Collab2021-WIP-MonaLoren
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Homework Submission – Week 2 – lantern
This was an intersting and exiting week of sculpting. I had a lot of fun. But now I´m running out of time and I have to call it finished.
At least for this week. There is a lot to improve.
First I tried to get familar with the behavior of the brushes (and working with graphic pen of course).
Then I used the voronoi, scrape and crease in these order part by part of the lantern.I also used the voronoi to simulate rust. Mostly in the edges.
I had a lot of respect for the details, and did these steps at the end.
I had some trouble with distortions but could solve most of it and I am not so happy with the glass and will definitely change it.
There is so much more I could do and need much more practice, but for now, I am happy to got it to this point.(Note:made changes in the meantime -see screen on next post, and syn. with GoogleDrive)
I have changed something on my lantern body. The glass frames are slightly larger and the glass surfaces less structured like a honeycomb but sligtly wavy.
I didn’t like the structure.
I made a new brush and use a Wood Texture with Band-Pattern.
Now it looks more like my own old windows from our old shed;)
( sync. with GoogleDrive)
Week 3-Day 1 / cleaning to match Low/Hig Versions + UV`s
Because I changed the high-version little bit, expecially the body part, I had to fix some parts.
Unwrapping works perfectly.Thank you Kent for the hints and tricks in the streams. Helped me a lot, because earlier I struggled bit with these handle part. I tried AverageIslandScale but was not so satisfied with the result. I tweaked some parts a little bit for more space on the UV.
Now I was curious how the normal map will work. Only the top part so far.
1024px Normal- top part (scaled down)
and some bake-tests: 512px / 1024px / 4096px / 4096px scaled down to 1024px with interpoloation none
Interesting: 4096px has a more sensitiv behavior with the ray distance…I guess because of the pixel density
But I am not sure if it is really a better result with the scaled down one.Have to do some more test, if I have the time. Also I want to try to bake the normals with cage.
Cage baking / top only
both 4k normal map images scaled down to 1024px
the second normal map ist baked with cage
Hardly to see on the screenshot but now there is a difference- have a look to the lower edges
Normal Map and top-part / second one with cage https://gyazo.com/79c2f9f977de3aaab0ef5e5d2edb83d5
https://gyazo.com/065223633d9fba3b331f0884132b217f
I had the idea to work with several UV maps;).
But for now I stop testing and bake my normals.week 3-Day 3 / Normal Map and Cavity
1. New UV Map
2. Baking Normal: I baked with Cage and high resolution(without the body-part)
Had some issues on every part but all could be solved.
With the exeption of the body.I was a bit too strong with sculpting and now there is a problem with normal baking.
Would take too much time to correct all these tiny things and the mesh wouldn´t be cleaner.
So I decided to redo the sculpt part of the lantern body.
3. Cavity Map with Dirty Paint Vertex
Same. Issues on every part.
Noticed the “Dirt-Only”-button in the settings of vertex paint.
I used it for the handle part, because it is soo flat that there were almost no contrast.There is also a setting ” Blure Iteration”. Set it to 2 just for testing. Seems there is a little bit more contrast now.
Some annoying behavior cost me a lot of time to resolve.
Often I saw no baking-result. Tried a lot, check all setting again.
Solution: the image texture had to be reloaded in the image editor. thanks for that 😉The lantern-body-part isn´t bake so far. I redo the whole part.
This is my result. Perhaps I bake some maps again. Depends on the result of the node-setup.
And I really hope I can finished it soon, because I can no longer ignore my home and garden 😉Update: Okay – just saw a mistake on the UV (grmpffff). Bake again!!
New sculpted lantern body part. Hopefully now the normal map will work better.
But this evening I’m not trying anymore. Need some sleep 😉
Homework Submission – Week 3 – lantern
finished normal and cavity map / baked on high resolution 8k/4k and scaled down for GoogleDrive to 1024px
That was a long way to the normal map with a lot of doing again and again.
To do the sculpt of the lantern body again was a good decision, I still need several attemps and it tooks some hours to bake a decent normal map.
For the cavity I used DirtyVertexPaint, was curious how it works.
The DirtyVertex gave me different result for each part. I adjust the brightness.
Kent said there is no color map needed for the lantern – we use the cavity.I made a simple material and also a glass material.
So it looks so far in EVEE with a little point lamp und sun.
Now where I can see, how the maps going together I am not sure about the metal. I am not really happy with it.
Sculpting the body part for the third time? I`m not sure. Maybe a painted color map is necessary after all?
On the other side I am totally happy to got an result this week at all. Was not likely two days ago.
Still a lot to do an to learn.
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