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Re: Portfolio Review and Advice
Ok, as promised, here is a little bundle of Lighting/composition hints which you could apply in your future scenes. PART1 As I've mentioned, PBR is a new trend and while it is cool thing, the aesthetics foundation didn't go anywhere, and nice lighting may be done well no matter the generation of engines or hardware... The… -
Re: Creating skies for UE4 inside of Maya?
Dynamic sky materials are partly procedural. The easiest method is to have a few masks for stars, sun, moon etc. Atmosphere gradient can be done with masking out a channel of the UV texture coordinate, that would give you "from top to bottom gradient" that you can color with a lerp. The sky hemisphere mesh should have 2… -
Re: Sci-Fi Corridor Segment
Fun looking project. This is something you can just run wild on and have fun with. Your textures are killing it, you mention you're still woring on the diffuse, so my feedback will be mainly directed torwards that area.. Firstly, your overlay is too noisy dude. Check this out: This is a great example of what you should… -
Re: The Vagabondage of a Novice
I'm not quite sure what it is you want to do with those verts, but its not cloning. Cloning is when you have some part of the model that you want to make a copy of, for instance if you modelled a button on a robot, and you wanted another one identical somewhere else on the robot, you would use clone to make a copy of the… -
Re: I need career advice considering all this crazy AI stuff...
And that ought to be the motivation in itself. To be honest, not a lot that AI creates is usuable as is. And there are lots of limitations in its use for larger companies. For example a company in Canada that runs on government subsidies would do well to maintain its workforce. Liquidating its workforce in favor of AI… -
Re: The Answer to Any Question Isn't Really Very Helpful
It's no argument that there's incomplete and invalid information out there. The problem is it takes time to sort through it all and try to set everything straight. Writing up a couple pages of technical information, cross checking it, validating it and packaging up examples takes a lot of time and experience. The question… -
Re: Communication javascript and maxscript
sorry for the late reply,- although I have not yet been experimenting with communication between MS and JS or html through ports/ sockets or with the help of additional tools - I was able to communicate more or less with an embedded html / JS within max. it requires though that the html or JS file that is used is run… -
Re: UDK Dungeon Environment
Gosh, I wish I could just open up your level and click all the check boxes to activate features... You lighting only image tells us a lot of important things: 1) Your materials (textures) are too dark. As you can see, even in the brightest of lighting areas, your screen shots are almost totally black. This is NOT a… -
Re: Combat Knife
make sure that you flip the green channel if you baked normals in max Also, your tri count seems very high, there are a lot of areas that seam really excessive(all the groves modeled in, with multiple edges per grove). And it seems like you've go so much geometry that it is hurting your bakes in some cases. Are the side… -
Re: does maya have any form of material inheritance?
I was thinking a level deeper than that really - eg. if you wanted to change how you unpacked a texture or add a parameter in the base material and have that propagate rather than having to muck around in each of your sfx graphs. in theory that process should work with .sfx files but my experience suggests it doesn't work…
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