Working on a 3d Modeller in irrlicht

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:51 pm

Hi Needforhint,

I don't use any other dll's and it can load anything that irrlicht can load. Currently I'm using irrlicht 0.12 but I plan on moving over to 0.14 soon.

The idea with this app is that you won't have to worry about the normal map since it will generate it for you automaticallly. You will model a high polygon model and it will help you generate the lowpolygon + color texture + normal map.

I posted a couple updates in my blog at http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/

Regards,
-Dave

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:01 pm

More progress on the 3d modeller - check my blog for details - http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/

needforhint · Post by **needforhint** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:38 pm

it is amazing to watch your work, hold ya fingers

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:24 pm

Will be very interested to playing with some demo of this project.

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Mon May 01, 2006 1:35 pm

I posted another pic on my blog ( http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/ ) showing how you can take a low polygon model and add realistic details to it. Right now I have almost the whole workflow working, I'm just working on fixing bugs and getting it ready for beta testing.

chromdragon · Post by **chromdragon** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:53 pm

Amazed! So cool! (seems to be ZBrush like program)

Are you paiting the normal/displacment map? (or so voxel tech)

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:52 am

Hi chromdragon,

In that screenshot, neither. I subdivided the mesh a few times then just used the various tools to deform the mesh to add the wrinkles and stuff. Later you can generate the normal map for the low polygon model from the high polygon model so that it looks as detailed as the high polygon model. Z-brush and a few other programs can do the same thing. This is the technique used in Doom3 and a lot of recent games.

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:26 pm

One more update on my blog ( http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/ ). I finally resolved all the issues with the texture generation and UV unwrapping. Just a few more steps to go..