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Re: UDK Lighting: Theory and Practice question
Outer space lighting is difficult because there's not really any commonly agreed on lighting setup, unlike an outdoor scene or an interior scene. My suggestion would be to create a single DominantDirectionalLight (parallel light) facing the direction of the sun with a slightly yellowish/orange color. Then use a very dark,… -
Re: Performance question : multiples materials with custom AO
Anytime you make a new MIC you are creating a new Draw Call. So while the per pixel cost of multiplying AO on top of your mesh is negligible, you are creating some performance cost by having multiple materials. If these are huge meshes, like building size, and they only contain like 3-5 materials it probably won't be so… -
Re: Do all polys have to be connected?
Every single mesh I've made since I started making assets for UDK (I've got quite a collection now), have been all ONE watertight, closed mesh. I thought thats the way it was supposed to be. I mean, if you have parts of a model embedded into OTHER parts of the same model, along with all sorts of overlaps, isn't that going… -
Re: [Portfolio] - Stephen Dalzell - Environment Artist
Your folio is easy to acess and presents you with your work right away, the less clikcs the better. One thing that could have been better, and this is only my opinion is the way you present every peice in the "back to the future" scene. I would like each peice to be shown by itself and taken from the scene because some of… -
Re: 3Ds Max 2012 sneak peek
Starting a program from scratch isn't a realistic development option. For starters, it would take a lot longer than five years. Look at Modo -- over half a decade of steady development and it's missing huge features like character animation. I'm not saying Modo is an inferior program because Luxology has pursued a very… -
Re: MacroUV for Static Mesh
2 options: -In your modelling package add a new UV set that maps the whole mesh in the square(or just use the lightmap uv set if the seams are well placed). Add a "TexCoord" node and set the "Coordinate index" to the uv set you want. (and keep in mind udk starts at 0, in contrary to max wich starts at 1). -Use the world… -
Re: Cover Art Dump
Yea, nreks got the right idea, breaking the flat top silhouette and also breaking up the walls mid level with outcrops will make it look more organic. I would model a modular section that has some more depth variation as it looks way to flat right now, then make some seperate outcrop meshes that you can crash through all… -
Re: texturing a race track
for terrain vertex-blending would definitely be most suited. texture stuff would eat too much memory, and for a race game its sufficient to have vertex accuracy and just spend a few more tris to get good enough vertex blend zones. about decals, the most efficient way would be packing different "grooves" next to each other… -
Re: Real quick tree texturing question
you dont have to use only one material. apart from the fact that you can change the UV channel udk uses on a particular asset to store the lightmaps in you can also use a multi/sub material in max with 2 mat IDs (both materials need to have a bitmap in any slot for them to be exported with the mesh) and then assign two… -
Re: Object Instancing in game engines
Collision and lighting calculations are a couple improvements. Object culling is another big plus for using instancing. Instanced triangles are always better than non-instanced. I can't copy and paste from the UDN as far as Unreal goes, but it is definitely a big improvement. Remember that you will always draw the entire…
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