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was curious to see the whole list, but i cannot find it on the facebook page.
will see if i can find it on your page. keep it up!
But will be testing out dDo for the first time this week with 5.0
I can't wait till the next release from you guys! Any hints?
At anyrate when i graduate in july, these are on my buy list straight after i sort a job and house out bahaha.
Christ i sound like a fanboy ;')
Not entirely sure if you have done this already but for dDo;
Iterative batch processing.
Create many variations of the same texture by incrementing (layers/functions/).
So lets say you want several crates made with differing levels of damage. Once you have the base material sorted in dDo, It then creates variations of that material by automatically changing user chosen options such as dirt level or scratches etc. So the user chooses what they want to increment and what they don't
You can easily process out more unique "crates" for different areas within the environment and as they are low key props they won't need much if any refining as the user can simply choose the best of them.
This is pretty much like selecting the best "seeds" that are defined by the layers/functions in dDo.
This process could easily be used with the likes of low impact media, pillars crates anything that is reused often could be made unique in a quicker fashion.
I know this practice would hardly be resource friendly but i think we're past that issue with the newest gen about to open up.
So TLDR:
Iterative batch processing.
-Based off user chosen layer/function/filters
-Incremental process, (option to reverse increment)
-Create "X" number of texture variations.
Option 2:
This may be born from ignorance of the program but;
Custom decals or custom creation of layers/functions/filters?
Say you want blood on objects, bring in a set of decals and have it so the user can alter the density/amount of them painted.
Other than that i really can't think of anything else right now. I'm still a kid in a candy shop haha.
Also, more of a bug I guess: My nDo2 takes like 5 minutes to load. That was not the case a couple of versions down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BboBgjGARc&feature=youtu.be
Also I wonder if there is any way that dDo could somehow integrate crytif into it's export?
Cheers Ryan
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You want some critique?
I'd like to buy your tools. Unfortunately you don't care about Mac versions, which is a shame.
Nowadays, most software is cross platform. Maya, Unity, 3Dcoat, Topogun, Photoshop, Zbrush, Mudbox etc.
Having only a Windows version is not the best business move, with more and more people working on Macs. Especially after the dreadful release of Windows 8.
That is my critique
We are looking into Mac versions, hopefully not to much longer
That would be really great, because your tools looking really neat:D
Best graduation present I'm gonna get methinks. I'll definitely be looking to use it in my next piece!
Thanks again!
Is there empirical data to support this claim?
Here is one which is a quite good measure.
As you can see the Mac usage increases slowly but steadily. Sure it is not the majority, but it's almost 10%. More than Windows 8 has.
But don't let's turn that into a pointless debate about Macs
Enjoy!
dDo: FRE-T25FX-123FN-5T9F-WJG7
nDo2: 6233138367056978626-8438286132405961160-1876977960-4
http://quixel.se/usermanual/ddo/doku.php?id=start
Do want...
I don't think that is possible with dDo, combining height maps/tangent space normals and object space normals presents a lot of problems (I'm sure its doable, its just not trivial).
Are you still using OS for everything dude? Why not just make sure your engine is synced with your baker? Synced TS normals offer pretty much the same quality as OS, except they are more flexible and easier to manage content wise. Easy to add extra details, mirroring/instancing is way easier, usually compresses better, etc.
Quixel is working around the clock to bring you a massively revamped nDo & dDo based on all great feedback coming in.
Leaner, meaner, faster... soon yours!
A couple days ago I wanted to buy a dDO license but I was tired and accidentally bought another nDo2 license (already had one). I hope Quixel can help me fix this so I can start playing around with dDO soon! (the license I bought was a nDO2 freelance one, which is the same price as the dDO non-commercial one, which is the one I wanted...)