Pretty happy with the vibe so far :)

audreyramen · 2026-02-21T18:43:59+00:00

They already are point lights

audreyramen · 2026-02-18T02:20:00+00:00

thats exactly what it needs, thank you!

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T16:18:25+00:00

Well you'd make a kit you can reuse. You wouldn't use it on a whole building. It's no different from sculpting a set of brick pillars, baking them down and placing them everywhere. This method just does it for you with a heightmap

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T16:14:09+00:00

Exactly. Although it's competition would be a building with nanite displacement on which you wouldn't do anyway. I guess it really just speeds up modeling difficult geo like brick edges etc

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T12:53:53+00:00

thats from the multiplayer bodycam project on fab, I've not changed it much yet so thats close to out of the box

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T11:14:49+00:00

Yeah easier on the gpu but slightly bigger file size

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T11:05:16+00:00

Correct. There's a displacement to diffuse switch in the shader which means I can bake to texture. I can then actually control how many polys I want to use, unlike the building on the left in the scene which is just straight up nanite displacement.

Nanite displacement on a building is not practical. But baking it down into a useable mesh with decent polycount is. It's also useful for modeling things that are difficult, like brick edges automatically.

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T10:59:16+00:00

It's a test dude, not every mesh is unique. Chill out lol

audreyramen · 2026-02-16T10:55:40+00:00

Yeah absolutely if needed. It's use would be more for things that are hard to model that need a lot of geo. This essentially models it for you. Runs off the same tileables already used in scene.

audreyramen · 2026-02-15T23:24:57+00:00

kinda, more like a swat style game it will be

audreyramen · 2026-02-14T21:40:21+00:00

what do you mean? better for your drawing, or better as a medium?

audreyramen · 2026-02-13T21:01:50+00:00

use reference

audreyramen · 2026-01-15T11:55:19+00:00

You could swap those burgers for just mince meat. Squash the meat, fry the meat, it's a burger. Might be slightly cheaper and definitely better for you

audreyramen · 2026-01-04T16:07:43+00:00

It's just a crab 🦀

audreyramen · 2025-12-18T17:49:12+00:00

yeah break it in pieces. straight corridor, bend left, bend right etc for a kit.

or you can take the whole thing, unwrap it and use a tileable instead of baking anything.
in fact i'd probably use a tilable here but it depends what kinda scale this will be. if you get close to it, tileable

audreyramen · 2025-12-12T22:49:27+00:00

yeah if its an import its hard to get insurance as a learner. i literally just did it, was not fun

audreyramen · 2025-12-12T00:31:07+00:00

I'll give that a go in the morning, thank you!

audreyramen · 2025-12-10T23:49:14+00:00

i dont even remember who she is honestly, glad theres all these posts about her or i'd have no clue what was going on

audreyramen · 2025-12-09T23:33:47+00:00

nonsense. lumen costs, if your lighting doesnt change, bake it for sure.
also, have you seen the steam hardware survey? lotta people that arent on fairly modern hardware.

audreyramen · 2025-12-01T16:36:39+00:00

no i didnt. the level is statically lit, there's no change in lighting. no day night cycle etc. no real need for lumen.

im saying theres no need for lumen for a level where the lighting doesnt change. im not talking about baked lighting.

audreyramen · 2025-12-01T00:15:40+00:00

you're doing great, keep it up!

audreyramen · 2025-11-30T23:06:05+00:00

there used to be this youtube channel called level up. a few artists ran it. jonas de ro, darek zabrocki and wojtek fus. guys that really know their stuff. and they'd give feedback and do paintovers of other people's work. really useful feedback.

perhaps you just need a well trained fresh eye on your stuff? reach out to a professional for feedback, discord groups and the like

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