Part 3: Tex and Sim
Done modeling, got some early textures and experimenting with the cold head nitrogen release sequence. Testing out some methods how I could do the smoke, flipbooks, animated texture arrays, or openVDBs. Substance painter recently updated and broke everything to no one's surprise, so I had to restart multiple times.
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| Good program 👍 |
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| Flipbook |
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| Texture Array (GIF) |
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| OpenVDB (Physical Smoke) |
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| Material First Pass |
Part 2: Hi-Res and UVs
Haven't got to a first bake yet, but I'm practically already there, using the CAD refacet, I was able to get down to 21k as a first pass without any effort. Making good progress.
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| Plasticity Viewport |
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| Blender Viewport |
Part 1: Blockout
Starting work on the Siemens MRI Machine, getting a quick blockout of the scene just to get some early scale
UE5 Blockout
Part 4: Renders
Sneak peak of the cinematic. And Plasticity renders.
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| UE5 Render |
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| Final Plasticity Pass |
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| M-777 Howitzer Ref Board |
Part 3: Materials
Finally getting back into it, for this part, I wanted to begin with my first bakes and textures, just to get a better feel of what the final model might look like.
Did some bevel shader baking from Marmoset to Painter, it came out pretty nice.
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| UE5 Render |
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| Plasticity Progress |
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| MMT Bevel Shader |
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| M-777 Howitzer Ref Board |
Part 2: Early Sim
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, I am a bit behind on the model right now, I'm not worried as I will be compensating this loss for part3 . Thankfully, not all is lost, I made some progress in other areas. I created the early prototype for the firing simulation within Houdini. I plan to setup an entire animation within UE5 using the alembic pipeline.
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| M-777 Howitzer Ref Board |
Part 1: Blockout
This project is significantly more difficult than the Hubble Telescope, so I really have to make sure my forms are strong from the start. By now, I'm pretty married to the CAD workflow, I've been able to model 3x quicker than I would even at full speed on Blender. By now my pipeline is near instant, I don't even have to export anymore.
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| UE5 Render |
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| Plasticity Blockouts |
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| Blender Scale |
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| M-777 Howitzer Ref Board |
