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Re: Enlighten real-time radiosity
deferred shading IS NOT SAME AS indirect lighting indirect lighting takes the scene's geometry into account, whilst deferred shading can only lit what is "visible" in the current frame. With deferred shading the main benefit is indeed that you can do multiple lights on screen at much lower costs. The major drawback is that… -
Re: Roads on large-scale terrain?
The project I'm finishing up right now called for a creation of a terrain almost as large as yours. The idea was - a student would drive a car down a road following a GPS-type map, so the road network has to be very close to the real map (same goes for elevations and such). The way I built it: I traced all the height lines… -
HARDSURFACE GAME ARTIST LOOKING FOR MAKE A LIVING:)))
Hi. my name is Adrian I originally from the middle east, I’m a 3d artist specialized in creating hard surface 3d models for Tripple A video games. I started my 3d artist career by creating game assets for local mobile games liek shofer and I gradually shift my art for next-gen pc and console. I have over 5 years of… -
Restoring materials on zbrush objects + loading specificied user-defined materials ?
Hi there, I have been messing around with Zbrush3.1 polypainting tools recently. Some parts of the workflow are quite elegant, yet many others still smell like good old ZCrap. I painted a face using RGB information (used the 'Flat' preview rendering option for that); then tweaked and applied a fancy Matcap skin shader that… -
Baking a Mess - xNormal/Baking workflow Help & Advice
Hi Everyone! As part of getting myself up outta the dirt in 2015, I am getting my bake on. Previously I haven't done much in the way of high to low baking; it's a weakness in my current skillset that I aim to rectify ASAP. So I made myself a really basic asset (an axe) in Zbrush, retopo'ed it in 3DS Max*, UV'ed the low… -
Re: Nevercenter Silo, new version just released...
I've used Silo since 2004. I like the new primitives introduced in 2022.3. Silo 2022 implements Pixar's OpenSubDiv among other things: Version 2022.3 Added new Gear/Wheel primitive. Innovative settings for cog stride, spacing, and sharpness make this primitive useful for much more than just creating gears and wheels. Added… -
[Paid] 3D Artist needed to model mars colony vehicles & equipment and make an aerial map
Colonize Mars is building a simulation of a mars colony that will be a collectible trading card set as well as a lightweight interactive colony map on our website. We need someone to help us build the assets to construct the colony map by using our trading card artwork as reference. We have split this up into 4 distinct… -
(UE4) Teaching an old dog new tricks! Landscape studies
Howdy folks! TLDR: Im a hard surface person and want to learn to make my own trees... any help is welcome along the way! I have lurked around these forums for many years and am excited to jump in and be a contributing member of the community here at Polycount! Short introduction first... Im a Senior Environment Artist with… -
Skymoons Edingburgh looking for a full time Weapon/Props Artist
Weapons/Prop Artist About Skymoons Skymoons Interactive Entertainment are an immensely successful mobile game company based in Chengdu, China, who have recently begun their expansion into western markets via the opening of Skymoons Edinburgh, an ambitious new studio in the capital of Scotland. Skymoons Edinburgh are… -
Knight project
So I decided to come back to characters.. Ive been hopping around lately between the 3 main categories of hard surface, environment, and characters. I get frustrated with one and move to the other alot. I realized I make the most progress with characters and decided to stick with it (Hard to do after Firebert's comment…
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