MagWeb: Mixed Meshes

[RMS]

dude that is so amazing...are there booleans in there too? Or is that all extrude/transform?

[MagWeb]

Sorry, there is only one boolean: I added a sphere to the facescan for I´m no skinhead and hair is very hard to scan.
I´ll examine booleans later.

[RMS]

no worries, I was just curious. Some of the little piston/hydraulic things, I thought maybe they were added in with booleans...can't figure out how you got those with extrude+transform =)

[MagWeb]

Just the enemy the Gnome warrior is going to fight.

Again all done in MM except: forcing symmetry (for dragging/dropping parts and transformation does not support symmetry now and I was to lazy to do the same thing twice), adding different materials to the partial objects, rendering.

This time I made a lot of use of dragging and dropping parts (there are about 170 drops on one half)

[RMS]

aaahhh this is so insanely cool. Awesome that the d-n-d is actually working for you...I have always wondered if that was something people were actually going to find a use for . Clearly the answer is yes =).

Can you give me a sense of how many hours are going into these things? gnome / terminator / dragon?

[hieveryone]

Really cool, congratz.
Did you used the D'nD method you suggested in the other thread to make the the chain?

[MagWeb]

Thanks,

Yes, the chain was done that way. I didn´t stretch the whole selection of the ring circle but transformed only one half of it though.
Then I dropped this part maybe 8 times and made this result a new part - just to speed up things.

IMO this concept of dropping parts is ideal to get equal details. I even used a tooth part to do the teeth as well. There happened some crashes - think for the dropped elements were a bit to big... Be sure to save frequently

Cann´t say anymore how long I did on the Gnome - and there were tooooo much possibilities to discover, some workflow ideas ended up in an dead end...
The Terminator was done within 24hours - guess about 10 hours in total (including some time to reopen strange files - as reported and fixed)?
The Dragon started last Monday and was finished Sunday evening as a spare time project - guess 3 hours a day > 21 hours in total.

[RMS]

Wow that seems crazy fast to me...although I guess that is because I cannot even imagine getting to that level of skill with sculpting...too busy coding! =)

[Patrick3D]

How was the bump map/texturing done and did it take you awhile? And would you please screen shot or something the pieces you used, just curious to how you used them to make that.

[MagWeb]

There´s no bumpmap. All this bumpmap-like looking is real geometry, done using MMs surface brushes.
There´s no texture, only different materials applied on the different partial objects and rendering using AmbientOcclusion (done in a third party app). This was a thing of only a few minutes.
Here are the d&d parts I used to do the dragon. All done in MM using extrusion/transform, smoothing and a few VolBrush strokes.

[MagWeb]

Finally, this is why this little warrior fights the dragon...

All sculpting done in MM starting from a sphere (AO rendering (image 2 & 3) done in a 3rd party app)

[hieveryone]

Outstanding! I like the girl ;
Also nice work on the details for the column and the floor, very good piece overall.

Did you sculpted her directly in pose or you started doing a t-pose basemesh and sculpted her after posing the base? And how did you managed the pieces without the hide function?
Now that there is the objects selection it's a little easier to deal with parts, but to me it's still a nightmare when I have to work on various elements close to each other...

[MagWeb]

Thanks, glad you like it

I sculpted her partially in pose: I started with a d&d dummy to get the rough pose. After rough sculpting out body, arms and legs I cut of hands and head to move them to brush symmetry in a different scene. Done sculpting these parts I imported them back, positioned and stitched them using the zipper and join tool.

Boots, armor,hair aso were extracted/separated/extruded from the body mesh the same way as I did it with the Gnome. The holes in the armor parts were done on the extracted surfaces before extruding them.

Yes, a HideObject and/or GhostObject would be nice, totally agree! (maybe with some "show/hide" icon in the scene browser - similar to Meshlabs layer list). Here I handled this by exporting when I had to work on "covered" areas.
Also to lower the memory load in the scene, I exported all stuff as separate OBJs and loaded only the stuff I needed in the current state of sculpting. (BTW: Wouldn´t a limited number of Undos save resources - not sure)

[hieveryone]

Quite tricky, but it was totally worth it. Congratz.

About the memory for the undo, if I remember correctly you can change the parameters from the meshmixer.ini on the appdata folder. Maybe it's worth some test.

[RMS]

yea the ini file has a memory limit for undo...I think by default it is 250MB?

Awesome model, again =). I particularly like the hair and feathers. It is interesting to see how you use the individual triangles to make detail in the feathers...