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Re: Halo 4 Battle Rifle (WIP)
sexy bake! i'm jealous. What texture resolution are you at? I'm currently struggling a bit with baking normals with hard surface stuff. Glad you were able to figure things out, looks amazing. I'll have to re-read the polycount wiki, although I'm using Modo for baking and seems like a lot of the wiki is 3Ds Max related and… -
Re: Sketchbook: DavePhipps
Things so far are looking pretty soft, lacking distinction of form. You need to start thinking of things in planes, as a collection of surfaces. Polycount is one of the best places to learn this (at least, for me it has been), because folks here are constantly showing work that essentially breaks down the middle steps of… -
Re: What keeps you going?
thanks dustinbrown, that really was the kick in my ass that i needed and it really does help hearing it from someone else. I think part of my problem is that i don't have many other people to talk to about 3D topics like i can here, but at the same time while i love polycount and all it's users, i feel like shit asking so… -
Re: M207 .307 Futuristic Pistol
On first sight, it looks pretty descent. Clean presentation and stuff. There's a lot of space for improvement however,as Nerf Bat Ninja mentioned above. The polycount (we prefer tricount), could probably be halved - if not more, by removing unnecessary edgeloops (see image). Those will have to be fixed by you, not by 3Ds… -
Re: Upgrading graphics card for using marmoset and udk
Yeah, there should be no reason why it wouldn't work with your Xeon's. A GTX780 is going to give you really good performance in Toolbag 2, even with all the fancy stuff enabled. Should also give you very good performance in UDK as well. The only thing to note really with geforce/raedon cards vs firegl/quadros is that most… -
Re: Connect tool from Max in Maya?
ok here is a lesson for the superior and exclusive community of polycount when dealing with a newcomer to the forums in a situation like this, pretend that this the first reply to the tread and all the other buggery had not happened. "hey tulk welcome to the boards, i myself rarely use maya so i don't really know any tips,… -
Re: Art subject choices: fictional vs existing
Rens: So you think making something fictional makes it impossible to find fault with? I couldn't disagree more. You study existing things for inspiration and grounding in reality, and saying 'okay it looks like shit, but it's meant to' has never really worked well at Polycount. Recreating existing things shows that you're… -
Re: WOW fanart - Orc Warrior
didn't expect him to be so blocky. IMO you did a very good job at balancing out the scale of detail between the model and texture (with texture having the most weight obviously). Can't even tell in the textured renders how the organic shapes actually look in 3D, good job :) I do see a few places in the wires where it seems… -
Re: Help me to improve...
What is there to think about? Also, why do you want to close the thread...? Seriously; less thinking, more doing! Action beats out thought EVERY time when you know what you are working towards. You should also probably double the polycounts on everything 3D in your portfolio, and also double all the texture resolutions.… -
Re: WTF?
Give it a whirl for the next week and come back here to let me know if you still hate it. I expect nothing less than reactionary posts from folks who first see the change (Polycount: We Hate Change™, etc.) so telling me 'i hate it!' won't do much. If, come next Friday, people still aren't used to dropping their mouse 300…
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