Everything seems to be dependent on the type of game you are trying to make, which is also influenced by the intended audience of a game. I think a good story comes down to the development of both characters and plot. You can have poorly designed characters with an amazing plot, and still have a bad story, similarly, you…
I have a question about normal mapping a modular building piece. I suppose for an example of my question, I'll just use Stephan's building. Would you normal map a building like that the same way you'd normal map a prop? Where you go through the object and bevel the edges so that something like the window edges will have…
Thanks for the replies, Sure thing, examples and specific questions coming up... I just can't use the actual piece so I'm doing a quick example prop. I'll be back with screenies in about half an hour.
I would like to share our animatic done by our amazing concept artists Valen Kua and Nanxi Ong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXgxgZlwa0 Here are some shots that I assembled the character rigs and animation done by my teammates and I have also added in some basic lighting in Unreal Engine just for the feel and vibe.…
Hey Guys, Are there any examples/tutorials out there to set up simple context dependent hotkeys in maya, based on selection type and selection count for example if faces are selected execute selectadjacentface.mel, or selectadjacentvertex.mel for vertex selection, etc?
hope the german authority doen not take THAT long. i still continue to update the current version. right now im nearly finished with implementing an update mechanism. with this you can check and update the tool inside the tool. the last days i added some new features and fixed some bugs * added context menues for selected…
http://jobyotero.com/games/Ghost/ConceptArt/Worlds/african/AfricanMission1_MountainInterior.jpg While the room itself has symmetrical features almost everything is unique. You've treated them more as props and pasted them around. For example, those small duck bills in the corner are actually a large hippo statue that fills…
Regarding the command line/scripting aspect we updated Substance Batchtools to version 6. Here is the changelog : Substance Batchtools 6.0 Fixed: ○ [Global] Use png format by default for image creation (instead of jpg) ○ [Global] Help need to be more explicit (we now use more specific information and provide more examples)…
They look pretty good. IB and Ott bring up some good points I would follow their advice and modify the models accordingly. After that the next big hurdle is getting them unwrapped in a fast, clean, optimized way. The counts could be considered fine if most of those polys contributed to detail or helped you create optimized…