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Re: Band of Brothers, explorative portfolio piece - wip
For starters, I recommend you to study facial and overall anatomy more. Some books about that wouldn't hurt. For a general anatomy, you won't find a better course than Scott Eaton's "Anatomy for Artists". It is incredible. Maybe take a look at some 3d scans, they are incredibly helpful in learning forms and how things… -
Re: Lighting Advice in UE4
GI is Global Illumination. It's when light bounces from a surface and reflects that light, including the color of the surface. For something like a forest, it's not as noticeable compared to indoor scenes, but it can help ground everything and make them feel a little more cohesive with the scene. In Unreal, you have the… -
Re: Portfolio wips
Thanks polygoo (means a lot to me coming from you :poly124:)& Fred2303. James for your question, I assume you read the post on the previous page. When you make a black/white heightmap for the normal map overlay, you just make a copy of that and use that as a mask for a layer or group for the diffuse and other maps. Well… -
Re: Dota 2 workshop monthly unnoficial competition - July
I already had sets in mind for two Dire heroes before we came up with this theme... I could always just release several single items that coincidentally match. ;) AlexDascal: I agree with mihalceanu. Don't be afraid to use big, bold forms. There is a matcap that makes your sculpt into a perfectly flat silhouette, apply… -
Re: Asking working flow from LOW to High in Zbrush
It looks like he is planning to use the low poly as a finished mesh. As it is the low poly is not really optimized, it has loads of ngons and tverts,. I dont think the mesh will bake out well as you have it. For a hard surface gun I don't even bother making a mesh in max as the hard surface tools in zbrush will give you a… -
Re: Nifskope/normals/Skyrim import help
1) For a normal map, we usually create a high poly model first, one that has much surface detail, smooth transitions, etc. Then model a low-poly that matches the general shape, 'baking' detail from high>low to create a normal map. <or> use something like nVidia's normal map plugin to create a surface detail normal map from… -
Re: marmoset toolbag 2.04 emissive
There are two things happening here that you need to be aware of. 1. in all engines, the emissive channel is used to define a surface, or part of a surface that does not receive any lighting information. what this means is that it is lit purely by the value of the pixel and is neither lit nor shadowed by any scene lights… -
Re: How to texture high poly model?
Box covers are often overpainted, and some stuff is hacked in. Its far from raw renders, as its a marketing material. There are several ways to texture a highpoly mesh, the implementation would normally depend on the nature of the asset. A high poly subdiv hard surface mesh can be just unwrapped on some lower subdiv level.… -
Re: (WIP) learning Zbrush
Two things that I notice right away. 1) The anatomy overall doesn't make sense to me. The body and back are build like a quadruped but then his arms are built like a humans. Not only does it kind of look weird but it doesn't seem function for him since he really cant stand up. Also the hands make no sense and appear to be… -
Re: PBR VS Photorealistic Images
Yes, you can use PBR to make photo-real materials. Most modern archviz renderers use physically based rendering. I use V-Ray at work. It uses a slightly different paradigm than typical game PBR, Chaos Group have added specific surfacing and rendering optimizations that go beyond straight PBR. We add shading effects like…
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