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Re: How do games like GTA, Battlefield, ARMA 3 and other games make building textures.
Like Obscura said, they use modular textures and tiling to use smaller texture files. They also use proximity LOD (level of detail). basically If you're far away from an object (like the top of the building when you're on the ground) the engine loads in very small resolution textures, like 512x512. As you get closer, the… -
Re: Portal 2
Yes, although I think that was mainly from the combination of "retro" aesthetics with the delightful humor. I could easily imagine Jonas Venture's voice coming over the loudspeakers. The design of those sequences actually gave me more of a Bioshock 1930's vibe, although I think they are supposed to be around the 60's.… -
Re: So i have always wondered
Hello Melvic, I'm no expert in Game Particle Simulations but I can tell that sometimes what you see as particles are just mere polygons with alpha image data on it. A tornado of leaf can be achieved with basic plane geometry primitive applied a leaf texture on it. They of course multiply the leaf by numbers, cascade it,… -
Re: Starting to get career for environment artist
They use UDK for lighting because you are expecting to know a game engine for most jobs. It doesnt have to be the engine that company is using, they just need to know you can navigate engines and have skills to use the tools. It's far better to be able to show a level in a game engine than in max or maya. Looks better on… -
Re: How do you use IRO for opaque materials?
You can read more here about how IOR fits into the whole shading system: https://www.adobe.com/learn/substance-3d-designer/web/the-pbr-guide-part-1 However this doc isn't really written with artists in mind, unless they're already pretty technically-inclined. It's written more for graphics engineers. But you should still… -
Re: Maya - Materials For Different Renderers
You should pick a render a stick with it, but if you still want to learn multiple render engine at once, that could be interessting to recreate the same material in each engine, I find it a bit weird to have multiple shader from differente engine in the same scene, I'd create a new scene for each engine, hf ! -
Re: hair techniques
Yes interisting topic indeed and these typical sorting problems are on PC 3d engines, consoles however had never these problems. In Elder Scrolls: Oblivion they seem to solve this with an CG Shader the hair on the screenshoots looks nice a thing i like to know is how the next Unreal Engine solve this or if the engine solve… -
Metahuman rigid body physics on skeletal mesh - issue with retargetted animation?
Hey! So this is outside of my wheelhouse and I'm lost. I'm working on a character that has a lightsaber hilt on her hip, I want it to bounce and move as she walks/runs etc. I may be doing this completely wrong, but it's been working so far for me. I created the clothing and brought them in as different skeletal meshes and… -
Re: Best softwares for making effects
Well there are a lot of reasons why people use their own particle engines for their games. The main one if optimization. The other big reason is because they can add features on the fly to their own particle engine. If they use maya or whatever else they have to count on the company to add it for them. There a LOT more… -
Re: New Game concept/startup
UDK is currently in the process of being phased out. At the moment, Unity is actually the engine of choice if you need a free version. That said, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) has a new subscription model that is much more affordable for indies than any previous incarnation of the Unreal engine. UE4 can be had, in its entirety,…
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