Topic: 3D Modeling WIP Topic

[kat]

Not much to comment on but does Godot have dynamic shadows?

[ratty redemption]

yes, similar to unity's from what i've seen. i haven't tried them myself yet.

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one of my low poly clay vases made in blender, for use in godot. this is the "lod 0" version.



this is the "lod 1" version.

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broken parts of a low poly clay vase made in blender, for use in godot.



one of the broken parts of a clay vase made in blender, imported into godot. the white wireframes are the collision shapes for the physics engine.



broken parts of a clay bowl.

[kat]

Looks good although for the lowest LOD for most things you can be quite aggressive and remove things like the lip around the pot and maybe the base as those details are likely not going to be visible depending on how far away the LOD swap kicks in.

[ratty redemption]

good point, i'll do some tests. thanks kat.

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kat, you were correct about the last lod, i was able to remove those details you mentioned and it looks fine at a distance. these images show 4 lod's per object with debugging colors. they save a ton of vertices.

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a low poly wooden crate lid, built in blender, and shown on the right of the image, with its texture and some of its uv's shown on the left. currently all my crates are built using the same wood texture that i made in paintdotnet.



low poly wooden crates including closed, open, lid and lod versions.

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wood and clay debris made in blender.

the wood meshes were originally from my old doom3 mod. i updated them recently and redid their uv's.

[kat]

When doing something like that what I find useful is expending the UVs of those cross members so their edges align to the gaps in the wood slats, as those are typically darker doing that add a little bit of faux depth to those edges where they sit atop the face. Looks good notwithstanding that ;o)

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thanks kat. originally i had done that, but it didn't look as good in godot as it did in blender. so for now i'm letting godot do all the shading, rather than faking some of it.

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my light and dark wooden barrels with 3 levels of detail. made in blender. textures made in paintdotnet.



the lod 0 barrels with their texture atlas shown on the left. the light colored barrel is highlighted in yellow and it's uv's are also shown on the left. the darker barrel has it's wood uv's shifted to the right of the atlas.

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low poly cogs made in blender for my godot engine game. the textures were made in paintdotnet.

[kat]

That's a decent LOD for the barrel, could probably drop to 6 sides at a push.  LOD for the cogs will be a lot more tricky because they're such a specific shape!

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thanks kat, i might try 6 sided for the last barrel lod.

yeah, i'm not sure how i would do lod's for my cogs.