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Not for this one.

It's whatever you want it to be! I totally improvised it. 😁

BoxCutter ;)

Here's something for you ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ6ol6iPp8p-has

I guess someone already asked me this question, but to be honest I don't remember. I would say, if I'd gather all the raw video rushes recording without all the cuts when I literally do nothing... XD Maybe 10, 12 hours.

@@PolyQuest damn that's so hard

Hahaha! You're not the first one telling me this, and I can't argue about this, I totally agree with you. This is what happen when you're going into modeling process without having prepared your work first 😉.

@@PolyQuest This is very true, though you are still light years ahead of me in that I cannot in any medium create anything original beyond my mind. For whatever reason I cannot visualize something enough for me to be able to create it in any fashion, and even if I could my hands can't translate. I think really all this thing needs is more room in the trigger guard and not as many spikes going into the palm and you're golden!

I've started a new playlist on my channel. Go check it out, there's something for you ;) kzbin.info/aero/PLx0YPSMilpsnwU6TW_xWmGm4EgF4sFLOV

It depends of what you think when you say "good for making game asset". IMO any tool that can help you to go faster and get rid of all the technical issues you would encounter is a good tool, whatever the purpose, Game Asset, CGI... If you need a tool to quickly cut and model shapes for hard surface model, this is exactly what you need. If the question is: did I already used the tool for game production? Yes and it works well :)

Not at all. Only beveled angles, so I don't need to care about edge loop control to maintain geometry shape.

Thanks! I do plan to publish some real-time commented videos, so people will have more time to understand what I do. But if you want some tutorials about the main tools "HardOPS" and "BoxCutter" you can check the KZbin channel of the creator of those tools: "masterxeon1001", here: kzbin.info There's also a really good introduction to HardOPS from Gleb Alexandrov here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioW2d5apmbKGoZY With those two links you should be all good!

@@PolyQuest Thank you :)

Thanks, That was not the main goal, but anyway what makes you think that this topology is unusable for VG ?

@@PolyQuest i mean video game

@@TheEnzoManuel Yes, I understood it well and so that was my question "what makes you think that this topology is unusable for Video Game" :)

@@PolyQuest in VG u should have triangle only to close loops

@@TheEnzoManuel Not at all, this is really an old fashion way of thinking video game 3D production. ;) First, keep in mind that every model is triangulated by the game engine, so in the end, everything will be made of triangles. And secondly: it only depends if the model you're doing is going to be animated/deformed or not. If you're doing characters/creatures, that are ment to be rigged and deformed, you'd better go for an evenly spread edge flow with quad polygons, so you'll avoid artifacts on deformation spots. And yes like you said you "should use triangles to close loops" if needed. For static meshes and hard surface modeling, you can go for triangles and even Ngons on flat surfaces as long as you triangulate the mesh before exporting it for normal map baking and as long as you keep the same triangulation for the baking and the final ingame model.

If you talk about the yellow and red boxes to cut out some parts of the mesh: yes this is from BoxCutter. :) You can always do it by hand, using Boolean operations, but it will take more time and be more tedious for some specific cases.

@@PolyQuest ah, thank you so much! I'm trying to get better at hard surface. a bit of a struggle :P

From the Screen it looks like he used hardops -> Operations -> circle E But if you wanted to do it without hardops i'm fairly certain it's vertex bevelling -> to sphere on individual selections mode

Yes, BonetheBaker get it, I'm using this HardOPS function ^^

@@BonetheBaker oh ok thanks

@@PolyQuest cool video by the way

As far as I remember when I did it for Substance Painter, I did a copy of the Gun where I did combined parts together before exporting. In the end I did had something like 5 objects.

I will! It's just a matter of time, I've got a huge videos serie to come, stay tuned ;)

Hell yeah boiiiiiii.

a bit late to the party but i subbed.

I guess I've started hard surface by the end of the previous console generation (PS3/XBOX360). That was not to become an killer hard surface artist, but because of the very specific technical requirements to get a perfect hard surface game object. Back then it was a trendy topic, there were no room for approximation, and everyone was trying to understand and find the best way to bake hard-surface normal maps. I did came back to this kind of thing in a more intensive way not so long ago and also because I've been working for a video game company that make sci-fi space ships :)

Just started with an global idea in mind, but nothing too specific.

Thanks mate! To be honest, I don't really remember how much time it took. I would say, if I'd gather all the raw rushes without all the cuts when I literally do nothing... XD Maybe 10, 12 hours.

@@PolyQuest damn

For this one, I just got a mood board with many different hard surface sci-fi references, but the whole modeling was improvised from scratch.

The music or the drawing? I don't know about the music, I just dig into the free music library given by KZbin Studio ^o^

It's always a matter of time. Of course you can do pretty much all the things by hand, but it's a lot of time used for adding and tweaking modifiers and less time to create things. Any time something can save me some actions in my creation process I go for it.

Hey Monica, this is a function available in the HardOPS Add-on, function called: grate. It's pretty convenient to do... grate XD

@@PolyQuest Thank you!

This is 90% freestyle. I did have a very vague idea of a "shape". For this one as I can remember I was thinking of a shape of a vintage Coca-Cola drink machine... As you can see the result is pretty far from the original idea XD I've also gathered a mood board to get inspired for the materials.

@@PolyQuest Working on reducing time between impulse and result so I'm looking for viable hard surface workflows. Thanks for the response!

@@PolyQuest This just make this work +10% cooler

Yeah, email me at [email protected], I can give you a link to the original rushes, if you want. But I got to tell you that it's long and boring without any comments or any sounds XD

Thanks mate! I can't agree more with your comment. This timelapse, like the other ones is totally improvised, I was just 3D doodling with a vague idea of the final result, I didn't take the time to prepare anything, and like you can see in the video, I didn't go back and forth, it's just straight forward with no coming back. So yeah, this design don't make any sense :D It's more about doing things with no purpose except having final 3D model done quick. Like I've said to other people in the comment section, I'll be back soon with a video serie, where I'll take more time to think of designing things.

Thanks! Yeah, I've dissmissed this part, because this is not a very appealing process to see in a timelapse ^^ There's one rule to follow for hard surface unwrapping for game objects: you have to split your UVs where you've defined hard edges. I'm actually working hard on a video playlist that I will post on this KZbin channel. The process will be in real time and I'll be taking my time on covering topics like UV Unwrapping and Texturing, so stay tuned!

Stevans Robert oh yeah! Definetely that’s a clever approach! Thanks for the tip, really usefull. Looking forward to see those tutorials! Cheers🤙🏼

@@PolyQuest It's been almost a year and a half. Any ideas when this video playlist will get released? Thanks.

@@Puckerization Still working on it, I'm reaching 34 hours of recording, this will be a huge project, working in real time condition, and I'm only recording and editing the videos on my free time. I would like to keep the subscribers up to date by sharing the evolution, but unfortunately I don't have enough subscriptions to do it by using the social tools of KZbin (maybe soon). So because you're asking, here's a sneak peek: drive.google.com/file/d/1CuGpUhVIDHm_IYTfa7ZJ3Y3oH8JYaKos/view?usp=sharing drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Jn_pIOCVF-cwn4N_-mqEYbvQAy4qSp/view?usp=sharing I hope I can start releasing the firsts videos by the begining of september. Thanks for your patience ;)