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Necessary budget for building a PC to become a 3D Game Character Artist
Hi. I'm planning on working in the game industry as a 3D Character Artist (it could be AA, AAA or indie, though I'm focusing on stylized characters so maybe AAA is off limits). I'm currently on my way to finishing my first decent-quality character for my portfolio. My current specs are: - Motherboard: ASUS H170I-PRO- CPU:… -
Re: High quality AO maps ?
Mental Ray AO has very few settings and they're only found in the RTT window. MRAO doesn't factor in things like materials or lighting, its straight up proximity and angles between geometry. So the skylight and the materials you added was just pointless and you can stop trying to tweak that stuff. You have three options:… -
Re: Arrrr, the piracy poll!
Short version; It's all about the price/value to hour ratio. If I had the money I would pay for everything. It all comes down to how much value I get, how much it costs versus how many hours I will use it. For example, if you compare Autodesks subscription of 3Ds max versus Unreal Engine 4 (vastly different programs, but I… -
Re: SmessierDumps - Character Art
Check out more renders and info at http://smessierobjects.com/folio/furiosafan/. Here's a fan art game character of Charlize Theron's character Furiosa from the film Mad Max: Fury Road. I've worked on and off on her for the past few months, applying new techniques learned from ongoing freelance projects this year toward… -
Re: Trouble with exporting TF2 model, dem bones.
I'm not entirely certain that we are talking apples to apples. I'm not suggesting to make several separate models. The methods above will all output a single model with one bodypart, one batch, one VMT. The SMDs look almost identical accept that the skinned SMDs have more bone nodes. The compiler prunes the unused bones… -
Water and sea problem
Hi friends! I hope to be able to explain my GREAT problem with substance painter. I'm creating a TEST SCENARIO for DIORAMA, a mesh is the bottom. Above is another mesh that is the sea.I set it as a water material METAL ROUGHT WITH ALPHA BLENDING. Added to the OPACITY texture set. BUT I can't give transparency to water. If… -
Re: "Unpaid crunch deserves no sympathy"
1-2 months of crunch in a year is not that bad, but nobody is complaining about 1-2 months of crunch, they are complaining about significantly more than that. e: Pachter, as an analyst, is essentially the financial sector equivalent of the 'enthusiast press' and is buying the regular line that gamers hear about the game… -
Re: As a tech artist what is python scripting used for?
Learn python if you are interested in Tech Art-ing. It's used for scripting in Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, MotionBuilder, and Modo. Probably more. Most programs support multiple languages. But Python is the common one. There are different types of tech artists. Some are mixed or do everything. 1. Tech Animator - Does rigging… -
Re: help with uv channel cleanup script
O is just a variable, you could use X or P or JANK if you wanted to. It means anytime you find this variable insert the thing this "for loop" is currently working on, in this case the things its working on are "CleaningObjects". Outsourced art... the shit you have do to get it running is amazing... They probably just click… -
Re: Help with advanced HL2 collision mesh
As Vailias said, you shouldn't have holes in the pieces of your collision model, you'll want every piece textured as well. If you're using Max each piece of the collision model has to have a seperate smoothing group assigned to it, so piece 1 will have SG 1, piece 2 will have SG 2, etc... If you're using Maya it does it a…
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