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Re: Blizzard Review
Ott; Thanks for the crits! "Nothing here is within the scope of what they actually do visually or technically for World of Warcraft." - even the sword? I wasn't sure what map sizes would be used in SCII. I was using a 2048 because I figured "hey, this is a large structure, so when zooming in, it shouldn't look pixellated"… -
Re: Low Poly Male Human
mpintar - I have a few suggestions - Since the target in the end would be a rts (so a unit with animations), i'd primarily concentrate upon creatign a unique and recognisable silohette, for ease of identification when your viewing the model in that rts isometric/45% veiw (cnc3/comapny of heroes). i.e -… -
Re: Left 4 dead 1/2 off sale this weekend!
Bought my copy on Saturday. I had been wanting to get it earlier, but the $50 price tag had scared me off. (cheap-ass gamer for life!) Now you see, this is exactly why Valve is on top of the downloadable games marketplace race. Other companies throw content up, slap a price on it, and think that is all that need to be… -
Re: geometry detail
My opinion as a hobbyist who spends too much time on Polycount: I don't feel like normal maps will be completely going away anytime soon, but there is a lot of things that you can just bevel and throw a detail normal map on and get just as good or better results than if you just baked a normal map. But there's also some… -
Re: Art Tests
ok have been scanning all the games companies websites i can think of. Not much luck so far. Just the one already posted and another from splash damage so far. http://www.splashdamage.com/envarttest http://www.splashdamage.com/3darttest Stimpack- yeah i know what your talking about. Definately would have to be another test… -
Re: Real quick tree texturing question
Thanks for the replies. Your suggestions seem to conflict! I'm using UE3, which I know supports multiple UV channels so 2 shader setups would be possible. Speedtree uses 2 or more I think but the Speedtree meshes have their own properties which allows 'branch material', 'leaf material' etc. I've been Reading through all… -
Re: Courtyard Environment (image od)
Reminds me of the place in Assassin's Creed where you gotta kill that target who's poisoning people with a fountain of wine. You problem is that all your hipoly pieces are: - In dark areas as well as being dark - In areas that are usually farther away from the player (up in the roof) So you are kind of wasting all your… -
Re: Popbot SDK
optimized a lot of smaller details which dropped it down to about ~3600 polys. now it's back up to 3994 because of the chamfered edges, which is something i really liked about the statuette. though i won't be animating it, i'm targeting HL2 model standards relative to the combine police models... which are close to 4000… -
Re: Workshop #3 - SyncViewS
I just finished the low poly of the wrench and unwrapped it, but I'm struggling a bit with UV layout having to deal with some long and thin islands I don't want to split. I was thinking about using a non-square texture like 1024x512. So I got some questions: 1- Assuming the texture is 2:1 x:y ratio, I guess I have to pack… -
Re: Taiwan vs China
The missile defense will weaken the onslaught but unless your enemy fires only 2-3 missiles instead of unloading his entire arsenal and perhaps adding a few dummies to distract the system enough will get through to nuke the entire country 4-5 times over. The Patriot has a 50% chance of hitting a single missile, can't tell…
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