30 Days of Modeling

Long day, but I had to get this in. I got the inspiration from a grim reaper pic. I didn’t use the sub-surf this time (haven’t liked how my previous models looked with a sub-surf so I decided to do without it on this one). I like it without the sub-surf, I just smoothed it. Tried lighting again today.

PS. When should you use the sub-surf and when should you not? Or is it a matter of preference for each individual?

Just a small gardening tool, but I wouldn’t want to face it in a fight.

@williamatics That crack is a nice touch!

@jgonzalez Smoothness in Unity is literally just the inverse of roughness. I’m not sure why Unity decided to stick with that instead of roughness like pretty much everything else, but there you go. If it looks wrong you just need to invert it. iirc metallic / metalness maps are the same in Unity as everywhere else. Don’t forget to set any of the texture nodes in Blender (except the base color) to ‘non-color’, else the results can be slightly off. Another thing is that Blender uses OpenGL to calculate the normals, which flips the green channel I believe. I’m not sure which one Unity uses atm. You can choose between DirectX and OpenGL in Substance’s project settings.

Besides that, sometimes Unity’s renderer just makes the material look slightly different than in Substance / Blender, which just requires some tweaking.

Basic nunchucks

here is my attempt at nunchucks, the chain needs work, etc. but I learn as I go.   This challenge is proving to be more fun then I thought.

Tried wooden handles, but found it too boring, so experimented a bit, trying ivory ones. Took a lomg time to render due to the SSS and I am not overly pleased with the result, but, for one day it’s sort of o.k., I think…

Now I’ll have to skip 4 days, because I’m going to Blenderland, but I’ll be back!