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Re: Call of Duty: Ghosts
I recently replayed the Modern Warfare series and then played Battlefield 3's singleplayer. Wow. (Disclaimer: I bring up Battlefield 3 as a comparison here because people usually hail it as the "superior" game because it uses Frostbite or some shit and you can drive in it.) Holy shit was it bad, I mean people bash CoD for… -
Re: "Street Shark", etc Brainstorm: Blizzard Student Character Art Contest
You sound like me. For me it's usually not being able to come up with an idea that's the problem, but it's like I can't seem to picture it clearly in my mind for more than a quick second. It usually happens to me in situations exactly like this one where: -had an idea -had a pretty clear picture of what you wanted… -
Re: Romantic Ruins enviro [UDK]
Some samples of foliage, not as fancy as u might think ;) : @ mixeh – textures r mostly photosourced (majority from cgtextures:P ). Vegetation has more manual work tho, such as placing leaves or combining brunches from smaller photos by hand. But “building blocks” of textures are all photosourced. @ Bart – yes, usually… -
Re: Maya questions
1. Check what ghib said, I never use snap to curve so I don't really know. 2. This is something that really annoys me about Maya, coming from Max. I need to make two objects for every "solid" curve I want - one for the curve spline, one for the shape to loft. I just want to click the "renderable" box! I might see if I can… -
best metaphors/analogies to explain what you do to laypeople/older relatives/etc.?
so for me when my grandparents or other less computer/game oriented folks ask me about what I do for a living (env art/etc.) i usually explain that it's like how films need people to make props and sets for the actors to interact with but instead it's on a computer and the props and sets for a video game. a way i got my… -
Re: Workflow: Lowpoly to Highpoly? Or Highpoly to Low?
When making a new character I usually work from Highpoly to lowpoly. So I start with a rough sculpt to set the proportions. Then make the highpoly sculpt with all the details and finally I build the lowpoly on top of the decimated sculpt in 3dsmax or 3D-Coat. However, when I am asked to add some small props to a character… -
Re: How did they do the rocks in Shadow of the Colossus Remake?
my guess would be, 2048 or 1024 unique normal map done on second uv channel, with tiling rock textures and normals on channel 1. the unique normal probably powers all the big shapes and then the tiling materials keep it looking crisp up close. as for foliage, if done efficiently, you can usually get a way with quite a lot… -
Re: Blizzard Character Contest
This is gonna be tough to read... It's tough to type. Kind of an interesting concept... But... He doesn't seem very Blizzard-ish. I'm no expert on Blizzard, heck, I don't even like their games, but they have a certain distinctive aesthetic. For starters, there's a lot of high-frequency detail there that I don't remember… -
Re: UVs when Hand Painting
Generally, you want the UVs to be normalized, so pixels are all the same size in the viewport. If the game camera usually views the assets from a particular angle, such that some parts of the model are usually closer than others (near part of a FPS gun for example) then those closer parts can be given larger UV space. For… -
Re: Longest span you have been Unemployed?
I spent the first half of this year unemployed. About five months, all told. Before that I had never been unemployed for any longer than three and a half months. I don't mind unemployment, I have a tendency to save up, so it usually doesn't hit me too hard. And getting some time off is usually nice. I just don't like the…
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