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Re: Portfolio Review
Nice website layout, my main concern would be your models, in particular your normal maps. Many of your models appear to have very sharp edges and are reading like low poly models. What you want to do is create the illusion of rounder edges on your low polys. To do thast you will have to revisit your highpoly models and… -
Re: [Question] List of Cameras for Photo-sourcing Textures
Not sure what Oly you have, but if its an older model with the 2-axis IBIS, the IS wasn't very good. The latest models with 5-axis IBIS (EM1, EM5, EM5II, EP5) are very very good and do not need 1/200th to get a sharp shot. Even the 3-axis EM10 is quite good. Minimum shutter speed for a sharp shot (regardless of IS) depends… -
Re: [UE4] London Blitz
-Albedo is simply the base color with no lighting information. -Metalness is a black and white mask that tells the material what is not a metal (black), and what is a metal (white). Where the map is white, the shader will default the albedo value to black, and then use the information in the albedo map as the reflectivity… -
Re: Maya - XNormal - Handplane - Marmoset Toolbag 2 Workflow
So, its important to understand that you don't necessarily need to harden edges at your UV splits. But you absolutely must split your UVs along your hard edges. Giving your sharp angles hard edges will reduce the shading gradients and yield a better result on the normal map because the gradients won't be so extreme. Once… -
Re: A Square Concrete Block Thingy
Hey dude, just a few things i think you could do to boost the quality: - Take a concrete texture and run it through CrazyBump, set it up so that the map is sharp, usually 90 fine detail / 60 sharpness / 50 intensity, turn everything else down. - Overlay it onto your geometry normals in PS, turn off the Blue channel in… -
Re: pxl SmartScale
Below an example. Not mine but from a site that reviewed the tool. I have been playing with it a little bit because I need to scale a couple of images up by about 250%. The SmartScale results are sharper with kind of jagged edges instead of blurred ones that you get with standard PS scaling. If you clone the image and… -
Re: Need Help Critting these texture sheets (56K warn)
An entire 512x512 sheet just for the strap of that M1 is ridiculous, especially when there's also a strap texture in the main sheet. Some sensible UV-mapping would mean that extra 512x512 could be removed completely, and just some simple shading/rivets added to the strap texture on the main sheet. Generally those UV… -
Re: Ork Warboss
looks really good. But could be ALOT better with some tiny modifications. I would suggest: Turn on "preserve UVs" if you model in max und move some vertices around to give him more weight and more feel. Best example: The biceps. You could give it a lot more weight if you would pull the veritces of the biceps bottom more… -
Re: Awesome Flat Screen Monitors
Samsung all the way. They actually will color match, unlike all the Dell monitors I've used. Depending on your budget you can always go with an LCD TV that does 1:1 pixel matching and supports DVI or use a DVI to HDMI cable to connect to the TV. Of those I would recommend the Sharp Aquos line for that use. One of the very… -
Re: blurred cube map reflections
Konstruct, the trick is that the more 'accurate' you go with stuff like gloss maps versus sharp or blurry cubemaps, the more you loose in terms of artistic freedom. Lets say a game allows the blurry/sharp cubemap approach only. If you want to make a sexy glossy look on the lips of a female character, you would get crazy…
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