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Re: Smoothing With Modo
if you're talking only about the stupid and archaic polygon-based "smoothing groups" which I hope no one still uses then IDK. If you're talking about the more logical and practical edge-based smoothing (with the now built in vertex normal toolkit) then yes. The VNTK also gives control of smoothing based on polygon/vert… -
Re: Thoughts about polycount handpainted challenge ?
That escalated quickly haha. You can call me Your highness. JK This isn't going to be monarchy but a galactic senate where each of you have a right to talk. The group is ready, Just add me :) Please Add that you're from polycount when adding me. Skype: LadyOdow (from canada, my avatar will be polycount logo for the next… -
Re: Lights
you should use lightmass, it pre-calculates lighting and bakes it into lightmaps. 400*400tris, instancing, isn't reducing the tris on screen, what instancing is doing is saving you memory. since with 400 instances of the same mesh, the mesh olny needs to be loaded into memory once not 400 times. Amount of AO depends on the… -
Re: Bent Normal baking
If you're talking about the traditional bent normal which contains AO information baked into the normal map, then I'm at a loss. I'd actually be interested to know if that sort of map is still used outside of Valve. If you're talking about xNormal's bent normal, it's exactly the same as a world-space normal map, which can… -
Re: Anyone else asking WHATS GOING ON WITH DW5??
[ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk[/ame] I have to say. I find it quite ridiculous that we cant discuss Dom War like adults. It should be discussed and there should be a place on this forum for people talk about it without being attack for talking about it. If people troll, argue. attack other communities… -
Re: Hair - Planes and Alphas
What do you mean with it does not bend well? Are you talking about the mismatch of the spline vs the polystrip or are you talking about the blockiness of the polystrip itself? If its the latter.. you'll either need to add more polygons, actually texture a bending hair clump or just live with the blockiness. I would go… -
Re: Building contemporary/modern/post rooms using a real-time engine like UDK or Crytek?
I don't get it, what so difficult about those images to recreate in UDK or CE? I mean isn't 70% of what you see about high rez textures with some fancy shaders, and the other 30% about putting your lights in the right places and if optional, baking your lightmaps? Or is there something more I'm not seeing? PS: I'm not… -
Re: How to stay motivated and finish that project!
I am not talking about the specific way the ID bake should be generated (there are plenty of different ways to do it depending on the software) - I am talking about the fact that many artists don't even bother researching it at all, and then end up painting it manually in PS for hours as opposed to taking the 5 minutes… -
Re: DOM WAR IV 'Team Spirit' thread!
hmm me and polyhertz were talking about this the other day, we were mostly talking about just giving each other crap so that the other finishes but this works out nicely to :p might I suggest a modeling buddy, you get stuck in a rut with modeling (much like a paint over) they give a model suggestion over? (proper edge flow… -
Re: iD's official debut trailer for 'Rage'
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Quake Arena on idtech 5??? [/ QUOTE ] Where did you get that part from? QuakeZero seems to be actually a downgrade from Quake3 to make it run in a browser or something mysterious like that [/ QUOTE ] By the sound of it Carmack was talking as though there would be some fundamental improvements over Quake…
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