Chant National

Finally was able to spend a bit more time and wrap up the texturing for this project. The final render was done in #UE5 so that I could get some more experience setting up material graphs. For this one, I used a combination of gradient remapping and material blending.

@ParkerHartzler @J_Lee_Design Oh wow! That’s good to know. I thought that was a hard coded limit.

@ChantNational @J_Lee_Design You can actually go above what the documentation says! 64 x 64 I think is what I had

When you realize 32GB of RAM isn't enough for your 32kmx32km landscape and you need to upgrade at some point to 64GB of RAM but the AI bubble has increased prices by 350% 😵

@ParkerHartzler @J_Lee_Design Yeah. Pretty sure the max number of components a landscape can be is 32x32 though eh? And since you can crank the number of quads per component up to 127. That puts the max size of a landscape at 8129x8129 meters. Unless you’re also overriding the landscape actors scale?

@ChantNational @J_Lee_Design You can actually increase the landscape size by directly increased the "number of components x by y" number, which will increase the resolution the more you add. I create a default landscape of the correct scale first, and then import the heightmap onto the default landscape ~

@ParkerHartzler @J_Lee_Design I think unreal has a max limit of 8kmX8km on their landscapes. So you were always going to need to split them across multiple landscape actors anyways. 32km is ambitious. So best of luck! Hope it all works out.

@ChantNational @J_Lee_Design I'm using a tiled heightmap, so 1009x1009 png 16 bit - and for 32km that comes out to 1024 tiles. What I think I'm gonna have to do is import it in quarters/halves and pray for no seams/stitching issues. Jake also mentioned a great method too!

@ParkerHartzler @J_Lee_Design Nice! Yeah that should put you in a good place then. Might need some simple automation scripts if you need to import them a tile at a time but at least you can tailor it to meet the needs of your hardware specs. 👍

@ParkerHartzler @J_Lee_Design What your workflow? Most landscape systems allow for the exporting/importing of landscapes via tiles. Instead of just doing it as a single mesh/heightmap.

@J_Lee_Design the issue is importing the landscape x_x

@Dubudubonce I think Maddie was saying it ironically. Since in the previous scenes, Caitlyn would always pull away from her. So there never really was any “warmth”.

THIS IS THE ONLY VALID REACTION

@passivestar_ Have you ever shown your rendering/lighting settings? Your scenes always look so clean. 👌

Runtime VoxelGI rebake in Godot

@craorii Favorite would be Marmoset. If I had to go with a free option. I would just use the baking tools within Blender. Since that’s my 3D software of choice. Unfortunately I’m not familier with other free options.

✋3D ARTISTS! tell me your favourite & free methods/software for baking high poly to low poly, go! trying to avoid subscribing to substance again 🙏

@simplynvm I would be down for that as well. 👍

Would anyone be interested in a discord group for working out? Sharing recipes, workout routines, progress and whatnot? 👉🏻👈🏻

@mimi_chio_ If you’re using google. I’ve gotten into the habit of just including “-ai” (without the quotes) with all my searches. It helps.

@Nodemi_ They sure look 3D to me… 🤔

wanted to share how i go about texturing the ruins i make in substance painter, i don't know if these are well-known tricks or not but in any case they are very helpful for me so i hope it's helpful to someone else too!

@JeryceDia That’s awesome! Knew I recognized it. Great work as always. Really big fan of your stuff!

@ChantNational It is

Them Unfinished projects 🔧

@NoContextHumans @egoraptor

@walaber That’s looking like it drives great! When I was playing around with getting a vehicle rigid body set up. I was having issues keeping the car from rolling over during tight turns. 😅

midway through day-2 progress: got the driving model feeling pretty close, and started the environment. i could tweak and play with the parameters all day... need to push myself to move on and get some kind of game logic in.

I'm going to give #LDJam a go! Kinda busy this weekend but let's try anyway. Here's where I'm at at the end of Friday:

@wtfmig docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/clas…

@ChantNational There is a built in thing? Lol

I downloaded godot last night just to see and it was fine. I still have FZero on the brain lol

@wtfmig Well that answers my question. :P

@amandawtwong I’ve always wondered what they meant by that logo.

My first job was Kumon math instructor :\ Even the logo wasn't happy to be there