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Re: Study: The cause of originality and visual thinking
1. What was your favorite class in High School? D. None/Other (Graphic Arts/Woodshop). Classes my friends were in greatly effected what classes I liked, even if I hated the class itself. 2. What was your least favorite class in High School? D. English and Math. 3. Do you have a higher education? B. Yes! College. 4. How do… -
Re: Complete workflow question, starting in Zbrush.
How you do it all really depends on your software of choice. Here is my general high-to-low work flow: 1. High poly in ZBrush 2. Retopologize in ZBrush 3. Project All, Subdivide, repeat until all details transfer. This creates a high poly with edge flow based on your low poly model 4. GoZ to Maya and Unwrap (make a cage if… -
Re: Learning Diary: Character Sculpting in Zbrush
I have several guidelines I repeat to myself every so often when working on a new head. 1. Check General proportions, and am I deviating from them on purpose? 2. Decide on the age of the subject and check for consistency among the features concurrent with the age 3. Check if the anatomy is plausible, starting with the… -
Re: Cry Engine VS UE4 VS Marmoset Toolbag
I imagine a level designer's portfolio would focus on different things. It's more about game play - making the level fun for players to explore, creating puzzles the players need to solve, etc. Probably has less to do with art. I may be wrong but I remember watching God of War 2 behind scene DVD and the level designers'… -
Re: Render-to-texture alpha transparency / Marmoset issue
If you're using the old Marmoset, you need to: 1. Place the opacity map (Black is transparent, white is opaque) in the alpha channel of your diffuse texture and save it as a 32bit TGA. 2. Change the Blend Mode of the material to something other than "None", most likely "Alpha" will work best. 3. Uncheck "alpha testing" in… -
Re: Alpha problem in Maya
[ QUOTE ] That was a pretty vague question and now the links are broken to the images. Can we get some more info? 1. What version of Maya are you using? 2. Is this a problem in the render or the hardware view? 3. Are you using high quality rendering? 4. What format is your texture, tga, psd? 5. What exactly is the effect… -
Re: Seattle/Vancouver folks...
For Seattle, I've got a couple of tour packages that I like to take visitors on. Tour Package A (classic sites): 1. Pike Place Market 2. Pioneer Square (Coffe shops, art galleries, bookshops) 3. Underground Tour (quite entertaining, even for locals( 4. Space Needle/Seattle Center (IMAX theater if you're interested) 5. At… -
Re: 3ds Max render to texture dots
I ran into this before and I can't quite remember how I manged to get around it. I think it comes from baking a defuse you previously baked into a shell material. Click on an empty slot in the material editor, and use the eye dropper to sample the material. If its a shell material drag out the original material or setup… -
Re: XSI+ZB+PS pipeline viability question
[ QUOTE ] 1. can XSI do it well?? 2. can you render them down to lowpoly cage? 3. does it come with decent animation tools??) 4. would it be viable pipeline? 5. whats the deal with XSI not allowing free camera rotation while modeling? [/ QUOTE ] 1. Yes. I'd recommend version 5 tho, they seem to have improved it. 2. Yes,… -
Re: Xbox 360: Error E74
I got the E74 error just after Christmas, and 2 weeks after the 1 year warranty was up. Nice timing for the 360 to crap out. Well I can tell you it wasn't the AV cables as running either component, or HDMI resulted in the same error. It did however work after the first time I got the error. Worked for 2 minutes and the…
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