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Portfolio question. Is it okay to have a project that is a remake of an old game environment, etc?
I just remade a map from a 22-year-old game (Unreal Tournament by Epic Games). It just a personal project for my portfolio which I hope to find a job as a 3D environment artist. I made everything from scratch completely only using screenshots or textures from the Unreal Tournament Editor as references. Is this okay? I just… -
Re: Anyone rolling full Linux Workstation for 2D/3D work?
@fallenskyzero cool! okay yea so you did a full pipeline migration in the end to make it work. I've been using Godot more too and it's really just gotten to a point where it's actually useable, there's a lot of nice features in it that you can tell they came up with because of gripes with other engines, etc. Blender is the… -
Re: Shuttle Altair
Oh okay I gotta I'll remove it. Might do the same for my other projects. -
Re: Game Development Thread: Artists & Developers Who Consistently Share Valuable Insights
Okay made a start, would love some more on the tech side? Technical Artists & Procedural Workflows Simon Verstraete https://twitter.com/simonverstraete Artem Ostapchuk https://x.com/artemostapchuk Ben Cloward https://x.com/BenCloward (Very active with shader/terrain breakdowns + UE/Unity tech art) Shaders, materials and… -
Re: Don’t use gamma on normal maps
Okay, so "normalized" means normalized when in range [-1;1]... I've read there is a packing method where blue channel is discarded, some other map stuffed in, then normal map is reconstructed in material. So if I'm understanding this correctly, this method is rooted in the fact that the map only describes unit vectors, all… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Thanks, that makes sense! I’ll look into the parallax/cubemap approach for the inner portal. If it’s easier to explain with screenshots or a quick back-and-forth, would you be okay with adding me on Discord? I think it would be easier for me to show my current material graph and understand the steps that way. My Discord… -
Paint vertex normals in 3dsmax
Hello there ! I was wondering if one could paint vertex normals in 3dsmax using a brush system, not necessarily the one used to do vertex paint as this might have different needs, I'm thinking about something like hairstyling (in terms of UX), and smooth, pinch, average, weighted, masks types (limit to front faces, limit… -
Is it okay to use a base mesh?
Hi so iv been in a certain workflow for a while where i will take the human body base mesh from Mudbox and use that as a jumping off point to sculpt a character from it, and then move into Maya for retopo, i'm wondering if that an okay thing to do in the industry? or should i create my own base mesh before creating my… -
Are my UVs okay for Unreal Engine?
Hi everyone, First time here :) I'm trying to model a gun for using in Unreal Engine. Here is the model: Here is the combined UVs: Here is the UV of a single part: My question is that are my UVs okay? How can I optimize it for use in Unreal Engine games? And in the combined view why do my UVs appear almost like a solid… -
Is it ever okay NOT to connect vertices?
In a low-poly game model, is it ever okay to NOT connect vertices and instead just have a poly-face stick into a mesh? Example: An arm connects to the shoulder of a character. You connect the shoulder vertices to the top of the arm vertices. Could it be appropriate to just have the arm stick into the body and not actually…
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