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Re: Lava bubble popping effect
@Mark Dygert Thank you very much for you answer, those techniques look awesome, I finally ended up doing it with a mesh base particle effect and modifying just the size through time, which is exactly what you adviced me in the first place. I didn't know about the other two, but they look really cool, I'm definitely gonna… -
Re: Polycount budget help
@Eric Chadwick Thanks for feedback. I know it's a really abstract question but I am having a little difficulty in wrapping my head around how I should go about it. I am going to use the polycount budget to do a rough estimate on work needed, how many people roughly there is needed and how everything will stack long term as… -
Re: Please, i need help.
Eric brings up a great point. If your self employed you also have to pay the employers part of of your taxes along with income tax. Employer tax isn't factored into a normal hourly salary when you work for a company. A good rule of thumb I read about (don't remember where) was take 30-35% out for taxes if your self… -
Re: Tiling Part of a texture?
Eric nails it. This is pretty much what I do, but if the four quadrants are radically different colors and brightness, and the quadrant will be covering a large/obvious area of the model, I'd recommend even a bit more padding. Another option for this is to use 3 quadrants, and leave the other one blank. Tile your texture… -
Re: Need info about work order and software
I argue (but only a little) that rendering in a game engine like Unreal or Unity may be easier. As Eric mentions, there are limitations, but more things are set up and ready to go. Sometimes not having a bazillion variables and options is nice, until you hit a wall and really need that one little thing of course. In… -
Re: What have I done wrong? - Quads vs. Triangles vs. Beveling
Thanks Snader & Eric! Snader, I changed the material, and left the normals all hard, and saw a lot of what you meant (images attached). It's especially obvious on model #2. For model #3 & #4, I've adjusted the normals to try and mimic the correct mesh, with mesh #4 having more polygons. I think testing all my mistakes is… -
Re: Portfolio Advice - Can't get my first role
Wow, thanks guys lots of very good advice. @defragger - Apologies I guess I still like sidescrollers lol @Eric Chadwick - Thanks Eric I will check that out now! @Brian "Panda" Choi - Okay I will apply my time on a reel not separate things. @BrianShray - A second page, okay I will work on that now! @BIGTIMEMASTER - Haha, I… -
Re: My game asset creation learnings
thanks for the info Eric. The developer who is working with me on the game has a unity pro license.I used some image effects and soon realized that they are computationally a bit heavy so I'm only using them to a limit. Ill post some images tonight. I took a look at GI light-mapping. Its doing the trick for me but due to… -
Re: Pixyz, does it work
I don't have personal experience with Pixyz, so I can't tell you about any possible shortcomings, but I know people who tested it some years ago and were pretty impressed. However, it's quite expensive even for bigger studios, so they opted against it in the end. Might be worth it if you use it a lot, though. There is a… -
Re: [Environment Art] Modular Environment Creation + Texturing Process
@Eric Chadwick Hey thanks for answering so fast and dealing with the huge wall of text I posted haha! :o I went through the whole thread by Snefer once again. The fact that he has more than 1 UV set and using multiple channels had me confused. The link about Channel Packing helped understand a lot of it though! So…
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