I'm looking for some general advice, and you seem like the people best-able to help. I'm fairly new to the UDK, but I do have experience with several other 3D engines, with Flash/Actionscript, and with OOP. One of the most difficult things about teaching myself the UDK toolset is that I don't really have a sense of the…
Greetings, I have been doing some 3D sci-fi character concepting work
using the subdivide/turbosmooth modifier with smoothing group separation. It has been pretty handy at getting quick
mock-ups done. I like having the ability
to unwrap the lowpoly and sketch out some surface details for a quick and
non-destructive…
Hi everyone! I'm finally trying to take a step back, and get a professional / complete mindset on my entire workflow to be a little bit more profesisonal in my work. I've always had some holes in my knowledge for 3d, so I'm trying to clear those up. Retopologizing: How do you do more hard surface retopology? There's a few…
Bitcasters Inc. in Toronto is seeking a talented young web designer to produce an interactive website for a game that is to be distributed free to kids. The website will be used by thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of youth across the country. This is a non-profit project in partnership with the Canadian…
Like this for example: The only way I can see to make something like this is manually by making a lot of boxes and filling each one. There has to be a quicker way, right? There are some palette generators online but they only produce a handful at a time and seem geared towards home decor. I'd like to be able to designate a…
Hey guys! First post on polycount! I Wanted to share this piece, I hope you like it! Introduction I love games like Dead Island or Requisition VR. For this portfolio piece I wanted to get inspired by the crafty, impossible yet believable weapon designs of these games. What better than C4 attached to something like a…
So following on from my AMA post a while back a lot of Polycounters have contacted me and asked for folio critiques. Most of those asking for help were students or graduates and there were a lot of similar problems with their current folio. So, I thought I’d take some time to share some insights here. The purpose of a…
You're right, I should add that we're developing it actively and currently use it at our studio for 2+ years now. While we were building it to improve our pipeline internally, we realized it's this is also problem a handful of other Artists and Studios had so we spun it off into an open source project of its own. The…
Can you post a shaded wireframe of the model? For example: https://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions#make
Hey all, I was wondering if there are any comprehensive guides on creating game level environments from start to finish? I'm pretty brand new to the subject and it's techniques. Here's some examples of the kind of environments I'm hoping to make,…