Golem

I was wondering how easy it would be to create a statue inside the demo, using only a spherical brush. I thought it would be nice if the creatures you sculpt could come to life. They could help you build or defend you against other creatures. I decided to give it a quick try.

I found it was not very easy. You certainly miss the toolset from programs like Zbrush, Mudbox or 3D-coat. I think we need better tools for a first-person editor. We certainly will be working on that.

Meanwhile, here is the stone golem I created. It took me around 20 minutes to build.

Voxel Art

For voxel worlds to become viable, content creation tools must migrate from polygons to voxels as well. In an earlier post I had mentioned 3D-Coat, a modeling software similar to Z-brush and Mudbox, but that works on voxels.

I decided to give it a try. It took me around four hours to create this model:

It would have taken days to create the same model using traditional mesh modeling. I found this workflow beats working with polygons for organic subjects.

What if it was a robot or a car? 3D Coat has some tools for basic primitives, but I did not try those.

I remember the Flash editor managed to blend vector graphics with bitmaps. While it is all 2D, it has a nice hybrid system where vector primitives are rasterized into a group of pixels so its identity as an object is not lost. This allows to perform additional transformations to the object. A similar approach would work very well for voxels.