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Re: light-field cameras Lytro Demo
Right, I'm not surprised at all by this, because I did a little bit of reading into the topic before it hit market, and because of what its doing, it has like a 10:1 sensor to pixel ratio, meaning it needs 10 pixels on the sensor to equal 1 in the output.... Again for the target demographic(people posting random stuff on… -
Re: Not understanding Height maps vs Normals, and Displacement maps
You can use a height map as a "bump map" which functions much like a normal map does (though not identical). Probably what your friend meant by that comment. Both fake surface detail, with a bump map giving a sense of height and a normal map one of direction. The Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) technique @Joopson mentions… -
Re: Lighting Process & Workflow Tips
Thanks errbody! I started writing this blog at the top of the year to try to put myself out into the community a bit and I'm really excited by your comments. @leleuxart - That's a good question and it really depends. Ideally, the lighting team should stake their claim early in the project so budgets are noted and accounted… -
Re: Alpha Map Compression and Dithering
Thank Rob for the reply. I'll give you credit for being direct with your honesty. My direct answer is.. I don't know how much information I can give out without getting permission from the developer and programmer. NDA's and all which Im sure you can appreciate. Hence why I am not going into specifics. When next I see the… -
Re: texel density corrector tool for maya?
OK, here's a high level overview... Things you need: * A ratio to aim for (just an integer value, eg. 4 for 4:1 ratio) * The current object's texture width and height. My script defaults to 1024x1024 if the object's material doesn't have a valid texture. * An object with UVs! Steps: * Get selected UVs, or if none are… -
Artist wanted to create 30-40 textured ship "modules" for space-based ARPG
Hello! We're creating a action/adventure RPG of space combat and exploration. The game is viewed in a top-down 3D perspective and both player and NPC ships are built out of modular components laid out in a hexagonal grid. We are looking for a 3D artist to create the modules for these ships. There are approximately 15-18… -
Re: primnull werks
Ok good, you're making progress. Here's the jist of padding - when you get further away from a prop in some engines, the texture (e.g. 2048²) will mipmap or "mip" down to 1024², 512², 256² etc. to save memory since you can't tell the difference between a 2k and a 256 texture at a certain distance (which of course depends… -
Re: 3ds Max / Substance Painter - Problems with Normal Maps
I can see a few issues off the bat. UV issues: You have overlapped UV shells. Offset stacked islands or you will probably have baking errors. You have hard edges on the low poly model, but the corresponding UV edge is not split. You'll get incorrect normal map pixels at those edges. You basicaly get a gap in the projection… -
Re: [Portfolio] - Roel Coucke, 3D & Environment Artist
In general, the site elements feel rather big - with half of this PC's screen being consumed by the flash banner, it feels sort of wasteful. Especially as it doesn't link anywhere (the images could link to their asset pages, or back to home for instance). You've made the site 1024 pixels wide. This means that on older… -
Re: RTT Rendered Frame Window
the Frame Buffer or Rendered Frame window as it is called now is just a represnetation of the buffered and rendered image. In RTT it always shows the standard (regular render view) because it needs to render each time or at least it does a full rendering and extracts from each rendered buffer- pixel the desired results. So…
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