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Re: Physically accurate material values
@Vailias Thanks, that's a really good explanation! I hadn't considered before the idea that most materials have a base roughness that doesn't deviate all that much, in other words, an oily stain on a piece of wood isn't going to have the same roughness/gloss value as the same on a polished metal. Guess I better make those… -
Re: Building Modularly....Advice
You could create 5 different textures for the same building blocks but if you only changed the texture of near identical looking buildings it's gonna be noticeable. The bottom line is you want a set of modular pieces which can be combined in a variety of ways to produce noticeably different buildings and structures. On top… -
Re: Portfolio overhaul
aesir: thanks! Yeah the head is pretty much WIP, so I tossed some photogrpah on it but didnt bother cleanin the seams for now. all in all i am kind of unsure with the head. I am thinking of reunmapping it all together with the hands and use no mirroring... Thing is the face is unique rest is mirrored which worked before… -
Re: AK-47
762vs556 There are a number of factors, its somewhere in between to me. From the side perspective #1. doesn't look long enough to be 7.62. #2. it is too tall to be 5.56 imo, it is closer to a 7.62 but all in all its hard to tell. It looks like a cross between a .556 ak-74u and a 7.62 ak-47, which puts it in the realm of… -
Re: Art book recommendations?
Holy crap, I've gotta pick that up. I ran across his stuff when I was digging up ref for my TF2 map. I liked his work so much I named the ship and the map after him. Very inspirational stuff and was an amazing artist. 256 pages with 600 pieces... drool... I also suggest picking up… -
hardware question - graphics card capabilities
for an upcoming job i'm trying to determine if it's worth it to aquire a new graphics card for my (rather old, athlon-xp-based) sidekick system or if it's less hassle overall to get a complete machine on loan for the duration of the job. what i need is decent pixelshader 3.0 preview ability. there's no way in hell i'd… -
New budget system
Hi! I'll be getting a new machine later in this month. I would like to keep it for around 2 years. Playing games at high settings is not very important. However, I want to make sure this system is good enough for practice as I'm going for the less expensive stuff. I want to be able to play around with tessellated meshes in… -
Re: [Blender 2.8] Bevel shader normal map baking artifacts on flat surfaces
Still seems too low to be useful though. For an 8k texture, 512 samples seems to be just enough to hide most noise. And having to bake a higher res texture on GPU only to downscale to reduce the noise seems to be slower. I did some simple tests - maybe my GPU bake settings could be better but my results were these. GPU… -
Re: PC Community Feedback: Petrol/Blood (and contests in general)
If you entered but didn't finish, what was the primary reason? - Too little time for me to finish at the quality I would want to. Not interested in compromising on quality and personal targets to push something out in time, and no time to do a "crunch" for the finish either. How did you feel about the deadline? - Tight but… -
Re: A few problems I have with 3ds Max 2012
I probably didn't word that as well as I should of. Min spec is any DX9 compatible card with 256mb of ram or greater. Nitrous has higher requirements for some of its advanced features like realtime lighting and display of normal maps in the viewport. For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects…
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