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Re: Video Games ruining my productivity.
I was addicted to Smite around 2013-2014. The MOBA genre was still this hot new thing and I found myself playing more rounds than I should. But I beat this addiction by ironically, playing games till I got sick of them. Especially because this was when PS4/XBO had launched and I had developed an interest in what those… -
Re: [Portfolio] - David Finlay, Vehicle & Environment Artist
@jeffro: Not much Jeff, just looking for work to keep me busy. I'm going crazy here in the Midwest! ;) I left Cali Feb 2009 so I could be closer to my family in Kansas City and work from home doing freelance work. Thanks for the compliments, sir. @Ged: Thanks Ged. The interior shots are all real-time, but the full cars are… -
Re: more triangles or normal map?
I'm not a coder and it depends on the engine. but nowadays everything is quite similar. to keep it simple: adding a second texuture means twice the load for the engine. if you can avoid a normalmap or any other new texture, you could use twice as many vertices for roughly same performance. practically i would always do… -
Re: Normal Map Baking Issues/ Smoothing
NP! I'm glad you find my posts useful. Another thing to consider is what you can get away with by just using the normal map to convey shapes. Those 4 circles for instance would look a lot rounder with less geometry if the lowpoly was simply flat there and the circle shapes were added with the normal map. You want to make… -
Re: Hand painted texturing advice please?
Yea, '..that other program..' may be Bodypaint3D. It also handles real-time 3D painting well. Looking at the painted attempt, it's pretty good. U've imitated him really well. His / the style itself looks pretty mushy to me, with too much black. Even if he works @ Blizzard, I don't recommend this as a good example. U should… -
Re: 3DS Price Drop from $249.99 to $169.99.
OOOOOH, sorry Rich. Hmm, I just bought mine in GAME, I reckon they'll be wise to that :( So after reading about this Ambassador scheme I immediately went out and bought a 3DS :D I initially planned to wait for a second gen 3DS, but to hell with it. I picked mine up for 249 in GAME with Ocarina of Time included in the… -
Re: SPECIAL FX: What about hand drawn particle sprites ?
Artists design particle systems, even when they don't have obvious sprite sheets for each particle (though even those next gen examples use painted artwork, there's just more going on in the engine). Look at the Infamous particles. You've got black smoke (trail), black smoke (puffs), fire trails, sparks. Each of these need… -
Re: Wireless mice suck
I've never gone to wireless just because I don't see the problem with the wire. The ONLY problem I've had with a wire is on a mac with those single shit buttoned ones where if the cable gets close its like the wire is under it. But then again it is a shitty mac so what do you expect? I have a MS Optical, one of the first… -
Re: Harford MP7A1
Thanks Bob, You make some good points Shrike. I am modeling this as a high poly realistic weapon. The scratches are just a tiled map to break up the clean presentation. I will be painting proper natural scratch maps when the time comes. You're right about the stippling on the handle only taking up a few pixels in the final… -
Re: Interchangeable Equipment
The really technical stuff is still pretty far above my head. I'm so glad you guys are pointing out programmatic and memory points b/c they're definitely not things that i would have thought about on my own. At this point i'm not really sure what to do about them yet- but at least i'm aware of them now. I don't know if…
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