Hello everyone. So I just uncovered the news (sorry if I'm late) of MDL materials and iRay rendering inside Substance Designer. I had no idea what either of those things are, so I did some research and it looks amazing. I do have questions though: I'm an environment artist (student) and I work on video games. Can MDL…
Anyone else think Nintendo's just doing a "me too!" and attempting to cover their ass? The whole wiimakes thing makes me real glad I sold off my Wii, cause I didn't buy the damn thing in the first place to be wow'd by a nonstop torrent of old games dumped onto a 'new' system. The DSi announcement makes me wish I'd never…
Hi everyone, I'm looking for the best workflow to create HDR cubemaps for my IBL shaders (Maya & OGRE). I'm experiencing a lot of troubles, I have to use too many different softwares and the process is very time consuming. Here's my workflow at the moment, the goal is to obtain a DDS HDR cubemap to be used as environment…
Hey ppl, I've been working on an environment for practice. The env is based off concept art I gathered from Castlevania:LOS, Uncharted II and God of war. I Haven't painted an exact concept so I'm working things out as I go. Below you can find some screenshots, and as you can see, I still have some placholders that at least…
I really don't know how to make this better, if you have any suggestions or any critiques at all, please help me out :# this is a really old piece i did, and when i look at it i'm still not happy with it, but i don't know what is off about it. i even knew i'd run into this problem, so that's why i copied the scene from the…
Hi every one! I'm totally new on polycount but you've already helped me in the past ::pleased: At work, i'm working on a new pipeline to improve our quality and speed. I already use Quixel at home, so I submitted this software and Substance. My problem is the engine used for the simulator, it only support diffuse map. Our…
I am working on a elf character who was raised by dwarves. I hope to tell a story through the character's garb and manners. The short story is that the earth surface is too hot to live on so all inhabitants have moved underground. The elves moved in with the dwarves and things didnt go so well. Eventually they went to war…
well i know you've all been waiting for a new post from me, so i figured i'd bust out my A-material. as of about 20 minutes ago, an 8 year old cousin of mine was at the house with her mother. I was showing them how the Wacom tablet + Photoshop works, and 5 minutes later Sparkles the Cat was born. Since they requested that…
oh thanks a bunch shimmer. carry on.. ye its a positive thing to say, but you know i never really cared when some nice people like you say 'im a fan'.. i dunno, cant quite symphatise, i guess. 24 ror. what do you know, just yesterday i was an 18 years old punk who just got quake 3 and started editting the skins. i still…
besides having and paying for the software updates (as the company) i use Max 2011 3dcoat 3.5 zbrush 4r7 an old knald version, maybe sometimes even crazybump some of the tools i use daily are like 10 years old. you really do not have to be up to date on every software. Tho nowadays with subscriptions you are sorta locked…