Out of curiosity, is this something that's going into an engine, or just a maya/max render? If it's for an engine, some normal mapping magic needs to happen. :poly124:
Hey Polycount, this is my recreation of the Engineer hero from Heroes of Newerth. For anyone familiar with the game, the characters are low res, around 2k tris with 256 texture maps, however they have really nicely detailed character concept art. I've made my intepretation of their concept with a full scale character as…
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Hello i am new to the forums so thank you all for choosing to view and reply to this post. I want to know why are there so many kinds of maps and how many maps can an in game realistic model really use in an engine like Unity, Cry Engine and UDK ? Im mostly talking about the Ambient Occlusion, Gloss maps, Height maps,…
Hmm...I don't know if this is actually a concern for nowadays game engines, but what if a certain game engine does not support textures in that ratio? Or is it just generally accepted nowadays that next-gen game engines (UE3 for example) that it will be accepted, as long as it's ^2 size textures?
super thin wires and things like this i think would be added into the engine later, like in the source engine they do ropes and tentacles with a vector, instead of an actual mesh, or in wow bow strings are just a line drawn by the engine between two points, no geometry.
hey earthquake, All the BF games I have worked on use world space normal maps on the characters. So it is dependent on the engine. For BF2\2142 stuff they are created as tangent space then converted to world when imported into the engine. There is probably other engines that are similar.
GameDraw - An ambitious 3D modeling tool built on top of the Unity Game Engine http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dp1ip/gamedraw_an_ambitious_3d_modeling_tool_built_on/