[petrus]

This may be very interesting to every mod maker here...

Japanese artist Toshihiro Kushizaki has released the "Pixel Art Shader"
a free Blender shader that converts 3D models into pixel art like this:



Holy mother of God indeed, this can provide an unlimited source of sprites for use with duke 3d, doom...

found via & via + original Japanese page

[Micky C]

It'd be interesting to see if this can be used to make well-suited Duke 3D-style art. It may just be that particular model but it does look very anime. Lots of solid colours etc.

[Jblade]

He just had to use probably the most anime model in existence to demonstrate the effect didn't he?

[Inspector Lagomorf]

*feverishly gets to work porting Tomb Raider to Duke Nukem 3D*

(though this is most likely limited by the fact that it's a Blender shader, so many of the proprietary models used in the Tomb Raider games probably won't work)

[petrus]

And another one called SpriteBatchRender, it does stuff like:



Found via: http://forum.zdoom.o...php?f=3&t=45155

[Hank]

Micky C, on 30 March 2015 - 12:31 AM, said:

It'd be interesting to see if this can be used to make well-suited Duke 3D-style art. It may just be that particular model but it does look very anime. Lots of solid colours etc.

No clue. If you like the Pac Man style look. I tried it, but like the maker, I have little experience with Blender, and ... like in the old days, you want to make sprite sheets. So either way you end up with photoshop or gimp

http://www.gamefroms...d-The-GIMP.aspx
Blender would do instead of DAZ, if you know how to animate models with it.

[Tea Monster]

Would be much easier to animate in Blender and then render the model. You can light it in Blender as well, so it dosen't look like it's in a studio.

[Cage]

This is pretty cool, but nothing groundbreaking or really exciting.

First of all, it will only work for cartoon/cel-shaded style artwork.

Second, those types of solutions never give a really good result without human input. The provided example serves as a really solid base, but I wouldn't use it without any tweaks and cleanups - the jaggyness of the material stripes looks pretty bad for example.

I don't think we'll ever get automatic solutions able to give us results like this for example:







So yeah, it's a really neat tool but nothing to deliver a final image.
Cheers

[Mark]

That program intentionally pixelates the output image. I wonder if there is an option to output hi res.

[Tea Monster]

Mark., on 06 April 2015 - 02:59 PM, said:

That program intentionally pixelates the output image.

Was it developed by someone here then?