Mr Significant - I learned Substance Designer by watching videos from Allegorithmic videos as well as videos from Richard "Pipes" Piper and Rogelio Olguin, https://environmentart.wordpress.com/. It also is a matter of sitting down and using the tool a lot and learning the ins and outs of it :-). Any questions lemme know.
Yeah, your right Mr. Brightside. I did keep the Face at the end of the barrel large to allow me to fake the barrels hole and have less Pixelation occur due to the small UV Size. But I will re-adjust the UV's to maximize space for the Grip since most of the detail will be there.
thx mr shipman I added a little more contrast but not too much. Ill probably do a night version that is very cool and one that has some warmer lights in it. Will be good practice! Gonna call daytime good and move on to night. Played around with warmer and cooler temps.
joining a clan is kinda like joining a mod, if you catch my drift... ;( but hey, don't let that stop you! and you actually ought to post this in the polyfraggers forum, mr. 'too good for the polyfraggers forum' since those are exactly the people you want to be catching the attention of specifically
It's Mrs. Puss, the magical wonder-kitty! :P Looking good! Maybe get in there and add some more detail around the nose and eyes... inside the ear.. What about giving it a snaggle tooth? The claws seem a little too cylindrical at the base. what about claws on the fingers as well?
I don't know seems like mega overkill to me. You can build a machine for less then $1000 that will get the job done just fine. Or better yet build a nice 1k machine and buy a 21inch Cintque. Or make a down payment on a 2010 EVO MR...lol.
To go with what soul posted, a guy here knows mark and to put it nicely doesn't think very highly of the guy at all. I say that vito gives Mr. Simon a call (as he seems to really want attention) and gives him a verbal bitch slap for us all.
*doorbell rings* *opens door* gargoyle: 'hey there, I heard someone round here needed my.. services' comic nude babe: 'ooh mr gargoyle, come right in. Oh you're all made of stone.. you're so.. hard..' *cue groovy wah-wah guitar*
My hunch is that this runs afoul of all kinds of labor laws AND tax laws. I think Mr. Wishes It Was Still 1890 With Company Towns And Company Scrip is about to get a very not-fun visit from some IRS and Dept. of Labor federales. There's the free market, and then there's... this. This is neither legal nor ethical.
Sorry man, I totally had a brain fart there. so this is basically a directionally biased AO map.(applied to your diffuse.) edit also to add something constructive you can bake these in max using the mr ao shader. you change its type to 2 and it outputs the bent normal.