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Re: Question about normals, UVs and smoothing groups
Crytek is humorously not synced with its own proprietary baker. The max qualified normal trick is great but not 100% accurate, and only works with static meshes unfortunately. Of course you should know how to bake maps with broken workflows, I totally agree with you. HOWEVER, telling people "never do this" "because thats… -
Re: Modeling Portfolio Feedback
Given the sky you already have for the village scene, rain would make sense - either as a recent rainfall or as a current storm. It would also help explain why nobody is on the street ;) . Ripples on the water caused by either rain or wind would break up the puddle, or you could turn the puddle into a shallow yet swift… -
Re: Decal technique from Star Citizen
Great information! I would have question how to approach welds in perpendicular areas using decals. I'm struggling with proper normals for them. I'm using UE4 DBuffer decal material with alpha masked normal only but my main issue with his technique is how to handle decal creation when areas I try to cover are welds on… -
Re: Crackdown
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I doubt I'll even activate the Halo3 beta. [/ QUOTE ] OH man how is that even humanly possible? Im such a halo nerd [/ QUOTE ] If they managed to travel back in time and replace Halo with Halo 3 so that the game would actually appear to push the boundaries of game play and graphics, THEN I might be… -
Re: computer a splode: desktop recommendations
I have heard some horror stories from the techs here that are running PCI-E. I also hear horror stories about customers with "awesome systems" running PCI-Express not being able to get some games working. Specifily they seem to be getting wierd random memory errors while playing or running 3D apps. The errors don't seem to… -
Re: And my axe! Hardsurface, Hipoly, C&C needed
hmm that is abit odd, how detailed is your turbosmooth? in terms of divisions... i know my way a little around max, but my main app is blender, to bad i didnt have your file and see if blender would bake out the norms with the same problems... the reason why i mention that is because in blender if i have a issue with… -
Re: Portfolio Feedback - Environment Art
I believe you got some good materials, but where a lot of junior artists get distracted is when you fill your portfolio up with small props. While it's not 100% the case, consider that studios now a days do outsource their assets. That doesn't mean you shouldn't model them but if you want to stand out, you need to build… -
Re: Non game-related contract work?
I work in "new media", occasionally I get to do some fancy things with 3d or with animation. But mostly I'm a slave to flash and html. Marketing has a lot of room for your skills. All my work comes through agents, so I'd suggest having a look around the internet for some agents. Mostly they want you to come and see them or… -
Re: Character sheets more important every day
Concepting is an art form most companies don't want to pay for, so it gets pushed into the dark conrner of contract or "spare time". Most concepts I see are of little use to a 3D artist but do a good job of getting the "idea across". Striking poses, characters twisted into bazar shapes to "strike a pose". Stuff that looks… -
Re: World Of Warfraft....
[ QUOTE ] Yeah, the newbie zones are gonna suck for the next few days, both for lag and camping mobs. Either play at ungodly off-hours or wait a couple days. [/ QUOTE ] GROUP UP FORM PARTIES! Especially for the kill 10 of ABC mob. Durring open beta I was always amazed to see how much figting was going on over kill quests…
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