Ever heard of Z-fighting ?? If two faces with the same normal overlap.. even when using the same color.. So you better ("simply") follow (or respect) the grid.
Schell Games is a highly talented group of artists, programmers, producers, and game designers led by game industry veteran Jesse Schell. We're the largest full-service education and entertainment game development company in the United States. Since 2002, we've worked with world-class clients and partners to create…
Hey, I couldn't tell exactly as I don't have your UV maps in front of me but do the edges with the black lines, by chance, not have their own UV islands? When baking, hard edges always need to have their respective UV seams. Otherwise it will produce baking errors. The lower border of the blade looks faceted. Think of…
It's not really a matter of entitlement but rather as @Shazbot66 pointed out, a mutual respect that is commonly expected between prospective employer and employee in most if not all places of employment. I would argue that society, in this day and age, does not expect nor accept exploitive practices as the norm in the…
That's due to the fog's influence; I'm not really sure if there's a way to fix it. I've doubled the camera's FOV, which I think makes a huge difference: Old: New: Then, because Ellie's eyes are apparently terribly creepy, I've made new ones: Cadenza, a new character: She's the first person you help during the course of the…
Really? For every "royalty pay" type indie game project/mod/etc there are countless horror stores of projects that abuse inexperienced artists with the guise of "we'll pay you when we're rich". At least mods are generally straight up with the fact that you're working on a voluntary basis with no chance of pay for your…
Oh no, the "used to" was mainly directed towards SEGA, which no longer makes consoles (I still have plenty of respect for SEGA as a 3rd-party developer, but I was referring to console companies specifically). I don't really have any feelings towards Nintendo one way or the other, since I'm not really into consoles anymore,…
ya i saw this, the cool thing also is its free, so first come first served on seating tho..I wouldnt mind going to this at all, but I dont think that his book is one of the great animation books of all time... From most all classic 2d animation greats I respect, I always get told to reference this book. Told its all you…
Bug report: I'm not able to split by material with an .obj. Here's my setup.. Low poly is 7 pieces and there are 6 materials. I export all of the pieces together as an .obj with materials and mat library checked. On the export dialog, it shows the materials have exported. In IPackThat, I check split by material. No…
I'm surprised by the amount of unprofessional-ism from participants on this thread. Industry professionals should be providing feedback, realistic criticism, and advice with respect to their roles as professional artists. No matter how blunt, all you do is degrade the respect and integrity of the amount of work and…