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Re: How do YOU give feedback?
I usually try to keep my critiques as objective as possible with reference whenever possible. The fact that I don't like the overall style or design of something because of personal preference would end up creating friction in the critique and make it less beneficial. If it is someone I know well, I may toss out a few… -
Re: Feedback for my work
The presentation on the first image is really cool The model is good for a start but theres a lot to improve Try using more polys in general and make the shapes as close to the original as you can, which will give you a far better model overall. Baking normal maps is something you learn later on, which will drastically… -
Re: Is it possible/wise to be an all-rounder?
Usually as an environment artist you get responsibility for the visuals of a whole level. This means all of it, so being a bit of an all-rounder isn't a bad thing. So spending your free-time only making props isn't all that awesome in my opinion. Setting your own art-direction, setting up lighting, shaders, particles,… -
Re: Baking on a cylinder not working correctly?
To achieve this you can edit the cage . I am not sure about Maya but in MAx and Blender the tracing is happening in direction between low poly vertex and corresponding cage vertex. You can make the "face" side of a cylinder doing more like planar projecting , lesser of a lens effect for an expense of stronger distortion… -
Re: Question for people posting work as gigantic PNG files...
Ya. I usually aim for no larger than 500kb @ 1920x1080 for my work. Usually 7-8 quality in the JPEG slider in Photoshop. -
Re: Some questions regarding the game Industry
Grats dude! And WHERE is it??? Who's it for?!?!? :D Entry level is usually pretty set. There might be a $2500 flexibility, but it's usually very very fixxed. -
Re: buying a pc need advice
boards have a supported memory list, you can usually get it on their website but the typical top names will usually work G.Skill Corsair Kingston mushikin -
Re: What is UV count?
usually only lightmaps have a different UV channel but everything else is usually on UVchannel #1 (difuse, normal, spec,...). SO that would not make sense -
Re: What do I do after retopo?
Thanks, Ashervisalis! I just had a follow-up question. what software is usually used to create various maps? Is it usually Substance Painter or Mari? -
Re: Baking - where do the rays come from and go?
correct but... its sampled per pixel (usually at final bake resolution) rather than per vertex for most baking types as said above - bakers will usually project both sides of the target mesh by a specified distance
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