Thw Spacecookie throne W.I.P thread

[Ruth Spacecookie Andrews]

Well, as promised to myself as well as said in the thread about creating stuff in a challenge... Well it's the first challenge specifically, and the whole thing was about creating a throne that a king would sit in.

 

The rules specified that it all needs to be sculpted in 3Dcoat, so there's no sneaky modelling with the tools I already know outside of 3Dcoat, and I view it as a chance to push myself in to learning 3Dcoat beyond the amateurish level I have explored to so far.

And so it went along, starting with Day 1:-
http://3d-coat.com/forum/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-11720-0-30334400-1378784132.jpg
The basic concept sketch I settled on.

http://3d-coat.com/forum/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-11720-0-91268000-1378784133.jpg

Day 2
http://3d-coat.com/forum/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-11720-0-96184300-1378868775.jpg
http://3d-coat.com/forum/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-11720-0-52627800-1378868897.jpg

Day 3
http://3d-coat.com/forum/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-11720-0-77463000-1379134757.jpg

And I've really stumbled along, but forced myself to endure, to push through and to improve my knowledge and skills with 3Dcoat.

I spent ages trying to work out how to do things in retopo, relating to UV'ing and such, and I think I still need to push myself more with that area, and to discover how it all works.

Anyway, the latest image is the seat for the throne, it's changed a bit because the throne wasn't quite as basic as my idea really needed it to be as I saw it as a goblin king throne, and that's not a Jerard, labyrinth type goblin king, oh no, this one is all brute, and testosterone.

Day 4:-


For the life of me, I can't work out how to simply apply the texture that was supposed to be part of the obj that made up the seat cover.  I bought the textured obj file in as cloth and it had no texture, and I can't work out how to apply the mtl file separately.

Anyway, the stone that I had in mind for the seat base is slate, so I hope it looks the part without the texture... no moss/lichen etc...

Edited September 16, 2013 by Ruth Spacecookie Andrews

[silkroadgame]

Good stuff,and proper progress for your project.

[Ruth Spacecookie Andrews]

Thankyou very much. I try

I've found the workflow in 3Dcoat to be very difficult to produce the folded cloth on the back, and it seems it would only work by sculpting it, and as I'm not good enough at that aspect, so I've had to put this on hold for now, as the original project was supposed to all be done within 3Dcoat, that is no outside meshes bought in even as just a base etc..

 

I know how to do it using other 3D software, in slightly more usual ways but not sculpting. So until I know how to do it in 3Dcoat, this has to be postponed. 

[BeatKitano]

You do know you have a cloth simulation in 3dcoat right ? You can let the physic engine run it's simulation stop it, add thickness to it and sculpt what you want afterward. I won't say how easy it is since I never really used it myself but you can find it in the cloth tool in voxel mode.

[Ruth Spacecookie Andrews]

Yes, thanks for thinking of that one. I've used it quite a bit already, but it's no good for the flow of the cloth that I need.  I need cloth wrapped around the side, as well as draped and folded over on itself.  The basic simulation allowed in 3Dcoat is far too limited for my requirements, that's why I say about needing to sculpt the cloth and don't mention the simulation.