Foliage update. Next step is to add some simplified butterflies and birds and really try to hammer home the environment is alive, then i may add some super simple background elements like a small wooden ship floating by
The 3 best solutions would be to start with more edges, or to keep that part of the mesh separate and floating, or if your 3d package has tools like this... [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vU1KCRKDE"]Pixar Subdivision - YouTube[/ame]
Not sure if its what you would want specifically (if not just ignore me haha), but I was looking a lot at the star guardian home guards animations where they spin and twirl in their float/flight cycle so maybe that will be helpful :)
I think this is right, but 3ds max has a free educational version, (same as regular ver.) just go to autodesk site. I would learn that... maya, or modo. Still, its whatever floats your boat man.
That is some awsome stuff. Its amazing how much talent is floating around this place. Now I hate to be the one to ask, but I don't suppose this fine model could end up in a game (like UT2K4 maybe...)?
It sounds like it may be best to re-load the entire surface or just have little areas using their own UV map, hell, even the RtCW way of just having floating polygons for things may work better.
I believe there is a lot of fire hydrant piece floating around because... THERE IS A TUTORIAL ABOUT IT ON CG TUTS! as for the piece you just need to put more love on the diffuse and spec good luck its going in the right way.
hmm. sounds like there's alot of zbrush discontent floating around. Iam diggin 3.1. and as far as bugs go, cant think of anything other than the occonal crash. Looking foreward to how the mudbox.vrs.zbursh war plays out.
Looks like you need a hard edge running down the center. With that many tris floating around you could optimize it a bit and add some supporting loops to either side of the center edge to help contain the shading.
totally. i mean, if you're swimming in some lake, really you're just floating above the ground with like a mile under you. what if the water suddenly disappeared. then you're fucked. you'd fall down to your death.