#adventures in meshing

[fade-touched-eezo]

Listen, I swear I will quit posting terrible screenshots of half-baked blender mashups of dragon age meshes at some point but not until I have finished with the goblin victory screeching because I have finally o b l i t e r a t e d that fucking chainmail from the dalish outfit. Can I explain why that detail, of all the many, many inexplicably stupid things in these games, has personally enraged me for the past nine years? no. Can I force everyone silly enough to follow this zombie account to behold my absolute crimes against everything I was ever taught about making meshes for gamedev and-slash-or game modding? yes. Also once more let me express what a manifest tragedy it is against me, personally, that Frosty doesn't allow me to hack at the cloth meshes, and that this apparently means I can't make my little buttflap dalish dress into proper Inquisitor armor.

also also please god someone stop me from attempting to replace the ef (and em, and probably definitely hf) arms with the buff ones from the qunari outfit i'm begging you

[chamerionwrites]

When will someone gently take all the internet food bloggers by the shoulders, look into their eyes, and explain that coconut milk is not a neutral-flavored dairy substitute

[marshmellobunny64]

Marcille

[citricacidprince]

Adventure time au where everything is the same but the only clothes Simon and Marcy could find in the apocalypse came from Spencers

I just think they deserve to have father-daughter bonding/trauma time while looking absolutely ridiculous, is that too much to ask?

Don’t ask why I put so much effort into this, I was in a wild sleep deprived state 💥

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Narciso Anasui Preliminary Poll

[cad-faoi-maeglin]

I think Entombed has some serious missed Tech x Phee potential. Like, they're all dropped into a space Zelda dungeon inside a Devine Beast of Mass Destruction (R.I.P Mel) to go Indiana Jones some artifact, and you're telling me this wasn't the perfect time to have their two areas of expertise come together to get them through?

Yeah, Tech would need to learn the ropes on how to handle a puzzle dungeon and the knowledge required would probably land more in Phee's wheelhouse of cultures and legends (though to be fair, there are instances where Tech seems to also be knowledgable about the former at least), but I'm inclined to think it wouldn't be impossible to write some puzzles that require the two of them to put their head's together.

Considering how little screentime the two get together, I don't think it would have hurt to place the emphasis on their interactions here. This scenario could have been such a good way for them to start making heart eyes at each other while solving puzzles that the others can't keep up with becuase it requires the kinds of weird niche knowledge these two have. And even if they didn't want to go so far as heart eyes, then it would have been a good (and entertaining) way for them to establish a mutual respect and an understanding that they make a good team.

[simlicious]

I'm feeling adventurous and tried sculpting with the cloth brush in Blender. It's such a game changer, just wow. In maybe 20 minutes I went from base to what you see below. Incredible. And this is my first time using them. I just wanted to get a nice texture bake from the high poly sculpt for my base mesh, but I definitely love how dynamic that sculpt looks! If I'm feeling totally reckless I might attempt a retopology of it... but I'm not sure I want to put myself through that kind of torture just yet 😜

I talk more about the project under the read more!

But then again, I already changed the base TS4 mesh a lot and did the entire UV map from scratch. Some people would consider that torture, but I weirdly enjoy it. I also found a great way to turn UV maps into squares (thanks, UV toolkit add-on!). The UV's need a bit of finetuning afterward, but it's definitely less work than doing the process by hand. I tried to make a really low drop-sleeve. I know the bones will give me hell but I will paint them on myself. Hopefully, it will look okay later. I still want it to be a chunky wool pullover and have to be careful not to overdo it with the folds though. Even if it is so much fun to add them. Must. Resist. In case you are wondering about the base mesh, it is this one: you can see that they avoided doing a low sleeve at all costs (it looks a bit funny how tight it is around the shoulders and how wide the sleeves get, no one would actually knit like that but I bet they did it because of the animations.

Does anyone else feel peeved about the way the TS4 knitted fabrics look? It's so cursed.

As a knitter, it's really hard to tolerate even looking at those weird alternating stripes with way too low of a saturation. It would look tons better if they just had used the light vertical V's without alternating them with a darker shade. If that is supposed to be imitating a ribbed texture, that's such a fail (where are the purls??). Maybe they had a brioche stitch in mind? I doubt they did much research on the basic knit stitches before they made the texture. Huge missed opportunity, and kinda sad for a pack centered around knitting. The ribbing on the hem looks nice though, I give them that.

But enough rambling about that, I'm not going to use the texture anyway. I want to update my TS3 CC meshing workflow and have been learning new techniques here and there. They just need to come all together and I need a few projects that I actually finish to solidify the workflow. Once I figure it out, I really want to make tutorials about how I do things. That's the plan (that was the plan for this year, in fact, but realistically, I should make it my 3-year plan instead). I'm not even attempting to finish anything mesh-wise to the point of release at the moment (so don't get your hopes up yet). I'm just playing around and learning and trying new things. I need to reduce my anxiety to actually work on projects at all, and if I don't have a public release on the back of my mind, it seems a bit easier :)

[lavampira]

hoo boy I’m having a real one with alia’s canon lol

[beansnpeets]

Getting to see the sled dogs yesterday was a much needed pick-me-up. I am realizing, though, that my favourite dogs tend to be the wildest ones 😅

I am going to need my own team this year and some of the younger dogs still need training. That's why he brought me on to help out in the first place. I am kinda hoping Suka and Bruce can be on my team. They are crazy assholes, but gosh I do love them. They are good boys. I also really like Kita. She's such a crazy little thing lol

But my absolute favourite is Steel and he is a nice chill boy. He is my buddy. We got a lot of bonding time last season and I just adore him.

Of course I adore Echo, too. I also really like Raiden. Obviously I love ALL the dogs, but they are all unique and I get along better with certain dogs.

[marchsage]

full faith that dia and silver would get along extraordinarily well and go to proteam omega cons together

[findroleplay]

sorry you're bored and have been having bad luck, this is my ad but it's for you, you should rp with me, mod /lh

Thanks Anon, that's the struggle with rping small fandoms and rarepairs lol Just go ahead and DM, let's see if we have some interests in common, why not?

[nixie-deangel]

@redfurrycat the crochet mesh market bag inspired by Hulk/Halloween! 💜💚 I love her y'all!

[papaiyatree]

thinking about what ian flynn said about issue 56....

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Jolyne Cujoh Definitve Preliminary Poll

[jo-does-things]

This has nothing to do with anything but I do occasionally think about how CS Lewis's world is so focused on the East we have a tonne of lore and maps between Narnia and the east end of the world and then to the West its just.... Forest and mountain I guess???? BUT then Tolkeins world everything faces West. From Erebor West to the end of the world is mapped and we know language groups and lore... and then the East is just.... Desert and forest I guess?? I wonder if they ever had discussions about their worlds being connected in their writing group. Personally I think the Blue Wizards wound up in the Ettinmoors and got eaten by those fucking giants from The Silver Chair.

[fictionadventurer]

@freenarnian The cranberry sauce turned out beautifully! And smells divine!