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Re: Florida schools - my goals
school is important idk where other people are saying. not looking for a debate. i was faced with the same question and i made the right decision to go. do a few years of community college getting fundamentals out of the way. then apply and finish your degree at a game school. i can recommend full sail, some of the art… -
Re: which is more important polygonal or sculpting skills?
Depends a bit on specific discipline, if you're mainly a character artist, doing current-next gen work, you won't survive without good sculpting skills. On the other hand, if you're doing props and hard surface stuff, weapons, vehicles, etc, sculpting is usually much less of a requirement, not to say it isn't necessary or… -
Re: Cannon Scene
I don't know about this holding up as a FPS or 3rd person style asset with the player/camera getting up close to it. But as a next gen RTS asset? So awesome. It holds up really well at the pulled back shots you have. When you get closer the details aren't there in the textures or sculpt. Not knocking it. Cause this is… -
Re: [Portfolio] Scott Homer - Environment Artist
Wow Scott you are so good! I'm currently starting my first next gen dinosaur model and I have yet to get the whole idea of a spec map. I know that some people like to do a normal grayscale from their diffuse, but I heard that you are suppose to to an inverse of the diffuse so you can neutralize it when light is reflected… -
Re: New to Building / Enviroment Modeling. Looking for some advice
For current standards, learn about PBR. Quixel and Allegorithmic both have great tools for generating PBR maps. We have a good PBR page on the wiki to get you started. Also learn Zbrush. A sculpting tool is really essential for generating current-gen assets. You'll need a normal-mapped asset to get the most out of those… -
Re: Mudbox 2014
what i would do in that case is what i would do with scans that are to big to deal with. first decimate all your pieces so they are light weight then merge all the pieces and resurf. you can then uv and pull maps as normal on your cage. edit: the decimation step is alway a good idea because it speeds up mesh gen and any… -
Re: Pixexix - projection texturing tool
Very solid program! Useful and simple a the same time. Many guys still use an archaic Deep Paint because of it's projection painting feature. This program is a good and very nice alternative to paint a model via projections. BTW it would be really great to have an ability to paint normal mapped objects - it's really very… -
Re: Spec-Ops Helmet [Detail Study] (Image Heavy)
@Gazu thanks @Mossbros thanks, that's a great idea. I am planning to make this low poly, so performance is somewhat of an issue, but since this is going to be "next-gen" whatever that means atm, I could probably afford some extra detail on the velcro. Maybe this method they used for the mossy rocks in "Ryse" could give… -
Re: AK-74M and adventures in dynamesh
Yup! So was attempting a practice I've used for next gen consoles by having the sights being their own 1k texture, but wasn't really thinking since I realized later the AK sights are super basic and a good distance from the camera and wouldn't really take full advantage of their own sheet. But what's done is done. So it's… -
Re: Layoffs hit EA, company 'not disclosing specific teams impacted'
No one is making any money anymore. Console and PC sales are continuing to drop quarter after quarter. Studios are closing down left and right. Games in general or becoming super high risk for publishers to invest in with astronomical development and marketing cost, which is only going to increase with the introduction…
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