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Re: UDK - Low End Shaders/Material (AKA Old School Tricks)
Ace: A really big contributor to the normal mapped look is the specular portion. You'll also notice that normal mapped models with lazily created specular maps look far more flat. Often times the grey shaded model with normal map will look more impressive than the final fully mapped version. You can really control how a… -
Re: Rens and Halo
Thank you good lads! Really great comments :) Got this low poly done and been working on some texture. Though i've figured out i should move on. Get a life. I could go with building something else now. Therefor i will be leaving you without textures for now! maybe i will wrap these up over the next few months, but it is… -
Re: ZBrush object import and mirroring UVs
Hmm, after much trial and error I settled with minimal detail loss. I re-imported the mesh with UVs and reprojected each subdivision using Tool >> SubTool Palette >> Project SubPalette >> ProjectAll with a distance of 0.007. Lesson learned I guess... Note to self: create UVs while doing retopo :) 2nd note to self: Using… -
Re: Zbrush: Hide/Show Spotlight-Dial - new Hotkey
Huh, oddly enough, when I reassign Z to something else, the typical warning message that the key is being used by something else didn't show up. It just assigned it automatically, as if there wasn't anything assigned to Z before. And then the spotlight dial stops working. Didn't find the button you're asking for either in… -
Re: Game Art Cliches
I think because it is so widely used, its actually a good habit. well. sorda. see, when you do something that everyone else does, you are CHALLENGED to do find some way to do it differently. what sets yours apart from someone elses? thats where real creativity comes into play. i think if anything, fanart is a bad habit.… -
dds in video memory. more (dxt1) or less files (dxt3)
heyho, I'm wondering if it is 'better' to store your textures in several rgb-dds files (dxt1c) or try to pack special channels like team color, self ilumination, .. into the alpha channel of a dxt3 example would be (all 1024^2 maps) diffuse + team color dxt3 ~1,4mb color-spec + self ilumination dxt3 ~1,4mb ~2,8mb OR… -
Re: Portfolio review - losing interest in 3d
Meloncov covered a good bit of it for industry realities, so I'll respond to your last paragraph. I personally think the best advice anyone can give you is to take a step back and clear your head. Don't even worry about 3D for now. Clear your head of all the stress and worries. That is the first step above all else. So… -
Re: How do I find a balance between time and quality when creating game assets for an indie game?
the best use of time is to pay a little money for somebody else's time. i.e. buy some models somebody else made. if you have to do a little work to make everything consistent with your art style that is still usually a lot faster than making everything from scratch avoiding sculpting and baking will save some time. how… -
Re: Portfolio advice for getting into the Games Industry - Character Artist
Damn, I knew job security was bad and that outsourcing was popular... I knew that the stakeholders were generally blood sucking suits and that companies were being gutted, but I had never thought about how shitty those NDA's are. I mean it holds the entire industry back because we can't see cutting edge art and… -
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