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Re: Is it ethical, or a bit greasy?
Yes, the Super Mario example was meant as a very concrete example :) But it does not stop at the pixels. Paint a character with a red hat a blue worker suit and a moustache, and people will quickly recognize it as Super Mario. It's these tree design points that makes a character to a super mario character. No matter if in… -
Re: Texture Creation: Packing more into each pixel
Usually the ones who don't color their spec maps are programmers, lazy, or can't due to engine constraints (source engine in particular comes to mind.) Specular colors are crucial for defining materials. Lets say for instance you have 3 kinds of metal on your item. On your spec you could make one of them yellowed, one… -
Re: Shield project - stuck -
What I mean by that picture is, if the lighting direction is coming from the top then the highlight will be on the opposite side. Take my wood texture for example: You have to think what your imaginary light source is going to highlight and whats its going to darken. I just took a couple of minutes quickly showing an… -
Re: Wireframes Cylinder
I'm not sure why Epic does this with their cylinder primitive. I know this type of mesh works better when tesselated, because the triangles are more evenly distributed. Tesselation is used for displacement, here's an example: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/NyraCharacter The ngon in your example is not too bad. As you can… -
Re: Normal Map Question
So it's ok to have the hi-res hanging outside the low res when baking certain details? Yeah I'm aware this is a poor example for there being no bevel or any additional detail on the extruded piece, my primary question is more just the logistics on how to setup the baking to reduce artifacting. Glacierfox, I'll provide a… -
Re: Why do you need to use straight uvs with hardsurface models
I agree with big part of what you have just said. The boxes and objects that could be reused and your over-optimization comments are 100% correct. But I don't agree that examples I mentioned are rare exceptions. They are exceptions for main animated characters and props where we have enough texel resolution usually . But… -
Re: Glitch / Special Map - Pixologic didn't even know about this?
I think people are more willing to listen to someone who actually knows how things works, and I mean ACTUALLY works, like normalmaps, bumpmaps, displacements etc, but yours has been mostly guessing in the name of "exploration". You you clearly noted that the specia.. bumpmap looks way better than a normalmap when in… -
Re: Reel & Portfolio - feedback please?
Demo reels, in general, are really only useful for animators & effects artists. The best way to show off static models is with still images. Concentrate on setting camera angles & lights to best display all the facets of your art. I'd put the navigation buttons on their own line immediately below the banner. With the… -
Re: How do I know what should be normal mapped/baked in an environment?
Time is money and honestly, noone cares about some unimportant prop or thats just there to fill up the space, or some generic tile floor so hand sculpting paint chips or dirt on it would be very pointless and waste of time. Also, have you seen Substance Designer and Painter, or the Quixel apps? There are much more time -… -
Re: [Substance Designer] Help me achive peeling effects?
Usually people use distance, bevel or blur nodes and some blobs style noise multiplied on top of it to create some elevated edges around tears but it never looks very realistic really especially on walls. And requires lots of miss and hit . For wall paper tears bending down with air pockets and plaster bumps /wires pocking…
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