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[kitheif]

           
I laughed WAY to hard at this.

[Woodwolf]

Minecraft-like spider that I modeled and textured for a tutorial that I still haven't uploaded. I need to finish it.

How did you texture that thing? I'm learning Blender right now and it still magic to me :D

[keo]

Minecraft-like spider that I modeled and textured for a tutorial that I still haven't uploaded. I need to finish it.

How did you texture that thing? I'm learning Blender right now and it still magic to me :D

see thread become enlightened

[SolarLune]

How did you texture that thing? I'm learning Blender right now and it still magic to me :D

Well, like the post that tramp linked to, I would use an image of a nice size, like 128x128 or so for a 4x2x2 object (if I recall). Then, I would unwrap the object. You might want to do it yourself, placing seams to influence how the UV-map is unwrapped. There's also the LightMap and Smart UV Unwrap settings, which seem pretty good about placing the maps so that each face is present on the UV-Map. If you go this route, you probably want to try the 'Smart UV Settings' one. I've been meaning to try chunky pixel-art textures with an object that's been unwrapped with the LightMap or Smart UV Unwrap settings, but haven't seen the disadvantages of it yet.

The easiest way to pixel from there is to use Texture Paint mode and just draw directly on the 3D object - a very nice advantage of Blender.

[keo]

I've been meaning to try chunky pixel-art textures with an object that's been unwrapped with the LightMap or Smart UV Unwrap settings, but haven't seen the disadvantages of it yet.

I was using this method a lot, without marking seams, the problem I found is that I didn't know the orientation of the uv to face, and it's relation to other uv's.  edges took on the color of adjacent pixels, which created ugly tears in the model.  This would also cause conflicts while painting if uv islands were touching eachother when they shouldn't be.  I think the problem is in Snap to Pixel, I think the UV edges are just a tiny bit too far out, thus picking up the color of adjacent pixels.  I don't know if that's been changed in 2.6.2.

[SolarLune]

Oh, the problem's not with Snap To Pixel (I don't think). I believe that's just the nature of UV-maps - they aren't 100% accurate, even without mipmaps enabled and with Snap To Pixels. You can change how much the color bleeds when painting in the Toolbox. I believe you can specify the margin each island should try to keep from the Smart UV Unwrap menu, as well.

[nospoon]

1. UV's need to have the same 'ratio' as Face to look good.
2. If you are aiming for minecrafty pixely thing, and you are experiencing some weird artifacts at the edges of the textures - DONT use snap to pixel - you need to snap to pixel and then scale the uv's to like 0.998 .
3. For unwrapping I recomend the normal 'unwrap' method.
You need to experiment with the 'mark seams' option.
The smart uv unwrap is sometimes buggy, and you dont have enough control. (but its ok for fast unwrapping)
I like the "Lightmap unwrap" but it does not preserve correct ratio, but it fills the uv space very well.

[Hawt Koffee]

A walk cycle for Husk

http://huskdev.tumblr.com/

[peanutbuttershoes]

his stride is too focused on moving his legs up instead of forward.

his stride is also to small.

his elbow is jerking.

[John Sandoval]

A walk cycle for Husk

http://huskdev.tumblr.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY&ob=av3e

[Hawt Koffee]

his stride is too focused on moving his legs up instead of forward.

his stride is also to small.

his elbow is jerking.

I know about the elbow and I've been trying to fix it but can you elaborate the other two?

[RamSteelwood]

maybe it's just a 'trick' caused by the gif being a frame short for the loop or something,  the right leg seems to 'pop' forward faster than the left?

as for the stride though, the model looks a bit 'stylised' so there's no reason why the stride can't be too - they seem to 'fit' for me.

[xrabohrok]

as for the stride though, the model looks a bit 'stylised' so there's no reason why the stride can't be too - they seem to 'fit' for me.

I'm with you on that one, it's a little too abstract to make a judgement call on the "rightness" of it.  His stride seems to communicate a happy-go-lucky sort of feel, if that is what you are going for.

[threesided]

Hawt Koffee, that's a really nice model and walk anim, but I agree with the crits given.

Spent an ungodly amount of time on this, was supposed to be a quick study, but turned into a multiple hour project. Mostly happy with how it came out, but it could be improved still I think.



Some earlier progress shots, for those that are interested:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/AlienQuark/muppet_me_03.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/AlienQuark/muppet_me_02.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/AlienQuark/muppet_me_01.png

[John Sandoval]

Hey folks, I've got a question (okay, two).

I've got a hankering to make an isometric game in the somewhat far future, one that would require each multiple angles for each animation. Think Xenogears.

What 3d modeling program would you recommend for me to use to create frameworks to pixel over? IE, so that I'd only have to create the run animation once, in 3d, then simply rotate it for all the required angles and pixel over each, as opposed to creating all the animations from the ground up.

And is this a good plan of action?