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Re: [first post :D] Space Hotel environment feedback 🚀🕷️
Hi, nice environment so far! The first thing that pops out to me is that everything is looking really flat. I'm not really sure what your lighting set up is, but I think I'm not seeing enough shadows or AO. Maybe try to push those values a bit farther, I know interiors can be a bit tricky!
ThisisVictoriaZ
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Re: LOW-POLY ART
This is excellent work. Never even considered setting up limbs as separate meshes, but it blends in nicely and saves you issues with deformationsKillPixel said:Guerilla
558 tris
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Torch
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
we should get back to posting links about layoffs and feeling bad about the industry, if you guys want to catfight it out about culture wars do it in DMs or something, let us feel depressed in peace
zetheros
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
Profitability is never assured. And if you take the attitude that if "profitability isn't assured it's not worth including it", you're probably going to make the most boring, empty, uninspired, generic and forgettable games ever. And that is a far bigger reason to not buy a game than some whining about "DEI".
Any fool can play it safe and work out who the lowest common denominator is, but if you're just going to do that, what's the point? You can say it's "only if a company is at risk of liquidation", but honestly, that's always a risk, isn't it? Just look at the amount of studios that have been getting shut down left and right by the companies that owned them, sometimes even just for not being profitable enough, even when they were making profit.
I also dislike this idea that representation is simply performative. That's ridiculous. Representation is, itself, doing a lot. There are many who find themselves by seeing others like them; find the words to describe what they're feeling by seeing how those people describe themselves; feel seen and understood by seeing representations of things they're going through themselves. Even shallow representation is, at least, recognition and normalising, which is important too.
Also, it's absolutely insane in this economy to suggest "they should give 10% of each sale away". How the hell would you sell that to the powers that be? No company is going to agree to make 10% less money.
And how does that track with what you're saying here? You say they should focus on what's safely profitable, but then you say if they are including "unsafe" stuff like LGBT elements, etc, then they should also be giving away a load of their money.....Which then makes it less profitable, and pushes them, conveniently, into the "shouldn't be made because it's not profitable" territory. Which is it? At best, you're essentially suggesting a "queer tax"...
Rima
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Thanks, good idea, i will do that. I only posted here as initially i was interested in how i can approach modelling the intersections of those pillars as i was struggling with that and you guys gave me great ideas and way to start on. Thank you for that.sacboi said:"...may I suggest opening a WIP in 3D Art sub-forum?
Z0ltBa
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Z0ltBa said:
"...is it a lazy approach in your opinion?"
No, efficient is how I'd describe your planned course of action. It's only that this thread is primarily a teaching/learning resource for those interested in sub division modeling, hence reasoning behind my post but all good sounds like you're on top of things and btw if interested, may I suggest opening a WIP in 3D Art sub-forum? results of which could also help others, when facing similar potential issues.
sacboi
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Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
@sacboi
Thank you so much, great video, it gave me a great idea. I was thinking of doing something like that, but i thought that i will model and sculpt the achantus leaf pattern onto a trim sheet that i was planning to make for my scene and will bake it into my mesh and use it as for my texture, because the pillars ornament is in 6m heigh and won’t be seen that close up, so i can get away with not having that much geometry on those details, so i can make one detailed leaf and make it tileable to wrap it around the ornament. Or is it a lazy approach in your opinion? 😅
Thank you so much, great video, it gave me a great idea. I was thinking of doing something like that, but i thought that i will model and sculpt the achantus leaf pattern onto a trim sheet that i was planning to make for my scene and will bake it into my mesh and use it as for my texture, because the pillars ornament is in 6m heigh and won’t be seen that close up, so i can get away with not having that much geometry on those details, so i can make one detailed leaf and make it tileable to wrap it around the ornament. Or is it a lazy approach in your opinion? 😅
Z0ltBa
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
I should have stated that, in this case, you probably are best just going for clean and polished.
Muzzoid
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
I'll probably have a clearer idea once I've finished doing all the secondary forms, but I think I'll probably just end up cleaning up a lot of the noise/mess. Maybe some will be kept if they look and work nicely.Muzzoid said:good find!
Regardless of if, it's just texture or not, you could choose to do it in the sculpt or the texture stage.
DustyShinigami
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