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Re: Give yourself advice ten years ago
I would have said, pick up lightwave, even though its interface is strange, oh and spend the cash get that quake model setup program for LW and do something with it, forget the film industry, games are where its at for you. Get your drawing skills in order, take more time! -
Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | July - August (67)
Been a while, some shots from my scene: Scattered leaves, grass assets and decals are from megascans, textures mostly from textures.com, @Lairelosse I've been strugling a lot with lighting artifacts in general, I started to make lightmaps UVs in modeling software and import them instead of generating in engine, it seems to… -
Re: Modeling log cabins!?
Hi, I think your modular mesh parts are broadly good.For the texturing/uv-ing i recommend to make a horizontally tiled textures.Then simply uv the model to this, with merging the different parts together on the different sides on the uv's. And then you can create a second uv channel for lightmaps and to bake a continuous… -
Re: abandoned hospital scene
This project is not dead :) . After a long break i found some time to build my laboratory scene. Here is the first Screenshot from my little scene rendered in the ue4 engine. In the moment they are no lightmaps, its only a preview with postprocessing. I must show you this first preview because im very happy about this… -
Re: need some help with sprite eye / expression techniques
Multiple uv channels are also a hit, because they bloat the vertex size in memory. Plus depending on the renderer, each UV can cause a separate batch of vertices to be sent to the GPU. Having said that, it's still a common strategy to use 2 UVs, one for tiling, the other for lightmapping. Just avoid going crazy with UV… -
Re: UV layout for games
Depends of your object : it's an important object ? Does it need several different diffuse ? Show it, you can't decide what to do without determining what is the purpose of the object (quest object or just a decoration ?). In your case, I guess the best optimized case would be the 256 UV overlapped + the lightmap like your… -
Re: [UE4] Mass Effect Corridor WIP
^Ya I'm assuming the SSAO/lightmap AO present in UE only picks up geometry and not stuff that's in normal maps. Unless I'm mistaking and they made it like marmoset where the SSAO actually does react to normal details. Either way I'd still bake an AO map, if only to remember where to place dirt and stuff. -
Re: [UDK] Forest
Looking much better! I'd say enabling something like SSAO or some good lightmaps might complete it. That last pic is approaching excellent. The water still looks rather bland, perhaps its just lacking the effects one would expect. Refraction and some sort of reflection might make it look a lot better. -
Re: Medieval? Home Interior [contains images]
I think it looks good, appart from the very obvious crazybumping. but i feel that you can make a better preview out of it. I get the feeling that its something wrong; and i realized there was no lightmapping, or even the slightest AO mapping. Try taking the scene in to the UDK and light it proper, it will look 40 times… -
Re: Cosmonautica - 3D work
Thank you all! Glad you like it! Here's a 'quick and dirty' kitchen breakdown with a fancy blue glow header! If you have any specific questions about the workflow, please feel free to ask! Modeling/Unwrapping/Lighting: 3dsmax2012/Vray 1.5 Used Textures: Diffuse 512x512 / Lightmap 256x256. Trianglecount: ~2900
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