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Why do things look darker when wet? Translate to PBR?
So, I spilled water on my grey shirt. And my shirt became a darker grey in that spot. Why does this happen??? If water is clear and the albedo of my shirt is grey, why does it get darker? Why is wet sand darker than dry sand? Wet asphalt darker than dry? etc etc etc?? Is this something to do with water refracting light on… -
Baking lights SUCKS!! Does your studio use dynamic environment lighting?!?
<start mini rant> Just a micro rant but I've been 'stuck' using Unreal tech for the last 4 years and am getting pretty damn sick and tired of baking lights. Even using Beast just sucks. Looks great - but takes an f'n long time. Seems like there is just so much overhead involved w/ static lighting - lightmaps, lightmap… -
Animator and Rigger Looking For Work
Hello, my name is Richard Goodmon and I'm currently looking for freelance/ remote work. I've had 3 years experience in a game studio environment, as well as a year working remotely, I work quickly and efficiently and my rates are affordable. I predominantly create character animation for games, but I am able to rig… -
Looking for Artists and Animators for a 3D Pet Battler Game! (Unpaid Collaboration)
I’m working on a 3D pet battler game where players hatch eggs, collect powerful pets, and use them to defeat monsters across different planets! 🐉⚔️ Our ultimate goal? Rescue a captured best friend from the strongest monster in the game! What We Need 💠 Digital Artists – To create pet designs, monsters, environments, and UI… -
Re: 3d-modeling software - where to start?
Hi, the softwares that you should learn depends on your ultimate goal, you said that you want to make money but you didn't say how ( freelance ? asset store ? classical full time job ? etc. ) so i'll give you a general overview to start out. First of all the most important thing is to define your specialization, you said… -
Re: A good game art online course???
First step is always - Google. Find some online schools and courses and see if they might have something that fits your interests. To learn the basics and fundamentals of 3D, I recommend you watch some tutorials about modelling, texturing, game engine pipelines etc. You can find those on youtube, pluralsight, gumroad etc… -
Re: Normal Mapping Issue - Zbrush to Maya
cmtanko: Ok, so here is my uv map, and normal map. Uv map I made in maya, normal map is from zbrush. I haven't tried xnormal as I don't really know how to use it. But I did try baking in Maya and from zbrush. I uv mapped the whole model again, and that did help some of the artifacts go away. I also tried using Uv master in… -
Re: Differed Rendering and BnW Specular Workflow
I am not aware of any engines that use the metalness workflow but don't claim to have physically based shaders, but that in itself doesn't mean much. Again, its not mutually exclusive. However, you do not need a metalness input to have physically based shaders, its simply not a requirement. If you take the time to… -
Re: Game Industry even worth it ?
Great post Hazardous and thread overall. The main thing that you hit on that resonates with me is the putting the time in early on. People think cause they can make a cube or UV map that cube that it's enough. It's simply not. You need to put in the time. I always point people to read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. It… -
Re: no games use coloured specular
I think this is actually very common, to the artist all you have is one "uber shader", you can use the inputs from that shader and easily compile it down to more optimized shaders depending on what sort of inputs the artists gives, you might think this would result in 50000 different shaders, but in reality its just a few.…
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