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>>1025537 (OP)
What is this thread for?

i'm so fucking tired i want to go to bed but i must improov how should i stay up

>>1025539
Used to be a regular thread. Questions like how do I get free models, how do I download jpg, how does rotate work, etc, all trivial "how do I" questions that clutter the board for zero general value go in there where they are easily answered and found by further questioners while keeping more interesting threads from falling off the board

>>1025539
hehe

>>1025539
Dedicated to my BWC and impregnation duties.
>>1025609
This cute girl over there will have a taste of it first

Blender 4.0+

Does anyone know how to select bones in weight paint while in paint mask mode? Online says "alt+lmb" or "ctrl+shift+lmb" but none of them work.

>>1025712
it's alt+lmb in the latest version, I don't remember when they changed it
you have both objects selected? parented?

>>1025713
Both objects selected and parented.

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>>1025713
I can only bone select if I'm bone-select mode, which I guess makes sense. But I only need LMB for that. I want to select bones while in the other 2 modes. It's gay having to keep switching. Holding alt or ctrl doesn't work in those cases.

>>1025715
You have this problem too?

anyone here have speedpaint for someone who make creature like monster from MH or other stuff?

why doesn't symmetry work? why do i have to use a mirror modifier instead? what is this shit?

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I have a cartoon eye I want to morph with shapekeys, but I don't want to distort the pupil texture. How can I do that? I don't want a procedural pupil either. Just a texture.

>>1025804
You obviously need to separate it into its different components, retard

when u add a new mesh in blender where do set the amount of subdivisions like how u do it in the attribute editor in maya or whatever? it's blender so i assume i have to install a plug-in or something...

>>1025884
nvm i figured it out

>>1025892
how did u do it? i had to go "edge -> subdivide" a bunch of times and that was kinda ass cuz like what if want different amounts on x and y tho?

>>1025537 (OP)
>>1025537 (OP)
in UV unwrapping, how do you set the selected orange things to be in a precise unit or scale? i can't get the life of me to align it on a texture. say there is a 512x512 part in a 1280x1280 texture that i want to fit the orange box to, how do i line it up perfectly?

it's all scale and rotate and grab and distort everything and everywhere in blender. I know i am doing this wrong or using the app wrong, but can anyone enlighten?

>>1025930
Assuming Blender

In the UV editor press N and you will see menus on the right. In the Image tab you can see the coordinates under UV Vertex. You can type in the coords into X/Y or move the vertex manually.

By default uv coords are displayed between 0 to 1 so if you want pixel coords, go to View tab and check Pixel Coordinates. Keep in mind the origin starts from the bottom-left, not top-left.

I wouldn't worry too much about "perfect" alignment anyway, nobody will be able to tell if you just eyeball it. There will always be some slight distortion unless all your faces are perfect squares and you are a god.

>>1025870
>separate it into its different components
What does that mean?

>>1025961
awesome, thanks! i'll try it out later. and yes, blender. trying get some pixel art seamlessly wrap in some kind of tile and coming from a 2D background, i guess some old habits still hold me back. im just too anxious

What do we think of Topogun?

>>1025980
Use it if you're a fulltime retopo slave and your boss wants you to use it. Otherwise use what you're comfortable with.

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Besides CGPersia, The Course Busters Telegram and online-courses.club, where can I find premium courses for free?
I'm specifically searching for this one: https://www.wingfox.com/c/9248

>>1025984
>bunch of blender and unreal crap
grody, but maybe somebody uploaded to bilibili

>>1025981
Let's say I have a one-off project as a VFX artist and I want to pick up any program to retopo a complex ZBrush sculpt with, for this one time, as fast as humanly possible.
I've experience in ZBrush & Maya, but have lost all the memories (like quad drawing) and can go in any direction.

>>1025992
Just use zbrush or maya if you're doing a single sculpt, I hear zbrush has a new retopo tool too

Okay so this is actually exactly what I was looking for since I've got a simple question, does anyone have examples of what good seaming and UV mapping looks like if I want the most bang for my buck in terms of texture quality relative to texture image size

I'm better at learning by looking at examples over watching tutorials, though I wouldn't mind tutorials too if you guys have a good one you would suggest
All the links that relate to information in the UV section of the pinned thread for the board are dead, so that doesn't really help me

can i post or did some

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>>1025537 (OP)
has anybody successfully installed reallusion character creator 5 and iclone 8?
is there a portable version without doing all the hacky stuff?

A couple people on another board keep asking me for socials but I have none as they all seem completely shit. Which is the least shit site I can join to update my few followers?

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>>1025537 (OP)
How do I go about changing the colour of a texture without impacting stuff like dirt and stains on it?

>>1026026
You don't, not unless you have the source files with layers.
Best you can do is mask stuff out as much as possible and wing it.

I started only a couple weeks ago. Does anyone have advice on how to do irregular shapes on faces? I am trying to make an intricately shaped keyhole for example (not just a trapezoid cutout with a circle cutout on top), but am struggling. The best way I can think of at the moment is to draw the shape into the mesh somehow and use a mirror modifier so it is symmetrical. And even in my plan I am not sure how to do that correctly either. And I want to avoid shrinkwrap and boolean fuckery if possible.

>>1026032
Learn boolean proper.

>>1026032
what does your current attempt look like?

>>1025537 (OP)
How the fuck do you rig and animate an eel? I've modeled a dumb simple eel in blender but have been at a loss for hours. There is next to zero tutorials online for how to do anything 3dcg for any sort of marine life, let alone eels. I could use snake rigging techniques but those don't exist online either. I ask Chatgpt to scour the internet for me and it is at a loss too. I just want something simple so I can make a png sequence and use it as a sprite sheet.

>>1026247
Nevermind I made something satisfactory. Just extend one extra bone on the end of your chain and turn off deformation for it. Then apply the damped modifier to the one right behind it and make it target that end bone. Then go to the bone behind the modified bone and give it the same modifier, only targeting the modified bone in front of it. Repeat this for the rest of the chain all the way to the base. You can do this while modifying or go back through after, but you then need to make them go down in influence approaching the base. Highest influence on the bone on the end that targets the unmodified non deformative bone, lowest on the base. Then you can move the base and have it ripple in a wave behind it, I'm sure you could tweaks this to your liking and experiment with influence. Also, if well modifying you get an issue where bones start pointing towards each other and look weird, just undo it and retry to select your target. This is a simple yet versatile rig that can work for eels, snakes, tails, some tentacles, and anything similar. Only downside is that you can't export this but you can always bake animation and you'd likely want to do this procedurally anyway for a 3D game. I personally needed it for a 3D visual rendered as a 2D png sequence for a spritesheet so I didn't have to worry about any of this. Never give up anons.

what is efficiency?
like, if i can add detail with more verts or more materials/textures/shaders, what is the rough exchange rate?

i know it's a dumb question because it varies by engine and implementation, so lets say its a game that has to actually run on normal hardware. For another example, i could use a transparent texture to make a leaf, but i could also use more geometry. which way gets me more leaves per scene?

how do I add tripleA(tm) detail to a model that i box modelled from scratch? there's nothing to bake down from.

>>1026364
Duplicate the box model and sculpt it full of details, then bake that down

>>1026363
Alpha blended transparency costs tons more than alpha testing/dithered transparency which costs more than no material transparency.

You'd think that means you should overwhelmingly favor tons of small polygons but on GPUs specifically triangles that are very small on-screen cost proportionally more resources so they should be avoided for real time rasterization. They're better for ray tracing though!

More different shaders cost more.

Triangle counts aren't that much of a big deal unless you've got costly modifiers or tons of models

Instance all you can as GPUs can accelerate that massively.

In Blender some modifiers, especially subdiv, perform much faster if they can be done entirely on GPU that means no other modifier, constraint or parenting that needs to read back from the post-subdiv mesh. The relevant modifier will display a warning that it can't run on GPU. That means if you use vertex parenting on a subdiv mesh it might be better to just duplicate the mesh without the subdiv, make it invisible, and parent to that. Or just set subdiv to 0 in the viewport when you need realtime feedback

>>1026374
I see, thanks!

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Im doing an animation course, and when i load this ball.blend they sent, it loads normally, but when i append the collection in a new file, it creates this WGT-ROOT, WGT-ROOT.001 and circle objects, why does this happen?

>>1026388
Depends. There's usually two versions of those objects: The ones actually used on the rig itself, and the ones that are just there to serve as reference for the rig's controls.

Click and see if you can get in pose mode from there. If there's no option for it, then it's the object. Hide or delete that as it doesn't affect the final rig.

As for why it happens, I don't know, I personally haven't found a workaround for it, so I assume it's just a "feature" of Blender's that they don't plan on fixing anytime soon.

>>1026388
Since this is deffo the p2design ball rig, make sure to watch chapter 02_15 to know the difference between linking and appending, as it'll explain exactly why you can see copies of all the used widgets.

Basically because you appended, it copied every mesh widget it'd need to *edit* that rig in the scene. Thoses extra meshes are the meshes referenced by the custom bone widgets, hidden in the original file.

Instead, you should link, not append, the BALL collection from that ball file, and it'll link it to the scene in a configuration where all those auxiliary meshes are in a hidden collection. Then right click the collection in the outliner and choose library override->make->selected and content. Then you'll be free to animate in pose mode.

>>1026390
>>1026393
thanks, that clarifies a lot

and yes its the p2design Alive! Animation course

>>1026393
Yeah, that's another key difference. to look out for.

I normally append, which is why I get those extra widgets, and why they showed up in your example here >>1026388.
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I don't remember where I found it but anyone know if there is an updated version of this?
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BkXOBk0yyhApFJANP4x0AL2mAQ1f5UHA

>>1026497
Anime Nyan's discord maintains it

>>1026498
neat, thanks

>>1026002
Basically efficient mapping can be done with SmartUV unwrap and then tweak so that important areas get more real estate than bland/unimportant areas. If most of your model is symmetrical, mirror that part so the texturing is more efficient. Just make it one square texture if you can for portability.

>>1026032
Make an outline of the hole with vertices, extrude out, merge vertices so it's a hole in a plane and extrude down to make the hole deeper.

>>1026363
Less polygons is usually the key unless the textures are huge or harder to manipulate. If you're making shit for games you'll learn how to make it in such a way that it's easy to decimate the poly count for levels of detail while maintaining the basic look.

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>>1025537 (OP)
How do you get trains to follow curves properly? Especially ones with bogeys or tenders, they seem to all react differently. Yes they're all following on the same axis, all the origins are where they should be pivoting.

Weird place to ask something like this, but idk where else to go. And apologies for the shit gif quality, had to compress it so my demonstration would fit.

>>1025537 (OP)
Whats the proper workflow for animating game animations? How do you animate boring loops like characters leaning over a desk, standing and waiting for a response, etc, and have it not look overly static?
Should I be doing longer loops w/ less variation, or many short loops with lots of variation (3-5 variants per "action")?

How in the FUCK do I even advance in environmental 3D modelling/design?
I understand the blockout/greyboxing phase but once I reach the baking and texturing I'm pretty fucking lost.
Everywhere I look, I can only see blockout tutorials and tutorials about adding props, details or instances.
The part in the middle seems to be extremely gatekept for some fucking reason.

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so i modeled this simple tv object.
Now my next step is to export the png of it so that i can import it to a game i made this for.
The texture has two materials atm. The body of the tv is grey. The second material is grey, but i lowered the alpha channel to make it see through.
So i want to export the the texture of the object as a png so i can import it to the game.
i asked chat gpt for help and it had me bake the texture and unwrap the uvs using smart unwrap. But the issue is that when i export it from the image editor, its just a black square. How do i bake a material with a lowered alpha channel in addition to the material for the rest of my tv object? Goal is to have a png of the texture that has the lowered opacity of the tv screen and the color of the tv. thanks.

>>1025537 (OP)
Is there a polyquilt version for Blender 3.6, or something equivalent to it? I'm looking to speed up my modeling process a bit and I'm tired of doing everything by hand. My two most consistent time sinks are rigging and retoppoing (texturing too but at least that's at least semi-interesting). I'm planning to use rigify to address the first issue but the retopology market seems to be a bit more contested.

>>1025537 (OP)
any tutorial series for creating game ready stylized characters like nintendo?

PLEASE I'M GOING MAD WHY DONT HTE SCULPTING TOOLS HAVE SHORTCUT KEYS VISIBLE ANYMORE I CANT SEE THE SHORTCUTS

fa/tg/uy here.
What is a reasonable price range for commissioning 3D sculptors to make STLs for 28mm miniatures for printing?

I decided after getting a 3D printer and Wash and Curing Station to try commissioning a 3D printing sculptor for two 28mm miniature STLs.
He said he was gonna charge seven hundred plus US dollars for those two models.

Now I know that 3D sculpting and with the added caveat of STL printing in mind means a big thing, but I wasn't expecting this.
I think I am in the wrong for complaining about the price but at the same time I'm wondering if this is actually the reasonable price.

Wish I was a Saudi Arabian oil baron's kid so I didn't have to do normie shit like being financially responsible.

>>1026803
I'm sure anons here will crucify me for saying this but the truth is that if you wanna make your own custom minis and don't plan to sell them on a marketplace, just learn a solid 3D gen workflow through ComfyUI.