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Re: modeling hi poly weapons is painful, any tips?
I use level 1, with render option set to two normally, but on this model 1 is perfect unless I was going for a 4096 normal map. -
Re: Autodesk acquires Alias for $182 million cash
you got beaten to it in general hehehe. http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=1&Number=73152&page=0&fpart=1 -
Re: Fellow Environment artists? Is Zbrush/Mudbox really worth the effort?
It's a bit of a non issue really. If you get a job requiring you to model/sculpt the surface of, say, a used brick wall, or the very specific surface qualities of an old tree, and the assets required from you are supposed to be delivered with diffuse, specular and normalmap ... there is simply no way for you to do the job… -
Re: Graph editor, what the damn is it?
Adjusting the curves of your animation gives you the ability to fine-turn your motion to suit your needs, and drastically change how the points move in 3d space to give a much more fluid and organic look instead of "computery" linear movement. See also: [ame= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G67wkgmC_Ck]Pop & Lock[/ame]… -
Re: Camera or Camcorder?
There are a lot of good compact and cheap mirrorless systems out there today. Some of the Micro Four Thirds bodies are getting ridiculously cheap, you can pick up a EP-2 body for $230, EPL-1 body for $149!!! [ame="https://www.amazon.com/OLYMPUS-262855-Megapixel-Camera-camera/dp/B0037VVWBK/?tag=rumors04-20"]Amazon.com:… -
Re: [Portfolio] Benjamin Leary, 3D Modeler
remove the character. it stands out far too much and is not as well done as the other pieces. you are only as good as your weakest piece in your folio, and this is the weakest link. yes you did it for DW, and yes it was the lowpoly mmo pre-dom war comp, but it shadows the quality of the rest of your work and that is… -
Re: Best Practices for Creating 3D Trees for Games
Bah. Creating tree it self is suprisingly easy. It's some spilnes tosed around and bended in random directions. The tricky part is to create good looking branches textures, leaf clusters and so on. This is biggest time sink to get them right. And there are few options: 1. Take camera, go to forest, cut some branches of… -
Re: Tangent Vs World Normal Map?
Yeah more like 99% of the advantage. =P Correct, there was also a Battlefield(BF:Vietnam?) game that used OS maps exclusively for character meshes.... Just throwing that out there before someone pops in and says "oh but you can't use it for soft deformation". You can animate object space maps just as well as you can… -
Re: Modo 401 for game art
I've been using Modo for quite a while now, and aside from a few of what I consider minor issues I really enjoy using it to create game art. Exporters: I've gotting static objects into Unreal without any problems with the ase exporter found on this page. There is a Collada exporter currently being developed and improved.… -
Re: texture transform tool
continued working on this, gui mockup for the next version: so for the next version I want mainly GUI changes:* split view of the source image with its slices and the texture result area. Each side has its own panning and zooming state just like multi views in max or maya. * a toolbar with icons and rollOver description…
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