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I made 3 new pipe sections:

• Wide 90° bend.
• 45° bend.
• S-shaped bend.

I’ve also been working on the parts for a plug-type butterfly valve.

I started making this a few days ago, it’s an excuse to do more Blender 2.8 practice, and maybe to make a decent pipe kit.

Currently the applier has 3 versions:

• Classic: A pre-colored version with red accent, metal zip and some very subtle shadowing on the black part.
• Black base: Tint-able version.
• Black Seams: Tint-able version (inverted).

Should I make a version without the ridged sections?

I have been struggling a bit with Blender for the past two days. It’s now the 3rd time I’ve had to re-unwrap the ridged part of the suit. Either I’m not saving it properly or I’m doing some accidental undos somehow…

On the upside, I got my tools back in order and I can draw creases again.

I know those vanity shots don’t really help to gauge progress, but it was such a nice place, I just had to.

I’ve been banging my head for several days now on a problem that became visible once I tested the ridged legs for the new catsuit skin in-world.

(Lighting greatly exaggerated for emphasis) It’s not the texture itself, it’s either something with the mesh, or something with SL.

The “right” version seem to mitigate the issue, but I still get very visible seams where the model ‘slices’ are.

I just can’t figure out what it is and nobody I know has a clue on what is going on. Worst case scenario: I’ll just go without ridges on the legs… or no ridges at all, but that would be such a waste. Alternatively I could “try” to hide those seams by adding some kind of accent on top of them I suppose…

But it’s going to eat me from the inside if I do that…

I have to give the Blender developers a thumb up, the new realtime rendering modes look ridiculously good.

While I was banging my head on porting my materials from Blender Render to Cycles/Eevee, I came up with a really nice solution to combine tangent normal maps.

I’m not sure about this, maybe as an “option”? I was also gonna try this look on the legs too, but I haven’t done it yet.

So far so good… But it still feels like there is simply not enough going on in there 🙁

At least it looks allright…

I started working on a new cat-suit upon request of a certain… cat-person 🙂