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Proxzee

Working on some more WoW inspired stuff:

Can someone show me how to get specs to display in my Max Viewport? Also When I do hardware rendering, anything with an alpha gets all grainy.

1051 tris:

brandoom

try out this view port renderer - http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/9181-xoliul-s-3ds-max-viewport-shader.html

The texture is looking pretty good. I think you should make the cracks in between the stones a little darker/blacker to create some contrast/depth. good work so far.

t4paN

I like how you painted the rocks, nice one.

danshewan

Proxzee wrote: »

Can someone show me how to get specs to display in my Max Viewport?

By specs, you mean number of tris etc? Press '7'.

+ 1 for the textures. Looks great.

torontoanimator

loving the handpainted rocks, they look gorgeous! but i definitely agree with the comment on more contrast

Proxzee

thanks for the feedback guys. By spec I meant specular maps. Brandoom had it right.

Mark Dygert

Love it.

I think you could have squeeze it all on one sheet tho...

Sandro

Hand-painted textures are awesome.

Proxzee

Vig wrote: »

Love it.

I think you could have squeeze it all on one sheet tho...

Im using that lamp for other stuff, putting it inside a hanging lantern. I decided to put all the stone stuff in one and all the lamp stuff in another.

Proxzee

DKK wrote: »

Nice work, personal nit pick I think the stone looks a little soft, you could harden up the edges. You might also want to add some moss or mortar in between the cracks to break up the grey.

Indeed I will!

Question: How the heck do you guys set your Snap to Grid in 3DS max to make it not go totally freakin insane? Maya's snap to grid is so good. but 3DS max is so baad.

Proxzee

Updated:

Thanks for the shading tips guys: here's my progress:



I'm working with composite materials right now but I can't get them to display in the viewport properly. It makes it really hard to paint roads.

Is this the proper way to paint terrain? I'm using vertex color method.

achillesian

does anyone else ever feel that wow ripped off rayman 2's graphic style? Odd time to bring this up, but just wondering.

Proxzee

I think those colors are farm more saturated and cartoony. also the design was a product of limitation.

stimpack

Can you post wires? That tri count seems excesive for such a small area. Specially wow specs.

Proxzee

Here ya go:




I think the counts on the other ones were so i high because I forgot to delete hidden objects.

3DLee

Cool stuff, I love the texture work!

Proxzee

Thanks dude! i'm still figuring out some technical stuff in max. Hey do you guys render your scenes in max, or do you mostly export to something like unreal? I've been thinking of getting unreal 3 to build my environments in, since i can't get vertext blending to work real time in the viewport.

Mark Dygert

I love lamp.

ShaderFx does some texture blending in the viewport works great, its free to individuals too.

Vassago tossed a shader together that blended a few materials together I think it also worked in the viewport as a directX material.

Proxzee

Vig wrote: »

I love lamp.

ShaderFx does some texture blending in the viewport works great, its free to individuals too.

Vassago tossed a shader together that blended a few materials together I think it also worked in the viewport as a directX material.

Where do i get it for free?

edit: Found it.

thanks!