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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Mirai -( or nendo if you just bought the modelling part ) was glorious. Max didn't really catch up til version 4 almost a decade later and I'd argue that Maya still hasn't in some ways. Wings3d was a pretty decent homage/replica that was still supported post 2000. -
Re: Dismal Mountains
The good thing about an texture atlas is that it reduces the drawcalls on the GPU. The hassle of working with a texture atlas without the engine "doing the work" is not really worth it. An employer will see that you can work with assets that's fucking annoying to handle, nothing more. I worked with an engine that used… -
Re: Shadow Casting Grass / Transmission
well, first off I`d say that the shape of the shadow itself will depend on light map res which u have on the ground. Right now it seems like u won`t get that subtlety in shadow shape which u have mentioned. For now it looks like each grass patch casts few pixel shadow. Now, I haven`t played with transmission yet, but I… -
Re: [UDK] Overgrown Warehouse
Sharvo: Those are some good ideas! My original goal was to follow the concept, but it does lack a story within the environment. The character adds to it, but the environment itself was pretty bland. I decided to just go with a derelict warehouse that's overgrown, with a slight hint at a past homeless occupancy(as told by… -
Re: I need an experienced eye to help me understand what I'm seeing here...
Gotta play with this to decide which direction I want to go -- As of right now, I'm aiming at a more general solution than the above. I don't really mind a --slight-- blurring on pixel-y stuff just as long as it doesn't go overboard (like the game above tends to do in nearly every screen). As you can see below, after… -
Re: Quixel: nDo & dDo news
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… -
how to generate non-repeatable vegetation pattern that fits into a contour of a complex shape?
hey everyone. in a while i was thinking about some ways of optimisation and automatisation of my ways to create 3d assets. step by step i came to this question. How can i fastly cover mech robot with some sort of patterns? this is all fine with a simple-shaped details. i can just create a bunch of decals of a rectangular,… -
Oddworld Abe's Oddysee screen Re-make
Hey polycount, To get better at environment art I spent the past few months doing different environment workflows (photographic textures, hand painted normals, normals from zbrush, tiling textures, decal work etc) this has all culminated in doing a whole scene. I started in mid jan and set a deadline of the 8th of feb (my… -
Re: Custom liveries using Mudbox: problems with stencils
It has been a few months since I last fired up Mudbox but if I recall right: the stencil is a fixed plane in screen space that you are free to position, scale and rotate (in 2D) and use to mask your brushwork. It doesn't conform to a surface in the viewport, just hovers in front of it. Snap to curve - that's a brush option… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
This topic comes up often here. As Polycount grows and we see new members, this is just one of those topics that will be asked enough. Fair enough. So please, keep it as civil as possible. We'll shut this thread down without warning if that doesn't happen. TL;DR on the post below: I offer an anecdote about myself and when…
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