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There isn’t a “lot” of drawings that I want to make available for every single part and every single sections, but the tally marks are an exception.

Sorry for the facial expression, I couldn’t resist 🙂

I’ve finished earlier today the data set required by all the sections of the body doodle & impact engine (let’s call it that way for now) to allow for basic slapping action.

Those animated decals take a lot of time because I have to pass them through two scripts to format them properly.

I made a set of riding crop decals but I don’t really like them so I think I will use an “artistic license” to use whip marks instead. It will look a lot better anyway.

Next step however is to add tally marks to all the body parts.

Can you guess what I have been up to? :3

I kinda was, but I ended up working my ass off the first half of this week on a new project.

I really would like to post pictures for it but it is a little… complicated at the moment and I realized that all the WIP pictures I took so far aren’t really helpful, or are just plain awful.

The “thing” I thought that I had solved yesterday wasn’t solved at all. It turns out that normal baking is processed in a way i had not considered and that was the problem really. I ended up redoing my material nodes, taking in account that I needed to populate the “normal” slot on my final material.

Crazy… The kind of solution you come up with… trying to nap.

This last picture is a “non final” test of the baked maps.

Not much to see today, some poly reduction. I should probably go lower than that.

Friday/Saturday I ran into a problem where my metal was getting embossed with the leather details for some unknown reason. After rebuilding the different node sets a bunch of times, I came to the conclusion that you get unreliable results with multi material setups if you use the enclosing material into the node graph, or if it is missing from the node graph.

Let’s just call it that way.

• Sharpened the edges a little more, fixed the strap ends, shortened the tongue.
• Took a really long time to come up with a felt-ish material for the raw side of the leather.
• Accidentally put it on the wrong side of the backing.
• Still haven’t unwrapped the model, maybe later tonight.

I tried a few different ideas, doubling all the leather was just too much, and making a protective flap to prevent “buckle bites” looked out-of-place.

It looks neat with the studs.

I started working on a really simple collar design, the goal is for a rather loose-fitting “pet store” type collar, I  don’t have any that look like that yet.  I can probably make something simple & nice with optional spikes and things like that.

I know someone who would look great with something like that on, dragged by the end of a leash… >_>