So i finished my piece on time and here are the final results... I like the final product but I had a lot of trouble with the grass and I think it could be much better. On top of that I also feel like my final piece, while good, is probably not the style they are looking for as it is somewhat cartoonish and more saturated…
Now I'm only a small speck of a beginner in the Dota 2 Workshop world, but here's my observations. Valve has stated that they want to weed out low-quality submissions to the workshop. The trend by Valve to support this has been the encouragement to create almost entirely character-altering sets containing new character…
Plant containers/crates: Few of these will be scattered around, and they'll all have plants inside them. I'm hoping to make my own foliage with SpeedTree but that's for way later down the line... Planter 1.... Concept Image: Current model & UV's
I don't keep all revisions of my work files when an asset is done - just the major steps and in case of commercial work my original version, the feedback(s) I implemented and the final scene. No raw bake data is being kept just the source files to reexport from in case its needed. My work volume for current projects is a…
This is a very nice question and not many people use this nice feature, therefore find material editor to have limited capability as far as the amount of materials displayed is concerned. Which, as i will explain bellow is not exactly true. .mat is a package, like lets say rar or zip, that contains max materials. an…
@Cibo: Thx for your C&C. To explain a little better what images I had in my mind while I was blocking the ship. If you focus at the forward 2/3, up to that point I was Thinking about the Starblazers and Captain Harlock designs. As for the wings it is true that they need to be a lot smaller and thinner. Now for the last 1/3…
Nostradamus: cheers! Chief benefit to me: it's visual. From an art background, I just understand things so much better when I see them laid out- some examples: you can clearly see the connections between things, and how the 'flow' of code works- especially when you view the graph at runtime any logic being called has a…
One thing I like to do is have a separate Photoshop file that contains common colors & elements for a given project - or part of a project. When I'm working on WWII aircraft, for example, I have a file that contains color swatches for each country, and another with common insignia and even notes on proper fonts. It saves…
Really like what you've got going here. Some suggestions - Cargopod, Maybe a company logo emblazoned on the sides? Look at containers, they very often have the logistics company name in big letters, why would the future be different? Doesn't have to be a name, could be a cool looking logo. Personally I'm not fond of the…
Thanks for the advice melkior. I agree with everything you've posted and I'll try to explain a few of the questions you've raised: The map is an industrial complex and loosely based off an area of Los Angeles that I visited a month or so ago. This area had numerous small buildings backed up to a water canal that led to a…