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Re: Issue with baking my normal map
If for some reason you still want to get rid of unnecessary loops. For example in case of mobile game or if your game show first lod on replays and cut scenes only. You still can manipulate the normals responsible for shading "corners" directly . Sometimes it's enough just copy normal from a vertex outside the hole to one… -
Re: Should I practice with triangles if I want to work in games industry?
Modeling is one chapter. Quite a few polygon modeling tools in nearly all 3d modeling software requires quad topology to work. Edgeloop selection for example does not work well with tris or n-gons. So that's the thing that you need to learn first. Modeling with a useful topology. And there are plenty ways to achieve this.… -
Re: Advice & Critique for kitchen props scene
Grats on finishing a new folio piece! The above posters have given some great advice. I recently finished a scene where I had several camera shots similar to yours. Where it was a bunch of props laid out on a table. These were the techniques that helped me push more story telling into my shots and hope they can also help… -
[UE3] "Remember Me" Lighting breakdown
Hi polycounters, I have been working as a lighting artist on the game Remember Me published by capcom and released in june this year, and I was willing to share to screenshots showing the different passes that compose an image in our game. We don't see much pure lighting threads on the forum and I think it is kind of… -
Need some Advice on my Presentation
Hey Everyone. So I'm working on a presentation to present at a local convention like anime, sci-fi, games, an overall general convention of entertainment. I wanted to give a presentation at one of them about being a Game Developer and Animator for those who have an interest in the Game Industry. The audience would range… -
3D Game Textures - Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop
So I bought this book because I heard a lot of good things about it. To tell you the truth, the example steps taken are incomplete with missing information and is filled vague steps that are left for interpretation. I'll post the one Amazon book review that really struck a chord with me: "In contrast to the glowing reviews… -
Re: Older work and its impact on the hiring process.
... I must say you have an uncanny ability to take an example used to illustrate a concept (like here the example of modeling and UV skills) and misinterpret it as some kind of absolute statement :D *Of course* there are pipelines that don't involve manual retopo and UVs. My point is, *IF* I am looking for someone to do… -
Re: Combine High Poly Bake & Trimsheet ?
An Atlas texture is a file with all the textures in it. For example the albedo. If you want to use trimsheets you just need to do the UVs over the image. Is compatible, you could do an Atlas of the trimsheets. In that image what is reusing is the geometry (albedo, normal and everything) of a wooden plank or a log. You can… -
Re: explain it to me like I am 5, what is a floating point render engine
Disclaimer: While I'm a programmer, I haven't written a "proper" render engine. Some of what I say is from my own experience, and therefore may be less than 100% true. With that said... First off, one thing that we should be clear on with half/float/doubles are approximations of decimal numbers. Computers don't really have… -
Re: Portfolio feedback
hey, well, in essence your work is great. From a technical point of view everything is done properly as far as I can tell. You acquired the mechanical skills .... but your work is lacking some kind of WOW effect. Every image I look at I´m getting the feeling its either not finished or it was done quickly. Maybe create…
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