Anything with iridescence, like some car paints or beetles or CDs. Many materials due to their structures will have some slight color, or respond differently under certain wavelengths. One example is copper, which has a heightened response under tungsten lights that can't be represented without spectral rendering. This is…
@ant1fact Yes, cage is not needed in this workflow. Strange. I've been exclusively baking with SP for 18 months and 'compute per-fragment' has never not been on by default. :) @Nerdicon3000 Here's a description of the workflow: - Low and high silhouette matching closely - single smoothing group(no UV/SG splits or cage…
Hi all, A bit of a reintroduction... kinda. I used to be 'King of Daveness' for many, many years. I stopped dropping by Polycount after leaving the games industry after a couple of bad experiences and went to work in special effects. While I was a polycounter I did art for Unreal Tournament 04, Dungeons & Dragons online,…
maxscript, like I mentioned I wrote a simple script that detaches and attaches faces/verts of the imported mesh back to 1 instance. It requires some user input but it saved me time on this project: http://mmvr-des.burg-halle.de/blogs/klimawandel/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/market.jpg it had lots of different objects to be…
I can name a few which have done very well. NGUI creator was bringing in $70k a year off of sales but that was a year or two ago. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/04/07/interview-super-seller-michael-lyashenko-of-tasharen-entertainment/ Some art assets have done well as long as your doing them "correctly" releasing them in…
At this time, i began researching methods of getting renders out of UDK as well as how to create a turntable. Using resources on eat3d.com, i taught myself how to create matinee's and animate a mesh using Kismet. After learning where the tiledshot command put all my renders, i went about rendering out numerous shots of my…
Wow, so many questions :P 01 - Realtime Mirroring Make a duplicate of the object using "instance" setting and set scale to -1 in x (normally). There are some gotchas with this workflow to watch out for which you can read about here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82052&highlight=mirroring 02 - UV Selection…
Since last time I've spent a lot of time tweaking and re-tweaking the fog and added some ground fog for some added atmosphere. I had a big problem with not being able to get enough moonlight on the house whilst also getting enough moonlight on the rest of the scene. Someone I showed this to said I needed more light on the…
Eduardo Pena is a great example of photobash. I watched him do this concept in about 4 hours while talking to our group. http://www.coloredcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/winter-hunter-ETBW-concept-art-by-eduardo-pena.jpg Probably one of my favorite artist is Anthony Jones.…
I just landed a job doing Technical Support so I'm in a similar situation as yourself. I'm trying to do the art side of things too, I just need to bide some time to get caught up on portfolio work. A friend of mine that works at a large company near where I live gave me some advice when I started to look for jobs: 01. Find…