I almost have the low poly version of my gun done. Along the way I experienced some problems with baking maps from xNormal. This was a problem that I've never seen before... After a lot of trail and error and reading countless post on different forums I finally solved the problem. It seems that most of the information was…
the answer to your equation: Civic + Jet engine + gatling gun = awesome funny concept and the execution just about brings it to life. a little bit more polish and it'll be a great piece. i think the missing spec map might help things along.. you're right that the texture isn't quite up to the standards of the modeling and…
On the screenshots it looks like his verts are snapped. Also, In a clean environment such as an arch vis scene, sometimes you have to have such clean walls. Lets be honest, lightmass simply sucks with the default settings, and sometimes even with some tweaked settings. Currently we are fighting other kind of lightmass…
Thanks for the feedback and kind comments fox! I can totally see where you're coming from, but on the other hand I also want to keep pushing my designs. Even if the set doesn't get accepted I don't really mind at all because I've been wanting to make a set inspired by my country's culture, so if I like the end result then…
Hey, first off, love the addition of IRay! Been doing some quick tests with it and I notice that I get grain in my renders. I think I had this one set to a min sample of 1000 and a max of 2000. I think I waited about 5 mins and at that point I didn't see any further improvements. What settings would I need to get a clean…
My drawing skill sucks.. its nowhere near how good I should be. I've decided to set down the 3d stuff and strictly work on drawing and painting and all that. I will hopefully be getting a job and well the money I get from that will be going towards another pen tablet :) . A bamboo one at first, to have one and then a new…
Well I don't know of any other way than the obvious. Work at double res then import it as TC_NormalMapUncompressed which will half the size. Defer Compression will only work until you save the package the texture resides in. Once that package is saved what ever compression settings were set for that texture get applied.…
what? this is all rubbish... using 186 grey as your mid-point is if you want to try to author your texture in a linear format, in photoshop, which is almost impossible. the "best" way to do it, is to use a curve adjustment as farfarer pointed out. just make sure your top layer is that curve adjustment and anything you do…
Man, I dig this piece! Cool concept and great outcome. I was looking at a couple things that are very minor that might give you a little extra punch, most of them are taste, so do what you will with the suggestions. I firstly thought your scene was lacking a bit of contrast. It was very mid-tone heavy, so I took it in PS…
Some quick thoughts: - Your first environment is not very strong. Lighting especially lets it down. You failed to capture the essence of the original concept. - The Environment models section is pretty generic - stuff you see on almost every other junior artist portfolio. It does not set your work apart from the…