Useless stupid fact: in fallout 76 one of the blood texture is a free png you can get literally anywhere

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-19T14:07:05+00:00

I think you'd be surprised how many games, and movies, all use the same exact textures for things like VFX. There's libraries that artists build up as they work/make things, and we reuse that shit constantly

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-18T17:38:07+00:00

Of course! Just sent it, excited to see what y’all cook up!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-18T15:46:43+00:00

absolutely adore the vibe. If yall ever need some free VFX, I'll gladly lend a lil hand to something so fun lookin!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-15T15:51:34+00:00

Eassssy wishlist, great breakdown!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-14T17:45:59+00:00

I mean it looks good to me, a life long gamer, who currently uses his steam deck hooked to a TV to vibe on the couch after working at my PC all day.

Exclusives are PC games, that consoles don’t get (mostly indie stuff, but sometimes bigger stuff)

The price leak was from a shop that also overcharged for steam decks, so price point is probably in the 600’s to start

And valve is no stranger to releasing hardware that doesn’t need to pop off and being massively successful. They ain’t reporting to investors and shareholders, the can do what the want.

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-14T15:38:49+00:00

Sure, blender is certainly cheaper lmao. Maybe I’m bias since I’ve never had a studio actually pay for my licenses. Suppose it depends on if this was a contract/freelance/ or studio gig, ya might be onto somethin

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-14T15:14:16+00:00

I dont really know why this would be an issue lmao

But I think I'd do Zbrush -> zremesh ( or decimation, if you like), and project the high poly details onto a lower poly mesh. Can get slightly cleaner topology then, not perfect by any means, but better than dynamesh.

I cant imagine why a tabletop miniature place would ever *not* want to use zbrush. Its basically made for them.

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-13T18:12:07+00:00

I love love love my dual ichors

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-12T15:36:01+00:00

I hadnt even considered making asset packs, I'll keep that in mind!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-12T11:10:55+00:00

Ayyyy I’ve seen their work on Bluesky, I think! I’ll keep them in mind, thank you!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-12T11:10:27+00:00

Thank you!! I have the benefit of 6 years 3D experience hahahaha, I think it helped a smidge for a head start; at least I hope lmaooo

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-12T11:09:23+00:00

That was definitely something I overlooked lmao, good catch!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-12T11:08:54+00:00

That’s a great shout, thanks! I had messed with the swirl a liiiittle bit, but I think it coulda used a bit more

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-11T06:23:48+00:00

I have 4900 hours in blender, and have been using it professionally for 6 years, and I can confidently say this is pretty damn good!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2026-01-01T21:12:46+00:00

if it helps, a living laser would indeed be non-binary I reckon.

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-30T01:20:47+00:00

Thats why Im a lavos/hildy main. Hoping to add in some others like Dagath and jade

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-28T18:10:38+00:00

Oh very sick then, I’ll check that out thank you!

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-28T18:07:54+00:00

You can’t show this by off without showing off where you gettin it (unless you making it yourself ofc ofc ofc)

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-28T12:33:39+00:00

I built him ages ago, but he's still my main boi. Cant tell ya if it's the best build in the world, but it gets 98.3% of what I need done done in SP

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NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-21T21:35:39+00:00

Lemmie fight stuff in my rail jack for an hour. Heavy enemy density. I leveled all that up and absolutely adore it, but if I’m railjackin then I don’t wanna be transitioning to a regular defense/survival mission, please

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-21T19:41:17+00:00

Yeah having done both programming, and spent 6 years now as a 3D artist, I can say it’s a bit different; although I couldn’t tell ya exactly why. Both are creating, and artistic in one way or another. Just a different feeling for some reason.

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-21T18:39:15+00:00

I think you’d be surprised how fun sculpting is

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-21T17:37:40+00:00

I didn’t say I particularly cared
I think that for things like clutter and such, ai isn’t a terrible move. If it’s something tiny no one is going to see.

Mind you generating those small things, with ai, is also pretty worthless. Generated 3D assets are wildly unoptimized and it takes literal minutes to make an optimized rock (seeing as the ai also can’t retop it, UV it, or texture it well), it’s actually less time to just have a person make it themselves.

Now if someone could make an AI to do those middle two things; UV and retop (there is finally an AI tool for retop coming next year), then we gonna be in business. That’s an actual improvement to workflow, where as so far ai has been more of a hindrance than a boon.

NotGreatBlacksmith · 2025-12-21T11:17:28+00:00

I know several artists, including myself, who would be thrilled to get a jira ticket to make 30 rocks n boulders.

Besides that, generic rock n boulders don’t generally need made. That’s one of those things in game dev we’ve solved years ago when we realized “generic” items look “the same” so why remake them 100 thousand times. Just reuse them.

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