What sltrOlsson mentioned by using wrapmode of 2 can be useful for a couple reasons. Sometimes when working on the edges of a texture that is supposed to tile, zbrush can do weird things where the edges will no longer line up and you have to fix the seams in photoshop. Also by doing wrapmode of 2 you don't have to…
I have a similar question, creating a modular wall for a house, and it has an exterior face and an interior face. And this is made as one big fairly thin square with the top and bottom polys cut off, so you have 4 faces...when unwrapping that it seems like there is no way to use all the texture space, because you have 2…
Yea, a 2:1 texture ratio would be best, and would work the best with your first layout. The easiest way to do this (in maya, I assume its the same for max), is to layout your uvs so that they fill up exactly 1/2 of the square. Then once you are done, you scale the uvs vertically up to 2 so that they fill the whole square.…
I got a macbook pro for about 1800 refurb'd, never had any issues with it. I just really couldn't get used to the mac tho.. I ended up purchasing a Toshiba Tecra m7 Tablet PC 2 ghz Core 2 Duo , with 2 gig of Ram and a 256 Quadro vid card for 1700 Runs great and can play games too boot. I love it, it was this or a Wacom…
I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Bear McCreary but he was responsible for the amazing score to Battlestar Galactica. That said he was also responsible for the TV score to Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles. You can listen to the first OST here: [ame]…
The deadline for this is 6th May so I'm going to try and upload very regularly and hope you guys can give me some feedback! Brief storyline - 2 species; humans and mermaids, never got along. Curious human scuba diver interested in the mermaids home. Mermaids very protective and hate humans. A general from a scouting group…
Plan: Record sword and shield animations of myself for reference to animate. I have 2 options:
1) wood color/grain sword and shield + black and white tape markers
or
2) black sword and shield + white tape markers Question:
Would option 2 increase clarity? (IE. make it easier to see the sword and shield motions)
I don't…
Hi, I'm a dev at Project Reality, mod for Battlefield 2 and ArmA 2 and we're looking for anyone who can model vegetation and/or buildings for the Battlefield 2 edition of Project Reality. We've been lacking someone to do vegetation and buildings for some time, so we would welcome any talented artists who can model and…