selfie with cat and succulent, 2025, 1507 tris

Thanks everyone for the help with modeling the cat!

#retrographics #retro3d #3dart #n64graphics #psxgraphics #blender #unity3d

Facial animation with drivers in Blender! Same technique as https://web.archive.org/web/20240616021616/benjones.us/twilight-princess-eyes-breakdown/

The "control panel" is just custom bone shapes.

#gamedev #retrographics #retro3d #n64graphics #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedevtip #gamedevtips #photosim

I spent hours struggling against a moonwalking bug. No matter the input direction, the character would always move backwards.

Somehow, deactivating the item parenting script (which manages the camera that the character is holding) fixed the issue. Turns out the character was colliding with her own camera all along, and continuously getting pushed backwards.

Happy belated #wipwednesday I guess!

#photosim #jankstation #n64graphics #retrographics #unity #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #wip

I can't seem to find a way to post this privately. So I might as well just put it out there.

I'm working on this #photographysim thingy for a cool community demo disc. It's still very janky and broken, but that's just what my stuff looks like when it's under construction.

#jankstation #N64graphics #retrographics #blender #unity #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #wip

Little duckling and little chair. Relax with vaporwave music!

https://www.tumblr.com/dimalink/762680174565343232/little-duckling-and-little-chair-relax-with?source=share

#blender #n64graphics #lowpoly #3dworld #3dscene #3drenderer #simple3d #vaporwave #space #duckling #pond #grass #clouds #goodtime #relax #musictime #swiminpond #freetime #friend #travel #armchair #chair #orange #goodmood #positivevibes #retro #nostalgia #nintendo64

I experimented with subdividing a skybox quad by hand but keeping its UVs intact. Followed by baking a new small texture in the new vertex positions to give more texels to more detailed regions in the texture.

It produces an interesting result but I find the sharp details a bit jarring. Maybe it would work better as a subtle effect.

#n64 #n64graphics #blender3d

After copying/studying most Zelda OoT characters, it's time to make my own N64 characters.

Meet "Pottery Man" (inspired by a Portuguese sculpture).

He's friendly, calm and stubborn and will avoid conflict.

He's a great tank, yet fragile, because he defends himself and his allies with roof tiles (that he made himself). #Blender #N64 #n64graphics

Emboss Bump Mapping experiment.

#N64 #n64graphics

Just adding a 2x multiplier to colors seems to help a lot when blending textures with vertex colors. Avoids the muddy early CG look.

#n64 #n64graphics

A new occlusion culling video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3LqC1v4q8

There's now a simple BVH for frustum culling of both objects and occluders. It's still on the slow side but definitely works!

#N64 #N64Graphics

Experimenting with the most basic bounding volume hierarchy for frustum culling. Trying spheres instead of straight AABBs this time.

In theory I like how compact the tree can be made but given how very conservative it becomes (see the second picture) it seems to make sense for moving objects instead. Rotations don't affect the radius unlike AABB so it's a great fit there, not for static level objects.

#n64 #n64graphics

Worked a bit on occlusion culling again. Seems to work OK for a small scene with two rooms. Still a few glitches.

In the video the white transparent boxes I toggle on and off are oriented bounding boxes (OBBs) of objects that are used to test them against the software rendered Z buffer.

#N64 #n64graphics

I'm becoming a real boy

#3dart #3dmodeling #n64graphics #lowpoly #lowpoly3d

Also I'm deep into a rigging rabbit hole right now. I'm trying to get my rig/model to work on multiple engines and platforms, not just #Blender and #unity3d I've always loved #Rigify for its widgets, but it takes some work to convert Rigify humanoids to the various other humanoid rig formats out there (#Mixamo, #VRM, #Mecanim).

How do other 3D artists make cross-platform humanoid rigs?

Looking like there's promising progress on getting vertex shading back into Godot 4 I'm so happy to see this #Godot4 #GodotEngine #Godot #Retro3D #LowPoly #PS1Graphics #N64Graphics
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/83360