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Re: Character Rigging Industry Entrrance Standard?
In my personal opinion I recommend that you learn the following things. While it may not be evident to others at first glance it is still those details that matter in the end. * Keep good naming conventions on every object in the scene, especially joints/bones for game engines. It doesn't matter which, just keep one… -
Re: [wip] mechas
I haven't decided yet, the purpose of this is to make sexy models and artworks to convince developers to work with me. My ambition is to work either in the UDK, although most programmers I've spoken to are reluctant to use it, or the Source engine, provided Valve have developed the new Source Filmmaker, which looks like a… -
Re: New college student looking for a little direction with 3d models. Zbrush, 3DSMax, and Xnormal
Your lowpoly mesh isn't optimized for animation. You can only rig a character in ZBrush for posing and very minimal animation in ZBrush itself. If you want a functional game character that you can import into a game engine you should retopo your highpoly (or decimated copy) in an app like max., use xnormal to generate… -
Re: Best way to achieve cartoony cloth simulation (not too realistic) with maya? Or anything else?
If you're going for something springy/jiggly that has a bit of dynamics/secondary motion to it and settles back into it's original pose, then 3dsmax's spring controller is exactly what you need, you apply it to a child object and it reacts to whatever the parent is doing. Depending on your end goal (just rendering or going… -
Re: Wireframes Cylinder
I'm not sure why Epic does this with their cylinder primitive. I know this type of mesh works better when tesselated, because the triangles are more evenly distributed. Tesselation is used for displacement, here's an example: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/NyraCharacter The ngon in your example is not too bad. As you can… -
Re: Torque 3d Goes Open Source
Torque, while a staple of indie development in its own time, has fallen behind the pack in terms of support. It used to be one of the most competitively priced indie-friendly 3D engines. But over the past five years Torque has been left to languish, while its competition has seriously stepped up their game. One of the… -
Re: Sketchbook: geeshin
Valeriy Vdovin - I liked the propeller version too, but I felt it was getting too much into the WWII look, so I added some, but not over-the-top, futuristic element. My exposed engine style was inspired by the pod racers haha, good call there. However, pod racer engine were in the front and a lot smaller. I'll just need to… -
Re: TB2 beta thread
All of the higher end features can be toggled off, and really we're not doing anything that I'm aware of that is impossible in a game engine. Image based lighting, physically accurate shading, etc is all very common place in modern game engines today, especially with next generation stuff. For our renders we're just… -
Re: WIP Italian Deli in UDK
The important thing is that you are, in fact, modeling. It's easy to adjust one's technique to fit the requirements of a particular engine or studio as long as one continues to work and develop as an artist. The only problem I see from a quick glance is that (and I might be wrong here, others please correct me if I am)the… -
Re: Need Low-Poly Environment UV Mapping and Texturing Help
I am not using any existing game engine tools here, so the decal technique is not an option - unless someone here is also a guru with programming such a technique into an engine made from scratch and would be willing to explain the process to me. :D How would one approach the modular design technique for this kind of…
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