PERIHELION'S PROFILE

Well, I said easy, but it's relative. 3D art is way harder than programming, but I guess I'm a professional software engineer, so maybe my opinion is skewed. 3D art is really hard, though. I decided I want FF13-quality graphics, and it turns out this is very nontrivial. I think designing excellent mechanics can be hard, and tbh the actual gameplay design is probably the part I'm least interested in, but I'm planning to team up with a designer.

Thanks! :)

There are six of them now:


And here's something unrelated:

I'm taking a break from modeling at the moment to work on some dungeon concepts for my game. These are pretty quick and sloppy, but I'm trying to focus more on light/space/mood than details.

Thanks! I might try blue at some point, I dunno. I think I'm not gonna mess with it anymore until the rest of the model is done.

Anyway, I've been working on skin and eye materials:

Thanks, guys! Here's an update:


I think the bag or skirt needs to be a different color, but I'm not sure what I'm doing with it yet. I might look at it again after I texture her skin and hair. The shirt material also still looks pretty bad, so I need to mess with it some more. I also wanna do some texturing on the metal's roughness map to make it look more beat up and smudged.

I spent a long time on the wool material, but I think something about it is still off. I'm not sure what to do to push it to the next level, though. :[ Using a microfiber diffusion shader to add fresnel (the light around the edges of the sweater) helped a lot, but something is still missing.

Note my clever use of UV distortion to get the argyle pattern and tights to follow the form of her body correctly! I constructed the clothes so the UVs would be rectangular. This is what the albedo map for the clothes looks like: