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Quick update on what is happening so far. Lately I have not had as much time to work in substance painter because I have been busy, however in my spare time I have been working on refining the base material which I will use to apply to the numerous textures I have created as part of the scifi collection. Little tweaks here and there mainly to make the results a little more pleasing and less noisy. Above I have tweaked a majority of the masks for rust as well as surface detail variations so that the metal is not too noisy/bumpy. Also reduced some of the height of the peeling paint details since they were sticking out a little too much before. Before it was beginning to look like the paint had been applied in a layer that was 5mm thick. In addition, I added a darker, heavier dust layer which is mainly isolated to the bigger crevices and cracks. I did this mainly to add more depth and make the panels stick out more. Also added details for rivets and "aluminum" pieces. Still need to do some work with variating the dark metal surfaces a bit more though. The brighter metal parts came out good and I am happy with them. Last thing on the list will be to clean up the master material file and make editing paint colors, base metal colors, etc. much easier so that I do not have to poke through the layer stack each time I want to change something. I will do this through anchor points and having "proxy layers" at the very bottom of the layer stack that do not impact the final look of the texture but instead serve as makeshift color selectors. I also still need to add a few more different materials such as rubber, for the textures that include hoses or related parts. Stay tuned.

Quick update... Work is pretty much complete on nearly all of the highpoly models of the wall textures... Just a few more to create and bake out in Xnormal and then I will be able to start making the color ID maps. I expect to have the ID maps done sometime by the beginning of the week after next week. Total number of textures stands at 201, after taking into account some of the walls having minor detail variants. Below shows a few snapshots of the my most recent work:

I want to import a model that had previously many Modifiers in Blender, but all applied and looking good inside the program. However, if I import them as .fbx into the Engine a part from the Model's Hierarchy is broken, and has a too big scale. I think everything else is fine. How do I fix this ? I already used the reliable apply scale, rot and pos in Blender but it didn't work. Below some screenshots of the problem.

A zombie shooter that deserves a try. Steam workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=691701780 Standalone version: https://hisham.itch.io/zombiezi Leadwerks Game Launcher: http://store.steampowered.com/app/355500/Leadwerks_Game_Launcher/

Hi, recently I am working on some new animations for my FPS hands. The problem I have is I have for example a sword attack animation, and want the player to be able to equip diffrent weapons (types of swords). I kind of worked out a solution which works, but I causes a lot of trouble and is not much fun to work with and I cannot believe there is no better solution. I simply put a weapon bone into my rig, then I imported the sword model inside Blender, parented it to the bone to see the sword while animating. Then I export the rig an hand model, afterwards I export the Sword model (in its original position and rotation of course), but if I parent it to the weapon bone, its rotation is weird and I need to manually fix it, or I can't even find the right rotation. I tried fbx export, and leadwerks exporter. I get very diffrent results. I tested this stuff for hours now and are kind of frustrated :(. So far to what I already did. Now my question: What is a common way to do such a thing, as I dont know? Any tutorials, guides how to realise a system like this? How do you guys solve that? Because it is really a pain to syncronize the positions/rotations I have inside Blender, with the Leadwerks dimensions. Thank you in advance for your answers.

After a request by CrazyCarpet in the status update, I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread with a list of 3D Model resources. NASA Models http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models Garage Games http://www.garagegames.com/products Dexsoft https://www.3dmodels-textures.com/index.php?route=common/home Arteria http://arteria3d.myshopify.com/ Gajatix http://store.gajatix.com/index.php?route=common/home 3D Foin http://3dfoin.com/ 3D Sky http://3dsky.org/ 3D Archive http://archive3d.net/ Turbosquid http://www.turbosquid.com/ Psionic Games http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/resources.html

For my towerdefense game I want to allow the player to place a turret into the 3d world with the mouse. I dont understand how to send a raycast from the camera when you click somewhere in the 3d world. For example if i want to place a block on the terrain by left clicking inside the game. Also I dont know how raycasting in general works . a link for that should be enough. thanks Friedrich

hi , how are yours ? well , i have some models animateds in Mixamo , but when i try import to LeadWerks , show error " Failed to load animation " DIRECTORY '-' \ idle.mdl *Please someone can help me ? ;-; //model files = http://prntscr.com/85tj36 // Model imported to LeadWerks Editor = http://prntscr.com/85tjx7 //model editor print 1 = http://prntscr.com/85tkjo //model editor print 2 = http://prntscr.com/85tl2a // error what show when i try import animation = http://prntscr.com/85tluk

"To give you an idea of the character interaction, this special feature will highlight a few parts of a minor subquest. [...] All of you who’ve played a role-playing game are familiar with the standard retrieve item-receive reward type of quest. There’s nothing wrong with those, and as a matter of fact, they are very useful for introducing a player into a universe. Unfortunately, typically those quests are implemented as “Hi how are you – if you get me this sword, I’ll give you 500 coins”, and that’s it. [...] " (not by me, credits go to larian studios) -> http://www.larian.com/Site/english/divinity/special_02.html That is what I have been thinking about, too . In my game which I have no name for at the moment I will implement very complex Interaction inside the world , and also with the Npcs . I know this might seem to be a huge project, but I am very into this so I am going to make a pre alpha in january 2016.

Only rare 3D map and character moving (for now) Maybe I have started this blog too soon, but I want to share my ideas . (also I am a bit bored ) If you want to build something similar like this in your game, please do that . Whats inside the Screen (items with "+" are currently not in the game): The screen itself: The resolution can be changed in the options menu, There is a very smooth vintage and contrast shader to make it look better. Appearently it has a very good look now. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408368927 The map: Some self made assets with the nobiax textures in the workshop* make a good look. There are walls, dead trees and a big stone. all of them have physics and it works quite well . This are low poly 3d models made in blender* . The character movement: (character model itself currently work in progress) It is like in L.o.L. , a top-down camera following the character smootlhly via thirdpersonfollow script. w-a-s-d keys move the character into the directions. The mouse is visible and is used for +spells and other things to interact with the 3D world. Very much work needs to be done in particular here. The +barrels and +chests: Unlike the chest, a barrel can be breaked by the player to see whats inside even when its locked. The chest can be opened if it is not locked and a window will appear showing you what`s inside. The +key: Any key that (wow just want to throw in that the site auto saved this at 12:22:22) is found on the map is for opening a +door or a +chest to explore the world. There is also a +key boundle that can open anything if you are skilled in this. +Npcs: They are a main part of the Game, like story and much amount of interacting with them on surprise or +trading. examples: guardian always watches you not stealing a item, or you will be put into jail. +buttons and +bars: On the screen there will be a health bar, a stamina bar and a mana amount bar. if one of them is empty you can think yourself what happens. The bars maximum amount can be increasid with potions for an amount of time or via skill tree. The health bar in particular can be filled with food, the mana bar with drinks, the stamina bar just with potions but it refills itself much faster if the character makes a short break from running. There will also be a combat switch button, when you are in combat, you need too pull out your weapon, when you are in a friendly surrounding with Npcs they want you to put it on your back. Much more buttons will be available like inventory or equip and much more things...

the Directional Light cast static shadow through solid wall modells. this happens if a light is under a pivot in scene tree view. i do not use the pivot as grouping in scene tree view anymore, it make 10 problems.

i have a 3d monitor where each row is alternate the left or right eye cam. with eye glasses i have 3d, thats really cool in 3d games. its a nice to have in the engine. i saw occulus rift is supported, but this device is very expensive now.

Hello, today i got carrara, a 3d modeller/animator with fbx export for a very cheap price. Carrara 8.5 Pro Bundle offer today -40% http://www.daz3d.com/carrara-8-5-pro +30% OFF on any Purchases Expires: 12/31/2050 Coupon Code: Welcome30 =$128.25

I'm trying to get a 3D character to display on top of the screen as part of the HUD (so unaffected by anything in the scene as if it's it's own scene). How could I achieve this effect?

Hi. My name is Travis, I have been drawing up a "module" as to teaching 3D design of game environments in one2one skype training. I have a gumtree add, too http://www.gumtree.c...ames/1073094247 Look at that for some more details. Heres a portfolio travismuller3d.weebly.com Get in touch with me by email travis_gm@live.co.uk or skype phrygian10 If you are interested in learning how to create 3D models for game engines. The first hour is free, because we will want to make sure you're all set up and ready on your end. After that, depending on what you want to achive we will discuss a fair rate. If you're a complete fresh beginner, then my module will take 2 -3 hours to complete and will cost £20 /$33 /€25 Regards Travis

Just a small update and an information why everything is progressing so slowly with my tools. Unfortunatly (well, not really) I'm currently full of work with my daytime job (project deadlines, new features, etc.) that I'm currently don't have much time to do some private programming. This weekend I have some freetime i will spend to fix some bugs with the batch texture converter and coninue with my work on the asset builder. Hopefully I'm able to post some progress soon.