Something Tasty...

[Steve Elliott]

Really nice art style.   

[Derron]

I know about the triangles... Yet the right pane has some oddly placed triangles ( two on the line).

Bye
Ron

[iWasAdam]

oh Derron 

OK, now this IS tasty...


At first look there is nothing interesting, or is there?
Maybe possibly a 2 sided 3d sprite (transparent object) casting the correct shadows with the transparency intact? Well I think it's tasty anyhoo 

[Qube]

One of your pixels is wrong

[GaborD]

Yeah that totally distracted me too.

[Derron]

oh Derron 

Wasn't this a valid question I asked for the triangles? I thought it might be some other marker of whose function I am still not sure about. Or that the display-function of the triangles calculates stuff incorrectly.


bye
Ron

[iWasAdam]

slowly bringing in bump mapping - this is absolutely NOT right, but is starting to give some interesting results:


The thing I like here is the way the mapping has picked up some light giving a nicer look. I've also added some noise into the scene.

Nothing fancy, but it's starting to 'look' the way I want

and from the grey of before to the full color of today, complete with dual textures, bump mapping and colored decal:

[iWasAdam]

first loaded object 

No texture or color info yet, just the mesh itself

And... The final with correct color and texture UV:

[Derron]

The feet of the chair have outlines on their corners - so far so good.
The outlines of the "cover" (seat area) melt together: visible on the bottom right of the first wooden plank. also the wooden planks "bottom" seems to have only a very thin outline (barely visible) while some outlines are ... double as wide as the others.


Personal opinion: I do not like the outlines of the shadow. It somehow looks too "harsh". I understand outlines in clouds ("3d objects") but would you outline fog in the streets?
I think for a "toony look" you need to have some kind of "draw strokes" (to toon-shade them). As said this is only a personal opinion.


bye
Ron

[iWasAdam]

agreed about the lined shadows - but nothing I can do about that currently - but it is something I would like to address

draw strokes is a very different thing - not quite as simple. but would be nice

[iWasAdam]

Just added some Vignetting to the output:


can be big or small and with alpha... so is very configurable

[iWasAdam]

I was watching something about access cards and thought "hmmmm". so decided to see what I can come up with in 10 minutes:

All post effects are off, so no outlines, etc

What was really interesting was using fontsprite to create new graphics and switching over, loading the new graphics, more editing, repeat. Both apps fit together seamlessly.
One thing that occurred to me was possibly extending the material properties. The core material is a pbr one and isn't using any of the features that this has, so it is possible this could be added in some way. I'll need to think on it further and do loads of test first though. but it's a thought?

[iWasAdam]

preparation for pbr - activate the environment cube map for the GL view (with some flat shading):

[iWasAdam]

And a quick contrast with a june 11 version (photo on the left, software render on the right:


and todays version (gl render with post):

[Derron]

why is the shadow "jaggy" ?
can't you fake soft shadows (blurred shape/contour) ?


bye
Ron