Torch - Thank you! :) disanski - Yeah I will take down that nasty wip. Probably stick it in the misc work. jeffro - I will see if I can't knock back the grid by about 50% and see if that makes it any better. Heh I thought I was being original when I first thought of the polycount thing but since had seen a couple others do…
So far I can pretty much confirm what EricHall said. It took about a day and a half before I could actually download it and as far as I could tell I was still mostly dealing with Pixologic. So far so good. If I ever have any issues I'll revisit this thread.
@ErichWK: Thank you! :D I'll try my best to not slip back into old habbits now ;) @kaoticvisions: Thnx! Yeah, I've actually already started practicing it, but I'm having quite a hard time getting the inspiration since I'm not used to it, but hopefully I'll figure it out. Thnx for the link, very helpful!
I began focusing on blocking out the scene as per cholden and ErichWK's comments. all the models are low poly now, mostly primatives, but I'm able to build them and move them into place much faster. Then I will check the scene in Unreal for scaling. Then I will go back and detail the models and finalize the geometry.
ericdigital I'm sorry :( Yeah its cool to see other apps have this, but it would also be nice if Photoshop could too. I find painters brush tools to be really fun, it definitely feels like painting more, maybe its just the added bevel they have.
I did this a while back, it ended up looking great. http://ericchadwick.com/examples/movies/dreamscape_waterbump.mov http://ericchadwick.com/examples/movies/waterbump_128x128_60frames.MOV All I had to do was position an ortho camera at just the right distance. Had to tweak the position a lot, until the tile was perfectly…
hey thanks ErichWK! btw, the engine is 2D, sorry... not 3D. it appears 3D but is composed of layered 2D images. so i will be able to keep the lighting. besides that i'm lazy to learn 3D game design. hehe, nah it's not a city. okay let's make the post subject "sexy grotto" :D edit: cannot change subject wahh.