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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
Small game-art book.
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Shalom! Some sculpt I've done. I'll don't bake it for LP, I change project to something much more thought. Metal and wood. It's not PRO yet, but it's closer with time and practice 
Sorry for PRO english.
Sorry for PRO english.
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Sculpt and textures I'll show tommorow, now I'm tired as hell
This will be for small "EPIC" scene
marmoset render.
Skrinzzz:
WIP: I'll make more ferns, maybe 3-4 with different textures. Is there way to get rid of that black shadow on this? I already change the envirnment ambient in world properties, but on the model it's still exist.
I like the second trees better, they have more defined shapes and some good spacing between the branches. the first one looks to solid and there are some crossed planes showing, I would try to match up some reference on how to shape your branches and the spacing between them, trees needs some air in them so they don't appear solid
I would check this out for creating a vegetation shader in UDK, he covers how to get good shading inside UDK and to get some wind effects in them
Keep up the good work ^^
https://www.3dmotive.com/f102101
Great work!
So first find some reference of branche ( empty branch ) that you will follow, and make the shape of them with lines. ( spline in max.) Map them if you want, you can change texturing to screen mapping ( In Max.)
Then on every end of that spline I make a needles by hand. Very creative and boring. The needle is simple cylinder with 4-5 sides and welded end vertices. I'm telling about this:
And to proper looking ( no weak looking center of tree.) you have to make a solid center of texture (sorry for PRO english
Then, when you have all needles on branches, you have them all on the one z axis: They itersecting with others. So you have to take that intersecting ones, and move them little forward (that also gives you nice AO ).
It's long and boring, but it's my method. You can try ACtree, script for Max, or use Object Paint, by I just hate generators, and Object Paint is so unintuitive, and it's making all needles very regular, even with size randomizer.
Then Bake it with RTT (render to texture). Maybe I should do a tutorial, so you can better understand what I'm trying to say
Fozworth thanks for looking to my thread
In 2-3 days I'll post some ferns, because I just finish making alphas and textures. Now I have to make models, edit normals, and make shader. With my poor resource of time it takes 2-3 days
Update soon.
Use reference to get the shapes right.
@Shuaws make a thread, even send me link to it, so we can check what you doing wrong
It's lot of work, now I have many, many rock alphas, so I just make the base, and then details with alphas. I just want to learn how to make detail alpha via ZBrush.
Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say
Keep at it! I want to see more!
I need many environment artist to get a lot of feedback. Updates soon.
Here, it wasn't that big of a search. This is the Last Of Us dump I talked about. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122359&page=2 Look at his cliffs and the textures. Analyze what makes them nice. Like I said, calm diffuse and settle normal.
I have no idea what you'r trying to accolpish here, but I would stick to one project and try to get good feedback on it. Then finish it before I start an other one. I won't get better if you just jump around..
So updates on the textures: I spend soo much time on it, so I don't wan't to change it. I like the result. And this will stay in the project.
Also how do you make your textures?
Thanks. Glad you like it. About textures: It's photosource mixed by bake's from Xnormal. Photoshop blending layers like Overlay, Hard Light, Color Burn are propably the best of them. Also Brightnes and Contrast and Hue - Saturation: These two I used a lot. Especially for the wood and Rocks. It's pretty standard, like everyone else.
about Sculpts: those are heightmaps mixed with TrimDynamic (best Brush in ZBrush
Also You can make a folder with your reference images. When I found on the internet something thats I like, and I'll propably want to see this in future, I save it to folder. That's very helpfull, instead of searching Uncle Google for thousand times: sculpting rocks ZBrush, sculpting wood ZBrush, etc,etc.
And also speak with a lot of people about their work (Darren, Simon, Fozworth
without surface
with surface
wooden floor
There's a ton of pics
Concept by Adam Baines - http://adambaines.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/some-environments.html