MAY 2024 - DevLog - Reaching the AAA environment quality 

I see, maybe it does go too much in the technical deep

I'm really glad you found those talks interesting. When I work on my project and find cool tricks I enjoy sharing them, but I was worried people who feel it's too technical and unintelligible. Thank you for the kind words ;)

@@SilkroadProjectGame is only unintelligible when u bring out Houdini, and its black magic practices that no mere blender noob plebe can understand

@@SilkroadProjectGame sorry to ask you, but is there any place, course, or maybe series in YT that you would recommend to learn deep combat system similar to what you have? yours looks amazing (love the camera trickes you pulled off) so thought that maybe you learn it somewhere. I haven't touched combat yet, so thought you could have some ideas where to start that wasn't just "How to pick up sword' tuts... cause there's a million of them alrdy :(

@Tenchinu hmm, I would have difficulty pointing toward just a tutorial in particular. I struggle a lot with the camera, mainly because I wanted something too specific to find a tuto. If you're starting with blueprint, I'm sure you'll have no problem finding plenty of starting a tutorial. After that, the channel I like to check is Thomas Wadstein, that has almost a video for each of the blueprint nodes

@@SilkroadProjectGame yeah, there are a LOT of basic, starting tuts on combat, but maybe I was cheating a bit asking for a single full one. lol. Thank you very much! I'll try and research, and in the mean time, keep watching ur progress :)

Thank you man! How are you doing?

@@SilkroadProjectGame All good, all good. Vehicle art for living, UE and 3D printing for fun when I get the time :)

Thank you man, yeah I do agree the running animation is maybe too slow. I'll definitely tweak that later

Thank you man ;)

Yep, I have been in the industry as a character modeler and technical artist for more than a decade so luckily I already had a good base

Thanks, that's good references indeed! As for the software, I bought Zbrush a very long time ago (update 4R2) and pixologic usually made free updates until they were bought by Maxxon. I'm just using my old perpetual license. Same thing for Substance suite and Adobe, I'm still on the 2022 update bought on steam. For Houdini, I'm paying the subscription for the indie version. That's probably the most expensive software I'm using right now

@@SilkroadProjectGame Yeah I love that part of Japanese design, as well as European BD comic art like Moebius and Bilal where the environment is well thought out and the character designs have a lot of style. Your game is definitely the kind of thing I’d be interested in due to the visuals, and your combat looks amazing- I can tell it’d feel satisfying to play. Well done! Thank you for the detailed info about the software. I know there’s a lot of ‘free’ stuff like Unreal, and really free stuff like Blender, but so much other (seemingly essential) stuff has expensive subscriptions nowadays that it can be intimidating for a pauper like me!

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, I can't say I love those subscriptions trend in software. Especially for software that barely adds features over time (looking at you Photoshop!)

I didn't try Unreal UV tools, but it's probably similar results. Since I'm texturing in Painter, nice UV layout is usually not a big issue for me. I can use tri planar projection when I need to apply grain, and on most cases for organic meshes like rocks, uv seams are not obvious. It can be an issue with some shader effect though so usually it depends of situation

@@SilkroadProjectGame I see. Learned I need to get Houdini for my game from your video. Thanks mate

@@SilkroadProjectGame yeah figured so also I. Used messed up UVs sometimes from unreal meshes I create. I just create the whole buildings and use their bool lean tools from mega scans to cut out windows and add bevels. Then I take it to substance to texture it all. Quick ass details and AAA workflow. Just thought it’s unprofessional if the UV layout is all jagged up. But gamers don’t care about the layout.

@@gil6970 Yeah I also feel dirty, but at the end, if nobody notice it ingame, I can live with that :D

Thank you. It's still too early for me to consider voice for the game. I didn't even write a line of dialogue yet :D When I'll be ready and be looking for talents, I'll make a public announcement. Thank you again for the support

@@SilkroadProjectGame Awesome I will keep a look out. Keep up the great work!