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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?

Is that really motivational? Seems more depressing to me than anything.

It basically seems to me like "I'm extremely skilled, qualified, disciplined and hard working but I still can't get shit in my field and I'm having to work two shitty jobs just to live. But this is totally motivational because on the end I said that it's resilience and I'm not giving up."

Of course, I'm a cynical bitch, so I'm bound to read it that way, but still. If you look at it for its objective reality and not his personal view on it, it's just bleak.

Rima

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Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge!

Asking for clarification on the texture limits. What is splitting? Does each "pass" count as a texture?

4x textures at 4096 ... does that mean 4 material trim sheets (for environment), each with any number of "passes", each material at 4096? Like one metal, one rock, one paints, one fabrics?

Or does it mean that each texture pass is a texture and you get four? Like one albedo, one roughness, one normal, one metallic each at 4096 each, and that's everything? Make one single trim material?

ScottHoneycutt

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Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge!

I like the idea of restricting it to a genre as with the previous Brawl. A fighting game stage gives a pretty good idea of scope and what you need to do. The current prompt right now can be anything.

If we wanted to continue with the idea we can pick a popular genre (several new ones since 2011) and then let it go from there.

- Hero shooters

- Mobas

- Roguelikes

- Soulslikes

- Third person open world adventure

- Boomershooters

- Lootershooters

Pick a character, vehicle, or vertical slice to remix. If you keep the multiverse idea, you can say change the style or genre for the thing you pick. You could go with one theme like the Mad Max/Post apoc idea.

sketchem

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Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge!

iam717 said:

@sacboi : 100k+ want it?
I thought of small packaged vehicles / mounts being entered since in the previous thread it was mentioned "we are doing this on our free-time", so i thought limiting the count would help with that. Since reading that statement meant no AAA content would be made. I am all for higher.

Nah all good, specs for vehicles/mounts capped at 50k are fine well at least for me, because I've been working on a large asset creation technique + non industry pipeline which at this stage of testing just generating the prototype piece using an hybrid trim sheet approach, whilst also looking into texture atlas's, that seems IMHO promising to adopt as a personilsed workflow so anticipate I'd come in under anyway.

Side note, skimimg through the 2011 Brawl Tournament

https://polycount.com/discussion/82093/the-brawl-tournament-brief-and-specs

And since there's feedback here related to lack of theme as yet, might start the ball rolling plus nod to the original contest fighting brief - so howabout a Mad Max theme (rad vehicles alongside buff staunch chars do go well together

) or whatever dystopian world/universe environment 'set in' thingy?

sacboi

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Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge!

Yeah, looking forward to it! Not sure yet what category.

Fabi_G

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Self Oriented Lattice tool for Maya

Hi Guys,
I have made a version of my Volume Auto-Fit Lattice of blender but this time for MAYA, I have tested it in Autodesk Maya 2025 and 2026 and in both version works fine, if you try it in an older version and it throws some error you can share it with me to fix it and update it. This tools is available in: https://artstn.co/m/LmyR6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZURWTD75Ez8

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rfarencibia

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Re: [WIP] Triumph Rocket 3R Bike (SubD Model)

More parts. Will probably revisit those pieces and fix some minor shading and topology issues

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kosh3d

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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?

Well sure, the whole job market is bleak, so yeah it's hard to absorb we have to resort to shit like this. On the other hand I just like his "rolling up my sleeves" attitude, like I'll do whatever the fuck I have to, to raise my kids and keep food on the table. I admire him for his grit.

Eric Chadwick

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Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge!

My inclination is to have it a bit more focused for our first time back and to stick more to the original Brawl, perhaps with some further room for riffs and improvisation? After all, majority votes were for that in the initial polling (I voted “other” as in Brawl without prizes). Also, I couldn’t find the brief for the original competition and wasn’t around during then, but it seemed rather successful.

I agree that it’s too ambiguous and it’s open ended nature seems not all that different from a root-level Polycount ”pimping and previews” section. I get that it’s still low stakes with no prizes, but it’d still be nice to treat it as a contest (in the spirit of competition and camaraderie) with judging as such; and as mentioned above, that can be difficult and hard to manage with lots of categories and themes.

I don’t know if there are any right or wrong answers here, and probably more about what you will able to manage @iam717. Hopefully, other members will express their own opinions on what direction they prefer and give you a better idea on where to steer this ship…it’s a ton of work and large time commitment, so thank you!

pxgeek

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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?

Saw a great motivational post on LinkedIn from an experienced Tech Artist, talking about how hard the search is, but they're pushing through by working multiple jobs, even though it's not related to their experience. Can't find the post now, LinkedIn search sucks a fuck, but I'll share if I find it.

Eric Chadwick

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