I think the thread you're referring to got deleted or lost during the last board migration, but there's this: https://polycount.com/discussion/64576/anubis-and-magicians-w-i-p/p1
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Diablo 3 is a bad example. Diablo 3 had HUGE PENT UP DEMAND, basically a starving audience of diablo 1 + 2 fans had accumulated over many years. Diablo 3 even if it was absolute garbage would still have sold a lot on name recognition alone. I compared a toony style first person shooter (borderlands) to another first person…
8gb of Ram is the minimum requirement, which is just your normal Ram that you'll probably be putting in 2x 8gb or 2x 16gb or something along those lines. The graphics cards specifically have video memory which is in addition to this and separate from those min reqs. More video ram can help with rendering times but not a…
You can still do it via the texture route. Make a displacement texture and convert the displacement to geometry. This way you still gain the flexibility texturing offers, and the final output can be the same. If you want to see a visual example look up clothing tutorials in zbrush. Many times people will do a quick unwrap…
You can get bake errors in most bakers if you have stacked UVs , as @musashidan says, at the time the Baker is working out what to project onto what Z fighting can occur and bad shit happens . You get the same sor of issues with overlapped lightmap uvs. A little known feature in max is that you can offset UVs in W which…
You have to ask the client themselves on what the polycount and what type of maps can be used since it depends on their engine and the scale of the game will be. Don't be afraid to ask questions such as these to them. Its pretty vague if they just say "for tablets". But just in case, 3000-3500 tri is a good number for a…
Thanks for these advices! Aside the consumer-level solution, I had a look at HP and Dell. HP z840 seem quite expensive compared to Dell Precisions. But there's no HP online configurator so I'm not sure. I made a Dell Precision t5810 configuration (without display) that might suit my needs: Intel® Xeon® E5-1620 v3 (4C, 3,5…
I Zremeshed it in Zbrush and realized that I can get away with a lot less quads, so then I used wrapit plug in for max, to make tentacles (thus branches) - but it took me ridiculous amounts of time. I'm going to learn 3D-Coat for this business, does anyone have better suggestions? I've placed my re-done asset(s) into a…
After reading all of this, I am on no ones side but my own...BUT When "Ocean Marketing" has someone or is being ran by someone like what was written. They should be burned to ash for simply attacking a customer who had no initial intent but to understand what was really happening in patience. Especially before it all…