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Re: Is "PBR" a useful art style direction term?
While either flat pure black or white is a big no-no in our not U4 engine rather grayish diffuse color, maybe not half but still, is ok for kind of dusty/rusty metal things having greyish metal channel too. I have an impression pure white metallic channel is a thing from an imaginary hi res perfect world with lots of halo… -
Re: UVW Unwrapping help
- for more technical models, quick planar mapping, relaxing, and stitching is usually the way i start things. - try to keep your uv edges as straight as possible at the cost of some stretching, this will downres better and save you uv space. - i tend to group uv shells 'logically', so the guns's optics would go in one… -
Re: Steps for modeling for games or/and movies
My general workflow: 1. Maya blockout of model 2. High Poly hard surface model in Maya or sculpt in zbrush (usually just for organic or broken/debris/stone/detailing, etc) 3. Retopo for LP, usually using the Low Poly blockout as a base or starting place if it is a non organic shape, if organic I will use zbrush retopo 4.… -
Re: Specular map help
I usually use a power on the diffuse texture for the specular "color." Some people advocate complementary colors. (basically inverting the a high contrast version of the diffuse which can be done with a power and a 1- node in the editor) I don't particularly care for that yet probably because I haven't found the right… -
Re: Normal Map Compression
To clarify on tach's point, just making more or less detail in a channel doesn't actually change the compression algorithm to better or worse quality, but rather that some patterns of gradients tend to show the compression artifacts more visibly to the eye than others, compounded by the roughness/specular usage which can… -
Re: how do you grade game art?
@ slipsius: Booooooooo If there are any shortcuts to be taken, were usually talking about environment art. The shortcuts that are okay to take, should be of a visual nature, and never a wasteful on the performance end. I feel like its totally necessary to take shortcuts on the visuals because of the sheer volume of work… -
Re: Polycount Community Chest Event
Joao visited us at the office last week so we worked a bit on his and Chris' entry for the thing here. I wanted to uplad the work in progress but i didn't manage in time, so there is a little more done by now. The idea is, that Sniper joined the ranks of Kunkka here is the progress concept by Chris, which we later tuned a… -
Re: Am I allowed to rant? Non-contributing community members. (Uh oh!)
I'm kinda splitted on this subject. I love to see some making of tutorials on some high quality pieces, however as Kevin Johnstone pointed out the thread he wrote on how too much help will stunt your growth, I think part of every 3d artists arsenal should be the abillity to deconstruct other peoples work and incorporate… -
Re: Horrible as Dell
I upgrade my PC in increments of no more than 300 Euros. It was self built but I think I've upgraded it step by step from a 386SX to the Athlon 64 it is today, never doing a complete replacement. Usually your drives, screen and other peripherials don't need to be replaced when you upgrade so you can save a lot by just… -
Re: Color profiles in PS and srgb
Photoshop doesn't know anything about normal maps. It treats them as regular images assuming the values are in srgb space by default. But it doesn't matter usually because color profiles are are for show on screen. The pixel values stay same. And if you use some blending modes they just do whatever math they designed for .…
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