Cult of Calcium

So we're going to be using bones as a lot of our base martial, which means we need to model lots and lots and lots of bones.Any kind of bones, including limbs and skulls. I'm mainly gonna do kind weird looking skulls to model, such as snapping turtles, snakes, and fish. And maybe some other weird ones, like hippos.

Turns out bones are actually pretty damn hard to model. There are so many weird little things to model in and out, ugh.

But anyway, I've managed to get the bulk of the turtle skull finished, just have to screw around with the little fidgety bits. Then I have around six more to do then I have to do all the miscellaneous bones. Yay.

Bits and bobs

 

Got an awesome post to help with World Building from biology to government and culture creation. Really helpful stuff if you wanna make your own universe.

nCloth

So we were learning about cloth simulation, creating nCloth out of planes and having it interact with a pole and sphere which were passive colliders.

Namely we screwed about with a cape during the second class- making it remain attached to a character while they jumped and making the cape flow naturally.

Note to self- do not click Delete all type history since that removes the model's spine. :/ Totally forgot about that part, whoops.

In the next class we made a t-shirt (just duplicating the body and shaping it to fit) and attached it to the body while making said body a passive collider and the shirt into nCloth. We then made the body jump and started to screw about trying to make the shirt look...ya know, like fabric as the body jumped. Making ti stop trying to eat itself mid-jump, making it fall naturally, not stay bunched up or twisted around...

Managed to make it end up looking pretty good so I tried out with a dress. Yeah, that one crash and burned.


Here's a good site to learn more about nCloth and what the numerous doohickeys and whatnot alter the way the fabric interacts with surfaces and each other, most even have helpful videos next to the different interactions and settings.