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Re: Environment piece for portfolio [WIP]
It's too early to give much feedback. The poly layout looks very messy, and Maya's booleans typically make problems later on, they're not a good way to model unless you're in a rush, and just making a concept model, you can always find a way to make the shape without them. You have a lot of extray polygons in the model,… -
Re: UDK Environment - Quake 3 Arena "The longest yard"
Yes, pick-ups, spawn points, etc. work like pathnodes. You don't need to put them everywhere. I like to place them at intersections, making sure they can "see" each other. Though, normally I don't use pathnodes, but breadcrumb with small health vials. You can render the paths after building to see them, to make sure bots… -
Re: 3DS Max Orthographic View
That is annoying and what WarrenM talks about does help. I've been handing this a little different for a very long time and its a little closer to how Maya handles it, sort of. Instead of working in one viewport and switching it I have a 3 panel layout, Top, Left and Pers that I maximize and switch between. I bound… -
Re: Do tuts or not?
'Don't post tutorial work in your portfolio.' Annnd that's a concern :/ I totally understand why though. Just an example of what can be done if one drift from the concept : Helder Pinto work . If a lot of work are done by myself (props , layout, structure etc) , is it that bad to used it until I do another one by myself?… -
Re: Current Gen Character Design Workflow
Once you have your high poly sculpt, retopo it to get the low poly final mesh then unwrap your new low poly model. I use a program called Xnormal (as do alot of other polycounters) in which you import your high poly model and low poly model, then it bakes the AO, height, normal maps etc onto the UV layout of your lowpoly… -
Re: Completed 3D Spiked Bat
Thank you for the critiques everyone. This was made about 3-4 months ago and I realize I have a ton to learn when it comes to creating UV layouts. Next time I will be sure to utilize as much as I can and not arbitrarily lay out things. Also, I'll try not to make lighting look stupid either haha. Anyway, I'll see what I can… -
Re: Yet another normal-baking issue
What does your high look like? You mention your high has a gap? You really should never bake without a proper averaged cage, its just going to cause you problems. So if you're not doing anything weird, it shouldn't be the projection cage that is the problem. RE: A - Make sure you've not only split the edges, but provide… -
Re: What's happening with the AO?
1) it looks like mental ray is fudging up the padding, not surprising. 2) Are you sure you're baking AO and not a diffuse map with lights and shadows turned on? That's pretty weird. 3) Do you have any overlapping pieces in your UV layout? They should be moved outside of the 0:1 space, preferably exactly one tile to the… -
Re: WIP Goblin Scene
Got my textures hooked up, its the same ones I painted a year or so ago so I may still do a few tweaks, especially to the secondary maps like SSS and such. I also started my skin shader, below is a pic of the layout for anyone interested. Keep in mind it uses Directx11 Subsurface scattering. The material is still WIP… -
Re: WIP - Slums Environment
You're building pieces without gray-blocking a set layout, or breaking down down what kind of props, textures and shaders you'll need before cracking open your 3D software. Or maybe you have? Anyway, plan before play is all I'm saying. Starting off your modeling using reference pictures is generally not enough (unless…
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