Why Barret Fires a BB Gun and more Insights into his Character Model

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This video is a breakdown of Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. We discuss his square design, his textures, his low-res and UVs, the concept of mipmaps and reveal a few areas of improvement for the character model.
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00:00 Introduction
01:55 Barret's Design
06:00 A Few Curious Choices
08:05 Details Maps (or Lack Thereof)
10:48 Mipmaps and UV Padding
16:28 Dogtags
17:20 Frayed Edges
19:34 Low-Res and UVs
22:26 Conclusion

[@Outgang]

A Huge thank you to everyone who has supported me on Patreon! I have decided to close the Patreon to focus completely on creating content over at outgang.studio. Thank you once again for those who pledged!

[@calatte]

I will lose it if laura does a breakdown of reno because he's so beautiful

[@windupfran]

Square Enix has been a source of inspiration for me ever since I was a kid and I started watching your videos (and ended up subscribing) because of these FF7R characters insights, they're fascinating. I've only done illustrations and some personal concept art but I've been trying to look into 3D art and game dev in general so I always get excited when you upload one of these. Also, it was hard not to notice the very familiar architecture in the background the moment the video started 😆 I hope you enjoy your stay here in Lisbon, excited to have you in Portugal!

[@Outgang]

It's a wonderful country, thank you for receiving me :) Cheers!

[@spittingame4241]

I love watching videos like this. It's very informative. Instead of gamers talking about their opinions about the game. This is real insight of a game day of breaking down the inner workings of a game.

[@hishouha]

The dog tag for Marlene made me cry 😭❤️❤️

[@ThousandBlade]

So hyped for that Sephiroth video!!!!

[@Droniys]

Wow, this is very useful content for understanding the work processes. It's nice to dive into all this inner workings and realize that even such big projects have the same "mortal people" working on them. Thank you very much for this opportunity :)

[@ViciousHomunculus]

Welcome to Portugal Laura! 🇵🇹✌🏻 Hope you're enjoying yourself here!

[@Outgang]

A great deal, what a wonderful country.d Thank you Francois!

[@lucasleme2944]

I absolutely love your sense of humor, it makes watching your videos even more enjoyable. You do an excellent job, I'm glad to have you creating these awesome contents. Thanks!

[@Outgang]

Adobe Bridge. I use it so I can see TGA thumbnails.

[@side3169]

Ohh damn! You're in portugal?! I'm from portugal, what a pleasure to have you here! Hope you have an awesome stay :)

[@lauragallagher3187]

❤It's been wonderful so far

[@itsbaguette]

SO excited for your Sephiroth breakdown!!

[@Outgang]

I'm editing the video, it should land in a few days.

[@michaeldychiao13]

Barret was my favorite model from the game! He has so much realistic detail. Thanks for this! Love your content! Hoping to see an Aerith breakdown soon! Currently working on a 3d modeling porfolio and Aeriths dress from a rigging standpoint would be amazing!

[@Outgang]

We'll look at her after Sephiroth :)

[@michaeldychiao13]

@@Outgang Sephiroth hair and Aerith dress! Yes! I have to say, I cant express how much I appreciate you! Thank you so much for doing what you do!

[@neiremberg3280]

love the concept of the video !

[@lalunafate]

Really loving these breakdowns, can't wait to see more !

[@MikaMausArt]

They did such an amazing job with this one as well!!

[@oomoulee6156]

Another great video, cheers. Have a great time in Portugal

[@vacajairorobersvaldo4117]

hey welcome to portugal!

[@kzlkrallk961]

Really in love with your concept of making videos. Just opening one of them like a podcast and doing some retopo work. And thank you for informative approach of yours!

[@shanjeevan142]

always waiting for your videos

[@danielmauriciotorogarcia5783]

Very interesting your explanation about mipmaps, thank you very much

[@patriciaoberg148]

Fantastic video! I love Barret!

[@PamonhasDePiracicaba]

Great analysis! I love Barret.

[@Mrrikardo1997]

Let's go Lauraaa, you love to see other people appreciate Portugal!

[@AlissonPS]

Love it, thank you!

[@adrient104]

Thank you for the refresher on mipmaps 🙏 nice & clear take on it. Your charac analyses videos are realy welcomed, thank you for making those. And good time in Portugal!

[@Outgang]

Thanks Adrien! I'm having the best time ever here haha.

[@jessica-ru9ly]

im super excited that u uploaded and am gonna love watching this!! (ps, id still love a reno review!! his hair is especially interesting to me but no rush as ur on vacation ^^)

[@pixbstudios]

I really liked the frayed edges, his head texture and also the eye looks so good with high texel density.

[@unreal-forms]

duuude! i enjoyed this! thanks Laura , ur the best

[@deoclicianookssipinvieira5858]

Lovely!

[@jros2721]

cool insight as always!

[@ricardoduplos]

Welcome to Portugal!

[@JaB_ESP]

I love watching these videos of the characters from my childhood, how you break them down and show the detail of their creation. VERY interesting all. Enjoy your stay on the peninsula; )

[@Outgang]

Thanks JaB! Pleasure to have you around the channel.

[@c0tton336]

Hey, Laura. Just want to say that you have just been GLOWING in your videos lately. Beautiful!

[@Outgang]

I'm having the time of my life right now :)

[@BackseatYT]

Love all the FFVII Remake breakdowns, but I'd absolutely be down to see any other series too. E.g The varied starting classes for Elden Ring (to get in on that SEO). Either way I'll watch no matter, the mix of Information, Commentary and Trivia / Easter eggs uncovered in these videos are always a treat.

[@Outgang]

We'll do Sephiroth, then Aerith, then move on to another franchise. I'm honestly super hyped for Elden Ring but I don't know when I'll be able to play it so I may have to skip the SEO piggybacking on this one :(

[@killingerblue]

Not me crying over Marlene’s dogtag 😭😭😭

[@marcelofigueredo8233]

Oh you're in Portugal? I lived there for a year, loved my stay there, hope you like it too! Also, your breakdowns are great and full of insight, thanks for the videos!

[@Outgang]

Portugal is an amazing country. Cheers Marcelo!

[@SilverWolfDawn]

i'm slowly cracking into your videos because i love final fantasy and i love behind the scenes stuff on how games are made, but this is the first video i felt like i mostly Got everything. i know nooooothing about modeling so it's a lot of staring in glassy-eyed fascination as all of these terms fly Right over my head. I liked how you explained things in this one, extremely helpful to see the demonstrations and understand what mipmaps and texels are. I'm absolutely w i l d to see a Sephiroth breakdown, I can't wait for that one to come out

[@Outgang]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment Okami! I'm glad to know the video was accessible to you. The channel was originally aimed at those who already have bases in 3d and are already familiar with a lot of these terms but I'm trying to produce more videos such as this one that's meant to be more accessible for beginners. I'm glad to know I'm going in the right direction with these. Cheers!

[@dick8997]

These a super interesting even more so since it's ff7. You do a good job on these

[@KarelChytilArt]

Inspiring channel

[@Maranatha2216]

these videos are the best

[@3D-Amir]

Love your videos. You are excellent 👍

[@chocobosROK]

Hi thank you for taking the time to make these breakdowns! Just curious, are the UVs split on the hard edges to get clean bevel highlights?

[@Outgang]

I just checked the model, they're split in the sense that the video card splits hard edges, but there's no gap between the UV shells where there are hard edges.

[@chocobosROK]

@@Outgang Interesting. Thanks for replying and looking into that!

[@NicNico]

please do Aerith next, I'm super curious

[@winkillgab]

Super intéressant Laura! Ton channel est vraiment inspirant :) Keep up the good work P.S. Jaloux de ton trip en Europe ;)

[@georgey2632]

Love your videos! Even though I'm not a 3D Artist (a mere software engineer in fact) it's always interesting to see how much detail is put into character models. Just wondering, did they do anything special with his gun (right) arm? I'm guessing the arm is fully modelled and cuts off at a particular point, and a separate gun model is attached to the end of the arm?

[@Outgang]

Yeah that's right. The arm cuts off at a specific height and the guns are separate interchangeable models

[@slothsarecool]

Super cool as always! I would love to know how the detail maps from the Tifa one are selectively applied to various areas, just some mask map? Anyone know?

[@Outgang]

They have one detail map per shader and that detail map is masked using a texture.

[@Sihbus]

You're in my home country!!! enjoy :)

[@Outgang]

I very much am :)

[@Faizaud]

About his spare cartridges and their size relative to his weapon, I would imagine the clip on the gun is more of a housing or compartment that you would slide the next clip into. So the size makes sense in that way.

[@murrowboy]

I've been waiting for Aerith for so long...

[@Outgang]

I think we'll do Seph, then Aerith then move on from FF7R

[@murrowboy]

@@Outgang Should you try Yuffie? She is part of the sequel to FF7R so it'd be interesting to see if they've made any changes.

[@Outgang]

@@murrowboy That's a good point, models done later in production are usually better realized. I'll think about it!

[@mark-ge2yl]

Red xiii next? Great series!

[@Phantomyre]

That's very interesting how overall shape can bespeak a character's personality or traits... So that means Vincent Valentine is a triangle-- chaotic and associated to 'evil' which oddly fits him. Also YAY SEPHIROTH!

[@ProxyDoug]

I always assumed the other dog tag was for Dyne.

[@masoudrashidinezhad9429]

Hairstyles really suits you. Please teach texturing of hair

[@shytut]

I think the frays being modelled out is for better lighting/shadows

[@krz9000]

How about a metahuman, character creator analysis for a future video. Rig fidelity, tweakability and its limits for stylized chars

[@Alexander_S_K]

If by the end of the game i heard Barret scream "Marlene" or "planet" one more time i would seriously lose it.

[@marcusk9483]

I love these videos. You do them very well. I hope you make enough money not to starve.

[@Outgang]

Nah I do intermittent fasting anyway ;)

[@swarmX]

can you clarify what exactly is a detail map? i was under the impression thats what a normal map was, but clearly in your example overview of Barret that doesnt seem the case.

[@Outgang]

Check out my video on Tifa: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6PFmGuFZ857lZI

[@apehunter1]

How is the best way to implement mipmaps.. do you use a third party software to compress the images properly

[@Outgang]

Modern day engines do those for you automatically. They get created when a texture is imported in the engine.

[@ardyolt9788]

I don’t know if this is just me, but the patreon link with the description doesn’t work, just as a heads up

[@RoshaFR]

It would be so nice to know where to get those models :) please help

[@krz9000]

Thats just a Google search away...Russian site...starting with p

[@vahagnandreasyan298]

How many UV maps they used?(and udims)

[@Outgang]

One for the hair, one for the head, one for the weapon, 2 or 3 for the body.

[@Ahmed-og2jm]

Is this the ps4 remake or ps5 integrade model maybe they did improvements to him in the ps5 version if that's not it

[@Outgang]

That's a good question and a good thing to investigate. Thanks for asking.

[@sidar87]

lmao the bullet being plastic explains so much.

[@ben1805]

In the Ultimania book the devs stated that the internal mechanisms of the gun arm were modeled even though they’re not visible. I was kind of hoping we were going to look at his actual gun arm in a bit more detail :(

[@Outgang]

I just looked inside the gun, there's nothing in there. Here's a picture of the gun's wireframe: imgur.com/a/JdBMxfr

[@Outgang]

The stuff on top of the gun is all visible from the outside.

[@ben1805]

@@Outgang Oh interesting. Maybe they took it out to save on budget since it wasn’t viewable. Thank you for checking!

[@radimirk364]

[@skye738]

That's not a bullet, thats his carmex. Tactical carmex.

[@garienza]

Soooo... When will we get the sponge bob breakdown like you promised?

[@Outgang]

When it's ready ;)

[@rar7437]

Would you consider breaking down one of the creatures or summons from FF7 remake? I know this a more of a character focused channel but maybe a more humanoid creature could be interesting to break down and contrast with one of these more grounded realistic characters. Love these model break downs Very insightful.

[@maxpowers2785]

I seem to notice that Barret doesn't have armpit hair which is kind of odd. I mean he's hairy. Thick beard and mustache, chest hairs, I even noticed he has hair in his forearms. Is it a design choice or a technical limitation? Sorry for the dumb question..hehehe

[@Outgang]

No it's not dumb. None of the characters have armpit hair. Armpit hair would likely stretch really badly when characters raise their arms so they probably decided not to have it for that reason.

[@phantomapprentice6749]

Oh that other Barret , nah DX Barrett had great design also

[@Outgang]

Thanks, I had a lot of fun modelling him as well.

[@lovyovich]

Aerith ? 😭😭😭

[@Outgang]

Oh she's coming :)

[@lovyovich]

@@Outgang :')