Eric Gooch recently posted examples of his level lighting work on Resistance: Fall of Man. http://www.cybergooch.com/tutorials/pages/lighting_rfom1.htm I like the presentation, rollovers. The lighting is too monochromatic for my taste, but nonetheless it's fun to look at. Haven't read all the text yet, looking forward to…
This is really overkill for a game but I can't really suggest much (detached handle example) without knowing the type of game and how you wanted to use the mug but as it stands I'd argue it's even overkill for a movie prop If it's a hero object in a first person game (like a gun in call of duty) then you want higher poly…
Posting this here specifically because Polycount's audience cares about pipeline more than novelty, and that's the actual use case I built this for. Context I run Anvil Interactive Solutions — we ship Blender/UE5/Unity tooling (Quadify line, BlendUnreal, BlendUnity, a few others). BlenderMCP Pro came out of needing to do…
Sounds like you might be using 3ds max. This tutorial should help you get started. http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/bk-coffeehouse/tut-max-mapping.shtml More info about the various 3ds max UVW tools here. http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html As for UV-ing heads, BoBo the seal seems to be pretty…
Lots of youtube tutorials on this, search "game vfx portal tutorial" for example: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/dBj6/unreal-engine-create-stunning-portal-effect-vfx-with-niagara-particles-complete-tutorial
Hi there I work for a university and we're looking to create a 10m x 5m physical space to showcase our VR Vive learning resource examples that we've created for our academics to try out. I was wondering how other's setup their rooms for demos including things like where do you keep you hardware in relation to the room (eg…
You could improve the spout and the base by adding more edges. The topology for a lowpoly mesh does not need to be a regular distribution like a cylinder... instead you can add and subtract edges to improve curvature. See examples on our wiki: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Limb_Topology…
Hey this is a great start. The iron looks good so far, but the gold is not reading as metallic. It might help to examine other handpainted examples to see what tricks you could use to make it more like gold or brass. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nvobX Also look around for examples of how to hand-paint crystal…
If you would like to learn about making buildings for games, you could try the "trim sheet" approach. This is very common in games, because it is very efficient. https://medium.com/@legacykraft/trim-sheet-detailed-breakdown-bd35c78d16c3 Basically, you create a texture first, then you create meshes for small repeatable…