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Re: The Monthly CHARACTER Challenge | October 2014 | the Soothsayer
the concept is not wrong because its a concept of a "sabretooth Kitty" style character, so technically he can really have what ever the artist wants his concept to have, of course while staying within what works and what doesnt and i think the ribcage works just fine even with the concepts physique. take a look at Death… -
Re: Looking for UV unwrapping/packing critique
You can weld the belt seams together and still have hard edged smoothing groups on them that are visible after baked. Smoothing groups and UV unwrapping do not influence one another. It's possible to have textures of rectangular shapes: 64 x 512, 1024 x 128 etc. and no redundant padding is required. This is absolutely… -
Re: Maya 2011 and GTX 560 Ti issues
I'm running maya successfully with a 560 ti 2011 and then 2012. There have only been a few issues very very rarely. Only things I've experienced was uv editor popping (shells moving and then not moving and then self collapsing). I think 2x around the time of the rage driver update. Geo tearing similar to screen tearing.… -
Re: Bin Laden Dead?
I wonder if there is some kind of limit as to how long a country like the U.S. or the U.K. is able to continue meddling in other countries affairs? There must be some kind of cutoff point where the war fund becomes a percentage against profits, like the sharing of resources, namely oil. Apparently the Saudis will reach a… -
Re: Arthur Ramazanov WoW style Environment WIP
Yeah - I do have quite a bit of unique textures - but I reuse them over and over and clone stamp them in places...I didn't really care to optimize the scene as this was mostly a reason for me to learn handpanting techniques and to learn UDK since I'm new to it. I have used the WoW model viewer to see how they do their… -
Re: FBX file animation problem
Yep, that's exactly what we're doing here now too (presumably for the same reasons). I was actually using hold/fetch to reset the scene state after export instead of just deleting, but doing that uncovered a whole host of bugs in Max 2012 (e.g. a 100% crash if you have a textured dx shader active during hold/fetch), so… -
Re: Quick question about performance
There isn't really a solid answer, but I have some information to add. GPUs render in 2x2 squares, if there's 2 triangles in a square, it has to render that square an extra time. If there's three, 3 times, etc. UE4 has a view mode called quad overdraw that shows this. Generally, if you have a lot of triangles, it's not an… -
Re: 3ds max connect 2 materials?
I already had this tool created for someone here at work. Paste this into a new script window and go to Tools > Evaluate All. Then you can look in the Customize menu for "Toggle Visibility" You can change the visValue near the top to whatever you want before you evaluate. macroScript PlayfulToggleVis category:"Playful… -
Re: ZBrush, Dynamesh, and Subdivisions, Where did they go?
(zspheres for retopology, just to be clear) As for why someone like Ryan would use dynamesh the way they do, dynamesh is really meant to be a basemesh creation tool. If you can create the forms that you want, then there is really no need at that stage to remesh the model or up the resolution. Working with too many vertices… -
Re: Need some clarity on long thin triangles
Just to clarify here - long thin triangles are always more expensive to draw than ones with equal length sides (as far as I'm aware) due to pixel shader overdraw when shading the edges of the triangle (aka Quad overshading). e/ there's a good article on the subject here:…
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