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Re: 3dsMax Normal Projection Trick?
Yes, this technique has been in practise for as long as normal-mapping has been around in games. If you looked at some of the source highpolys for Doom3's textures (made in Lightwave), they were stacked up a good 10-20 units out from each other and rendered as a flat normalmap using "renderbumpFlat" in Doom3. -
Re: Spider Tank
Option: Modeled in lightwave in sub-patches and rendered in max. PM me your email address and ill send you the .lwo if you're interested in seeing the mesh. Sectaurs: If i wanted to make the gun any bigger it really messes up the balance, and i dont want to redo the way it pivots on the back like that. -
Re: pimp your oldest stuff
my first lightwave animations. the detailed models i didnt make lol! this stuff is 98-99 stuff. http://www.planetgargoyle.com/vid/FixedKilltheborg.AVI http://www.planetgargoyle.com/vid/BattleTest.AVI http://www.planetgargoyle.com/vid/HoverCar.avi (omg original modeling work) and my very first venture into 3dsmax… -
Large non-modular buildings?
im working on a big environment that has one building that’s unique. Meaning it won’t be used again throughout the game. What’s the best way to go about this? Should I make it one big mesh and split it into sections for lightmap purposes? The building is pretty big, with a lot of unique pieces that can’t really be modular… -
Tiller wharf
Started this forever ago, it's time to finish it. Based on a painting by my hero, Bill Tiller, that was used as a background in Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island. Quick and dirty lighting pass, using UDK's built-in lightmap unwrapping. Wireframe with crappy placeholder textures/mapping. Camera matching concept art is hell. I… -
Re: [Sorted] Interior Environment/Texture query
1. You don't need to make the walls 'modular' per se, but its definitely a good idea to make each wall a separate mesh - physics load is lighter, and you'll get better lightmaps 2. That's a question for the art director, but since its a portfolio piece, you'll have to make a judgement call. Good luck :) -
Re: [UE4] Palace Ballroom Scene
Neat, though the lighting is a bit, dark? How many bounces do you have setup (they don't cost much, just set it to like a twenty) and do you have any lightmapping ambient occlusion? Always found that to be a tempting, but ugly option that's not longer needed, just overdarkens corners and the whole image without adding much. -
Re: Dante's Inferno demo!
Thought the graphics were ok, but you can see the comprimise of going 60fps on a console, no normal maps on the environment, low quality shaders, but i think the combat makes up for it imo. Also if this is using the same engine as Dead Space, then replacing its deferred rendering with whats looks like baked lightmaps was a… -
Re: Opensubdiv. What do you think?
The catmull-clark algorithm itself is not patented. Blender, modo, and lightwave have been using it for ages. OpenSubdiv is the implementation of subdivision that also happens to use the same algorithm. OpenSubdiv is coming to blender soon as well Edge creases are a godsend for hard surface modeling. Max users have been… -
Re: Help me buy a new computer for rendering and gaming
Or baking AO, or normals, or baking lightmaps for your level.... I guess it all depends, if you just want something fast for games, the I7 isn't really necessary, but if you want high end baking performance, a good CPU can make a difference. That said i'm still using a Q6600 without much issue.
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