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Re: WIP Mortuary: What I wish someone told me 8 years ago (but to be honest, I couldn't listen)
I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around your method from descriptions alone. Are you generating three mesh to curve outputs, sampling and blending them then offsetting points around? I'm asking because I'm doing something similar to generate hair cards, blending different curves for root, body of the card and… -
Re: Dota 2 - Workshop Thread
_mask1 - 32 bit, every channel is used: 1. R - detail map mask - ignore in most cases 2. G - diffuse and fresnel warp mask - ignore in most cases 3. B - metalness mask; controls where color and fresnel are suppressed - usually black 4. A - selfillum mask; color is drawn from _color. *Always put something in here, even if… -
Re: How to create proper LODs?
I always model lod02 first and bake normal map for it . Then I do projected vertex normals so lod01 works same way dx11 automatic tessellation and displacement does. Any extra vertex in lod01 gets its vertex normal interpolated and only visual position of vertex is changing, not shading. That way it still perfectly matches… -
Re: When we say multiple material id on a single model, what do we mean?
@musashidan Okay, that's something I've never heard of as a workflow. Gotta ping you someday when I come up with a character project soon to see how it works in practice. :D I've always just used separate materials on a single UV channel and that's it, so this is completely new to me. @bitinn I'm not sure what you're… -
Re: Freelance work hassles
Full time freelancer for the past 2 years. Most client request for me to give them a ''fixed rate'' for a character. I Use my daily rate X the time I'm expecting for the character to take. It can be good to add a little bit of padding if you expect a decent pass of correction. I usually let the clients know that this cover… -
Re: Building a GPU powered painting program.
I would guess so! I know that I despise any sort of lag, or anything that breaks creative flow, and I think that really plays into resolution too. I would say complex brush types also play into this. There is software with incredibly brush models, like corel painter, but the software is so slow and laggy, it just never… -
Re: misc. maxscript UV scripts/tools
I've usually talked texel densities in terms of 4 meter chunks, and I usually work with 3dsmax generic units as cm's. So I'd be looking at 512/400, 256/400 and 128/400 usually. -
Re: I think I'm burnt out along with other things...
Its understandable to feel this way. How about your life outside of the industry, family and such? Hobbies, creative aspirations, any ideas for making your own game/creative projects. I feel that helps balance out feelings of burn out. What motivates you to work in the game industry. From my understanding you want to feel… -
Re: Typewriter lowpoly question
I think what is usually meant by that is polycount doesn't matter for rendering. Here it's not the polycount itself that I think will be a problem, but object's design. You can see everything through everything, can't just bake it to a box (like a fridge or old TV set for example). Most parts would need to be a separate… -
Re: How does a dev seeking to contract artist(s) explain what he needs?
you'll also probably want to divide it down into sections for what you're looking for depending on your budget. IE whereas there are a few artists who can do both environments and characters, they're usually better at one or the other. Concept artists themselves can either paint or draw everything out by hand, use an…
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