Both. You'll probably use vert paint, being cheap and effective way to blend materials, and probably masks, even if it's just a basic noise and gradient material function to break up vertex paint blending or height lerp from a height imput for example. Also don't forget decals on top of what ever solution you use.
Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the comments and they really help me get some motivation for making some tutorials that will show you how to make content for game engines in the future. Now as for the 3rd part of the tutorial its been done 2 days ago but I'm having a hardtime trying to upload the file to youtube since…
Neox nailed it; you simply don't have the same amount of geometry that the video does (43k verts on your head vs 285k verts in the video). Zbrush doesn't do any smoothing between its vertex normals. Other 3d programs tend to average these out based on a tolerance angle or manually defined user normals (hard edges,…
It doesn't seem to be working for me at all. I can't figure out how I generate the shadows and highlights for a color, or how I toggle between the two. Here is what I've tried: 1. Set the ambient light to a grey color on a white object. Result: When ambient light enabled, nothing changes whatsoever. I use the color picker…
I can't give you the years of industry experience, or all the tips and tricks that come with a healthy understanding 3d; but I can give some advice on how to think. 1. Stop working, (that would nice wouldn't it) but seriously stop working, and stop freaking out. Take a good long look at how your working. Ask yourself how…
Loving the scene so far dude, got a really nice retro vibe to it, especially with the wood panelling, I especially like all the mementos to family members little photos etc. I thought I would offer up a few points hopefully to help you out with pushing this to be as top notch as possible; as it is really good already. I…
Id say that probably depends on the studio. If its a bigger studio than they may tell you that you've wasted your time because they only deal with online applicants (maybe), but if its a smaller studio it could be worth a shot. Here's something to consider... You've only just applied to the studio. Don't expect to hear…
First of all, let me start saying that what you have here shows a ton of potential and that I can completely relate with the frustration : p. My involvement with videogames began with the XNA days, had to do serious graphics programming, gameplay, content loading, etc. Implementing 'shadow mapping' (a thing from the 80's…
Short answer:Nope Elaborate answer: When I was in the situation I wanted the same setup in between different projects, I often duplicate my mari scene (when you 1st open mari, right click on your project and duplicate / rename it), then I open the new one, and import the new object as an object version. I then remove the…