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Re: Relocation Advice - New Orleans
A lot of my childhood was spent in Louisiana. I lived in Lafayette but New Orleans wasn't too far off. Things I remember most clearly... The traffic made me want to die, it was a REALLY diverse place to live - you had all sorts, and it had a big "party" mentality as mentioned above, also...good food to try. Oh, bit of a… -
Re: Unity 5 PBR why use metallic texture?
This tutorial explains the differences in detail, and how to convert between metalness and spec maps: http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-conversion General pbr: http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice In short, spec maps are more flexible, but with the added flexibility comes a lot of freedom to make very… -
Re: Should i be working in PBR from now on?
The purpose of PBR is to unify the pipeline which makes art asset creation and art direction/lighting more consistent and efficient. It's not there to rob artists of freedom, if you're feeling hugely restricted by it that's probably because you were doing illogical stuff that tends looks bad to begin with, like making both… -
Re: Your homework for this week is to make a post on Polycount...
I've always considered uni as time out from RL to focus on what you want to do. if that is partying then fair play & good luck once it is all over. if you are there however to achieve something (like learning a skill) then you have the freedom to do so and will most likely succeed if you put in enough effort. that's my… -
Re: open world game map
Some things to consider when generating and texturing the big island: - you can use colormaps from WorldMachine (use the coastel overlay) as a basis, then import them into Photoshop to get more details. You can also do this in Worldmachine itself but it is pretty advanced to get decent results. - an alternative is to… -
Re: Sketchbook: Oranghe
Thanks Spacey! mission accepted! Did some more rigid and sci fi things since i don't normally do this and would love to learn more about it! so pushing on these for a bit, The first thumbs i took great inspiration from Freedom . I used heavily one of his designs in my upper right thumb to help me deconstruct these new… -
Re: Anyone tried Light Therapy ? - Energy problems
In terms of working out, I think you shouldn't go all out, that may be one of your problems. You need to find a balance between where you feel like youre getting a workout but youre not killing yourself in the process. If you can, I'd suggest joining a gym. Working out at home is okay but part of the "magic" for me is… -
Re: Game Engine Opinions
hmm good point Indeed, the Unreal engine when released will indeed be the most realistic engine available, Currently I still rather look @ valves source technology compared to ID's Doom 3 and Still doom 3 didnt have too much freedom to move around but then again ive never seen other games utilize the doom 3 engine, doom 3… -
Re: That other console that's not made by MS or Sony
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050517/latu045.html -- Freedom of design: A dynamic development architecture equally accommodates both big-budget, high-profile game "masterpieces" as well as indie games conceived by individual developers equipped with only a big idea. This is interesting (although it's probably just management… -
Re: Slag - small flying creature
As in description.. Slags have dextrous legs. :) By the way, I have a read about knots, so I modelled a correct one for easy untie, for icycles and pouch and other one for stake and leg. A short backstory to work. I`m not a good writer but I`m planning extend this story in future and connect with ensuing projects:…
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