About the custom edge normals... I tried doing that a little while ago but I got fed up with how often Max would reset them to the default angle if I were to use modifiers, collapse the stack, etc and decided it was really more work than it was worth to set them up. Instead of modifying the edges I just stick a containing…
Materials can be tricky, you should be using a combination of the material settings and spec map to help push your material definition. Typically studios have their own proprietary realtime shaders so there is never "one perfect way" to set everything up. However, you in particular have a benefit that you are working in…
And here's that shooter up there again, in a neat little presentation for the courses I'm following. [ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkF4Mcxr90s"]Elysium Shooter Project[/ame] Disclaimer: This video contains music, weapons, enemies and pickups that I did not make or take any credit for. This is for educational purposes. This…
I liked it pretty well. Most of the ridiculous comedy was hilarious, but the movie could have done without the Dad character entirely. Completely a distraction from the funniness. And speaking of distractions, JESUS CHRIST, THERE ARE SO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS! It's beyond what you actually see in Nascar. The dinner scene, for…
"Thanks for taking the time to check out my resume/portfolio,if you like what you see, I would love to have a quick chat and see if we are a good fit!" @Pixel: Oof, man. That actually feels too casual to me and I don't know if I'm in a position against 2+ year veterans to puff my chest out like that/ Man, this balance…
I finished my tiling scanned material but when I opened up the substance files today I found that a lot of my cloned stroked were replaced with solid white paint strokes. Strangely, not all of the clones strokes are replaced, just some. And this isn't the first time it's happened, it's the third. I thought it was user…
I've found Käy's substances to be a great resource when learning designer, often the graphs contain helpful comments about how things work together. Poke around in the graph, de-construct them. The wood texture could be specifically helpful here I think, to get more realistic knots in the wood and to break up the long…
It looks like you got inspired by just a picture of a swamp, there is your answer for that one. I know it is hard to find small contained environment concepts to work from on the net though like you said- is usually large sweeping scenes. I try looking myself. I guess that is why I need to learn to concept my own stuff at…
There's a very good Help file included in the download ... take a look at the PDF. Also take a look back in this forum a page or so to find a thread with a long title like "normalmap/ambiocc generator" started by Crazybutcher ... it's a very long thread but does contain some tips and ideas too, if the PDF help file doesn't…
At the risk of reducing ad targeting, I'm moving toward an AJAX model that lets you sort through the list of tutorials live. Does this sound like something that would appeal to you guys? I also added a textbox that contains a URL to the slice of the codex you've filtered for. You an bookmark it, or send it along to someone…