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Re: Portfolio Critique
Hey Thomas, I agree with alot of the stuff Eraserhead said, it needs some more work. I think your texturing skills are what needs the most work. 5 texture maps for a tank wont cut it in a real game. With the model you have, you could easily use 1x1024. Same goes for the character, you have a 512 solid color for his skin?… -
Re: Understanding Texel Density
Well, you don't want to be to far out of whack though. Uneven pixel density increases fill rate, therefore lowering your fps. Try to make things as even as possible, but use common sense. If you're not going to see the bottom of a car, or the bottom of a character's feet, don't give it as much texture space. Also consider… -
Re: SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy)
Simplest way to bake a lightmap in maya: 1: setup your lights 2: apply a basic gray material, specular type if you want it. 3: open hypershade if not already open 4: select your mesh and the material (hold shift) 5: in Hypershade go to edit>Convert to File Texture(maya software) 6: set up your options for the conversion.… -
Re: After work, do you have time and energy to work on personal projects?
Always working on stuff. Even married with a kid on the way, I'm working on stuff. Give you a bit of an example of where my head was at the Past decade: 2005 - 2007 Projects at work: Tony Hawk, Gun, FarCry All semi-realistic type games in terms of subject Matter. I really went hard at Dominance War, and Comicon contests.… -
Re: Creating Trim Sheets 4 Part Tutorial - Polygon Academy
512 px/m (2k for 4m) is pretty standard for 3rd person games, especially if they are on console. 1st person is probably more like 1024 px/m so your 2k map now only covers 2m. its extremely rare to see 4k maps used in games still, so you have to get more creative with your tiling and blending for higher resolutions because… -
Re: angel v - new - hand painted work.
Hey Villacis, was referring to the mailbox :) I would probably say 1k for a mailbox asset especially hand painted is way too high, at most I'd go with a 512. Also the mailbox texture itself looks really nice, although the flag looks quite rushed - as if the mailbox had really clean paintwork done and then at the last… -
Re: [WIP] Started a learning diary for Blender/Asset creation progress
Blender [3D] Learning Diary 002 - Asset Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxhLlhuGys Some update on the crate game asset tutorial and general Blender studying. Done the modelling of different parts. Had some problems with Bend feature in Simple Deform modifier. So spent some time how to use it properly - as a… -
Re: What does hair spec shift do and why
I found this http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Scheuermann_HairSketchSlides.pdf I think that is the reason. The 2 levels of specular doesn't make one broader and one sharper. Is actually 2 totall different reflect direction. It has to work with primary and 2ndary reflection. One shift towards… -
Re: UDK - Skatepark
Looking good The wear on the skateboard should have a sharper transition between the wood and paint, right now it looks a bit too soft blended. You might want to add a few deeper gouges with your normal map as well. The wood palette could easily use a 512 no problem, or find a way to tile/stack UVs with a 256. A non-square… -
Re: Super Summer Character Art Boot Camp!
Thanks everyone for the crazy amount of interest! Sorry we couldn't fit in more people, but we're going to roll with this group: 1) http://benbolton.com/ 2) http://www.dylan-brady.com/ 3) http://ulloart.com/ 4) http://www.8kubick.com/ 5) http://www.rainepye.com/gallery/3d-art 6) http://mvd.cghub.com/ 7)…
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