FMP: Week 4 Friday

On Friday, I had my presentation reflecting on everything I had done so far. I received my feedback and instantly started working on my character model again after updating my blog posts.

One piece of feedback that I had received was to change one of the armbands to beads, to offset some of the symmetry in the model. I decided that I could create the height of such small beads in substance painter later, and just deformed the original armband into thinner strips around the arm.

I also realised that I had sculpted only the area of eye that could be seen under the eyebrow, so I resculpted them so that the eye could be moved around in different directions later.

FMP: Week 4 Thursday

On Thursday, I imported the lowpoly tree for the treehouse into zbrush and used the dynamic subdivisions off and then on smoothing to reduce the lowpoly look and smooth it out while still maintaining the core silhouette. I then used the polish modifier on the sidebar in geometry to sharpen the edges to create a crisper look, which would fit better with the style I want to aim towards:

I then went into substance designer with the intention of creating a tileable tree bark texture that I could import into substance painter later to add more normal information using these two (link, link) video tutorials as reference:

construction of the wood grain with a thin layer of crust

Construction of the branch stump

output maps

Lowpoly tree mesh with tileable

Tileable texture

FMP: Week 4 Wednesday

On Wednesday, I went back to the character sculpt to finish the clothing. I decided to use the cloth modifier in 3ds max to simulate more realistic folds:

I went into the object properties and added the belt and legs as collision objects,
then added dynamic and static friction.

I decided to use the preset for rubber, as I wanted large folds
so that it would fit more with the stylisation of the rest of the model

I imported the cloth into zbrush and smoothed out some of the folds to replace them
with my own using the damstandard and move tools.

FMP: Week 4 Tuesday

On Tuesday I constructed the trim sheet in marmoset:

I baked each individual side with a bevel, as well as the ends of the planks

Then I baked the rope separately onto a tube using a rectangular unwrap

Afterwards, I pasted the rope unwrap into the trimsheet and edited it so that it would tile properly

FMP: Week 4 Monday

For week 4, I planned to work on the baked information of the environment, so on monday I started working on some wooden planks ready for a trim sheet:

plank sculpts rotated slightly to show the ends

I didn't want to deform the shape of them too much, as they would be baked onto a plane to serve in a  trim sheet. I first imported a lowpoly chamfered plank from 3ds max and imported it into zbrush, then used a combination of unsmoothed and smoothed subdivisions to increase the topology without losing too much form. I then used hpolish, trim dynamic and the orb slash brush to create the grain. Finally, I used the nudge tool to add some variation to the surface so that they wouldn't be as stiff looking.

FMP: Week 3 Friday

On Friday, I took another break from modelling and went into substance designer to create a tileable sand texture following this tutorial with some tweaks, with the intention of separating the rock from the sand texture later and then vertex painting it in UE4 so that I can control the rocky locations:

Finished sand tileable

rock shape construction

rock normal map detail construction

rock cracks construction

sand waves construction

outputs

For now, with many of my tileable textues, I have been focusing mainly on the base colour and normal map detail, and intend to go back and tweak the roughness or add more detail later when the environment is coming together more so that I can add a similar amount of detail and stylisation to each texture.

FMP: Week 3 Thursday

On Thursday, I modelled some more small assets to populate the scene such as a shell and starfish, as well as the guard character's prop: a blowpipe spear. I also modelled a highpoly rope by using 4 cylinders and a twist modifier to be baked onto a cylinder.

highpoly rope using 4 cylinders and a twist modifier

seashell using a cylinder with a taper and pathdeform modifier along a helix spline, starfish using a cylinder with shrunken verts.

top of the blowpipe spear

extruded cylinder attached to a plane cut to form the shape with a shell modifier.

The spearhead is positioned to allow the use of the blowpipe hole