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Re: 1900's Western Fields
So I finished my western environment! I'm really happy with final result. I wanted to go for a more majestic look and harmony. Please visit my artstation account for some sort vids that I put together. Now on to the next project! More on my artstation account: atomicarmy.artstation.com 
AtomicArmy
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Re: Metal surfacing technical name
@HAWK12HT Thanks for the update. Glad you were able to find the term and posted the conclusion here.
FrankPolygon
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
FWIW we have some links to old texturing tutorials here. A lot of these links might be dead from bit-rot though
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/TexturingTutorials
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/TexturingTutorials
Eric Chadwick
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Re: [WIP] RED V-Raptor camera, Plasticity practice
Okay, time to get back to it after a short break. I've been playing with the camera's add-ons, and I'm really starting to like it. My only issue is the poly count. I was hoping to skip retopology on this project and just work with a dense mesh, but it's already at 27 million polys. At this rate, my computer is going to give up on me before I'm finished.
3d_legionary
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Re: How do you make the 3D pipeline less painful?
Klunk said:you need to work on your "prompts"though seriously it's the kind of stuff that AI should be used for.... automation of the tedious
wash your mouth out - artists who refuse to work for a living pay my mortgage
poopipe
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
5rettski said:This is all so-so-so incredibly useful, I have another question regarding early 2000s workflow,
Theres a video that talks about the development of God of War 2005, but it skips a part of the whole reason I was looking for it, character modeling.
Was ZBrush or something used back then to make these models?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1G-rvB7Wxg
This is the video I was trying to watch, if anyone knows, it would be incredibly useful, thanks!
Manual sub d modelling was the thing, afaik Zbrush wasnt that main stream till 2008.
Alias Maya as it was called, enjoy the making of Final Fantasy Spirits Within some cool insights in 6 parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0XXYJ3gCY
HAWK12HT
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Re: SuperPNG broken these days, any alternatives?
If you want to preserve the RGB values, you can force Photoshop by increasing the black level of your mask to be 1/255 instead of zero. Use Levels on the alpha, and set the lower Output to 1. Then it will look to the human eye as being completely transparent, but the full RGB will be preserved.
The PNG spec says in the simplest case to use a solid color for 0 alpha, usually white, and set a flag that tells readers to set that color as zero alpha. But it does also support separate RGB and Alpha, using a bit more work and also getting a larger file size, which SuperPNG supports.
The PNG spec says in the simplest case to use a solid color for 0 alpha, usually white, and set a flag that tells readers to set that color as zero alpha. But it does also support separate RGB and Alpha, using a bit more work and also getting a larger file size, which SuperPNG supports.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
ZBrush was out in like 2003(?), but wasn't used in the capacity it is now. I am sure that was sub-d's in Maya.
Lamont
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