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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (98)

Hi everyone. Still at the modeling and sculpting phase

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aburille

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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025

One of my first attempts to integrate Unreal Engine into my workflow

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AllenPoe

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Whisper of the Heart's Atelier

I'm making this to look back on my learning and thought process throughout this project. I have a uni assignment where we have to make an interior environment with a hero asset as the clear focus. I've chosen to do the violin atelier in Whisper of the Heart following the concept that Seiji and Shizuku have grown up and Mr Nishi has passed the place down to them, it's used as a living space and a "home office" for them to get work done together.

my reference (there's more but i'm struggling to add it here)

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blockout

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Paintover/photobash I made to explain how I'm expecting it to look more easily

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The hero asset in this scene will be the violin. It'll be either complete (most likely) or unfinished to make it stand apart from the other violins. Crystals are important to the characters so I thought a cute addition would be a sun catcher. If I add it I'm excited to see what I can do with the lighting. The bench's been replaced with a high table by the window which will have wine glasses and a bottle. The sofa may become a drawer depending on time. There's a saucepan on the sofa, a bookshelf in the back, there'll be a pen pot and finally lamps. Whisper of the heart is my favourite movie so I'm going to try my best to give it justice!

catakos_hub

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Re: How many tris for a AAA modern Unreal 5 engine game? PC specs

I think this sentiment has been around for the past decade+ as geometry has not been a GPU bottleneck/performance issue for a looong time.

Just give yourself enough fidelity to look good enough, and within reason and sensibility. There really isn't a goal/benchmark of what triangle limit to aim for, it just so happens to land around this arbitrary number for many factors. (subject matter has lots of armor pieces, super organic, plus lots of hair cards = inherent high triangle count)

e.g. don't go nuts and author several iterations of subdivisons "just cause", effectively skyrocketing your geo to 400k triangles or whatever.

but also don't skimp out on areas that could use more silhouette/loops/fidelity - we don't need to second guess if we can "afford" it anymore.

Epitaph

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Re: How many tris for a AAA modern Unreal 5 engine game? PC specs

so we're working on an indie project using third person and cinematic close-ups in Unity. note, our typific art style allows us fewer polycounts. i was not given a poly target by our engineers but approached just using common sense practices and these are the counts they ended up at. we later created an uprez'd head for cinematics that about doubled its counts from the neck up.

our main character variant A is 11k polies and variant B is 13k. their weapon is 1k and additional accessories are at 1k. the uprez'd cinematic bust is at 5k.

our enemies clock in at around 5-15k.

(for tricount just double these numbers)

our programmer had informed me i could double these counts with no problem. i'm like that old guy that grew up during the depression that uses the same tea bag for 6 months, only it's polycount.

killnpc

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Re: BRAWL2 [Character] The Freelancer, Alexander

There are some screenshots of WIP. A lot of stuff have been shown in the video.

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Dorado

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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025

Just finished mechanoid suit concept featiring procedural texturing

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6BR31

jozin

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Quake 1 - Monastery Gardens - Looking for gameplay and visual feedback

I'm working on a Quake 1 map called Monastery Gardens for a while now and have released it as beta one week ago. If you play Quake 1, I would love to get some gameplay feedback (item placement, enemy placement, encounter difficulty, map layout). You need to have the Copper mod installed and use a modern engine port like Quakespawm or Ironwail.

Visual feedback is very much appreciated as well (lighting, distribution of details, player guidance).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oty_pzKFrcM
You can download the map from my website.

Thank you!

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Sersch

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Re: What are best AIs for game art? Both for scripting and content creating?

i am no big fan of ai usage in general and while i would agree on many of the sentiments written here, it is of course nonsense that people using AI are generally throwing their brains out of the window.

we are not even remotely at "i will just let the AI do this for me". that people dont learn things when using AI tools instead of a search engine is just as right as telling nobody learns anything when using search engines.

you can learn for yourself by using AI (or search engines, or an encyclopedia if you prefer that)

You can even make tutorial videos readable, crawlable which was one of my biggest gripes with tutorial videos to begin with, "where do I have to go to again to find this info?" has always been a lot easier in text form.

The same with (if correctly answered) info about anything 3d related, be it unreal nodes in the material editor or blender functions, you can actually use your brain and use AI to learn new things. it can help creating simple solutions that would otherwise be a lot more taxing to do. I created small scripts for blender, simple functionalities, without knowing blender or python and on the way learned a bit about both.

Again i am generally not a big fan, its too often wrong and confidentially so, that it is mostly super exhausting.

As if i would ask a question on polycount and 10 notorious liars would step in to "help" me. occasionally something right comes through, it feels far less reliable than sifting through a search engine.

But if its correct, its a ton faster than going through multiple sources looking for the nuggets you need

the tricky part with AI usage to me is the easy pitfall of "i did tha!t", when it hits what you had in mind, then suddenly it was ones idea, ones prompt that solved the issue.

Sweet good job.

But that falls apart the moment you hit a wall, a wall AI can't climb over because it is a fucking dumb and clueless chatbot on cocain. then it becomes pretty apperant how much of this is just luck, or well probability. If something was fed to it often enough it is probably able to find the right solution, if not... tough luck

Neox

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Re: What are best AIs for game art? Both for scripting and content creating?

poopipe said:

The real question is whether I can make more money working at xAI for the 24 months the studio will remain open than i can in the next 10 years at my current job?

You're assuming Musk wouldn't fire you one month in when you fail to show enough deference the mandatory emails listing your weekly accomplishments or when you don't show up after being summoned to HQ in a random weekend to hand-deliver a printed copy of your work for him to review.

Celosia

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