Well you're right, my professional experience is all open-world stuff, so it's usually a question of 'does it even need a normal/spec map?' rather than whether it needs a color spec map or not. I do have a personal interest in this stuff though, and I try to keep myself up-to-date on what other people are doing. Always up…
@Zwebbie I'm not planning to write about "stereotypes are bad blah blah", the aim of the paper is to show examples of stereotypes and the get the perspective views of gamers and designers and whether there is a reasoning behind the inclusion of these stereotypes and whether they effect the gamers outlook of the game. I…
Wow these are really cool! Love the stylization on these, and the mix of 3d and lighting with hand-painted details. I would love to see more thoughtful attention to variable line widths. You have some different widths, but each line is the same width along its length. Here's a nice example of how variable line weights…
There's a couple ways you can approach this and it depends on whether or not the overall surface is curved or flat. #1: the issue is there's an uneven or unmatched number of segments between the inside and outside shapes. #2: use less geometry on the outside radius and match the number of segments on the inside radius. #3:…
There is a very fast workflow in Blender to simulate smooth intersections of booleans by using offset cut. It does not create nice geometry, but it works visually. Is there any sort of script that can replicate something like this in 3dsmax? If I export meshes that have a Meshmachine offset-cut from Blender to 3dsmax the…
It says it's scanned, so it's from a real surface. Here's their preview render: Could be replicated with a Cellular or Voronoi pattern, using varying cell sizes. For…
you could break up the UV's into islands with the boundaries as the edges you want rounded.... export as obj load into this tool then using the element mask in photoshop ..... add a gaussian blur and use the nvidia plugin to convert to a normal map..... for example a simple box uv elements (just each side)... guassian @…