I am a solo game dev that has been building a gun store / gunsmithing simulator in Unreal Engine. I have blocked out the entire layout of the game world and I am still working on the code. What I lack is the skill to create the props, characters, and building art. Plus the hard part of the gunsmith portion, each weapon…
the best use of time is to pay a little money for somebody else's time. i.e. buy some models somebody else made. if you have to do a little work to make everything consistent with your art style that is still usually a lot faster than making everything from scratch avoiding sculpting and baking will save some time. how…
A couple of years ago I saw a thread here where the poster showed a trick with fake chamfered edges on 90 degree edges. Of course, I can't find the thread anymore, nor who posted it. However as I remembered it, the trick was taking a 6 edged cube or other low poly primitive and by manipulating the vertex or face normals on…
My general workflow goes as: Make High Poly > Make Low Poly > Unwrap Low Poly> Bake > Paint > Use low poly model as final asset. My final textures fits perfectly to the final low poly model but it is a low poly model and doesn't look very impressive. And my textures do not fit to my high poly model, because unwrapping…
Hey guys! Guess what? It's me again. With my Leona character being in the most capable hands of my animator friend, I've decided to finish the project I did take up last year. Some of you may have seen it a few months back. This is a character designed by Eduardo Garcia in his HoMM3 redesign series. What I'll try to do in…
Please don't spread misinformation. Zbrush actually doesn't use your GPU at all, which is why it runs so passably on average computers compared to most tools of the trade. For Zbrush you'll therefore get more benefit from a stronger CPU, and it generally even benefits from having more cores available as the sculpting…
Another important thing is most texture baking tools will treat glass as a solid surface, so an ambient occlusion bake will just be black inside there. So either hide the glass when baking AO, or find a baker that ignores glass.
3DS Max > Zbrush > Substance Workflow Tutorial Note: This was made several years back, and My knowledge of these programs has increased greatly. Most of this pipeline is still relevant, and I hope that you find it useful (9/12/2019) My name is Adam and am responsible for the vast majority of assets in the upcoming game…
Hey, I am having a scan with 80 Million polys and I am trying to get a good normal map out of it. With the help of XNormal, so far I have tried it like 50 times, checked in Google and read a lot but whatever I do. I cant get rid of a lot of small little black framed islands.. My low poly has a good UV setup with 6k polys.…