The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: ⚒ Spectre Divide - Commons Environment Art ⚒
I love how everything has this soft patina to it and looks very lived-in and grounded, but not overly gritty or cluttered.
Great job to you and your team!
pxgeek
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Re: ⚒ Spectre Divide - Commons Environment Art ⚒
Thank you, I have a lot of Vehicles that I will post next week. Follow me on artstation if you wanna see some of that.iam717 said:nice work, i love the vehicles or whatever they may be, superb.
markcarier25
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
most of that is wrapped up in development costs - assuming 70-100 people the 25 million figure wouldn't raise any eyebrows.
store charges come out of revenue and don't count towards development cost
fwiw unreal will be paid for on a fixed fee basis at that sort of scale - it's only plebs that pay the % cut
store charges come out of revenue and don't count towards development cost
fwiw unreal will be paid for on a fixed fee basis at that sort of scale - it's only plebs that pay the % cut
poopipe
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
Chest scars as a customization option is always a nice touch to have, it's easy to add and it makes people happy and seen. I also don't believe top surgery scars for breast cancer are comparable to the one resulting from gender affirming surgeries. See, for breast cancer, they do try to salvage most of the breast, and there are a variety of result depending on the case. Some are flat on one side with no nipples, some still have a breast with a scar on top yadda yadda... For gender affirming surgery, you get one of tree results: double incisions, peri-areolar or T-anchor scars. All the breast tissue is removed and the nipples are very often resized and grafted. So really Dragon Age is specifically representing a double incision scar resulting from a top surgery, it's for trans people.
About your concerns about this inclusion being shallow, I think it's a good thing, having characters in-game not pointing out that you're trans. See, for a lot of trans people, passing and not drawing attention on themselves is what they seek. They just want to live life without people pestering them. I know for me that having, for example, a whole sub-plot/quest about my character's scars would be highly irritating.
But character creation is shallow by design, I don't know why it's even a discussion.
Melomad
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Re: Rigging question
a lot of factors play into the choice.
In the simplest case , you want the character posed in the middle of it's most common range of movement to minimise the amount of mesh distortion that occurs
If your character spends 90% of the time walking round with a gun in their hands you don't really need the full Tpose and you might as well keep the legs fairly close together.
If the character backflips all over the place you probably want a more extreme pose.
In the simplest case , you want the character posed in the middle of it's most common range of movement to minimise the amount of mesh distortion that occurs
If your character spends 90% of the time walking round with a gun in their hands you don't really need the full Tpose and you might as well keep the legs fairly close together.
If the character backflips all over the place you probably want a more extreme pose.
poopipe
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
to your first point..NikhilR said:Concord is targeting DEI/Inclusion very explicitly in its marketing (characters are presented with rainbows, strong emphasis on pronouns and inclusion), and it was anticipated to become the next Star Wars universe under Sony.
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Its sales numbers were abysmal (25,000) and it is bizarre to spend 400 million to create it over 8 years to invite this outcome.
Like I wonder if the team/Sony is genuinely surprised by the reception or simply don't care, what was the purpose of this circus?
DEI is about steering the behaviour of institutions - it has fuck all to do with putting rainbow flags in marketing material.
The grand conspiracy you're talking about is ESG - which is about steering public opinion through media etc..
To the point I actually have some experience with:
first thing:
if the total cost was 400million, that means it actually cost 200million in development and 200million in marketing/admin/etc. (25million a year on average is plausible)
In my experience (and tbf several years have passed) Sony are largely hands-off in terms of development/design decisions with even their first party studios, as such I would imagine that if the mark was missed it's down to decisions the studio made rather than had forced upon them.
And ..
You have to bear in mind that the publisher has been paying out for development from day 1. If it costs 25million a year to run the studio, they're 50million in before they see anything representative of the game and 100million in before they have what the studio thinks is finished.
At that point - if it's not working - they have a few options.
1: throw 100 million away, shutter the studio, and then pay out even more money in severance etc.
2: throw more money at it in the hope that it'll turn around and sell loads
3: release it anyway and hope what sales it does get mitigate the loss
My guess is that they picked 2, it didn't go well and they went to 3 when the spend got too large to digest.
poopipe
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)
Baked and working on textures now. Not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, though, so I'm still working on it 
kwagner
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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.
i haven't found much practical benefit for any of the direct art stuff, though haven't messed with it very much
on the coding front i find chatgpt to be useful and used almost daily. so long as I can write pseudo-code, it is able to make working scripts in python and other languages. really handy for simple tools to automate tedious things. essentially it makes it so that you get unreal blueprints for other code languages - so long as you can handle the order of operations and basic logic, it takes care of all the other pedantic pain points for you.
It's been really reliable for that - i've iterated on tools up to 500 lines of code and it just works - or if it doesn't, it's because i didn't have order of operations correct (and its not smart enough to detect problems with that).
on the coding front i find chatgpt to be useful and used almost daily. so long as I can write pseudo-code, it is able to make working scripts in python and other languages. really handy for simple tools to automate tedious things. essentially it makes it so that you get unreal blueprints for other code languages - so long as you can handle the order of operations and basic logic, it takes care of all the other pedantic pain points for you.
It's been really reliable for that - i've iterated on tools up to 500 lines of code and it just works - or if it doesn't, it's because i didn't have order of operations correct (and its not smart enough to detect problems with that).
Alex_J
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Re: (WIP) Track Sweeper
I've always really loved making chassis with splines. It just boils down to plausible geometry.
ChristopherRobin
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Yes Yes something like, solution like this is what i was looking for. I'll definitely try it out as soon as I get home.okidoki said:Maybe just do what you yourself suggested in you file with the annotate tool ?? Select wanted edges and subdivide and merging tris to quads ( with unchanged annotations..) like so;
nonet1282
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