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Nah it’s just an educational blender tutorial

That's pretty cool! I haven't checked Blender news lately, but I'll have to look into that. Thanks for bringing it up!

Yeah the one they collab with dillongoo

I’m so excited!

Blender's got a bit of a learning curve when you're starting out. A lot of the app is driven by keyboard shortcuts, but there are some buttons and menus you could use as well. I'd recommend looking at tutorials that show how the user interface works, and then you'll be able to get the hang of it. It takes time but it is achievable.

I saved that for the game engine, actually. I didn't want to animate them in Blender because I didn't really need to, as I wanted that to be more dynamic in the game engine instead. Although there are tools to make it work in Blender too.

I apologize that I wasn't able to help you. Is there something I could clarify in the comments here? In the case where we're building the core face loops, it's easiest to start with about 6 or 8 vertices for the mouth. Then work from the mouth up to the nose and then the eyes, and you should be able to connect everything. Don't be afraid to add more edge loops too with the Loop Cut and Slide tool (CTRL + R is the shortcut) if you are having trouble getting things to connect.

Yes, I would say so. The main benefit of using quads is for making it easier to make edits to the topology (via loop cuts, etc.). By the time you'd make an adjustment like this, you should normally be done with that elsewhere. Plus, the triangles help influence the bending's direction, allowing the model to collapse better. You can certainly do this with all quads, but you would also need to use more geometry to accomplish the same result.

I was looking into this and thought that Blender had something under the Select menu in Edit Mode, but there isn't really anything that supports exactly what you're asking. You can select edges with the same crease level with Select > Select Similar > Edge Crease, and you can select sharp edges (seems to be based on an angle though, not by how it's marked) with Select > Sharp Edges. Other than that, I don't think there's a way to change the visibility based on edge type.

I've never really understood why people insisted on using Photoshop for drawing. I get its use for image editing, but the dang software didn't even have brush smoothing for years.

I can't even imagine that being comfortable.

You can instead just make a couple loop cuts around the joint bend and it'll still work fine. It won't be the same result and it's a bit more geometry, but I've seen models use this approach too.

Her name is Kaila! She's an original character I'm making for my game, although this is a recreated model used for tutorial purposes. The official one will be much more polished.

@codernunk ayy, name for the game? Got 1231 bought Steam games, I might get it ^^

I didn't think they were really used in 3D rigging, at least not to the extent the other two are.

Thank you for breaking this down further. I didn't know that the pose type was a big factor for older games to make separate models.

@codernunk yup, typically we don't get to see the higher poly models from ripped game data (they were too much for the game engine to handle back then) so this information is not widely known. I learned it from a game design seminar during my 3D animation master's. We were shown some very detailed A-posed models with complex rigs specifically made for the pre-rendered scenes. Basically, the A pose cuts a lot of corners in animating with a better result, but the animation isn't always transferable to later rigs or other characters; so in those cases they use the T pose.

As far as I know, modern game engines convert meshes automatically, so it's not really a concern these days. In the worse case, you can also triangulate the model with a modifier in Blender or upon exporting it, so it's quite an easy problem to solve.

Thank you for the tip! I believe you can also get the light's color and then multiply it with the shaded area in your shader nodes too.

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We aren't ready for that kind of peak

Quads/Squares are often used while modeling because it's much easier to modify them. One of the core functions is adding edge loops (called Loop Cuts in Blender) and it's much easier to cut through adjacent quads than triangles. You are right that triangles are easier for a computer to process. As far as video games go though, most modern game engines will convert the mesh to triangles automatically anyway, so there's not really anything to worry about.