The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (91)
Hey everyone! 
Incredible work by everyone this challenge! I've loved seeing the different approached to each concepts and the feedback/information sharing has been great. @v13r1 and anyone else that might still be in progress, I recommend continuing if there are aspects of it that you feel would help you continue to grow! Taking a project from start to completion can help you to find what areas you're already great improve at those you might be weaker at.
With September here it's time for a new challenge to begin! Hope to see everyone there either to participate or give encouragement/critique to others. 
Pinkfox
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (91)
I made the block out about a week ago but got no chance to continue [endless tasks], dnw if i should finish it even tho the month is over or start another in the next challange 
v13r1
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Re: Trimsheet Question
Ewan said:Firstly, @ZacD thank you for you clarification now i've another question that is related to that:
Currently, I'm participating in the bimonthly challenge on Polycount and working on this environment:link of the concept: (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QzxGL3)Is it better to use tiling material instead of a trimsheet for the stone brick parts in the concept? I've tried to fit all of that inside a trimsheet, but it's not enough. Should I then create a separate trimsheet for the detailed parts, like those on the columns?
some of my attempt not gone so well to fit all in the trim:
Personally, in this case, I would opt to use a tileable material for the walls, combining it with vertex painting to blend two or three different materials. This would help break up the repetitive tiling pattern. I would incorporate variations of these stones, including some that are more worn, dirty, or partially covered by some type of coating. I would also consider adding decals in a later pass to add more detail and realism.
Using trim sheets for the walls is another viable option, although it requires more planning. However, even with this technique, it's essential to include texture variations to avoid a repetitive look.
aprats91
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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
Unfortunately after 10 years in the game development industry, next month will mark the first time I've been laidoff.
Fortunately because I was working mostly remote much of my work routine stays unchanged.
Going to miss the awesome people I was working with a lot.
As I was going through my final work day at the company I found myself thinking about many of the threads I've read on polycount discussing this topic and wanted to share my experience.
I hope you all are doing well. The industry feels like it's going through a rough contraction over the last year.
If you know of any studio looking to hire a lead 3d artist or a senior tech artist with lots of experience working in Unity game engine please let me know
Leinad
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (91)
model
Alright, got it set up in Sketchfab! I still want to do a pass on the color maps in photoshop/3D-coat but I have some other things I really need to take care of right now. If anyone has feedback on presentation please let me knoow.
Djyver thanks for bringing that up! I was considering it before but wasn't sure if they'd be distracting. Added.
Alright, got it set up in Sketchfab! I still want to do a pass on the color maps in photoshop/3D-coat but I have some other things I really need to take care of right now. If anyone has feedback on presentation please let me knoow.
Djyver thanks for bringing that up! I was considering it before but wasn't sure if they'd be distracting. Added.
EtotheRic
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (91)
Made it! Was hoping to have texturing done yesterday, but things came up so I had to finish today. I'll get good renders for my artstation tomorrow 
kwagner
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (91)
it has been a long journey this is my first ever finished environment I learned a lot and really enjoyed making this environment in the next few days I will make a report and a summary of how the project went
Ewan
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Re: importance of LODs in game ?
Ive just run a series of pretty exhaustive tests with simplygon 10 vs manual lods on a load of characters
(we already know it can't cope with hard surface meshes so didn't bother there)
TLDR :
You'll get a better looking result doing it by hand for the same geometry cost - especially on the lowest lods
Simplygon still can't give you a one size fits all solution because it's still using a % of input mesh metric to determine how much to reduce something by (which is extremely wrong).
On the other hand..
Because the SDK exists now I'm able to generate acceptable lods for over 100 pre-skinned character body parts in 10 minutes, i'm able to do it over and over again with different settings and i'm able to integrate it into our export pipeline.
It's a tradeoff - I'd rather ship with suboptimal auto lods and only get 90% of the performance than have no lods for 80% of the dev cycle and ruin any hope we have of gauging how well the game runs.
(we already know it can't cope with hard surface meshes so didn't bother there)
TLDR :
You'll get a better looking result doing it by hand for the same geometry cost - especially on the lowest lods
Simplygon still can't give you a one size fits all solution because it's still using a % of input mesh metric to determine how much to reduce something by (which is extremely wrong).
On the other hand..
Because the SDK exists now I'm able to generate acceptable lods for over 100 pre-skinned character body parts in 10 minutes, i'm able to do it over and over again with different settings and i'm able to integrate it into our export pipeline.
It's a tradeoff - I'd rather ship with suboptimal auto lods and only get 90% of the performance than have no lods for 80% of the dev cycle and ruin any hope we have of gauging how well the game runs.
poopipe
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