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Re: Answered: 3DO Baker gets stuck at 50%
I tried to replicate it just now, but I cant even get the input window up. I've got a feeling the project somehow got corrupted. When I try with a blank project everything works fine. However this gets me worried, as you can image, that whatever I work on can get corrupted at any time.… -
Re: Renewed updated portfolio
Do you really need a demo reel as an environment artist? The first few seconds are just slow zooming into still shots. An environment fly through is okay, but pictures still work better. Isn't that prairie scene from a tutorial? I would create a new and different environment using the techniques you learned from the… -
Re: Realism in for CG Characters, How
Do it fast, keep it subtle. That's probably the best mental logic when doing realism. As realism in my experience happens to only fail when you start over analyzing/stare at your work. Analyzing critically about your work, I notice only works well when you do fictional types of work (cartoon, stylized, etc.). In the end,… -
Re: How to model quality cloth with opacity?
If you don't use references then that is what it looks like in your head, in which case you've done what you've set out to do. Regardless of whether or not you have a set of references in a folder for a main end all image you should be looking at how real fabric like this tears in order to mimic it to a realistic effect.… -
Re: Futuristic japonese tower
Welcome to polycount! I wouldn't concern yourself too much at this point with what is "next-gen", and what isn't, you need to understand the basics of 3d modeling for games, and design. First of all, do you have a reference, or this this just coming out of your head? While I can see what your attempting, stylistically,… -
Re: marvelous designer 2
thanks Vailias. yea the tools is definitely very intuitive at least in my opinion. the couple examples i posted above were done in matter of hours. anything you can imagine you should be easily able to replicate, you just have to think in fabric seams and cutting patterns. think of it as reverse engineering UV shells into… -
Re: Dock Explosion - Sherlock Holmes VFX
Heya thanks for the replys. I do admit that the smoke trail on the debris is the worse effect in the scene, it's one I definitely want to improve on (without a bad performance hit). I was thinking possibly ribbons??? Who knows :D As for coots7 questions about the UV coords, I know raw HLSL handles about 7 fine, there is an… -
Re: Having Computer Problems
I was using UDK last night for about 2 hours and it never crashed on me. I tried replicating all the situations in which its crashed with before in the past and it worked just fine this time. I think it must of been that extra stick of RAM. I'll keep all the other info too just in case I ever run into other issues that… -
Re: How far someone can go without drawing skill as character modeler?
I don't think anyone has a problem with the idea of reverse engineering. It's just that "not even needing to learn anatomy" and instead focusing on being able to replicate the exterior surface quality of an existing model seems like strange advice. I personally think that modeling the human form that way can lead to… -
Re: udk not reading secondary uv channel?
@underfox Ya that's what I meant by "I'm not gonna get it perfect, since for that to happen they need to be welded on the lightmap UV's and that's not really logistically feasible in this case" :) That is to say, each of the longer support beams adjacent to the short bit constitutes its own modular asset, and then the…
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