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Re: modeling TV
Hi! Are you creating a game asset? What's your reason for modeling all the vents? You can take notes from existing models, how they solve such details (sketchfab, polyhaven).
For a game asset, I wouldn't model such details since they go inwards, not contributing much to the silhouette. I would add the detail in texture instead. Here you could either use floaters when baking, or you stamp the detail on during texturing (don't have to account for skewing when baking with averaged vertex normals when doing it that way). Yet another approach would be to create a texture atlas and map the lowpolys UVs to it.
For a game asset, I wouldn't model such details since they go inwards, not contributing much to the silhouette. I would add the detail in texture instead. Here you could either use floaters when baking, or you stamp the detail on during texturing (don't have to account for skewing when baking with averaged vertex normals when doing it that way). Yet another approach would be to create a texture atlas and map the lowpolys UVs to it.
Fabi_G
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Re: The low poly is baked into the texture
I think unless you have the the same mesh shape/resolution, you will always have this facetted pattern, it will just get smaller/ less noticeable as the lowpolys shape nears the one of the highpoly.
When I bake heightmaps, it's mostly baking down tiling highpoly geometry to a plane, can't say much about object-specific heightmaps.
Edit: Made a thinking mistake, the shape difference that's the deciding factor here, not resolution. But obviously with lower resolution, it's inevitable that the lowpolys shape differs from the highpoly.
When I bake heightmaps, it's mostly baking down tiling highpoly geometry to a plane, can't say much about object-specific heightmaps.
Edit: Made a thinking mistake, the shape difference that's the deciding factor here, not resolution. But obviously with lower resolution, it's inevitable that the lowpolys shape differs from the highpoly.
Fabi_G
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Re: 80s retro bedroom project
I know art station is nice and all, but it irks me to make people click off site to look at your project.
Muzzoid
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Re: Soviet metro escalator scene for game
4 hour of work and I created this draft midpoly scene. This is two main parts of the game (yes, it's really small).
The next step is importing it to Unity and trying gameplay with this geometry.
The next step is importing it to Unity and trying gameplay with this geometry.
Gleb_Parshikov
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Re: What Are You Working On? 2013 Edition
TheQiwiMan wrote: »MGrecke- That is GORGEOUS! LOVE the style!
I've finished working on the special suits for my runner game "Nick and Jane" that will affect the gameplay.
The "Jungle Chicken Suit":
And Lava World's "High Temperature Hazard Suit"
LavaSuit (View in 3D)
And here's a Skeleton X-Ray effect test for when your character runs through a save-point
Edit: whoa, sorry for the huge sizes! :-/
.....I....am....*beyond*....in love with these characters...the styles...the proportions...the suits....everything.....
omg I would have loved to work on this game, this is seriously fantastic...I've never wanted to make fan-art for an iOS game, but you might be the first
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[SF]Three9
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Re: Stylized Common Chest
That's great advice, thank you so much for the feedback! I'll definitely keep this in mind for my future work. Still practicing with chests!Tonjo said:Hey, I think it looks really good! What I really like, is the overall shape of the chest and the sculpt damage details you have added across the border of the metal parts.
A few tips that might help improve it further:
Textures: I think it would help calming down the textures a bit. Right now, there is a lot of small details in the texture that makes the overall impression a bit busy. What I would do, is keep the damage at the edges strong but the parts that look like it's been hit with a hammer (especially at the feet) can be toned down a tad bit.
Materials: I would consider maybe adding some specular/metallic to the metal parts so the wood and metal feels more like two seperate matrials.
Color: This is personal preference, but I like to add a bit of hue to my colors. So instead of treating silver as pure grey, consider adding a tiny bit of purple or blue hue to it.
Also, try adding a gradient to the whole model! I'm not sure what software you use, but you can add a layer on top of all your other layers. choose a desaturated purple ish color and set to multiply. Make it so the bottom is the darkest and top is the lightest. Adjust opacity until it looks good.
Hope this helps!
2met7cen
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
Love this thread, the feedback you’re getting is top notch, and the strides you’re making forward are inspiring to witness. Go go go!
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Feeling lost and hopeless out of education as a games artist
not sure if you're following this thread anymore @jcourtchandler but you're just going to have to work hard. A lot harder. 4-5 hour grind sessions after work. Hours of tutorials. The kind of art on your portfolio looks like the stuff my friends doodled in freshman year, and they were not aspiring artists.
I could tell you to keep it up and you'll get there eventually, but me putting a sugar coating on things will not help you at all in achieving your goal of becoming a hireable character artist
I could tell you to keep it up and you'll get there eventually, but me putting a sugar coating on things will not help you at all in achieving your goal of becoming a hireable character artist
zetheros
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Re: Advice with secondary forms
I think the forms around the bottom are looking better!
I'd go back and revisit the shoulder blades and upper back muscles, that's where the most uniform creasing is.
I'd go back and revisit the shoulder blades and upper back muscles, that's where the most uniform creasing is.
Muzzoid
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