okay this is still WIP, but kind of liking this hanging garden of babylon test scene. This is not a functional level, just wanted to get something together quick to see what this art style might look like and what it will take to actually build it. I made the scale of the building halfway realistic, and it is nice that you…
II don't think ACES is a tone mapper , it's rather what they say Color Encoding Standard we already had gazillion before. The one that stores linear true color values whatever energy the light source is. Still whatever different way colors had been encoded in your files with properly set color management you have to see…
New update! Since the last post I've made great progress. I´ve actually even think I will call it done for now. I have some things that I want to fix later on but today we started with our VR project. So I will focus most of the time on that the coming 4 weeks. Unfortunately I forgot some WIP screens for some props I´ve…
hey guys, i'm going to be working on the hipoly armor tonight, for a few hours, i'm thinking for about 6 hours tonight; wondering if anyone wants watch me work? if you do, download mikogo: http://www.mikogo.com/en/ i've never had more than two people logged into a mikogo meeting, but i'd like to see how it works with more…
First of all I love the style and simplicity. Your pixel work is great. I gave this a try. My R4 had started collecting dust. This game is a lot of fun. I'm impressed to find this level of refinement and enjoyment in a homebrew title. One of the best I've seen. The controls are simple, and the visuals are perfect. I have…
Hi everyone. I haven't been around for a long time and I have been refreshing my fundamental knowledge of 3D art. I spent some time this week studying optimal texel densities and texture map resolutions, which led me to come up with this reference sheet: It's the result of some study notes and a deeper exploration in all…
Great news today! 2.1.1 just rolled out! With Smart Material Batching, and a dozen new Smart Materials too! Create & load presets made from entire projects, 1.8 preset conversion, plenty of fixes and much more: - A bunch of new highly requested Smart Materials - Introducing: Smart Material Batching (auto generate all…
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Hey Polycount, Releasing Quadify Ultra today, and wanted to share it here since this community has always been where serious topology conversation happens. https://youtu.be/1_7xRSyeLUc What it is Quadify Ultra is a retopology addon for Blender 5.0 with an ML routing engine. You select a mesh, hit Ctrl+Shift+Q, and it…
Yes that^ The simple answer is that the game was released before it was ready. Due to pressure from a publisher or fears of running out of money to develop the game (likely both). This means a lot of stuff that should happen towards the end of the project likely didn't. For instance: * Optimizing systems, from lighting to…