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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: [HELP!] Maya Boolean to Zbrush Dynamesh Workflow
Hello. Sorry for the late reply I haven't been around here for past couple of days. Basically what you need to do is to use the Clean Up function from Maya(Mesh->cleanup, at the bottom of mesh tab). You should see a Fix by Tesselation section and in there you should check "Faces with more than 4 sides".
cromadbomber
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Re: Polycount Store is open!
Fabi_G said:Pics or didn't happen
LOL delivered 15mins ago via our local 'fulfillment center' bit of a wait and tbf I do actually live at the arse end of the planet 
sacboi
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
Her being a methhead would be completely out of genre. It's a light, melodramatic action movie franchise, not a gritty, dark story about despair and addiction. The most you're going to get is a vague mention of death sticks outside of that one edgy extended universe Skywalker descendant, and they're not going to go into actual detail about it. It's just not part of Star Wars' identity. It would be like having Warhammer 40k suddenly make a protagonist who bring hopes and safety everywhere they go and loves all the xenos.
And if you're going to insist it should be that way, why not Luke Skywalker? That guy lived in a shithole in the desert with barely any water and nothing to do, you're telling me he wouldn't be the first in line to get off his tits every night? Or how about we decide Obi-Wan turned alcoholic for a while to cope with the devastating loss of his entire order, his friend, his way of life and the republic he fought for? I'll give you Yoda. He was definitely on something in that swamp.
Honestly, at a certain point, if you don't like it, it's time to go and write a fanfic instead of trying to convince the entire world that your ideal version would be better. Or better yet, make something of your own that implements the kind of characters and tropes you want, then you can trademark it and maybe turn a bit of profit. And if you can't do that, why don't you do what all the other angry Star Wars fans do and make a three hour video essay about a thirty minute topic so you can make some nice adsense revenue?
Also, those are just common sense things to remove, either for balancing or satisfaction. There's a reason if you want to go have a bath in Oblivion you need a mod for it; virtually nobody cares for such a feature and if it was forced on them it would be a giant pain in the arse. Same reason Nyx is invincible; who the hell wants to play a game where you have a companion separate from you that can die completely out of your control? That's not fun! Gamers have been rightly complaining for years about escort missions for exactly that reason! And again, Kay can fight like that in hand to hand combat because it's a bloody video game. Honestly, if you can't cope with that, what can you handle?
Lifting elements from the films is common sense. And if you don't think they did that for the other games and characters, I don't know what to tell you. It's a AAA game, of course this stuff is made by committee. Always has been. Ahsoka was made so kids watching The Clone Wars would have someone to relate to. Din Djarin was made because Boba Fett was really popular. Grogu was made because they thought a cute baby Yoda would sell like hotcakes and everyone loves seeing a stoic tough man become an adoptive parent. Almost everyone in the sequels is a remix of the archetypes and personalities from the original trilogy. If you're making a franchise piece, it's just normal to look at what was popular about the original work and see what elements you can apply to your product.
Player's "concerns" were just the same old bullshit that they didn't think she looked fuckable enough. Just look at the complaints about Angela from the SH2 remake. Same thing. Anyone pretending otherwise is full of shit.
I should stop replying to this thing. Even the morbid curiosity is wearing thin.
Rima
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
Is your media consumption nothing but people bitching and moaning about media? I see where the problem's coming from.
Maybe they just made an original character because they wanted their game to have its own identity instead of being seen as yet another spin off about someone we already know? Or so they'd have another character to trademark and make toys of? Or so they wouldn't have to be tied down to writing around established events, allowing them to do whatever the hell they want and not be restrained by a character needing to be alive and in a certain place at a certain time, thus spoiling the outcome of their story? Or because if it was a sequel to those events they didn't want the baggage of demanding their players have watched half a dozen series to understand who they are, or avoid having to awkwardly write around having to reference those? It's just common sense, honestly.
Above all, would they really want to make yet another Star Wars product that's furiously wanking off the fans of Filioni's shit? There's enough of that already. This is just boring now. I'm out.
Rima
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
NikhilR said:I think her being a recovered methhead makes for a more interesting back story and fits well into the environment she was brought up in.sacboi said:"Mate. It's Star Wars. She's not a fucking methhead, you're just a weirdo that can't accept the shape of her face."....and neatly wraps up this entire discussion.
Umm bruh you do know it's only a video game....right?!
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Is this fixated diatribe you're hell bent venting here really worth flat earthing your career over?
Anyhow some unsolicited advice, go make some more art you'll feel a lot better works for me and maybe snag another industry job into the bargain similar to previously shared on your other thread 
sacboi
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Re: Sketchbook: RobZero
Thanks for your comment.
I wanted her face to look a bit hard, not masculine or something like that but I didn't want a pretty or cute girl face. Nevertheless it's my first sculpted semirealistic face and maybe is part of the learning process, I'll have to see it printed to judge it more objectively.
The Buttocks and breasts were very challenging because they need to look pressed toward the center but without penetrating each other, I tried to give the impression that they are pressing each other like fleshy masses.
I'll have to see the sculpt printed in my hands before deciding if it needs adjustments before selling a STL file, thanks for taking the time to write.
Cheers
I wanted her face to look a bit hard, not masculine or something like that but I didn't want a pretty or cute girl face. Nevertheless it's my first sculpted semirealistic face and maybe is part of the learning process, I'll have to see it printed to judge it more objectively.
The Buttocks and breasts were very challenging because they need to look pressed toward the center but without penetrating each other, I tried to give the impression that they are pressing each other like fleshy masses.
I'll have to see the sculpt printed in my hands before deciding if it needs adjustments before selling a STL file, thanks for taking the time to write.
Cheers
RobZero
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TP-7 Teenage Engineering [Hero Prop]
Just finished my current hero prop of TP-7 Teenage Engineering.
Hope you like it.
Hope you like it.
Tris: 11964
1 Material, 1 [4K] (5 Textures, PBR)
goekbenjamin
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Re: Are Weapon/Hardsurface Artists In Game Studios Like Activision Using CAD?
"Honestly not sure why sub-d still alive"
Because in actual day to day practice there are many models that are just an order of magnitude faster and more efficient to build in subdiv rather than in CAD, especially if the provided concept isn't a fully locked technical drawing and if the design will be subject to tweaks along the way. Here's an example from a 2010 3december presentation (art credit Martin Punchev) :
A skilled hardsurface modeller could knock this out in a matter of hours/days, without the need of a supertight 2D concept and with everything being very easy to tweak and stretch at any time. Whereas despite how powerful CAD can be, a MOI/Fusion/Plasticity kiddie would be unable to match this turnover rate and flexibility. Sure enough a CAD model may allow for some repositionning of booleans and editing of fillets, but it absolutely woudn't allow for more organic changes like correcting the rythm of a silhouette or inflating/deflating things here and there. Such tweaks essential for on-the-fly art direction are just not possible with a CAD model *at all*. And 14 years of time hasn't changed that
The same applies to the more recent "straight to final midpoly" workflow too. Cleaning up a CAD model (even coming from a software with a good mesher like MOI) would be a waste of time compared to building things in polies right from the start. If I am not mistaken this seems to be the approach used on the DeadLock characters in their current state.
Because in actual day to day practice there are many models that are just an order of magnitude faster and more efficient to build in subdiv rather than in CAD, especially if the provided concept isn't a fully locked technical drawing and if the design will be subject to tweaks along the way. Here's an example from a 2010 3december presentation (art credit Martin Punchev) :
A skilled hardsurface modeller could knock this out in a matter of hours/days, without the need of a supertight 2D concept and with everything being very easy to tweak and stretch at any time. Whereas despite how powerful CAD can be, a MOI/Fusion/Plasticity kiddie would be unable to match this turnover rate and flexibility. Sure enough a CAD model may allow for some repositionning of booleans and editing of fillets, but it absolutely woudn't allow for more organic changes like correcting the rythm of a silhouette or inflating/deflating things here and there. Such tweaks essential for on-the-fly art direction are just not possible with a CAD model *at all*. And 14 years of time hasn't changed that
The same applies to the more recent "straight to final midpoly" workflow too. Cleaning up a CAD model (even coming from a software with a good mesher like MOI) would be a waste of time compared to building things in polies right from the start. If I am not mistaken this seems to be the approach used on the DeadLock characters in their current state.
pior
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