Sonic, requirements will keep going up, mostly tho, only on the artistical side of things. All the shader and normalmap baking stuff is easy to learn. If you're an awesome artist, noone will turn you down and you'll pick up the technology know how there. UT2k3 had 2-2.5k poly models. Bad use of normalmaps makes normalmaps…
Oddly enough I never said I was defending "over the top rust and grime," I'm not entirely sure where you picked that up. Rather, I'm saying that there are plenty of situations where a realistic level of grime is more that you apparently believe in. Low humidity is a preserver for biological things far more than anything…
Cross posting in case you don't want to wade thru the whole thread to git to the end results and a modifier revision: most folk r using the alt rmb fer scale navigation in Maya. Now that the Roger is alt rmb-n' wit zSwitcher... tis time to free the key and un-scramble my brain's viewport. ( new hot key is ctl-mmb ) (…
In this documentation, I describe in-depth the Hatched Ink Shader for Unreal Engine. I aimed this shader specifically at Concept Artists, but I can also imagine a use for it on games or anything else. If you have somehow stumbled over this documentation without knowing about the shader, you can get it here:…
UVPadder GIMP Filter Automatically generate padding for UV islands! Win32 Binary Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?i7d128nobj898k5 You may need to put this DLL alongside it: http://www.mediafire.com/?3yjj8ocv97wm35h Latest Linux source code:#include <stdlib.h>#include <string.h>#include static void query( void );static…
For those who are interested, here is a description of my current setup. First I take my normal map into Photoshop and create two versions of it. To one I apply a Gaussian blur (8 pixels wide in my case), to the other I apply a high-pass filter (same diameter as before). This splits the normal maps into two parts, the…
Macbeth Chart is good for referencing colors and or balancing photos. Macbeth Chart "Remember Me" has a great overview of PBR a lot can be gleamed from this. PBR workflow for Remember Me Here is a shot of the passes. The guys that made Remember Me admit that too much micro detailing was added to the Albedo it was a…
However, team management and communication (especially cross-discipline) has proven to be its' own beast and is something I would like to improve on. Seems like your teams are really small so you answer why do you think that management and communication cross discipline has been challenging? Mainly i think this issue tends…
Thanks for all the replies, I'm sorry I can't do a decent quote, as I'm not sure if there is a multi-quote function. So I'm gonna go in and quote each thing myself and hope for the best. >.< Thanks, I'm will need all the luck I can get. Most of the tutorials I have followed around are free ones and aren't very good at…
Team name: Gnomes^Nth Studios (Not registered or anything, just the name of the website) Project name: Imperiums Brief description: A sci-fi tick-based Browser based game with a simple graphical map in very, very early production. I've been mainly doing back end things like code to generate the map database, game database,…