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the ESCAPE: a Polycount Challenge.
Finally! We are extremely happy to announce to you our next video game art challenge here at Polycount: the Escape In many ways this challenge will be an experiment for us; Usually we have very tight-knit rules & specifications for our contests and a very specific theme. This time around we wanted to offer you guys a… -
Re: 3D environment Portfolio piece
Development Second Piece (Speedtree) My second Project is the integration of Speedtree into my workflow. Using the software to produce the bulk of my foliage and just getting used to the industry standard Software altogether. Planning: My research regarding the scene began with getting to know the region i am designing the… -
Re: turboTools v1
I hope you don't mind but here are some code snippets for tools I use frequently and collected or wrote over the years. * single click turbo smooth swap (on \ off)function switch_turbosmooth obj=( for o in obj do if superclassof o == geometryClass do ( for mod in o.modifiers where classof mod == turbosmooth do( if… -
Re: First Macro, please help!
@ vig: You have no idea how much help you have been.seriously. thank you very much :) Oh and you edited the post later? :D Sweeet. Ill be sure to read it once i up this post and my throbbing err.headache subsides:) UPDATES THANKS TO VIG Btw,some of the things addressed would/should definitely be similar to what you posted.… -
[MAX] VRay and Lightmap generation storing "Shadow info" on alpha channel
So this 3D engine I'm using(and I can't change the tech sadly) seems to use lightmaps(just simple 2D dds textures which are mapped to the second UV channel in geometry) in quite a particular way for large chunks of terrain. It seems to read the alpha channel from the lightmap and use it as a multiplier to the lighting… -
Informative Conversation about Landscapes and UE4
Hey everyone, the other day I had a really interesting and informative conversation with someone on the UE4 Devs facebook page about landscapes and I learned alot of things that I was pretty fuzzy about before that point, so I thought I'd share the conversation with you all to help spread some of this seemingly rare… -
3D Artist Rant, Time to drop it and move on?
Firstly I will admit that I want to be anonymous as I dont really want to earn myself any sort of reputation in the games industry that may further hinder my chances at work by being a negative person as I about to make the following rant. I want to know what people think of my situation and if I should stick to 3D for… -
Re: [MAYA HELP!!!] Rendering and Lights for Demo reel?
Ok, I'll do 2 posts here. This is a noobtastic GI light dome but it works. I've got another one on my work machine I can show you on Monday if this doesn't work. It's real similar though. Paste this in the script editor and hit enter: //PrerenderPyramid v0.7 - (c) Dmitry "Troydm" Geurkov int $lights; float $intensity;… -
SDK Master Thread
SDK Master Thread What this thread's for Over the years the Polycount community has created and released many SDKs for people to practice and enhance their skills through. But they have been spread out, thrown across many threads and posts, making it difficult to know what was available. This thread aims to amass them all… -
Re: CryEngine 3 Master Thread
Here's a list of Tutorials that I've compiled. There mainly from Bookmarks that I have collected over the years. I have some more Bookmarked somewhere, that are on a backup, mostly SE2/CE2. A few of them are for Sandbox 2/Cryengine 2, a lot of them still apply to the new Cryengine 3 as far as i can see. Official Docs…
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