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Re: Transformers: The Movie
[ QUOTE ] but then comes the sound design... i'm trying to track the genesis of this particular 'style', but does anyone else know what i'm talking about when i say that a good number of major action and especially scifi movies have started sounding the same? [/ QUOTE ] i haven't seen transformers (and am incredibly… -
Re: Sketchbook: MrN
So we decided to change up the front of the helicopter. It looked too much like a bus so we decided to make it more like a huey/black hawk so it's more familiar and relatable. The process was pretty easy thanks to substance painter. I saved the stacked material I made for the corrugated sheet metal, as a smart material and… -
Re: [UDK] Dwarf Throne Room
I agree with what CarkK3D is saying about work flow. It's the best way to reduce reworking any areas. The new Spec looks better, however, the textures still look very flat. I know that you mentioned that you were doing some sculpting in Zbrush, can you show some of those sculpts? I think that you're normal map, might be a… -
Re: Salary of a 3d artist?
Totally agreed with McGreed. If you are asking that sort of info just as an extra knowledge, but you have decided to deal with games industry anyways, why would you need so precise data? The summary of all this is : it pays not bad, definitely better than casual so-so jobs. Yes, there is a risk of layoffs, but to me its… -
Re: Lack of Environment Artists
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What for? the "higher-ups" are right. Unless you're making a game with loads of characters and the focus of the story are characters, plot, etc, I really don't see a point of flooding a team with more character artists. It's safe to say on a standard nowadays game the ratio of env artists / char artists is 4/1, because… -
Re: UV Script Tutorial Not Understanding
Sorry I can't be of much more help, as I've never used UVDeluxe really, but I think you might be over-thinking the tutorial. The value 204 seems pretty arbitrary. If you weren't following a tutorial you would determine your own pixel density based on the requirements of your project, similarly to how you would decide on… -
Re: Decal technique from Star Citizen
Thanks for the video Millenia, and also thanks to blankslatejoe for explaining how to do the UV projection method in modo; I wouldn't have figured that out. Luckily it's not necessary to do that anymore as the 4.13 method is simpler. And obviously thanks Obscura for figuring that UV projection method out in the first… -
Re: (Noob) Baking High Poly Normal Map to Low Poly Normal Map
The high poly does not have to be UV mapped to bake a normal map. There are very few situations where you will ever need to UV map a high poly mesh. A normal map is a 2D representation of the high poly's physical surface curvature in relation to your low poly's surface curvature and vertex tangents baked into the UVs of… -
Re: Joshs super fantastic improvement thread
Not too bad man! For your highpolies I would study what makes others work stand and and more interesting. Bevels, Chamfers, nice rolling flowing hard surfaces are sexy as hell. Your knife for example is very planar where as the concept had some nice round curves on the handle. The more you can change surface direction and… -
Re: XCOM
Been playing on classic ironman, the game is lovely. Ace, they get one free move (which can totally be exploited by squad sight snipers to give you free kills, and is anything but OP) if you move to contact THEM, and nothing if it happens during their turn (seen by them moving into view, playing cutscene, and then them…
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