BattleLord Fan Art Staff Pick
- August 31, 2013
- 540 Downloads
- 9 Likes
- Blender 2.6x
- Render: Blender Internal
- Creator: MajorNightmare
- License: CC-BY-SA
Description:
Duke Nukem's BattleLord caught my eye after playing the latest incarnation of the franchise. He became my end goal while doing Jonathan Williamson's "Low Poly Game Character Training Series". All the work was done in Blender 2.66, NDo2 and DDo 5.2. The workflow is basically, LP -> HP -> HP/LP bake, DDo, & a little nDo to fix normal seems and cleanup. 7500 poly's from a 21 million poly HP sculpt in Blender, with the final LP for Unity. I customized the Rigify armature for Unity's Mecanim animation system. Through the use of Unity Stealth Demo AI, I was able to get him patrolling, shooting, running, very easily.
Layer 1 - Mesh Layer 2 - Rigify rig Layer 3 - Metarig Layer 4 - Unity/Mecanim rig. Layer 11 - Lights Layer 12 - groundplane
animate the Rigify rig, the Unity(Rig.Def) rig follows. Export FBX with Mesh and Unity/Mecanim Rig only to Unity. Sync up armature with Mecanim.
Check it out in Unity! Battlord in Unity with PBR viewer
PBR Lighting rules. Setting up lights in 3D apps was a nightmare, matching from 1 app to another was next to impossible, then you have to get the textures to match all the way through forget it. Voila PBR, Zbrush to Photshop to Unity, I see the same thing. Blenders not quite there yet, cycles is too slow, needs realtime pbr!
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MajorNightmare
Written September 01, 2013Thanks DH! Your blends are awesome, so I'll take that as a big compliment!
Cheers
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3DHaupt
Written September 01, 2013^^ I love rigged blend files and your camera node setup for the internal render is really interesting,
Cheers
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MajorNightmare
Written September 11, 2013Unity with Marmoset's Skyshop screengrabs here... http://www.quixel.se/forum/album.php?albumid=7
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MajorNightmare
Written September 28, 2013Thanks mofx!!! Couldn't have done it without dDo, Blender or you guys! People should download it just for the rigify to mecanim workflow alone. Makes rigging for Unity/FBX seamless.
Cheers
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MajorNightmare
Edited April 27, 2015Anyone having issues with Chrome and Unity Web player. open chrome type chrome://flags/ in the address field and enable NPAPI, restart chrome now the plugin should install, however you may need to give it permission to run. you can also run chrome://plugins/ to see if the plugin was installed and enabled.
Great work !