Mike's Stuff

Just a fun Halloween piece. :)

Adore this book and anything Douglas Adams wrote. He is quoted is both Life is Strange and Before the Storm. Somebody at Dontnod and Deck Nine are fans :)

Lyla Park.. Did you call her? Was to be a quick textures/shader test.. got carried away.:) Most of the textures from the game will plug straight into Blenders principal shader. Diffuse, Normal, Spec, Gloss no problems. But in LiS2 and Captain Spirit they now include some new textures, like SSS ( Subsurface scattering), Highlights, Flow, Wrinkle, Blush, Cloth and some more. SSS is fine, the principal shader has a node for that and works fine with some tweeks like a math node to alter the strength. HL texure seems to work plugged into the anisotropic node but not 100% sure. Flow maps will be direction i think? Cloth map is maybe a sheen value?  I'm trying to get away with just using the one principal shader and not combine any others if i can avoid it. Need to read up on Unreal 4 shaders and see how best Blender can use them.

Had to finish off this series.. showing them all :)

Loving LiS2 so far :) Work keeping me away so wont get to play it until fri/weekend. Start screen shots without menu or title 1440p. Added wide and 4k versions Grab here Updated screen:  1440p  1440p  Original Adjusted added a light flare. Widescreen 4k

While poking around the LiS 2 data folders, found an intact Max model! WTF? It looks exactly like the original model but with one surprising difference.. the hair! The hair is more detailed, especially at the front. Also thicker mesh for the strands of hair and much more mesh topology. There is now armature in the hair to control strands like the BtS and LiS 2 models as well! What was odd, the hair diffuse texture is the same as the original.. but blue. Also the UV's are different so the texture will not map correctly. Very interesting :) New hair found in LiS2 Original hair