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Re: Photoshop - PixelB Game Maps and PixelB Normal Tools - extensions for painting game textures
Looks good! I assume a release for the Photoshop CS versions isn't worth it?
Noren
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Re: CAHDD™ (Computer Aided Human Designed & Developed) — voluntary workflow transparency + watermark too
TheAllusionist said:I really do appreciate you taking the time to comment and wonder if you read the articles and dived into the sentiment, we are really pushing that you would feel so strongly in your condemnation, but I am not asking you to put forth that effort and I do get your perspective, here is basically my perspective on AI and why I think indicating involvement is the least we can do: The AI Debate Isn’t Complicated. We’re Just Making It That Way - CAHDD
Thanks for this blog post. It's nicely reasoned and to the point. You explain why AI image generators are built on theft. Unfortunately in the end, and contrary to your argument, you fully embrace this unethical tech by using it extensively across your site.
Instead of your ending statement "Ethics do not disappear just because enforcement is hard" it seems by your embrace of the tech you are really saying "Ethics do not disappear, but I'm going to ignore the ethics and use these irresistible tools anyway".
In my opinion, it's not complicated. I simply choose not to use these ai generators, because I find it intrinsically unethical.
Eric Chadwick
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PAID FREELANCE per world/asset- 3D Artist (Three.js & VRM Models)
About the Project
A browser-based 3D social platform where communities hang out in shared virtual worlds using customizable avatars. Think of it as a cozy, low-poly metaverse rendered entirely in the browser with Three.js.
What We Need
We're looking for a 3D environment and character artist to create:
Avatar Base Model & Customization System
- A modular base avatar model in VRM format
- The base model must support texture swapping for:
- Skin tones — multiple palette options via swappable body/face textures
- Eye colors — swappable iris textures or tintable material regions
- Hair styles — separate mesh pieces that can be swapped on/off
- Clothing — modular clothing meshes (tops, bottoms, shoes, accessories) that layer over the base body
- UV layouts must be consistent across all swappable pieces so textures and clothing fit interchangeably
- Must support humanoid bone structure with normalized bones
Worlds / Environments
- Interior and exterior themed environments
- Each world is a single-scene GLB model loaded into a Three.js scene
- Environments need walkable floor planes and logical bounds
- Warm, stylized lighting baked or supported by the engine
Requirements
- Experience creating modular character systems with swappable parts and texture variants
- Experience exporting optimized
.glbmodels for web/WebGL - Understanding of real-time rendering constraints (draw calls, texture budgets, polycount)
- Familiarity with VRM avatar format and humanoid rigging
- Ability to create consistent art styles across avatars and environments
- Portfolio showing stylized/low-poly 3D characters and environments
Nice to Have
- Experience with Three.js or web-based 3D rendering
- Experience with baked lighting / lightmap workflows for WebGL
- Ability to create modular/reusable props and furniture sets
- Experience with world-building tools or level design
Deliverables
Per Avatar Set
- Base body
.vrmfile with consistent UV layout - Texture sheets for each skin tone / eye color variant
- Separate clothing and hair meshes (
.glbor bundled in VRM) - A style guide documenting UV regions, naming conventions, and how pieces swap
- Source file (
.blend/.fbx)
Per World
- Final
.glbscene file (optimized, single file) - A 1280x720 thumbnail preview image (
.png) - A brief spec sheet: recommended camera position, floor bounds, any hidden objects
- Source file (
.blend/.fbx) for future iteration
maikaxd
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Re: 3D Generalist Portfolio Critique
Hello and welcome 
Your front page doesn't feel like a portfolio but the pitch for why someone should hire your company to do something. But you're not a company...
You have a lot of text explaining what the different 3D disciplines are. This is a total waste of space - anyone looking at your portfolio is from one of those industries and doesn't need it explained to them.
I would ditch that big banner - It takes up a ton of space and means I have to scroll down before I see your work.
This is the view I have of your page without scrolling. No work to immediately look at and cut-off text at the bottom. In fact, the important text (Home, About, Resume etc) is difficult to see and very small.
Its not your 'talent gallery' - its your portfolio. Just call it that.
A 1 minute showreel covering everything isn't ideal. Having individual ones covering your different skills is better IMO. Also, ditch the music.
Your arch viz and product rendering are definitely your strongest works, but overall I think you have way too much big text.
I click on Product rendering and all I see is a huge text block explaining what I don't need to know, and cut off images at the bottom.
Overall, I think you need to do more showing, less explaining. Don't make anyone scroll down to actually find your work.
Your front page doesn't feel like a portfolio but the pitch for why someone should hire your company to do something. But you're not a company...
You have a lot of text explaining what the different 3D disciplines are. This is a total waste of space - anyone looking at your portfolio is from one of those industries and doesn't need it explained to them.
I would ditch that big banner - It takes up a ton of space and means I have to scroll down before I see your work.
This is the view I have of your page without scrolling. No work to immediately look at and cut-off text at the bottom. In fact, the important text (Home, About, Resume etc) is difficult to see and very small.
Its not your 'talent gallery' - its your portfolio. Just call it that.
A 1 minute showreel covering everything isn't ideal. Having individual ones covering your different skills is better IMO. Also, ditch the music.
Your arch viz and product rendering are definitely your strongest works, but overall I think you have way too much big text.
I click on Product rendering and all I see is a huge text block explaining what I don't need to know, and cut off images at the bottom.
Overall, I think you need to do more showing, less explaining. Don't make anyone scroll down to actually find your work.
Benjammin
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Re: Sketchbook: Rima
Technically, this is meant to be week two of that course's work, but I really don't understand Kingslien's approach to planing, so I'm really struggling with it. So I'm partway through here, and comparing to his as a benchmark, this is probably still too complex and needs more simplification. I've been procrastinating a lot out of frustration. 
Rima
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Re: Relative path for Maya Shelf Icons?
hmm your yellow buttons should really be hotkeyed imo!
Yozora
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Re: Need help understanding what these maps are and how to connect them.
R looks like specular reflectance
Body s/d look like alternative diffuse maps
G looks like ambient occlusion
B is probably gloss but it looks a bit shit
Body s/d look like alternative diffuse maps
poopipe
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Re: Need help understanding what these maps are and how to connect them.
My best bet is that B is metalness and R is glossiness.
If you are using it for metalness/roughness - try inverting R and check if it gives better results.
If you are using it for metalness/roughness - try inverting R and check if it gives better results.
dimwalker
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Re: [3D] How to unwrap spherical Visor so texture doesn't distort?
I'd probably try to drastically reduce the polycount of that element (reproject it later if necessary) so you can manipulate it with greater ease to get a bit more even texture flow, or use soft selections and pinning along with relaxing (or combine both approaches) to get the best possible outcome, but there will be some distortion either way.
Also, the horizontal hard edge is not a good choice in combination with that kind of patter if you ask me. You'd have to have the pattern run through this exactly following the direction of the edge (and "halving" every other hexagon) to make it look good, or scale the pattern down a lot so it doesn't create as much of a problem as it doesn't compete with it on the same detail level.
Inserting an arch/border along that edge, splitting your pattern, would give you a lot less headaches. Think about how this would be built in the real world.
A much more complicated, but perhaps worthwhile approach would be to model the pattern in 3d or at least create the initial distribution by hand by placing the center points of your hexagons on your mesh so they result in a hex pattern that's as regular as possible, and use that as guides for your mesh or texture somehow. Maybe you could do something with Voronoi with the centers as starting points. Not sure how clean or perfect the result would be, though.
There are scripts that turn quad meshes with two-directional flow into hexagons, but then you'd run into the same distortions you are struggling with right now.
You could also morph this into a flat state (e.g. taken from the UVs) to have an easier time working on it and skin the 3D cells to the flat mesh and morph the whole thing back. But like said, that's quite convoluted.
Also, the horizontal hard edge is not a good choice in combination with that kind of patter if you ask me. You'd have to have the pattern run through this exactly following the direction of the edge (and "halving" every other hexagon) to make it look good, or scale the pattern down a lot so it doesn't create as much of a problem as it doesn't compete with it on the same detail level.
Inserting an arch/border along that edge, splitting your pattern, would give you a lot less headaches. Think about how this would be built in the real world.
A much more complicated, but perhaps worthwhile approach would be to model the pattern in 3d or at least create the initial distribution by hand by placing the center points of your hexagons on your mesh so they result in a hex pattern that's as regular as possible, and use that as guides for your mesh or texture somehow. Maybe you could do something with Voronoi with the centers as starting points. Not sure how clean or perfect the result would be, though.
There are scripts that turn quad meshes with two-directional flow into hexagons, but then you'd run into the same distortions you are struggling with right now.
You could also morph this into a flat state (e.g. taken from the UVs) to have an easier time working on it and skin the 3D cells to the flat mesh and morph the whole thing back. But like said, that's quite convoluted.
Noren
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