Archive for July 10th, 2025

I’ve added a few finishing touches to the sci-fi cuffs mesh and textures. I believe that I made a fairly reasonable set of LOD models, not all of these are necessary, but the lowest LOD never ever looks right when done automatically.

There are some additional markings on the top of the sci-fi cuffs locking blocks (Unless I made a mistake, that’s the Chinese character for “unlock”), and some subtle noises and variations in all the materials that looked a little too plain, like the big red hinge piece (some scratches there now).

The lock holes do not rotate on this version of the lock block, I could change that if people tell me that it is a real problem, otherwise, I’m keeping them as-is. I was thinking about adding the 3D key model that I made for the heavy-duty lock, for the lock and unlock animation and realized that “normally” I would have to use the “universal keyhole” that the chat conditioner uses, so I quickly re-rendered the chrome parts to see what it would look like and, I’m not really sold. The depth isn’t really working on that mesh it looks like some sort of adjustment dial, not a keyhole in my opinion.

What do you guys think?