Red Storm Entertainment is looking for a player-centric Game Systems Engineer to work on our next AAA title. You will work closely with designers, artist and other programmers to make the game vision a reality. If you are passionate about games and game development, have the ability to iterate and refine your work rapidly,…
Welcome to the Animation sub-forum here on Polycount! This thread is going to be dedicated to tips and tricks for posting your work so that you can get the best possible critiques you can. Posting Your Demo Reels Vimeo and Youtube are the obvious choices here. They are where most people will host their reels, and will make…
Welcome to making of "Town square" map in UDK Introduction: Hi , here i wanna share with you lots of experiences during making this scene named "Town Square" . this is the scene I've done as visual target to start a new project and in this case i should define a process to make an environment fast , instancable and organic…
Check out the work from CGMA student, Pedro C. Prieto, who was just recently published on 80.LV. He shows us how he worked on this amazing UE4-environment inspired by Helder Pinto‘s Arbor Vitae in Clinton Crumpler's UE4 Modular Environments course. Intro Hello, my name is Pedro C. Prieto and I am an extremely passionate…
Cheers for the replies fellas! Ill try and answer everyone (if possible) so bare with me :D @gsokol - Yeah, my initial idea was to have a sign like that above the door as I kinda started off backwards, I created the door first and designed the environment around it when I decided that I wanted to go further with it. The…
To be honest people are never really going to change their ways, and why would/should they? I'm all for "greening" up, but just not in the generally excepted way. With the population soring the way it is, even if we manage to cut the global carbon emissions down by half in the next 50 years, the population would have…
UV breakdown: Planar projection map to get some initial uvs. Go around and select the seams and then split uvs along those seams. A few clicks and adjusting the weight solver in the 'unfold UVs options' Checking texel density and for relatively even layout. Last steps (not shown) checking the texel density across all the…
At work we've run into this all the time... It's not necessarily the total number of textures in the material, that's why the material editor will not error... I think it only looks at the first layer with the highest "preview weight". Note that the texture sampler limit in the mat editor will change from 15 to 12, once…
What @BIGTIMEMASTER wrote is a great guideline. And figuring out how many triangles to have is just something you'll eventually learn in time and with work experience. I'm sure you're sick of hearing about your candles but I'd like to show you the candles I made recently and to give you an idea of my thought process to…
The primary differences between Toolbag and Iray are that Toolbag is a real-time renderer, more like a game engine where most of the rendering systems are optimized for speed rather than absolute quality. Iray on the other hand, is a traditional ray tracing rendering (like Vray, Arnold, etc). So when it comes to ray traced…