I use ZBrush for sculpting mainly because it's industry standard so the tools, matcaps, custom brushes, etc available are pretty extensive. I use 3D Coat for retopo though, and heavily for painting textures on objects, weapons. It's a great program.
It's been widely used in the cg industry and to a lesser extent games for approaching two decades - none of this is new to the tech art community or anyone who has looked outside the game art echo chamber so many of us seem to exist in.
also if i click "zoom extents" the screen centers correctly on the selected mesh and panning works fine, but if i zoom at all, the focus point resets to around 5 meters in front of the camera, and then panning doesnt rotate correctly around the object.
Finally had some time for a substance challenge. Tried to make the planks parametric in this one. Number/rotation/size/scale can be changed to some extent. More than 12 planks needs some extra tweaking though. :( Iray renders.
Some of the ideas I disagree with to some extent. I was going to respond more in-depth but Ive already started writing some on the subject. http://www.3d-frankiev.com/Library/jobhunting/dreamjob.html Keep in mind its a work in progress
We made extensive use of decals throughout the buildings in both the game world and the home city. That allowed us to create more surface variety with a limited texture set. We had to juggle a balance between vert count and texture size.
pretty cool! my only crit would be that the darth maul images are diffacult to see. He's wearing all black, so he should probably be on a lighter background so people can see the full extent of your handy-work.
only time I've ever had an issue like that is because my stack was pretty extensive. lots of modifiers (bend, ffd, etc) with edit poly's in between. all the edit poly's seemed to have been the problem. is this anything similar to your situation?
Hi
Madwish, Thank
you for the extensive feedback. I really appreciate it! It is
clear feedback and the paintover helps to understand what you mean. I will
look at all the points that you mentioned and see what I can do to improve the
image. Thanks!
Uploaded again, still can't download the file. What is going on. If I zip or rar it and keep everything else (name, description etc) the same, will it also update it or is that a problem then because it's not the same file name (because the file extension is different) than before?