Update 1 - Art Portfolio (Room for Improvement) - Hello everyone, I hope you are well. I have decided I wanted to come back on Polycount after being away for three years. Been fortunate enough to have a few 3D jobs in the past but been struggling to work at a professional standard. Lots of up and down moments doing art to…
for the tiling textures you likely want to combine it with using a splat map: Splat - polycount basically it is a master texture that controls where tiling textures go. If you overlay some textures on top of all of that it can look pretty convincing without a lot of work.
It's not "reserved for polycounters", it just makes sense to congratulate polycounters since they actually visit here and will see the posts. What Polycount should have done was to make him a official Polycount birthday card and send it to him!
Vlad made "Polycount Guild" and I made "Polycount Workshop" and PolycountWorkshop" to reserve the names. Just good old "Polycount" was unavailable unfortunately. Valve mentioned that they were protecting some names, hopefully "Polycount" falls under that.