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Re: How To Get Faster... Faster?
learn when to stop. seriously :) The studios that care about time usually often go for "good enough". Most studios aren't Blizzard where it's done when it's done. Quality is like a bell curve - at some point the amount of invested time only yields small improvements. Learn when to stop. The exact time where to stop… -
Re: [Riot Art Contest] - Travis Henderson
Reply by THendersonVFX · · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Riot Art Contest› Riot Art Contest - VFXThanks for your feedback! I get everything that you're saying, and you're right, they are to stiff... Since they are static meshs, I'm not sure how I'd get them to bend. Should I rig them and then animate them by hand in matinee? These are working in cascade as a particle system as of right now. Each chain is also two… -
Re: LIZARD MAN!!
Thanks so much everyone! It really has made my day to read your comments. Keizza: Do you have a method that you like for baking AO that is generated by the low poly? All the AO that is used in the textures came when I baked it for each individual section of the character (quiver, belt, body etc), so none of them have AO… -
Re: Where should I start?
I'm in the same boat as you.. except I live in the USA and get the wonderful opportunity to pay out of my ass there and back again for a degree in the upcoming years. One thing I want to touch on though is when you decide between Maya and 3d Studio Max be sure you know what your university will mainstream for example… -
Re: learn animating : need help
That is handled with Inverse Kinetics (IK). The end of the leg chain follows a point that is glued to world space, whatever the rest of the body is doing that foot is stuck to that point. In biped its called "planted keys" (Biped Menu > Key Info). They enable you to plant the feet on the ground plane then use "sliding… -
Re: Crysis 3 - 'Maxing out' current gen consoles
The hardware utilization percentages are totally meaningless... theoretically, you could measure how many CPU and GPU cycles are spent working without stalling, how much of the clock cycles of the internal and external buses are used for data transfer, how much memory is left free and so on. We all know it's impossible to… -
Re: 3ds max & modo
So I've had that same issue for a while with max. I've come up with a few workarounds and found some scripts that make my life easier. I know this thread is kinda old, but I think it's still helpful. ColladaCGF- http://sourceforge.net/projects/colladacgf/ This allows me to rapidly prototype, check scale etc etc. All you… -
Re: Decadent [UH Student project]
You can always use the Zbrush retopo tool. To get it to work you make a new Zbrush file so the scene is empty in other words. Great a Zsphere, go into edit mode. The right hand pallet where the tools are and what not, scroll to the bottom find the rigging tab. Choose select mesh and pick your high poly model. It should now… -
Re: 3DS Max Trouble - Normal Maps Broken
You're supposed to have any 'outside' beveled model, anything which is 'outside' the silhouette and is changing it be modeled, especially on that Box, a bevel like that wont' show too well on a Normal Map. It's simply too strong, something less and subtle will show up better in information baking. On the other hand,… -
Re: Tutorial: Basic Lighting Methods in Marmoset Toolbag
Thanks guys, really glad you're enjoying these tutorials! We plan to keep them going here for a good while, there is still plenty of material to cover, and as we add new tools and features in the future there will be even more stuff. So no sign of stopping here =D bounch: Yeah I try to roll in as many general concepts as I…
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