60 degrees is typically where I start to split, probably because Softimage by default automatically creates a hard hard at that angle. I don't strictly follow the guideline, but it's a good starting point. Also the auto hard edge is nice because you can easily tell when you go past that threshold, and you might decide to…
I have developed a terrible habit of leaning on my left elbow whilst working, causing my hand to go numb. could be a pinched nerve or something. really hard habit to break though.
Hi I am studying about hard surface and am facing some problems , pls help me I have used Maya for base mesh and uv sculpted in zbrush and extracted the normal in XNormal As marked in the image here are my doubts referring to the image nos: 1.Why the straight borders along cylindrical objects coming as waves, in my case I…
Hello! I’m Joaquín, a 3D Artist with 8 years of experience working
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Hello and I am DarkUnicycle. I am the Lead Developer of Hard Hat Games. We are a small company, that has recently just started a project called Davyd. It is a horror title, but it takes it a step forward into horror just has many great horror titles have done such as Outlast, The Doom Series, and the Slenderman Series. In…
Hi guys, This is the first time Im posting my work here on polycount and I was wondering if you can give me some feedback on my mage armor. I wanted to improve my hard surface sculpting skills, so I decided to make a mage character with a hard surface armor. I used a base character mesh to focus only on the suit but Im…
Hey forum, new member here. I'm relatively new to modeling, only a year of on/off experience working on maya. I'm practicing some hard surface modeling with one of my favorite characters, Samus Aran. Here's my initial concept drawing: Attachment not found. Attachment not found. Attachment not found. I only have the helmet…
I wouldn't trust a regularly used external hard drive after 3 years. Hard drives really shouldn't be moved around, they aren't a long term backup solution, but can be a fine extra offsite backup option or used to transfer files without the internet.
Hello and I am DarkUnicycle. I am the Lead Developer of Hard Hat Games. We are a small company, that has recently just started a project called Davyd. It is a horror title, but it takes it a step forward into horror just has many great horror titles have done such as Outlast, The Doom Series, and the Slenderman Series. In…