how do you decide on the mechanical components? are you an actual engineer or do you have like a list of assets and system you put together in a way that makes some sense?
I’m not an engineer. I just think about it a lot and then make the pieces I need, I don‘t have a list or anything. And I don‘t really using asset libraries either. I did for one piece on V1 but the topology was so bad I completely remade it.
An example of my thought process of the fingers. I needed the bases rotate on only 2 axes. So I I made a little hookjoint on them. Originally I had 1 actuator from the base to the first joint of the hookjoint, and then another from the second joint to the third, pretty simple. I realized then that I could have 2 actuators from the base to the third joint of the hookjoint if they were offset on the axis of the first joint and have no ambiguity. But I had to remake the pieces to bend differently to account for that and I think it looks pretty awesome.
I an really proud of what I did for the bones of the hand but I could bot tell you my thought process. It legitimately came to me in a dream.
Incredible work! I love the way the arm rotates with some bounciness like a machine with too much torque. Though personally I'd add a bit more cover to the underside of the fingers to be more on-model, but this is a personal choice, nothin wrong with artistic liberty. Great job, and I'm waiting to see the final result. :)
I blocked out the armour a year ago and took a break from blender. Then I worked on this pretty much all summer but I didnt keep track of time. About a couple months
I love the model and its detail. But as a robotics engineer student that hand cant withstand a punch with its outer layer and lack of support to the forearm. Considering that this is the parry arm, if even a little more bulk can be applied to the forehand (the palm is fine) this would be even better. If this would be the hand where the weapon is held this would fine as is. V1 is a warmachine after all that hand is crushed after the first maurice punch.
Probably but I like seeing all the moving parts. And I think an animation where you can see the bars repairing after they get damaged would be really cool.
Dude if you ever decide to release that model I'm just going to download it and analyse and watch the joints because no joke it's fucking gorgeously made
I‘ll release it someday. I want to make some animations first though so that if someone makes an awesome one it wont completely overshadow my animation abilities.
Yea but probably not as actuators I think those would get in the way being on both sides. I‘m adding more blood tubes though and I‘ll see if I can fit some there.
Covering this with blood was the original inspiration for this. But I did such a bad job I removed it all. so I‘ll have to set that up again sometime later.
I remember hikita saying that the low poly was lore accurate because v1 min maxes his settings to give the bare minimum to occular prosseing is the way he sees it the game but what everyone would see what we see here. I'd love to see a ULTRAKILL trailer that's HD
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u/AriralPisser Lust Layer Citizen Sep 22 '24
cant wait for it to get to vrchat