A. You don't need to flip your green channel between Maya and Toolbag. B. You should split your hard edges at your uv seams and rebake, here's an easy script to do it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/UVShellHardEdge.mel C. For best results from Maya do this: * Freeze normals * Triangulate mesh * Export Maya and…
Hey every one sorry for the long delay had RL issues that came up. So after everyones crit and reading and viewing a few post and some of the advice on poopinmymouth. I redid the base once again and believe it has a better topology. I'm showing both that I have done due to one has beveled edges (advised for normal mapping)…
Constructfilm Tech demo at Nvidia's GTC conference March 25, 2014. 1. Rendered using V-Ray RT GPU 3.0 for 3ds Max 2. Rendered with NVIDIA K6000s and K40s on 3DBOXX 4920 GPU Edition 3. Typical video RAM usage 6-7GB 4. Typical render time 5-10 minutes (DOF and motion blur are all rendered in camera) [vv]90509568[/vv] UE4 -…
I disagree. Greek helmet were flat on the face. An indent wouldn't leave much room for putting it on the head. Also there are tons of depictions of greeks resting the cheeks of the helmets on the top of their heads. http://cf.mp-cdn.net/01/32/49146f1b0ad5583fb0954917bb79.jpg If anything, the bottom would flare out. The…
Make some decals to simulate stains from rain (particularly on the roof, below the windows etc.). The roof is too saturated in my opinion and looks too clean. I also find that the building looks way too blocky, add some extra geometry on the corners and add noise (manually) so they're no longer pefectly vertical (you could…
The Old Republic trailer is fucking amazing. Did ILM make the trailer? http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/49936?type=flv Give me that movie!
Yeah, the games for 491 are kinda short lived USUALLY. Some go commercial, but a lot of the teams try to just aim it as "Get people jobs" projects. Naw, for Blink, I was only there officially for three months doing really early pre-vis. They switched gears by the end of the summer. Project was out of my league once the…