@ant1fact Yes, cage is not needed in this workflow. Strange. I've been exclusively baking with SP for 18 months and 'compute per-fragment' has never not been on by default. :) @Nerdicon3000 Here's a description of the workflow: - Low and high silhouette matching closely - single smoothing group(no UV/SG splits or cage…
Hi all, A bit of a reintroduction... kinda. I used to be 'King of Daveness' for many, many years. I stopped dropping by Polycount after leaving the games industry after a couple of bad experiences and went to work in special effects. While I was a polycounter I did art for Unreal Tournament 04, Dungeons & Dragons online,…
maxscript, like I mentioned I wrote a simple script that detaches and attaches faces/verts of the imported mesh back to 1 instance. It requires some user input but it saved me time on this project: http://mmvr-des.burg-halle.de/blogs/klimawandel/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/market.jpg it had lots of different objects to be…
I can name a few which have done very well. NGUI creator was bringing in $70k a year off of sales but that was a year or two ago. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/04/07/interview-super-seller-michael-lyashenko-of-tasharen-entertainment/ Some art assets have done well as long as your doing them "correctly" releasing them in…
At this time, i began researching methods of getting renders out of UDK as well as how to create a turntable. Using resources on eat3d.com, i taught myself how to create matinee's and animate a mesh using Kismet. After learning where the tiledshot command put all my renders, i went about rendering out numerous shots of my…
Wow, so many questions :P 01 - Realtime Mirroring Make a duplicate of the object using "instance" setting and set scale to -1 in x (normally). There are some gotchas with this workflow to watch out for which you can read about here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82052&highlight=mirroring 02 - UV Selection…
Since last time I've spent a lot of time tweaking and re-tweaking the fog and added some ground fog for some added atmosphere. I had a big problem with not being able to get enough moonlight on the house whilst also getting enough moonlight on the rest of the scene. Someone I showed this to said I needed more light on the…
Eduardo Pena is a great example of photobash. I watched him do this concept in about 4 hours while talking to our group. http://www.coloredcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/winter-hunter-ETBW-concept-art-by-eduardo-pena.jpg Probably one of my favorite artist is Anthony Jones.…
I just landed a job doing Technical Support so I'm in a similar situation as yourself. I'm trying to do the art side of things too, I just need to bide some time to get caught up on portfolio work. A friend of mine that works at a large company near where I live gave me some advice when I started to look for jobs: 01. Find…
Hi Polycount, couple of years ago I was on the lookout for a mobile app that would let me show my models and stuff without having to connect to the internet to use Sketchfab, I waited and waited for someone else to do it for me but an app that suited my needs never came. I'm a 3D generalist and now a technical artist too,…