escaping the lab - *.obj for download added

[Tim Leydecker]

[Tim Leydecker]

[Tim Leydecker]

[Tim Leydecker]

[Tim Leydecker]

[Tim Leydecker]

[El Nacho]

Hi Tim,

Going back to you soldier character, the folds on the pants, did you do those with XSI and Syflex?

Im trying to get a realistic cloth effect of military pants with the ends in the legs tucked into the boots, but its really hard no to get folding and bending all the way to the top of the pants.

I just want part of my pant geometry to bend, but Im having trouble acomplishing this.

any help would be appeciated,

Ignacio Barrios.

[Tim Leydecker]

Hi Ignacio,

somewhere between those earlier posts should be a scenefile
for XSI 5.1 adv, containing a trouser leg and the lower points
tagged and made a constraint for the syflex cloth.

I used that as a base for modeling, creating simple solves and
taking the snippets I liked to remodel the geometry.

Nowadays I guess it would be faster to create a very simple
shape for the trouser and throw something like Maya NCloth on it.
I´ve heard good things about NCloth´s useability but haven´t
had a chance to play with it myself yet.

You could also keep it simple, model the boot and trousers tucked
in quite lowrez and just paint it in ZBrush, then recreate that
topology once you´re satisfied with the look. That´d be a mess
(for retopology is still a bit tedious) but should give you the most
control in case you´re after a specific folding or look.

There´s this other character, the guy from "The Blob", I still need
to finish sooner or later, I´ll see if I can provide some more tips
while working on that one. Mind you, I´m working full-time currently,
at least until late July and therefor won´t do _anything else but:

*drive_work_drive_sleep_drive_work_drive_sleep_sle ep_drive_work*

Cheers

tim

[Tim Leydecker]

Hi there,

been working a bit regularly for the last four months,
which led itself to having not much time for doodles left.

Cheers

tim

[Tim Leydecker]

Hi there,

just finished a really nice gig at a german postproduction studio, then
took a few days off from everything else, for just playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Sort of getting back into the mood to tackle all the stuff left in the *.lab.
I mean here, alll this unfinished business is a thread...

Whatever, somewhere on page 1 is an *.obj for download, maybe I
should download it myself and finally find no excuse to do something
with it? Or just start something else and once again dump it here?
Maybe I can reuse stuff? Isn´t that one of the marked ZBrush3 highlights?

*re-frankensteinize-and-zombify-everything-I-set-my-mind-on*


tim




PS: power! (I did play too much S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? Naaaaaarghhhhh)

[Tim Leydecker]

Now that I´m coming back to those old topics
I´d really appreciate a good tutorial for creating
derelict brickwalls, urban decay and such stuff
using ZBrush. The below sketch is what I´d like
to model as a base (as in those dioramas I fancied
as a kid, like the 1:35 Verlinden way of Volumes).



I remember Taron doing a terrain in a *.mov but
can´t find it on disk anymore, there was also a
nice tutorial on creating tileable 3D geometry
using a sort of wrap around brushsetting in ZBrush?

Cheers

tim

[billrobertson42]

Pretty easy really (there are a few threads on it, maybe a quick search will pull one up).

As a start...

Create a document (square?), draw on it, but avoid the edges. When you get a good chunk of it done, hold down the ~ key, and then drag the mouse. That will drag the current layer around. Do that and put a corner in the center, and keep drawing, again keeping away from the edges.

Oh, and I really like the look of the last two images.

[Tim Leydecker]

Hi Bill,

thanks for the tip. I tried it but I can´t get the
[~] to work, as I´m on a german keyboard where
[~] is only available by combining [Alt]+[Shift]+[+].

Or maybe I´m just to dumb to click [AltGr]+[+]...

Whatever it is, another nice way I found by mistake
is to enable [wrapmode = 1] in the Brush menue.

That works quite well on square, flat gridobjects,
the only bugger is you can´t just use [grab doc]
but´ll have to export [clr>txr] or displacementmap
to get a square, tileable result as it is nearly impossible
to create a gridobject that´s _exactly document size.

The other tutorial or *.mov I meant seems to have
been from Ryan Kingslien, I found a few of his movies
but not the one where he does tileable 3D bricks
(using the above wrapmode = 1 brushsettings).

About Taron´s clip where he drops geometry in PM
to create or alter a terrain, haven´t found that one either.

Will thought, sooner or later...

Cheers

tim

P.S: Am glad you liked the concepts, if only my meshes
would get closer to those in terms of pose and power.

[jmeyer]

Hi,
on german keyboards you have to use ö instead.

[Tim Leydecker]

Ah, o.k. [ö], I`ll try that!

Thanks,

tim

P.S: Let´s see what [ü] and [ä] do, too :-)