That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's good because it will allow you to have some creative freedom and create something more vivid and detailed than the concept based on your own subjective interpretation. In the end it will still look like the concept, but better.
he is saying you can accomplish the same thing with tiling textures, using less texture space but still haveing high res. Just takes some more creative UV mapping and re-use of existing texture space.
Took a break from all creative work for a couple of weeks and just started working on Leo again a couple of days ago. So here is some more progress. The shell is pretty much finished and so is the first part of the bandana.
It's too bad these people aren't focusing the time spent on ripping models into actually being creative themselves. Guess it's good for us, a whole generation removing itself from the competition (ok, maybe it's not that extreme, it just feels like it sometime)
well, ref, or . . . inspiration. Most of us (of course not me though) run dry sometimes, and can't get started on something. Usually a quick glance through 3-10 gigs of inspirational art is enough to kickstart people's creativity (or kleptomania)
personally I don't mind if it's done well :) but there's always the freaking awesome stuff like TF2 which doesn't push detail as in cramming as much as they can into the map, but instead in other more, creative ways. but it does seem oversaturated at this time
A 1d texture texture just has one of the dimensions as 1 pixel. You can't save it as DDS though, AFAIK. They can be quite useful when you get creative with shaders (they can act as really cheap ramps or gradients).
Its kind of ironic, they kill of large proportions of creativity in the industry(appear to) by buying everyone up, and they cant make enough money themselves. Sounds like the same things that happened to the banks, people with no sense spending too much money.
Hey at least you don't live in a large city where most ledges have skate stoppers on them. And the skateparks are overpriced and shrouded with elitist owners and cliques. But I still love skating here, lots of ways to get creative.
That seam down the middle is one area where you might want to take some creative liberties. Yes, it was on the origional prop since its the seam where the two halves of the shell were joined, but if it were an actual rifle that wouldn't be there.