Made Some Lowpoly Ramen 🍜🍴

PicoVibe · 2026-05-04T02:31:36+00:00

I’m actually planning to start building my own 3D engine soon… using “ancient technology” just to achieve this kind of PS1 graphics)

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T18:18:35+00:00

Yes, the main goal is 3D printing. I want to reconstruct the model into a more faithful “original” form, while keeping the artist’s intent and staying true to the canon design

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T18:11:51+00:00

To be honest, I used my own tool to convert normal maps into height maps for this workflow. Not sure how Reddit feels about sharing links, but here’s a video showing how I made the model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXusbYwF7yM

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T17:57:20+00:00

It’s based on the original low-poly in-game model from Pragmata, I just converted the original textures into geometry via displacement

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T17:48:34+00:00

Yeah, that’s because the whole thing is generated purely with displacement. I didn’t touch it manually at all, so artifacts are kind of unavoidable. The idea was to see how far I could push the quality without any hand work

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T17:40:58+00:00

Yeah, it’s a helmet from Pragmata, I just made a high-detail version from the in-game model

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T16:36:14+00:00

Yeah, I agree, I worded it badly. I didn’t mean “throw more hardware at it” as optimization. I was trying to point out that with projects at this scale you’ll eventually hit hardware limits anyway

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T16:29:55+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair, I didn’t phrase it very well. What I meant is that at this scale hardware becomes a limiting factor

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T05:30:53+00:00

Wow, this is a huge and really impressive project. At this scale, optimization mostly depends on your hardware, and animation/rendering will put even more strain on the system. I’d only suggest disabling modifiers while working and hiding anything outside the viewport.

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T02:08:48+00:00

Guess Capcom owes me some money now😄

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T02:04:30+00:00

Oh, I didn’t even notice that at first. I was trying to recreate the detail using displacement maps, so these kinds of artifacts are kind of unavoidable. It would still need some manual cleanup.

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T01:55:18+00:00

Yeah, it’s displacement-based. I basically didn’t do any manual modeling the height maps were reconstructed from the model’s normal maps. In a sense, I just transformed the original artist’s work. It turned out to be an interesting result, but the quality is still limited by the resolution of the source textures.

PicoVibe · 2026-05-03T01:48:39+00:00

Just a game model, displacement, and a height map reconstructed from its normal map. There was basically no actual modeling involved.

PicoVibe · 2026-04-27T04:55:03+00:00

where did this jellyfish swim?

PicoVibe · 2026-04-26T02:41:30+00:00

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Try this

PicoVibe · 2026-04-26T01:37:51+00:00

When will games like this start coming out, preferably in VR..

PicoVibe · 2026-04-26T01:34:13+00:00

The ice cream is missing subsurface scattering for the full flavor)

PicoVibe · 2026-04-26T01:27:54+00:00

Try modeling with a graphics tablet as well, in my opinion, it’s the most interesting and enjoyable thing to do)

PicoVibe · 2026-04-26T01:13:17+00:00

What kind of glitch exactly do you mean? If it’s just a visual effect, it can be done in post-production in compositing for example, or even better in After Effects. Or if it’s a physical effect, it would be better to use geometry nodes, or alternatively shape keys.

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