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DanJohnCox Portfolio Thread
Hey everyone. This is my first proper post in this area. Just got laid off my current job and am adding more environment modeling to my portfolio. Spent a long time at work doing 2D, kinda want to shift into 3D more again. First off is a piece I'm pounding away at and hope to finish shortly as my current setup has very few… -
Mari is changing my diffuse color when I add "Height as Normal" layer in Normal Channel
I don't know if i can properly explain this without it being convoluted, but here goes: I've painted out the majority of my diffuse map and there are a few textures/ layers that I need to have affect the normal channel. When I copy the layer into my normal channel and apply the "height as normal" adjustment layer it… -
Re: Uninstalling Autodesk Genuine Service
For my workflow Blender is far more efficient than Maya. It also helps in my case that because I'm into creating characters my main tool is Zbrush and Blender compliments it perfectly, which I find to be better than Maya anyhow and particularly when it comes to modeling. In fact I find Maya to be unusable for modeling. The… -
Re: Bizarre artifacts on textures. Need help!
That's dxt compression. Dxt is a compression format that takes up 1/4 of the size it's uncompressed counterpart would. Almost every texture in dota2 uses it regardless of resolution. How it works is it divides the texture into 4 by 4 chunks and creates a palette of 4 colors to use in that chunk. This is why artifacts… -
Re: Feng Zhu School worth the investment risk?
I seriously doubt that you'll be any better after a year if you work 18 hours a day vs. if you had only worked 12 or even 10. I would credit the success of FZD students to the quality of the curriculum/instruction/feedback and self selection bias, with little if any weight to the aggressive work schedule. But really if… -
Re: Meat Locker - Environment
The only thing that's really bothering me is the sharpness of those shadows which I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned. The lighting is great but the shadows are eeh. Looks like either everything is a dynamic sharpened shadow map, and the parts that throw me off are how all of the edges of every shadow are about the same… -
Re: Outside Game Art Competitions
I think ultimately, at least as far as the competition is concerned, you get the skills through educating yourself and then you break in on the merit of your... ability to do the job. I am sure, although I can't speak for all women, that they'd all agree we don't want to be Othered or somehow privileged in the name of… -
Re: Decals problems
well thank you for the fast answer HAWK12HT it didn't completly solved my probleme but at least it teached me something that helped me hding it a bit. So for now what i did was changing the lightning model to " MLM_unlit " ( leaving the transluscent blend mode ) and linked my diffuse to the " emissive " slot. my decal… -
Re: 3DS UV Tools
You are just blind. :) Max's Relax tools are considerably better than Maya's. The only thing Max lacks which I'd like from Maya is the "Map UV Border" tool, but just using Max's Relax overcomes this 99% of the time. You'll find it in Tools -> Relax, set Amount to 1.0 and Iterations to about 200, hit Apply and your UVs will… -
Re: Shadow acne, only in DirectX 11 mode
DX11 (IIRC) will force RT shadows for certain assets, there is nothing you can do about it. And frankly, I don't see this is a failure from Epic's side, since high quality shadows, especially with correct distance bias are expensive, VERY expensive, especially for engines lacking a Proxy-Mesh-Shadow casting option for…
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