Hi guys, So, I have started to work on a new portfolio, seeing as my current site is offline atm. until I can afford to renew my hosting. Do any of you fine gentlemen have some tips as for what I should focus on? The art is obvious, but any tips would be greatly appreciated! I will have a temporary site online during the…
hey Eric thanks for the comments. Yeah i abandoned the substance method for now but im definately gonna come back to it. as for the brick texture I was gonna go with a height map to make some bricks stand out more. Do you think this is a good method ? still very new to this and its tricky finding good tips but i will trawl…
It's the first game my kids have begged to play with them. Pretty neat game for kids. Only 400mb wish it was 1gb with VO. Otherwise it's like Earthbound and Mario & Luigi RPG had a small child and Tim Schafer adopted that child and taught it witty banter. Then the child went off to Tim Burton's college of quirky and artsy…
you can search the board with google too, enter the search terms, in this case, I used "unwrapping tips" and then follow it with the command "site:url" so it would look like this: "unwrapping tips site: http://boards.polycount.net" I found this thread: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=35622 the board search…
Hi guys, Can someone recommend me some good advanced level 3D character course or tutorial. I was already looking on web and I was able to find some on Wingfox.com, basically this one: Real-time Knight Character Creation - Wingfox It looks great to me but would like if someone could give me any opinion or advice or suggest…
Can't agree enough with Alex. Being good at googling and knowing how to change keywords to filter specific results is a god send when it comes to learning pretty much anything these days. A lot of times the colleagues are a great resource if you're in the position to be around those people but not everyone is so just keep…
You can try rigging tank tracks with bones which will give you rigid tracks. Quite a bit of work but he covers some wire parameters to help automate the animation, pretty cool stuff. http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/136/1 You might want to switch the spline IK on the main arm to a IK limb solver and use bones, it will…
Some more work on the bark textures, trees and landscape material. Still trying to optimize this scene a bit more, because it is only running at 30 fps on my laptop at the moment, but it is all dynamic and it has dynamic GI going and all that stuff. If anyone has some good optimisation tips for unreal would be greatly…
Hey thank you so much for all your tips after I work on it a bit more Ill re-post it with your changes, and a few others Im making along with the wire frame and texture pages. My problem with a few of my pieces is the lighting, Im working on this but if you had any tips on it I would gladly appreciate it.
The characters will tie in with the cards through their respective colour scheme and attires. The look of your avatar is totally dependant on you as a player. Facial features and accessories can be edited through a variety of palettes to choose from. The virtual world will also help tie in the aesthetics of the card…