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Kat Model Release and Updates
🕑 Added 2021-05-18 08:00:37 +0000 UTCFirstly, after a lot of work, Kat has been released, completely free with no strings, with a model built from the ground up by General Buta and rigged by Mr. X. Opening up for an animation by me in the near future to use her for some high adrenaline gravity defying action! (And so others never have to deal with the horrible mess of the in-game model of her) And because of the no strings release, InfiniteTatami (https://twitter.com/tatami_DAZE) and other 3d model posers that went through hell to get nice renders of Kat are now allowed on a Gravity Rush fanzine coming out soon because this model is built fresh! I'm gonna attempt a render to apply as well!
https://www.gravitymemories.com/
https://twitter.com/AZmaybe9/status/1394020460338188292
Onto some Rendering and VR news! I found out how to scale the damn camera finally! I have to parent the camera to an object then scale that object! I'm wondering about making a soundless VR version and letting it render overnight.
I also figured out how to use raytracing, which is actually the key to getting much more cinematic polish. Funny enough, it never crossed my mind that I was using game-lighting in UE4. All those high quality UE4 projects I saw that looked cinematic were using raytracing of some sort! The Kat pic above is actually using it but here's a clearer difference from Kaiju Club scene alpha testing.
BEFORE
AFTER
So Raytracing takes lighting from game performance style to getting much more cinematic polish like Blender's cycles or Octane renderer used for movies!
Of course as you see the art direction i'm going towards isn't really realism but kinda like a mix with concept art. But look forward to raytracing making things look "Holy shit" in the future! Funny enough, all those lights I put around in the Michiru vid is almost like a remake of what raytracing already would've done so it doesn't really need it and I'd have to redo so much to add it. Also it hits heavy on performance but a DLSS plugin made by Nvidia is just NUTS at using screen percentage tricks to jump 40fps scenes all the way up to 120fps!
I finally got past all my destruction learning/porting issues with Blender. I also learned of resetting normals so the feet don't look badly polygonal!
First the shoe rip I was scared about because my modeling antics usually land me into cursed spots. Just ask my rigger for Kat and he'll tell you I know how to fuck something up real bad. But here, I decided to take this step by step. Keep it real simple. Duplicate the shoes> Cut them in half from top and bottom> Study shoe rip stuff> Try to replicate how messy they are and use a plane and stretch it in weird ways for inner shoe tears still connecting to the top> Use a ton of shapekeys to deform stuff. It came out ok, but I feel like this video is a stepping point towards these things. It's ok that the destruction looks a bit polygonal. It all works and I can get better at it later.
I actually had lots of issues with getting the underside of the wood to have lighter textures than the outside. And it was all because Blender counts its material index from zero instead of 1 so I kept choosing the wrong thing for cell fracture to apply to!
This makes me realize that I should add a camera shot of this happening to the vid from this angle. I gotta work on all the B angles.
Maybe some more smoke will cover up this polygonal wood? Or maybe I need to learn to cut better? Either way, a good try to get more detailed Blender destruction working and ported to UE4!
Now this took some extra time but was worth it. Most of the books in here have real-time physics within UE4 and are gonna be knocked around all over the place! I learned from this earthquake video that even simple stuff getting dynamic physics can make a scene feel more alive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKbH5GEwzk
For mine, I had to have the collision not be from inside the shelves as those exploded the books from the simplified collision. Instead I made a bunch of invisible planes to interact and throw the books the way I wanted them to be at certain times. Same method I did for Yuri's roar in DDLC vid with the cars getting sweeped up by a huge cube! Using invisible basic pieces is a great tactic for... a LOT of real-time physics things, surprisingly.
I also got my 2nd Covid shot of Moderna today! So I'll be far safer from the virus and keep on living to make content. Man, too many people I know had family members that caught it or caught it themselves and have been going through a rough time or just had bad taste for a month. I know I'd fall into full sickness if I got it with my asthma. It's a load off my mind to avoid the damn thing finally.
Comments
AZmaybe9
Yeah. I definitely plan on it! I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Sometimes it feels like people around me don't take it seriously until someone close gets hit.
CrowMagnon
Glad to hear that you're fully vaccinated, especially with a condition like asthma. I lost a really great friend to Covid a few months ago... Just keep taking precautions long enough for the vaccine to settle into your system, and I hope we'll get to keep appreciating your art for a long time to come.
AZmaybe9
Ah, so you want a destructive city revenge story. I'm learning all I can to get up to destroying buildings in a way that looks really good and isn't just simple bad looking building cuts. But there's still lots to learn. So maybe in the future I can adapt this to someone it makes sense to.
Martisfire
Thank you for this detailed post about the progress of the next vid and it look very good. Can i suggest you an idea for a future animation. I think it can be nice to have a girl who have a bad and finaly find something to grow up and crush the city that keep her on a sad life. Like a revenge on the life and also the destruction part on ddlc vid when the blue hair cat girl turn into a monster and destroy the city for her own pleasure. So after my very long message have a nice day and continue to make your very very good content, i love your work
