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Re: [QUESTION] Is there a better way to do this?
It's a bit difficult to tell from the viewport screenshots you posted but it looks like you've actually modeled each leaf with a 4 quad plane which means that every leaf you have is 8 triangles. This is a pretty inefficient way of handling the leaves, you'll generally want to have more leaves on each alpha card, and the… -
Re: The Photoshop color curve in HLSL?
So, if anyone's interested, I found a solution. This is glsl but can easily be translated to hlsl. Basically, open a random photo in PS, use the color curve to fit your preferences and save the curve out as a .acv file. Open the .acv file in PS, apply it to an empty image (256x1px or 256x256)and save it out as a format… -
Re: My Struggles As A 3D Artist
Hey, ng.aniki. Well, have to admit I am speaking on a very bad day and letting it all out, heh. The intention of the statment was my flexibility. Really, if I had said I was gunning for one specific role, people would tell me to compromise and aim lower. Confidence, in a professional setting, I have no problem with. Even… -
Re: UDK/Ddo Lighting Problem
I'm sorry, but that is still backwards. Just because some people are still handling their textures that way, doesn't mean it's the correct way of doing things. That procedure is typical of ad-hock lighting models. If you are using a normalized specular model (which you should), then your specular map is going to represent… -
Re: How do YOU give feedback?
Actually, there is a way to give proper concrit for stylistic choices... But it involves finding similar styles and digging into the philosophical grounding of a style(yes, yes, put on your monocles). For example, if someone does a handpainted model, we can analyse the style and assume it's inspired by looney tunes, or by… -
Re: Which one to choose ? Modeler, texture artist, or a digital artist ?
If you want to be just a texture artist (and I could be totally wrong here), but I think that's more a film thing (I often see roles for texture artists come up for D-Neg for example). However you do get a few game studios that have positions for just texturing/shaders like Naughty… -
Re: normal maps, i have never made one right.
I think a solid workflow helped me a lot. It's real headache to work around problems when it takes you a few minutes just to prepare and bake everything. For example xnormal is a good app because you can prepare all the settings once, and then it's just one click to do bakes. (even if you change those models) From modo I… -
Re: Character art - The World of Lexica
BagelHero: thanks very much! erroldynamic: thank you! JadeEyePanda: because the game combines so many different cultures from literature throughout the world, there was no one set of reference really. It totally depended on the book character. For Baba Yaga, for example, she comes from Russian literature, so much was… -
Re: Film Sh*t!!
This is a phenomenon that I'd like to address, especially since it seems to come up often in these types of discussions. There are some movies that manage to achieve a certain "camp" quality. They are bad, and they know they are bad, and they revel in it. By embracing their lack of polish, they actually succeed in going… -
Re: number of bones in character rig
It depends of the game. A game using a third person view will need a certain amount of bones while a top-down shooter will probably need less simply because the camera is not located at the same distance. A fight game (such as Street Fighter for example) needs a lot more bones because animations are in the core of the…
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