The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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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.
Dorado
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
Just finished mechanoid suit concept featiring procedural texturing
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6BR31
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!
Visual feedback is very much appreciated as well (lighting, distribution of details, player guidance).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oty_pzKFrcMYou can download the map from my website.
Thank you!
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
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?
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.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?
Celosia
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Re: Normal Map Problem
the robot is only going to recycle the misinformation
this is a subject that cannot be googled because at least half the people who write with 'authority' on the subject are wrong.
The one good source of information I've found - and the only one I hand over to artists who encounter this - is the sticky thread about wavy normal maps on this very forum.
this is a subject that cannot be googled because at least half the people who write with 'authority' on the subject are wrong.
The one good source of information I've found - and the only one I hand over to artists who encounter this - is the sticky thread about wavy normal maps on this very forum.
poopipe
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Re: What are best AIs for game art? Both for scripting and content creating?
" I am getting so accustomed to chatGPT I am not sure I would be able to work without it later when it sure will have to cover its losses and charge people for real money /cancel cheap subscription. "
That's bad. A generation of people who can't think for themselves. But that's what they want and here we are.
That's bad. A generation of people who can't think for themselves. But that's what they want and here we are.
Lamont
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Re: [WIP] Jedi Realtime Character - Metahumans in UE 5.6
I made a lightsaber! It was mostly box modelling and some sub div with a bunch of booleans and the low poly is 5,112 tris - not a particularly complicated mesh but not exactly optimised properly either. I spent some time going through the lightsabers in the Jedi art books and also in Jedi: Survivor just to see if I could keep it in line, but this is maybe a bit simple. I still like it though
My substance painter trial ran out so, after finally buying Marmoset Toolbag 5 in a sale, I took this as an opportunity to try out texturing there, taking advantage of vector shapes to add more detail. Also added a little greentooth because why not!
I'll be the first person to say that I am not a fan of hardsurface person but something like a lightsaber is always fun to mess about with.
I also managed to set up a rigid body for the hilt after a bunch of trial and error! I imported the lightsaber as it's own skeletal mesh and in Unreal added an additional bone to drive the rigid body. I leaned on these tutorials for help: tail physics and this walkthrough
Set up the colliders, 1 for the lightsaber and 1 for the hips to have something for it to collide into. I also set the constraint of the new capsule to be limited in swing and twist motions and set the physics type of the capsule to 'Simulated'.
Created an anim blueprint with rigid body, retargeted the animations for the updated skeleton and added this anim blueprint to the post-process anim blueprint slot for the lightsaber skeletal mesh and BOOM, it bounces!
Next up is to actually make the light part of a lightsaber, hoping a friend can help me out with that one.
My substance painter trial ran out so, after finally buying Marmoset Toolbag 5 in a sale, I took this as an opportunity to try out texturing there, taking advantage of vector shapes to add more detail. Also added a little greentooth because why not!
I'll be the first person to say that I am not a fan of hardsurface person but something like a lightsaber is always fun to mess about with.
I also managed to set up a rigid body for the hilt after a bunch of trial and error! I imported the lightsaber as it's own skeletal mesh and in Unreal added an additional bone to drive the rigid body. I leaned on these tutorials for help: tail physics and this walkthrough
Set up the colliders, 1 for the lightsaber and 1 for the hips to have something for it to collide into. I also set the constraint of the new capsule to be limited in swing and twist motions and set the physics type of the capsule to 'Simulated'.
Created an anim blueprint with rigid body, retargeted the animations for the updated skeleton and added this anim blueprint to the post-process anim blueprint slot for the lightsaber skeletal mesh and BOOM, it bounces!
Next up is to actually make the light part of a lightsaber, hoping a friend can help me out with that one.
