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Thread of Inspiration
How do we not have one of these yet? I always find sharing and talking about ideas can be just as inspiration as pretty pictures, so please do both. Feel free to include anything from stories and books to model toys to wikipedia articles or traditional art and real photos. Anything that inspires you as an artist is fair… -
Re: Seeking Professional Advice
Arch-viz was a relatively easy field to get into, so I think that's why I chose it to begin with. I was pretty lazy back then. It was the easiest route, so I chose it, and stuck with it because of that. It was always something that just paid the bills though, I never really took pride in my work. Except on occasion, when I… -
Re: Why is the game industry model broken?
The management running them are fools who don't have the pay the price if the studio goes under. The hubris of the industry that thinks you need a mega studio. Yet, forget how much it actually costs to run one of them in terms of heating, AC, power, upkeep, etc. If you can afford it, then awesome. But far too many studios… -
Re: First post, first try at hand-painting
Looking good so far! As for the grass, I feel your pain....I've tried doing hand painted grass textures dozens of times, scrapping each one. Unfortunately, I think the only way to make a convincing flat grass texture is to have very rough generic brush strokes. Check out Diablo 3:… -
Re: Why use underescores for naming things in 3d industry?
An interesting note you bring up regarding Python and C based languages. I've seen the same thing, particularly with Autodesk code. 99% of all Mel scripts and even their python code utilizes camelCase for variables and functions. What's interesting is that this is counter to PEP8 guidelines (no camelCase for either, only… -
Re: War Torn Town
Are you thinking WW2 war torn? Because typically before any street fighting started, the area was bombed and shelled to death. Then tanks typically went through buildings instead of down the street where traps where set. Then as whoever was driven out of the city they shelled and bombed it trying to slow down or retake the… -
Re: Sci-Fi Assault Rifle - Constructive Crits [Year 2 University]
you should create a fully subdivided model to bake onto your low poly so that your model doesn't have these unnaturally sharp edges. Without a proper bake, the model is going to look very primitive like a ps1 game. You should always keep up reference for the material you're texturing. Just open up google images and type… -
Re: 3dsmax xref question
xrefs... hold on, I kinda threw up a little thinking about them again. Is there any particular reason you really need to use xrefs? I've had nothing but problems with them every time I tried to use them, things would work long enough to lure me in but then something would inventively go off the rails.* Perfectly good… -
Re: Bent Normal baking
New versions of UE4 are also using bent normals for better AO and for reflection occlusion... Here is the link: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/LightingAndShadows/BentNormalMaps/ And I've got a similar question... Is it possible to generate bent normals using tangent space normal map and a low… -
Re: Unreal3 TOON Shader Network Creation?
*changed some of the text, didn't want to sound offensiv or arrogant* what goes in the param2d in the ramp part should be more than obvious :O the ramp, the texture you use to change the shading, i added a sample picture above the arrow :)http://polyphobia.de/public/tutorials/TF2shading/003.jpg What exactly don't you…
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