Janders

Out of topic:

the plan is to start work on a node-based material/shader authoring interface and an updated shadergen.

:o :o :o Finally YES!! & upgrade transparent blend modes!! :evil:

Why isn't this the default editor already?

Great job man!

I have one suggestion:

Sketch tool; Be able to move vertexs independably, be able to control size and rotation numerically, be able to make it (or not) collide or be renderable, be able to move pivot point.

I still didn't look at it in deep, but for Torque I think you have to model the shape manually on your 3D modeling program. Like LODs

The link to your site doesn't work. I googled you and I found this; Indie DB. Is this updated? Some videos or more information?

Blogs / Show-off

As @Duion said 1 unit = 1 meter

Also for terrains.

Under 1080p resolution, 512 texture pixels per meter.

Over 1080p resolution, 1024 texture pixels per meter.

After much messing around I think i got something acceptable.

First of all, transparencies MUST be .png, I don't know why but other formats will cause issues.

The eyelashes I fixed them applying 4 layers of LerpAlpha.

Finally something than at least isn't darkened by the Alpha Threshold.

http://oi60.tinypic.com/10pwyyq.jpg

Alpha Threshold alone It looks meh.

After that, I duplicated the hair mesh and i applied Alpha Threshold to one material, and LerpAlpha with 2 layers to the other mesh.

This Is the best looking so far but it has 2 terrible flaws... It can't receive shadows and it duplicates the hair polycount.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/xmrjag.jpg

Alpha Threshold + LerpAlpha

Shadows of the first method vs the second one.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2w5lonq.jpg

The right one (Alpha Threshold + LerpAlpha) receives shadows in is Threshold layer but get overwritted in the Lerp layer, so we can barely see them.

Luckily both of methods work OK with illumination.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/xm5rb8.jpg

So that's it, I'm already out of ideas.

I think this can be improved with a shader that do 2 passes, one Threshold and another Lerp but with shadows. Saddly that's out of my range.

Any more ideas?

The format is .tga

Here a screenshot of the alpha channel.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/6nqm4y.jpg

No offense but, have you even read the post?

Hi there! I was testing different kind of materials wen I reached a bottleneck... Yep hair.

Here some examples;

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2sbk9ag.jpg

Here I was playing with the Alpha Threshold but basically looks like s**t... Well, at least cast shadows.

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2zxxlcg.jpg

And here I tried with blend modes, it looks kinda "correct", but it doesn't cast shadows and doesn't have z hierarchy.

I tried various combinations of settings but I wasn't able to make it look right. So... Any help?

Please don't say to me to write a shader, I have no skill on that matter. :cry:

Well, I can't do anything about that since I'm not a programmer.

Hey there!

I made some little changes on the Dark UI.

Beta14 ver. (old ver.)

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2rnk0fq.jpg

Jan Edition

http://oi60.tinypic.com/qyy6ua.jpg

Basically i tried to normalize colors by changing folders and menubar images.

Download

PD: I'm not a programmer so i didn't change any scripts neither solved errors.

A quick update. :P

This is how it's going the hi-poly model.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/28at6h5.jpg

I was thinking about opening a tread in the resources section, for future updates.

Yeah something like that is what I was thinking. But more cool (hope so :lol: ).

EDIT: I drew a quick concept.

http://oi61.tinypic.com/1zwewqa.jpg

OK, it's outdated and it's embarrassing but i have some old test you may like.

In my defense I'll say this is wen I'd just finished my studies, unfortunately life kicked in... and I was forced to put 3D on standby. Now finally I have some free time.

I'm pretty confident with my Photoshop/GIMP skills here some old works.

http://proyectojan.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/photoshopeando.html

Well I hope you liked it.

Also, for starters I was thinking about start making a more neutral default character, something like the default UE third person character. As I said I'm still a beginner so I'd like to be familiar whit Torque before jumping in something else.

Hi there! I'm an enthusiast of open-source software, and it's pretty hard to find a decent open-source game engine, so I want to help.

I am looking for 3d projects on modeling, texturing and animation. I don't need to be paid, I want mostly to improve my skills and portfolio.

My skills are:

- Lowpoly, highpoly modeling.

- Sculpting.

- UV unwrap.

- Texturing.

- Rigging.

- Character and technical animation.

Programs skills:

- Blender: Advanced.

- 3ds Max: Beginner.

- zBrush: Intermediate.

- Photoshop: Advanced.

- GIMP: Advanced.

Feel free to ask any questions!