i will exit unity and not save and come back

[sage talon]

good idea

[fluid escarp]

do u think that will work

[sage talon]

hmmm...maybe.

[fluid escarp]

i can move

🙂

but the lights are killing me

[sage talon]

just replace the floor?

see iff anoooother materila behaves the same....

[fluid escarp]

btw its nt only on the floor

lets me take a screen shot of the table

look at the light

its coming from above it

[sage talon]

maybe you animated the lightt

[fluid escarp]

idk

what light

[sage talon]

theres no loiiiiiiiiight?

my keyboard..

[fluid escarp]

there is but disabled

so no there is not

[sage talon]

is it still disabled in playe mode?

[fluid escarp]

let me check

yes

btw there is only a few lights in the house not in every room

and the shiny light is in all the house

[sage talon]

oh......

fog!!

click the button...for fog and sky etc??

[fluid escarp]

sorrrrry soooo sorry

[sage talon]

you may have turned it off in scene view

[fluid escarp]

i fixed it

i imported an fbx object i made in blender with light 😦

soo sorry man

[sage talon]

aha!

no worries

[spark vigil]

anyone doing level design in unity with 3D assets for sidescrollers?

example game:https://youtu.be/BP8obzjPLFA

what to use in place of tilemaps for 3D prefabs?

pro builder?

[misty lantern]

Anything that can make 3D meshes, really

Blender, Max, Maya, whatnot

[spark vigil]

Ok I made it. But what tool in unity to use to make levels like tiles

In 2D I use tilemap or spriteshape

What tool for 3d for something alike?

My 3d assets are cubes with textures on them

So looking to snap on grid

Use pro builder?

Goal to make good looking side scroller levels

Like the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv20j8ChtRY

An old school example

[misty lantern]

You can snap any assets into editor's grid normally, if your assets fit the grid
There's no "3D tile" type system deeper than that normally, though I've seen some asset packs include their own functionalities like that

[misty lantern]

Guess you'll need good looking art then

[spark vigil]

That is not a problem

[misty lantern]

The important thing is that the art is made so that it can be used modularly

[spark vigil]

But it's taking to long to make levels

[misty lantern]

I'm making a dungeon out of 3x3 tiles which are either floor, wall or decorative variants of floor and wall

Then just duplicate and move them using the basic grid snapping

You can find / code fancier versions of that, but that's the idea

[spark vigil]

ah tilemap is easier

alright ima find something to make my life easier

or code it myself

[glacial latch]

Anyone here good with fluid simulation in Blender?

[undone finch]

what software should I use for 3d modeling

[spark vigil]

blender

easy man

[undone finch]

just wanted to make sure

[spark vigil]

google will find you more

[tribal ravine]

Damn it blows my mind when i play a game and i realize that every object im looking at has been hand crafted in 3D software

[queen wind]

i cant figure out where to start with player models, the way i have it now just has no clear way of doing animations

id like to have one skeleton that supports all player models

they all use the same skeleton but i cant just swap them out

where do i even start with player models?

changing hand poses when youre holding something, etc

my players are split into a bunch of meshes because mixamo sucks

idk what to do

[chrome lily]

Have you exported it as "FBX for Unity"? or just as .fbx from Mixamo?

[queen wind]

yeah fbx for unity

for all of them

[queen wind]

i just redownloaded one to confirm

thats how it imported

[chrome lily]

Is this your own custom character or a Mixamo Default character?

[queen wind]

mixamo default

its the josh model in that example

id love to have one rig that i can swap oout

because then i could animate that one rig

i currently would have to redo every animation for each character

[chrome lily]

But why is this a problem? Those meshes are probably weight painted with the rig, so shouldn't be a problem

[queen wind]

they are, but i cant swap out characters easily

i have multiple player models

that the player will be able to choose from

how can i have a player switcher and animations when the models arent consistent

every single mesh is its own skinned mesh

and they all have different root bones

id make a class for the bones but

[chrome lily]

Are you trying to make the animations in Unity?

[queen wind]

i kinda have to

[chrome lily]

Why tho make em in Blender

[queen wind]

cant

the players use inverse kinematics

and are vr

well

vr sometimes

other times pc

i only want to animate some things

the hands, for example

but nothing else

[chrome lily]

I'm not an expert on animation but I'm pretty sure Blender has IK

[queen wind]

blender ik doesnt transfer to unity

my ik is like

the hand bones following the controller positions

the head turning

etc

im lucky my players cant walk

[chrome lily]

Take the models from Mixamo and rerig them using Rigify in Blender

Thats all I can think of

[queen wind]

how do people do this oh my god

[chrome lily]

That would give you a consistent bone structure

[queen wind]

well

the bone structure is consistent

the mesh structure isnt

they all have exactly the same rig

[chrome lily]

Ok then just put em together in blender even simpler

mesh

[queen wind]

how tho

thye all have different root bones

theres gotta be a be a better way

[chrome lily]

Then first put the meshes together then delete the bones and rerig em and make em have the same root bone

idk

[chrome lily]

might be

idk

[queen wind]

i hate graphics

why did i have to finish the gameplay part

[chrome lily]

I hate me, I'm bread

[queen wind]

of my game

i literally just want the hands posed

like the fingers

[chrome lily]

then why you need the entire model?

Just chop off the hands

lol

and rig that

[queen wind]

multiplayer

the rest of the posing is handled by ik

[tribal ravine]

my first ever good 3D Model, the Topology is awful, and it doesnt look that great but its a start to a greater journey!

[feral cloud]

High poly
Low poly
Uv map.the low poly
Baking from high poly to low poly with cage

When you export the low poly to Unity or else.. the mesh gets triangulated

[tawdry valley]

pyro-technic squirrel..

what u guys think so far?

[lapis jolt]

[tawdry valley]

due to multiple suggestions his shoes are now orange

[lapis jolt]

cool

did you smooth it ? how did you smooth it

when i use subdiv my whole models destroyed

[errant plover]

Shade Smooth. Sub-div is for close up movie shots or cut scenes.

[lapis jolt]

👍

[lapis jolt]

i do fluid sim a bit

[tawdry valley]

its shade smooth

without

[lapis jolt]

ok

[tawdry valley]

yea shade smooth is tricks and mirror

[lapis jolt]

hmm

[tawdry valley]

if u subdivide ur mesh will be mor complicatd than it needs to be

[lapis jolt]

use auto smooth under normals

[lapis jolt]

mm

[lapis jolt]

makes it better

[tawdry valley]

idk about auto smooth

im still learning blender 😬

[lapis jolt]

this one

[tawdry valley]

ohh let me try that out

nah that doesnt work really..

the faces are still super evident

kinda smooths the edges between faces and thats about it 🤔

[lapis jolt]

hmm

it redefines normals for smoothing thats it

[tawdry valley]

oh u right.. @ one point its about identical to shade smooth

i guess this way u can have a bit more control

[lapis jolt]

hmhm

[tawdry valley]

thx didnt know that ❤️

[misty lantern]

When auto smoothing is enabled you can also right click on edges and "mark sharp" to get even more control

[umbral verge]

Hello, could someone tell me why when I import an FBX file to Unity, all the meshes are upside down? an invisible side and a visible side of the mesh

I am using the 2019 version of Unity

[misty lantern]

Upside-down and inside-out are two separate problems
Upside-down is caused by axis settings being wrong in the fbx export window
Inside-out mesh is caused by inverted normals

[umbral verge]

Hmmm I see, knowing that I am not the author of the FBX project, is it possible to correct this on Unity? or do I have to go through the creator to fix it and redo the export correctly?

[misty lantern]

Well, which problem is it of the two?

I think both can be fixed

[sinful tendon]

Im new to blender and im trying to make this smaller by the y axis (left and right) but nothing is working it just comes out weird

[misty lantern]

Select the edges
Scale and press Y to restrict scaling to Y axis

[sinful tendon]

It only scales that specific edge

[misty lantern]

Select multiple edges

[sinful tendon]

all of em?

[misty lantern]

Or faces

Select whatever you want to be scaled

I'm not sure if your arrows point to just those two edges or if you mean the whole thing
Anyway, scale with locked axes by pressing x, y or z

[glacial latch]

Think you could help me today at like 6pm US East?

[sinful tendon]

Doesnt work

[misty lantern]

It's working for me right now!

[sinful tendon]

Example: I just did it for all of em and they just clipped trough each other to form this abomination

[misty lantern]

If you have doubles or overlapping geometry then any operation can break the mesh

[sinful tendon]

That what happens to me

[sinful tendon]

so idk

I fixed it

[misty lantern]

You have lots of disconnected and overlapping geometry
Generally you can fix it by selecting all with A, then "merge by distance"

[lapis jolt]

no

ask in chat i can help like that

[umbral verge]

I have his mistakes, if someone could help me it would be good

[sinful tendon]

Im trying to extrude in this head but im using the mirror modifier How do I remove that wall in the middle

[lapis jolt]

delete the face in the joining part i guess

[sinful tendon]

Thanks now how did i make the cage hug the model again?

like the black cage what you use to edit stuff

like touch the model

[lapis jolt]

wdym

[sinful tendon]

like how do I make the wireframe touch the model, like floating parts of it

I forgot what its called

the black thing

you use in editing mode

[lapis jolt]

screenshot

[sinful tendon]

Like that black line

There was a way to make them all touch the model

[lapis jolt]

only the original model will have black cage

mirrored version wont

[sinful tendon]

ik

nvm

[lapis jolt]

are you asking about making that floating part touch the model?\

if yes then go to edge select and delet the not needed ones 👍

[sinful tendon]

How do I delete it faces, vericies and edges, non of them worked

[lapis jolt]

send a screen rec of what you tried to do

🙂

[sinful tendon]

delete the floating black line but non of the 3 delete options (vericies edges and faces worked)

[lapis jolt]

hmm

did you go to edge select first?

[sinful tendon]

yes

[lapis jolt]

hmm

then maybe i have an idea

enable this , box select that edge and try deleting

[eager mist]

why all my models looks like this?

I'm getting this warning message

[sinful tendon]

Thanks it worked

[lapis jolt]

👍

[eager mist]

fixed, if anybode have the same problem:

[sinful tendon]

Why is the UV unwrap button not working, I marked all seams but it doesn nothing

does*

[misty lantern]

Did you select all the faces you want to unwrap

[sinful tendon]

Thanks

[misty lantern]

Are you following some guide or tutorial

Because you should!

[sinful tendon]

thanks

I am

[sinful tendon]

Any idea why the color on the mirrored side is darker than the original side

[misty lantern]

It's the edit mode overlay

[sinful tendon]

thanks

[tribal ravine]

no way guys

ive found it

stair_up

its just completely different!

[spice violet]

Hey is there a way to change the axis the transform bases its rotation around? I modeled and rigged something in blender that I intended to use procedural animation on, but I can't constrain the bones properly since the local angles are all somewhat screwed up and tilted from how I need iy

[tulip linden]

how do i use this materials?

[long dragon]

You will probably need to create a new Material and assign those textures on the right slots.
Generally the name of the file helps you with that. But I would say they are in that order: Ambient Occlusion, Albedo, Emission and Normal map

On the Mesh Import Settings, you can also try to see if it already has a Material to be imported together. This way you would not need to create the material. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Mesh.html

[tulip linden]

Thank You

It worked

[old folio]

i have a problem. when i try to create faces in blender with a loop that is jagged a get a weird effect that makes the vertices on the end connect to eachother with faces but i don't want this i just want each individual vertex to connect with a face to the next one.

[eager mist]

very true @old folio

[chrome lily]

#502893580512395264

[misty lantern]

You'll have to do it individually for every two adjacent vertices
Or make a big n-gon like you have there, use knife tool to cut it between the jaggies, then delete the excess material

Usually problems like these are best avoided altogether by keeping topology good

[old folio]

what is an n - gon? also i tried the first thing but it is just really big (that's what she said) so i couldn't be bothered to do it all of it and decided to come here so i might try the first technique

[misty lantern]

Faces with more than 4 edges are called n-gons in modeling terms

Modeling programs can only really work nicely with faces with 4 edges or quads

[old folio]

ok

[tribal ravine]

Hey guys ive ran into this issue where when i import either a blender file or an fbx it isnt properly imported and it has missing face and such

this is in blender

this is in unity

the red circles are where theres missing faces

[outer halo]

Flip your normals in blender.

[slate carbon]

how do i project a grid onto a sphere without disortions on top?

[tribal ravine]

Thanks!

Also should i use .blend files or .fbx?

[outer halo]

FBX

[tribal ravine]

Is there anyway to check these flipped normals in blender before importing them to unity? @outer halo

[outer halo]

Yes, turn on Face Orientation. Anything blue are facing out, red are in.

[tribal ravine]

Ah great thanks!

[quaint seal]

Hey ppl. I am more from the programmer side, but a team mate asks for polycount for characters/assets for mobile games? Can u give me any advices? Some ranges or max?

[errant plover]

Depends on your busiest game play area. Populate that type of scene and run it on your target device. Then adjust as needed. Its also always easier to make something nice and lower the quality later with an LOD or reducing shadow distance or whatever.

[errant plover]

From my experience. Limiting the FPS to 30 or 45 is helpful for battery life. Also don't go over 1 gig of RAM usage. Remember the player is using a tiny screen, they won't notice a difference between a 4k texture and a 1k texture.

[limber haven]

even if your normals are correct, sometimes this happened to me just using the material that the fbx imports with by default, change it to your own material

[tribal ravine]

Ah alright thanks for letting me know

[balmy bough]

"Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones"

someone have an idea about how to fix it?

[untold tartan]

The interior of the trucks is closed, but why does it get light? I couldn't find the solution

[misty lantern]

Your shadow resolution/quality is too low for the shadows to work properly

[drifting stirrup]

I was told if I want to separate objects I've joined in blender, I can just press F3 to search and type separate but when I do this nothing comes up. Does anyone know why?

[misty lantern]

Make sure you're in edit mode

[drifting stirrup]

Yeah sorry I just realiesd that, thanks

[frigid island]

hey, anyone familiar with blender -> unity imports know why my Mesh imports with the wrong rotation?

the model itself looks fine, but the mesh is always rotated like that

[misty lantern]

Unity and blender use different axis systems
You'll have to find a guide or experiment until you find axis remapping settings that work

[frigid island]

ok understood thank you, ill fiddle with it

[young spire]

Hi everyone!

Can anyone tell me what might cause these artifacts on a transparent mesh?

This is a cutout shader

The model looks great with an opaque shader, and these definitely aren't backfaces. The model is coming from Blender as an FBX

Strangely, triangulating the mesh before exporting changes the positions of the artifacts, but does not remove them completely

[errant plover]

Recalculate the normals.

@frigid island Check Apply Transform on export.

[young spire]

Recalculating normals was my first thought as well, no benefit im afraid

[frigid island]

the experimental thing?

[balmy bough]

someone knows how to grab a gun xD?

[young spire]

guns too big for the hands

[slim jasper]

how does the UV map look?

[young spire]

UVs did seem to have some effect on the issue, but it persisted even if I collapsed the UVs down to a single point

[queen wind]

my materials look like solid colors on my mesh

oh got it, i went into edit mode on blender and clicked uv, and then "smart uv project"

[glad jewel]

Is there an artist who can tell me how typical N64 (looking) levels are lit (like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llkQPRJYBqc) Is it manual work (vertex paint) or just very low-res light baking?

[wooden fern]

I have some issues with faces rendering in front of faces that are supposed to overlap them. How can I fix this?

This model was created in Blender, with a texture from Photoshop

Most sources I can find say that it's Z-fighting and the solution is to not have overlapping transparent faces. But I've never seen a grass model like this kind without overlapping faces so is there some way around that?

[glad jewel]

try using a cutout shader, which also seems to be a good fit for your artstyle

[wooden fern]

That did fix my issue, but it doesn't seem to have an option for render face, which I need to prevent backface culling