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Re: Feudal Japan Environment
Soooo, been looking on refs and trying to find tuts on building mountains but, it seems pretty much non-existent. My impression is that you could do it in 4 ways, either get/make an displacement map, world machine, zbrush it or make modular part and combine them into a mountain. Not sure by how my results would be from… -
Re: combine meshes to continuous mesh
Thank you for all the suggestions! I see the benefit of using macro normals, but I still haven't given up on the idea of one continuous mesh for grout and tiles. I have found a cool script for blender that automatically vertices at the intersection between two meshes. I'm trying to find a way to use that along with clever… -
Re: Side-Scroller Level Design
Limbo. Because it feels very natural and free, unconstrained from things like tile sets or other modular/repetitive things. This is felt in the gameplay itself, where interactive objects (such as the boat) are very well integrated into the game world. It also had well-working parralax layers that didn't feel disconnected,… -
Re: Character Artist switching to Environment Artist?
This is a bit off topic, but you bring up an interesting point. I'm an environment artist, been one my whole career and really have no interest in switching. I find creating generic male A or Female B a tedious and boring part of character art and oddly enough find the tedious parts of environment art still fun. But my… -
Re: [UE4] Vampire Apprentice
July 1st, 2018 Was working on the usual high poly to low poly baking, when it dawned on me. Can just bypass the high poly & bakes & just remap to a trim sheet instead. At least for common assets, and reserve baking for hero props. This should free up some overhead and speed up process. https://youtu.be/dGffytWd4ag… -
Re: From blender to MAX or MAYA??
As mentioned, comes down to personal preference. IMO though, I see Maya more as a organic/freeformish kind of modeling app, and great for rigging and animation. While Max to me seems more like a structural and precise app. Still, both can be used to create modular assets with the same precision and vice versa. And there's… -
Re: Why is everyone using massive PNG files for their shots?
this isn't the best example but its what I have on hand as im working on some modular stuff, the difference in the Jpeg is subtle in this but its still there Jpeg- Hard to notice in this image but the background colour is lightly artifacting http://imgur.com/tKJnpWf -92.8kb No.7 Jpeg, as Recommended here more artifacts… -
Re: Space Marine Miniature
Thanks for the comments guys. aesir: I don't actually remember how many heads tall it is, I started with an old base body and then built on it. I am sure I agonized about it at the time, but yeah, I don't remember. The hands and head are also separately kit bashed so they might be off. Jon Rush: Thanks for the heads up… -
Re: Staying Organized: File Naming Conventions
It's more important that there is a naming convention than what it acutally is. Unbelievably I've worked with people who didn't use one. Something like what billysClint suggested is pretty similar to what I do. However I usually try to avoid having too many subfolders and put all the textures and mesh files for one asset… -
Re: Unreal 3 engine videos ( New content )
I would think that with art assets taking as long as they take to make that there would be a strong need for modular design and level assets that can work in multiple ways or with multiple texture sets. With each art asset taking a valuable amount of time to come to fruition, it would be paramount to design assets that can…
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