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Push FX Textures for nicer VFXs
Hi Polycount! I´m a young GameFX Artist and new at the Industry. I will upgrade my skills for creating VFX Textures. We used a simple GameEngine why i can´t do many with the Shader. Also I will push more over the Texture (and the FX Animation), but i have not really a idea how i can push this Textures. I can use many… -
Re: yet another normalmap tool ? needed or not ?
I just looked into FBX sdk but doesnt mention vertex colors either, wasnt aware that .obj doesnt support it either. another option would be collada, which comes under a more open license than FBX, but still seems a bit of work in progress, also definetely need a format my friend can export from c4d, so far we used our own… -
Re: Particles!!!
it's probably, because there is too much variation in the way particle systems work. take max's superspray and compare to particle flow, thinking particles..., completely different architectures. while a texture is always just some color values, or a mesh some vertices and index lists. the other thing is that particles in… -
VSync testing (mainly on ATI cards)
I've been a longtime lurker on the Polycount boards, and although I have done some 3D work in the past, I'm much more into programming now. Lately I've been programming a gameengine/framework, and I've come across a problem with ATI OpenGL drivers (at least I think). And I'm looking for people to test this a bit for me so… -
Re: Why the big fuzz about PBR?
I think the big "fuzz" about pbr is more about the surounding stuff rather then pbt texture maps themselves. For exemple we can have realtime ssao without much hassle. We have reflection in every material. Wich is a big one. Wich also leads to static/realtime global illumination depending on the engine. For a normal… -
Re: What's missing from modern software?
the problem with effects/particles is that they are extremely specific to an engine. A great deal of engine magic/optimization is streamlining those things. while a model always stays a model (ingames: vertices, primitives, rigg/ some other assigns), effects can consist of so many things, some might need postprocessing,… -
Workflow for ZBrush to Painter (for an Character Artist)
As a beginner you are many many times confronted with the sentence: "To use this 3D "model/character.." us have to lower the polycount so that can be used for a gameengine. One problem is that how to find a good or at least acceptable workflow for ZBrush? Are there so many many different workflows that non of them are… -
Re: aquaboy
Okay some news from the technical side of things. First off a normalmap rerender. It can now be used in any thirdparty viewer since it's the 'classic' tangant space at work here, no Doom3's secret voodoo : Below is a lighting renderpass, can help for easier SDK texturing : I also made some test regarding possible ways to… -
Beleuse Carrier - Mending the pots
Hello everybody, this is my second project trying to learn more about the common used programms and workflows. I'm trying to recreate the picture of beleuse carrier - mending the pots. Here's the reference: I already did the blockout in 3ds Max and one brick wall. When everything is done in 3ds max I want to export it all… -
Re: Autodesk Beast (a.k.a. PLEASE be in the next UDK)
Beast isn't much different to lightmass. It's still lightmap-based lighting. medal of honour uses the geomerics lighting system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite_(game_engine) http://www.geomerics.com/enlighten/ it's not the same as beast or lightmass - it's a completely realtime system for a start.
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