AshuraDX

Wow.

Let's start at the beginning. What broke about netradiant? 

If you're switching back to radiant 1.5, does that support brush primitives yet? Otherwise going back may break some or all of your texcoords irreperably.

About Substance Designer and rend2:

All of the processes you need to learn to make textures or rather materials for rend2 also apply to UE5, Unity and other Engines that use Physically based rendering. 

You may also be missing the fact that you don't have to remake every single material from scratch. There are plenty of free platforms and marketplaces that offer finished PBR Materials you may use across projects. Converting those for rend2 won't be an issue at all. 

The only textures you need to remake are any special made custom designs, e.g. the large carvings from the temple entrance. And even then you can use other readily available materials as a basis to then remix and match into what you need. The difference being that you're working with full pbr materials as opposed to single image materials/"textures" as you're used to for jka.

You could do all of this mixing and editing in Photoshop aswell - Substance Designer just gives you a nice node based interface to non-destructively and iteratively work through this process. You could also use Substance Painter to get a best of both worlds approach to material authoring. In painter materials become layers that you can mix and blend in plenty of ways, very similiar to photoshop.

You could also check out Quixel Suite, which used to integrate into photoshop as a plugin and gave you essentially the same capabilities as substance painter. Quixel Mixer also offers tons of base materials you can use.

Hit me up on Discord, let's see of we can't get you up to speed.

That depends entirely on what you are willing to do to make this model work ingame.

You can always retopologize a model, like I did here (left) for Willemoes Jester Model (right).
I rebuilt the torso using retopology tools to get better edgeflow for rigging. This method can also be used to reduce the geometric detail of a model significantly while keeping clean topology and more or less the same shape as the original.

This takes some effort but generally gives much better results than decimation.
In this case I also reprojected the textures from the original model onto a completely new UV set to make working with the textures a lot easier for anyone aiming to reskin this.

Why should it be impossible?

Jpegs saved as "progressive" can be fun too

German

will you ever fix these wonky creases here?

https://imgur.com/a/DK5Uc6n

I didn't point them out so far because I figured that you'd fix them later down the road, but I'm starting to get worried here ;D

Looks great, besides of these few really obvious smoothing hickups.

It's not like tutorials on this didn't exist, they're not difficult to find either. Very few active posters here seem to be itnerested in taking any time to learn a new skill. More tutorials are always a good thing though, so go for it!

I had this problem with my turntable. Is your gla folder prefixed with _humanoid? Try that, if it isn't already.

@IrocJeff would you like to join the beta test group? I could really use some more active testers.

oh geez. I have 2 more weeks before it's on cinema in germany. I have to leave this place...

afaik this is not supported.

I can't tell wether your alst statement was seriously stupid or overly sarcastic Onsy

Only maps with the "HI" tag in painters baking menu need the high res mesh

Wrong. AO, Normal and Thickness are all maps that painter generates from a high res mesh. It generates the rest from the normal map and the lowpoly.

All I need to work with that mesh are a normal map and an AO map.

The correct term would be optimization.

I loved the bloody palace levels in the DMC Games.

It will be a while before I start on my model. So I'm not actually working on it, just planning it atm. I kinda want to get a release for my plugin before I touch anything else.

5/7

coudl use more shape definition in the form of lighting and some more surface detail, looks like a doll atm

My recommendation: Bitfenix Shinobi

I'll see TFA and TLJ as a double feature Wednesday Night

can't tell for sure, but I'd assume you have either sclaed, rotated or moved the root node. Post in the assistance section.

scared to make a WIP Thread ?

Nope, they used scans of the original props for reference but afaik the actual ingame assets were digitally handmade. Not counting Environment stuff, I know that a lot of things were scanned for those.