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Re: Looking for feedback on a portfolio piece
PBR is physically based rendering and is just a more realistic capability to next gen engines. Instead of just color, normal, spec, you use color, roughness, metallicity, normals to define your materials. Marmoset Toolbag 2 is a PBR based engine that people use to do their shaderwork and it has an excellent lighting system… -
Re: Learning PBR with chests
Thanks guys I'm gonna make some change. The albedo is just a base for now, I just wanted to put the materials right. From what I've read, the metalness should always be black or white, never inbetween, and a painted metal is not considered metallic, unless it's a "metallic" paint of course. Now PBR is still a bit new, I… -
Re: Death world Env/Drill rig
So i added some more detail to the garage tonight, the main idea behind this is a sort of jet engine inspired power generator where the jet turbine spins a big peice of metal around a enclosed circular area, much like a hrydo gen works, once the jets engine is on some of the oil drilled here is used to fuel the twin… -
Re: 3Ds Max extrude Spline to plans?
Humm... so you want to do something like this? Using the sweep modifier and defining a custom profile shape will get the job done. The added bonus of this method is that you can tweak the profile shape and it changes the shape of the final cards. Also be sure to turn on "Gen. Mapping Coords" to automatically create a good… -
Re: Simulations/Serious Games artists?
I work for a company that is involved in military applications and simulators. Depending on the company, working with sims/serious games is basicly the same as regular game development. Sims often have a bigger emphasis on function rather than visual presentation thus you get less resources(time, tools and team members).… -
Re: Yet more Sony layoffs!
Good question. I don't think AAA (or the future of) is as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. There are a fair few layoffs happening (the recent situation with Irrational being a good example,) but there's also a lot of promising titles coming up - the Division, The Order: 1886, Shadow of Mordor to name a few. The… -
Re: Macbook Pro Retina for 3D work? Fan noise?
Thanks for replying EarthQuake! Do you have the first Gen MBP 13" Retina or a quite new one as people report that the new models around late 2013 perform much better heat wise? I don't mind the fans kicking in with much load, but I can't stand if the device is having a load annoying fan behaviour while just doing some… -
Re: Technical Forums section added
Cleaning shop... The 1 thread in Polycount Exclusives has been moved to News Archive/Interviews (Ryan Clark interview), and the empty section has been removed. "The 'Unofficial' Polycount Collaboration Project" had a bunch of old empty threads. Deleted them and removed the empty subforum. Moved a bunch of old collab… -
Re: Nvidia's next GPU (Fermi)
Guess Im glad Im waiting for tax refunds next year before updating this ancient Athlon XP system. Though I have to say, the newer ATI cards, are actually damn good. And priced and perform better than similar priced Nvidias. Before getting ecstatic though. Nvidia did loose out on the next next gen of consoles. Annnd Intel… -
Re: John Valenti (Environment Artist) Portfolio
Looking at you work I see that almost, not all, work is very unoptimized. On this shield you have used the 2th subdiv from Zbrush i guess? That's a big no no, in most cases(!), in game art. And for such a simple object their is no excuse for not doing a new lowpoly :) You'r UV unwrapping is a bit so and so to. You'll have…
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