ayy finally movin up in the world
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(n)sfm?
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Any tips and tricks on Blender? I am working on a side project, making a game within Unity (civ-total war mashup, thing) and I need to make good looking models for units, that are low-poly, to not bog down the Renderer.
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if youāre doing realtime stuff, make sure your topo uses tris, and you might want to use an external tool like surface designer to do tekxture work in
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Itās not real time, per say. I would never be able to compete, or create for that matter, with a battle system similar to Total War. One guy with not a lot of time, not a whole team with years to develop.
Instead, itās a civilization overview style map, with lots of complex internal and external features (including a large amount of system management, if you choose not to automate, of course).
The battles, however, instead of like something like civ, throw you into a turn-based style of battle close to what Sid Meiers Starships does, except on a larger scale.
So the units donāt need to be quite as optimized (as instead of 10K there should only like 1-2K)
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realtime rendering, not combat
game engines use realtime rendering
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Honestly, I have no idea. Iād assume so? I have never worked on a game until this project, or even c# for that matter, and had to learn unity for it. Itās going 4 - 5 months strong now? Lots of progress and Iām really excited, but as far as things like real-time rendering, Iām completely clueless.
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it wasnāt a question. by definition games have to be rendered at runtime
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Hm, mk. You asked if I was doing real-time stuff, so I had assumed it was. My bad.
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I didnāt ask, though, I said if you are, it was rhetorical
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If you have a ton of the exact same item (trees, bushes, platforms, etc.) Copy them with Ctrl+D instead of Shift+D.
Shift D makes a new item entirely with all of the same properties, increasing the information you have to render.
Ctrl D references the original, but doesnāt copy it, so it will cut down resources.
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Bunch of damn Trekkies in this forum, those LightSaber pics deserve 1,000x more likes 
Without turning into a distrowar flame nonsense, Iād like to know what you guys are running these on and how long it takes to render your stuff.
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I gotta say this really took off. @Phantom, youāre progress is really impressive.
I got sidetracked with writing scripts for Photoshop (ugh), but the next time I have to reskin a bottle at work, Iāll probably be back in some blender tutorials.
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centos, (you canāt install BMD or nuke on anything else and expect to get support)
render times are good with stacked rendering on a 6700 and a 1070
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Thereās also a snap for blender if you just want to check it out.
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thereās also a precompiled tar file, and that option isnāt an unholy abortion
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He talks about it here. He says itās okay coz otherwise youād spend 3x time if not more modelling all the little stuff.
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