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Re: The wonders of technical art (Unreal Engine)
My upcoming scene will have a bunch of specific type of trees, so I decided to make a spline based generator, so making the variations will be a matter of changing some parameters. Not complete, but trunk and level1 branches works fine. Level1 still needs some work, but I got the basics working. Level 2 branches are… -
Re: [Portfolio] Game Designer with a penchant for game art. (Critiques wanted!))
Hey man, I'll try and give this a bit of a bump for you. I believe I've given you my two cents on your website before - I love the layout; Simple, clean, to-the-point, with no frills or unnecessary pages. It perfectly fits what you do, which surprises me that you still have your old UT3 and school work from way back when.… -
Re: Garrosh Hellscream
I have to echo the comment regarding the metal. It really feels like you applied a picture of metal you found online and then just blew the spec out on it. It looks like foil because of that. The specular in general needs more work as right now it's just like you through some color balance layers on top of your diffuse and… -
Re: Battlefield: Bad Company 2. What is your handle?
The visuals and the gameplay both have their pros and cons in my opinion, but BC2 still beats the shit out of MW2 in my opinion. A large part of BC2 being better for me is the PC community (Although I may be biased because I played MW2 on 360). PC users actually communicate and go for objectives unlike nearly everyone I… -
Re: Multiple smoothing groups = more vert count in game engine?
Yes, however, if you have a hard edge where you also have a uv split, there is no increase in verts, as the verts are already doubled along the uv seam. When doing normal mapped stuff, its essential to have uv seams where you have hard edges(to avoid baking artifacts), so this works out well naturally. So in any realistic… -
Re: WC_NE_Drood.. WIP
guess its a Just My opinion that they are not that great. DKK- i agree with you but i always feel that textures and a good uv layout go hand and hand, because if its all bad uv issues someone would create some horrible textures and be like "oh just uv issues" "All those things you listed there are minor nit picks the… -
Re: Best point to start on making a house with a fully rendered interior?
I'd also advise creating a 2D plan view of the layout(either draw it to scale on paper or use a free CAD program) to use as your template. This will give you a huge headstart and just like Atticus says about a blockout above, it will save a lot of time as you won't be wasting it as you've invested little when you plan… -
Re: 3DS Max Newbie LF Help
The tutorials and help files that Autodesk produces are actually pretty helpful, you could start by checking out their basic tutorials. And CG Tuts has a huge amount of quality tutorials, including some on creating assets start to finish. http://cg.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/… -
Re: Jack Sparrow
looking great, really nice work. Suggestions: - His eyes aren't shinny enough. The whites are too white, use a very light flesh color instead of stark white. Don't forget to draw very subtle shadows on the eye ball to help blend it. It might be a separate piece on the UV layout but it is behind and under flaps of skin that… -
Re: UVW Unwrapping Isues
Yes, use XNormal. It's a lot easier on your comp when it comes to rendering power, and it's ridiculously easy to learn. Didn't even take me a day to get great results. As for uv's, here's my workflow: 1) Model the low poly mesh 2) Layout the UV's for the low poly. 3) Make the high poly mesh using maya, or max, or zbrush,…
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