WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Pocket]

That wouldn't explain the seams on the edges, though, unless the sides are literally separate brushes from the tops.

 

[YM]

That's a common way to do displacements

 

[xzzy]

Did you make the entire brush a displacement??

No, just the visible sides. It goes away when I don't use use -fast so I'm not worried about it as a problem, I just think it looks cool enough to post a screenshot of it.

Plus I guess it's a nice visualization of my in-progress displacement setup.

edit - the top and sides are the same brush, I never saw a good reason to split them into two separate brushes, just seems to make more visual noise in Hammer.

 

[ScorpioUprising]

No, just the visible sides. It goes away when I don't use use -fast so I'm not worried about it as a problem, I just think it looks cool enough to post a screenshot of it.

Plus I guess it's a nice visualization of my in-progress displacement setup.

edit - the top and sides are the same brush, I never saw a good reason to split them into two separate brushes, just seems to make more visual noise in Hammer.

One possible reason: if you screw up one face (too lumpy, not enough noise, etc) you can just destroy that face, rebuild it and start over, instead of having to destroy the entire brush, rebuild both faces, and start over on both sides.

 

[Freyja]

You don't have to do that. You can destroy one face, turn off hide displacements non-displaced faces (can't remember the actual name, it's the DD button in hammer) and just re-displace that face.

 

[Sergis]

i prefer just setting all displacements vertexes to 0

since it seems to reset them completely no matter what axis ive selected

 

[YM]

i prefer just setting all displacements vertexes to 0

since it seems to reset them completely no matter what axis ive selected

"Raise to" works on -only- the currently selected axis, so a value of 0 will reset it

 

[chemelia]

I spent way too much time on this stupid joke.

 

[Bakscratch]

Made a Dota 2 Item:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=294640599

 

[Ælement]

That seems like a really ineffective way to use swords and clubs.

 

[Idolon]

These are already up on my map thread, but I felt like sharing them here because I'm pretty proud of it. Definitely my favorite detailing job yet.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I really like the wall aesthetic with the train.

 

[puxorb]

That looks really cool, Idolon.

 

[xzzy]

Your global lighting seems like it might be a little hot, the patches of dirt have a lot glare where sunlight hits them. Buildings seem a bit washed out as well.

That gully thing with the drainage pipes looks pretty boss.

 

[Sergis]

"Raise to" works on -only- the currently selected axis, so a value of 0 will reset it

well for me it seems to reset the vertex on all axis and then raise it on the selected axis

so i cant do raise to 4x then raise to 3y

 

[Berry]

These are already up on my map thread, but I felt like sharing them here because I'm pretty proud of it. Definitely my favorite detailing job yet.

I really like this building but the roof looks really odd (in my opinion), might it look better with 3 or 4 different angled parts of roof (instead of 2)?

 

[Pocket]

Looks like a perfectly ordinary barn roof to me. Do they not have barns like that where you're from?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I think my issue with that barn isn't the roof, I think that that looks fine and stylized... it's the fact that there is a corner of the support structure missing and the barn looks solid as a rock. I feel like it should be a little looser, or even starting to fall down a bit.

 

[wareya]

I really like this building but the roof looks really odd (in my opinion), might it look better with 3 or 4 different angled parts of roof (instead of 2)?

Dude, do you even know what a barn looks like? Even a cursory skimming of the google images results for "barn" would've shown you that, without exception, barn roofs are always either two segments to the side or downright round. Sometimes they have a third one just to make an overhang at the sides, but that's distinct from the main roof.

I don't mean to pick on you at all, I'm sorry, but I'm upset how this thread has so much constant and terrible misguided detailing advice in it, even moreso that it usually says the original design is wrong.

 

[Seba]

That was unnecessarily rude, come on :| Sure, not everyone is an expert on everything, but that doesn't mean you should be so extremely critical about everything. Besides, I think Berry was suggesting making the roof more round (3 or 4 sides would do just that).

I agree with frozen, that corner needs a support; it looks very unsafe atm.