COLLAB2021 – HQ – Stylized Fantasy Environment

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel 👍👍 to your basic rules 👍👍

@ladymito I’m with Omar in thinking it’s too early or too limiting to implement a firm poly count. Rather the principle of achieving a good silhouette and form with minimal geometry should be enough to guide us. Of course we will all have subjective interpretations of this guidance and if we run into drastically different interpretations we’ll have to figure it out as we go.

I think Omar’s on the right track with his suggestions too.

[David Soares]

ok, I will check the thread and video.

[William Miller]

I am taking the EEVEE cloud course in case I get assigned to the clouds.

[Angela]

Looking forward to April

[Omar Domenech]

Kent, how’s the count? 

[Dave Hudson]

I am somewhere between beginner and intermediate, but this project looks like so much fun. I signed up yesterday, and it’s nice to be part of this group. @theluthier – I live in Taiwan, so I will be trying to join the LiveStream at 2:00 AM. 😁 But very excited.

[Kent Trammell]

Welcome to the team, Dave! Youch – sorry to hear about the stream time being at 2AM 😖 No hard feelings at all if you can’t make it. I’ll be sure to post stream recordings within 24 hrs of broadcast.

[Kent Trammell]

We’re up to 90 registrations as of today!

[Kent Trammell]

Same! Welcome aboard 🙂

[Kent Trammell]

[John Sanderson]

I’m just gonna go ahead and assume you were doing the above dance as you counted them. Seems right. 

[Johannes Hellwig]

I have not been subscribed for a while but this project sounds very interesting! Nowadays I model most things in Maya but for a group project experience I am willing to work in blender (which I think is an awesome piece of software!). I will sign up right away!

Edit: I signed up. I selected House but solely because I could only select one. I would be equally happy with accessories, especially the  wagon or waterwheel! Can’t wait to start!

[Shawn Blanch]

@spikeyxxx consider me stupified !!!

i like how you said it was easy. I’m going to probably have to start small with those nodes and mute all until I see what they are doing individually to wrap my head around it but I get the general idea.

so along those lines of having to duplicate your boards over and over again…….what-if I use my trusty array modifier friend on one board……(or shingle or what-have-you)? Will the seemless texture work on all of the array’d members?!! Because if that is the case I have a great idea for interior floor plans muahaha.

i’ve been coding an ultimate gridz engine in serpens over the past 3 months and it’s almost perfectly working on groups of objects. I’m dying to test out your shading explanation on it. I could make a decent board, or shingle or stone and then plug in your seemless shader and Bob’s your uncle, we have interior/exterior walls, floor boards, shingles, stairs, etc…,

i’m getting giddy now.

[spikeyxxx]

what-if I use my trusty array modifier friend on one board……(or shingle or what-have-you)? Will the seemless texture work on all of the array’d members?

The fact that I didn’t use an Array Modifier on my example should give you an indication, that that wouldn’t work here; even if you’d Apply the Modifier, all elements would still have the same Origin….so the same Position…

I’ll have to think about a way to do that….

[Shawn Blanch]

What about instancing the object to a parent vertex and arraying the vertex or a plane and showing the instances?
I’m going to have to play around too……

I definitely know that if it has to do with the object origins that I can totally code in to complete the array modifier and separate all objects and then set all of their origins to geometry. That’s not too hard with the code that I already have developed.

My Gridz engine will allow to array multiple selected objects at once so I have already figured that part out. Since I made it, technically I feel fine using it in my workflow. Who knows maybe I find other things to code along this learning journey….

I’m definitely going to play with it this weekend though and see how I can marry the two work flows.

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