I know what you mean. I felt the same way in my mid-20's. I didn't feel as comfortable with my stuff until I was around 28-29, joining Hardsuit Labs. It's technically my first in-house Environment Artist job, and it's still weird for me thinking back on it. The rest of the stuff I've done in the past were all 3D art…
I hope it's not a problem, because I'm 28 and I've only just started learning how to make stuff! :p I'm sure you will be fine, plenty of people change careers and such and get into different things when they are older. 26 is nothing! Slightly different industry, but in my first job as a software developer I worked with…
No, never remove geometry after a bake unless you really understand what you're doing. Editing your mesh = changing vertex normals = creating smoothing errors. Any time you change your mesh, you should rebake(unless the vertex normals stay exactly the same). Using supporting geometry to fix normal projection issues is…
inb4 mp is one kill to unlock drones and shit and gun kills make up for 20% of total kills again. I'm sure single will be fun, they NEED to make the story playable in CO OP. MUST. They absolutely must. Would add so much to the game. MP, sigh, I will hate it as I always do since it is going away from the direction of the…
Thanks for all the comments guys. I usually try to eat one of those cereal bars and a nutritional drink in the morning. When I get my 15 min. I'll eat have another cereal bar and something to drink. Then at lunch I'll have a slice of pizza and maybe a side of meat balls; though today I had some organic burgers. I've…
Hey man really nice job on this looks excellent apart from one factor... red, red everywhere....! Get rid of the red on everything and change it to differant colours.... blue, yellow, green etc. You have 20 areas that are all the same lighting wise which is really ruining this piece. + Be careful with the glow on the…
If you are working with ridiculously massive objects in relation to the grid (often when an object is several meters wide but the grid is only 20 centimeters) your camera may be zooming out so far that the framed object is beyond the far-clip plane of your camera. Try changing your unit of measurements from centimeters to…
Thank you guys! I'm really happy that you like it. @Blaisoid: Your words are the highest reward for me :) Thank you! @Makkon: I haven't used anything fancy, all materials are pretty simple, just playing with specular map. If you want to see something particular just tell me I'll do some screenshots. Here is the base…
To help with modifying or creating a new the Color Map / Normal Map etc. I have uploaded the Models with intact Polygons (not triangulated) Let me know if they work for you or if i need to export to a different Format! (Since i only tested with 3Ds Max) Dropbox:…
Jesus... so after 3 days of this crap, I was working just now and out of instinct hit my Alt+1 shortcut and it didn't do anything. I forgot it stopped working. So out of frustration, I spammed Alt+1 like 20 times yelling "Come'on you piece of shit", and somewhere around hit #15 or so it started working out of nowhere. Now…