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Re: Bears Can't Drift! Game Dev Blog
So I did a little prize giveaway of some Bears Can't Drift!? keys to some well deserving polycounters, See here and one of them gave me an excellent suggestion of giving keys for good feedback :D (by good feedback I mean constructive analysis and critique of work, not saying how good it is :P) So any feedback you have on… -
Re: ZBrush First Practice Sculpt - Left 4 Dead Cover Hand WIP
i think a hand sculpture is quite a hard starting point for learning to sculpt. it's quite a difficult subject matter, and is sometimes quite awkward to view and manipulate in zbrush. A torso or basic anatomy sculpt might be better. Some tips: Always sculpt in perspective mode (press the p button, I can't tell if your… -
Re: Ivy?
pretty much everything said in here. you guys made awesome tutorials! here's my (not so fancy) approach. basically was rendering highpoly ivy chunks to planes, with ivygenerator. then having 4-5 different imageparts and placing them on geometry, all with normalmap and AO, like the others also did in their tutorials. (AO is… -
Re: Portfolio help (trying to make it awesome)
Gonna need you to sack up and do more work if this is how you feel. Being one's own worst critic is good. It's the key to success, in fact. As long as you think you have something you can get better at and work at it, you are gonna make it. However, you've also acknowledged it needs work. Your models are wasteful. You are… -
Re: Are these UVs Good, what makes a UV map good ?
I'd like to add "convenient and readable in 2D if there's any chance people will use a 2D program at any stage for this asset." Especially for freelance work you should try to at least make the bigger islands aligned with world space and arranged in a way that makes sense, while still being reasonably well-packed. Thin,… -
Re: [TUT] Large Scale Rubble Tutorial
*A Vector is made up of 3 values. X Y Z. *A Normal is a vector with a length of exactly 1.0 If its length isn't 1 then when shaded it wont shade predictably. *Each Pixel in a Normal map represents a Normal using RGB instead of XYZ We're not storing colours in the map we are storing numbers. *In a baked normal map we are… -
Re: Marmoset 3.04 Skew Issue
@EarthQuake That's good to know. I also think skew is a little uncomfortable to paint with the normal lines since they don't match up with the skew map. Usually there are less lines than there are pixels in the skew map and especially now with the ability to increase the resolution of the skew map it's hard to tell in the… -
Re: SuperPNG
Actually pngs can do both specific pixel value transparency (i.e. "the .gif way") and the RGBA style ("the .tga way"). In both cases I still think the user would be better served by Photoshop handling the image the same way it handles every other common format, or at least having an option to switch from the "special" PNG… -
Re: [UE4] First Nature Environment - WIP
Hey guys. I started doing some tests in the foliage matter since it is the first time I am doing it. I did some king of water fern and I was baking it so that I can start the textures and importing to UE4. To test my bakes I usually use MT2 because it is faster, but the problem is that I am having some kind of trouble with… -
Re: FlipFlop Car Paint
Alright I see this will be a bit complicated... So first of all you are changing the normal direction with that lerp before the fresnel. Normals should be in range of 0,-1 so then if you want flat normal angle, your vector 3 would be 0,0,1. I guess that constant 1 with 0.5 in the alpha of the lerp would be a blend factor…
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