Rigging is not that hard tbh, the basic skeleton anyway. but you will want to learn the weight painting aspect to refine the influence of the deformations up and down the limbs.
Well see that's the thing the joints on my robots don't deform at all. They all rotate on one or two axis like an action figure. It's all swivels and ball joints between the two objects that form the joint so I'm pretty sure I can just ignore weights entirely.
I do create stuff from time to time but recently I've had my schedule occupied with coding/changing careers so I haven't had any spare time to actually finish anything.
I love it, man. I've wanted to get into hard-surface modeling for a long time but I really don't know where to go besides modeling guns off blueprints.This is suppose to be the EMS-10 Zudah from Mobile Suit Gundam (MS Igloo). The game was made in 2003 so I tried to replicate the level of detail and polygonal density of the game's original models; I like to think I succeeded. I learned a lot when making this guy.
-Also a couple of random things I made for the game:
This is a spiked knuckle shield. I was using this to test out baked ambient occlusion maps and simple drawn on detail as to replicate the look of the original game (it was ancient).
Doing little greebles or just random 'sci-fi' stuff (armor, paneling) is good practice, an example being anything Machine Games or nu-Bethesda. A lot of hard surface modelling is just a basic shapes beveled, subdivided with correct support loops then either merged or booleaned into other suitable objects if not modeled into initially. It's a lot easier to start from a simple object and work your way up accordingly.
Good edgeflow.
Looks pretty good. Also, remember, Blender allows you to make VDMS with geometry nodes in scuffed ways that make Zbrush obolete. So everything you did that you think is goood can be reused later through some cool tricks.
That guys channel is full of amazing stuff. I can't wrap my head around how they figure all the node magic out.
I mean, I can tell by looking at him that he likes trains if you catch my drift. Plus Geometry Nodes is just Houdini lite. If you translate can use Houdini all of this is probably easy as shit. Though some things require more brain power because Blender doesn't have as many nodes due to them being relatively new for Blender. The point of them is to think procedurally, Look at what you want, and then think how to do it repeatably in an editable process. It's all about automating or reusing your work.
