Kolupsy

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@TuxedoPato I look up your twitter account so often when I show other people my favorite gameplay animation inspirations. Your 2D animation is really good but your 3D is just mindblowing to me. I think the knight is one of the most inspired fighting game characters I have ever seen!

I knew both would be the most popular, but I’m a little surprised 3D has more than 2D haha

This won’t change anything I make, but I’m just curious Which of my personal projects do you prefer?

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@fasthellgenug @gleb_alexandrov You could improve the performance by replacing the python loop with a C loop using foreach_get and foreach_set to transfer the position data between the mesh and GP. this should make the script drastically faster

@gleb_alexandrov It is! However, I'm not entirely sure how useful it can be... For testing, I just converted mesh vertices to GP stroke points via python. The workflow is rather clunky and performance might be an issue (?), but somehow it seems to work:

Is it possible to sculpt vertices (without edges and faces) in Blender? :) #b3d

@lateasusual_ ah true, that does seem like a smart idea. I guess alternatively you could have multiple tiles that spawn in and out, sort of doing the same thing on a macro level. I would really love to try this effect too some time

@kolupsy it's not so hard for the snow, you just snap it to 1 texel increments when moving everything around. I think that's the next thing i'd add to this.

it's not safe to drive in snowstorms #godotengine

@lateasusual_ … which means that wind gusts that have a constant position in world space need to be shifted around in the texture when the camera moves. I feel like this would not be possible with snow as I think it would be easy to tell this shifting due to the texture’s limited resolution

@lateasusual_ I find interesting to think about how different games approach textures for environmental detail like snow, water wakes or wind. I think I saw in the DGC talk how wind vectors in God of War are being stored in a 3d texture that is always relative to the camera…

@pierrick_picaut I always try to make animation as easy as I can using blender but in the end I won’t become a good animator unless I practice and study way way more

Amen!

@lateasusual_ Same, honestly. Any blender feature that isn’t directly useful for gamedev has kind of gotten under the radar for me

it feels like i haven't opened blender in so long 🫠 i haven't even used simulation nodes since they were included in the main builds lol

@andrewpprice Also preserving UVs is not always possible I think, especially when I think about beveled corners or bevels with uneven profile or even cut count. So I think the reason why they are being split is because it gives the most consistent result

@andrewpprice I don’t think you should put in seams before the model is finalized but I have definitely been there so I think trying to preserve the seams is the way to go as I think keeping the islands roughly the same is more beneficial than creating extra strips with less deformation

Blender artists: how should bevels treat seams? #b3d (Vote in the following poll)

@MichaelG_3D Remembering the deadline in a couple hours 💀

Artists! What do you do to get yourself motivated?

For me it is definitely hp first. Because hp means being able to get the artistic vision right while avoiding being limited by technical details. Of course you can still always create a blockout for whatever you are sculpting/modeling. But imo lp is best done through retopo

@MichaelG_3D Haha this is a really fun design! Love it

QRT with your clay renders

@Pavel_Oliva I don’t think them being able to interact is a given, but would surely be cool. I personally would be more interested in adding simulated motion to animation instead of animation to simulated particles 🤭

So imagine simulation nodes + rigging nodes...pretty nice crowd sims are comming!🔥

@rukikuri What also works really well is when you swap out the planes for spheres. I find it hides the flatness of the geo nicely

A stylised tree I made a little bit ago! It makes use of 2D planes positioned on the tree with geometry nodes and tracked to the camera, with dynamic shading :D #blender3d #bnpr #b3d

@lunacidre I received my copy yesterday as well. Oooh I am so excited!

Gaming is so back!!!

QRT your leafy nature art

@merilwenart Oh that’s a great concept. I am sure the environment art is going to turn out amazing 🤌

so happy i got the go from the oroginal artist. check out their amazing work: artstation.com/artwork/04amrY

and so the practical part of my thesis begins.

@lateasusual_ @maskamillion first of: whaaaaaaa? :O but on the other hand does that matter a lot in the end?

@kolupsy @maskamillion blender can't export FBX files, it just exports files that have the same file extension and very similar contents to FBX files. The FBX file format is proprietary, it belongs to Autodesk, blender can't use it.

I love how straight forward and reliable #godot is to use. This would have taken me a week to get right with FBX and unity. All the animations just play, no clunkiness #blender3d #gamedev #indiedev

@lateasusual_ @maskamillion now you have inspired me to look into other exchange formats to power my blender->unity workflow. I haven't really questioned FBX as a suitable format before lol ... I mostly blame the blender FBX export operator for most FBX import related issues

@kolupsy @maskamillion yeah, the issues there are mainly due to FBX being... not the best format lol this is what the import dialog (for .blend files) looks like in godot - has blender-specific options like what to do with modifiers, whether to export vertex attribs, materials etc.