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Re: Tutorials on making kickass reels?
The best way to make a kickass reel is to just look at professional reels , make a list of what they did , how they did it , try and replicate , fail , repeat , nail it , boom. Trial and error. On youtube there's cgbros which have a huge collection of showreels and the likes. From modeling to animation to tech art.… -
Re: CryEngine 3 Master Thread
I've just started using Cry Engine 3 and I noticed in the materials whatever tile you set to the diffuse slot it replicates in the normal slot. Is there a way to break this link? There is a seperate tile function in the normal channel but the material only seems to read tile information from the diffuse. This also seems to… -
Re: Sketchbook : Brian Shray
This was my first serious attempt at a proper Hard Surface 3d Model. I wanted to build the Metal Slug SV001 Tank. While scouring the internets for references I came across an artwork by Ricardo Chamizo. With that, I tried to replicate what he had built in his piece while making some minor tweaks and personal touches here… -
Re: Blender -> XNormal Baking Issues
Looks to me like you forgot to set your faces to be smooth shaded in Blender. That could also be why the cage had a different vertex order, because the exporter created more verts to replicate the flat shading. You have to set faces to be shaded smooth, then set your hard edges as desired and make sure Auto Smooth is on. -
Re: Xnormal Bake - Hole in Normal Map
It's obvious to me why this occurs. Once you come to grips with the way normal maps work in cooperation with the vertex normals, you'll see why your extreme gradient created the hole. In the link I posted, watch the video, and most importantly, replicate the workflow he explains... to see for yourself exactly how it works.… -
Re: robotical
yeah going to although it might have to be after a 3rd revival heheh. first going to work on the metal textures and such. still need to unwrap the brain and battery. but i've been looking at the clothing style used in the 1st turtles movie, and going to try and replicate that for this footsoldier. now thats going to be a… -
Re: uneven normal map (swimming syndrome)
It has to do with the proximity of the vertices on the low poly to the high poly. At the vertices, the two nearly coincide, at the middle of the face, they have a pretty big difference. Its somewhat unavoidable, AFAIK... if it looks fine, leave it (actually, this "swimming" is required to replicate the high-poly... if the… -
Re: How do YOU focus?
Less internets. Seriously though, helps me to have a focus for learning new tools, like I want to replicate an effect I saw elsewhere. Been learning volume rendering a bit, playing with animated 3d procedurals in fog projected by a light. Helps to have something inspiring to keep me moving. Also non-computer breaks help. -
Re: Zeph's Improvement thread
Ty MisterSande ! Ive tried 3 different methods since yesterday and here is the best ive come up with, As for what style I'm attempting to go for, I basically want to try and replicate the style found in WoW, that might be a bit broad so i'll find some examples http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68601 this is… -
Re: DreamHouse WIP
Looks really really great, great job ! :) Looks like the trees had changed quite a bit in the latest picture, though i kinda agree with @Ruflse , the tree can be a bit more dense. I found a really interesting post about dota2's stylized tree replication, might worth a look :)…
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