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Re: Real quick tree texturing question
Foliage should almost always be a separate shader, and usually a separate texture sheet. In most games, there are separate foliage shaders you use, as well as the fact that when you add an alpha, it usually makes the texture a dxt5 instead of dxt1, which quadruples the size, so you want to keep it as small as possible,… -
Re: crack help
in this example Clark Coots posted the blobs nature of cracks have just been clever hided by some other straight pattern. But once you need to do just asphalt with some cracks , without dirt and other hiding patterns you would instantly come to a problem . Besides usually you can't put such style of a texture in a real… -
Re: Need portfolio critique!
You're not going to aquire the design skills to design cool stuff if you avoid doing it because it "will look crappy". Its gonna look crappy until you practice it enough, then it looks good. If you always avoid it, its just another skill you will never have. I think you need both. Designing is not usually a character… -
Re: Technical Artist - a poll.
yeah, i would agree that a technical artist is usually not a rigger. that's usually called a Technical Animator, Character TD, or just character rigger. I find the hardest part of being in the field is negotiating salary. maybe that's just me. usually companies will try to put you in the artist range, when in-fact, most of… -
SOLVED: Quixel Suite keeps crashing
Hey everyone. I am always struggling with this program especially how it keeps giving me errors trying to do anything. Usually what happens is I start it up along with my student licence CS6 Extended and load up my maps just fine. Usually from this point on I can work fine but eventually when I need to save it will crash… -
Sculpting in Zbrush
Every time I sculpt in zbrush I get that blobby look and even though I have tried many things, masks and what not I get the same bad results. I don't seem to be getting it. I usually start with the no subdivisions, detail as much as possible then go up slowly, but I usually end up going high and not getting good looking… -
Re: Raiji - 2D Character Design
Hi @Kinaya . Great work! I have some inputs categorized. Presentation: 8/10 Your approach of creating a rendered front, flat back, and a face is more than enough for a 3D artist to determine what they're looking at to produce. If you're showcasing a character for gameplay. Facial expressions isn't that relevant. Usually,… -
Can a model have multiple clothing without clipping?
I'm starting out again with low poly and I always had this doubt even though it's usually ask but usually a not complete answered is given. If I have a naked low poly model and I want to add a shirt it's impossible to not make it clip throw the body? how do games manage to avoid that, do they hide the body underneath with… -
Re: The Struggle of workflow for games
If you don't have a clear idea of what the building should look like, then building a blockout is a good idea. It's usually a good idea to do this for a game level too. But usually you can use just boxes and simple shapes to make the blockout, not worth the time to make custom detailed meshes. You shouldn't unwrap any of… -
How would you set up a beauty shots? (Props/ Marmoset Toolbag 2)
So I'm mainly a prop modeler, and I think they come out decent, but I have been told that a great presentation shot can make an average model look awesome. The way I usually set up my scene is to drop my mesh in the scene, set up my lights, camera, camera settings and use the ambient sky setting for the background. I…
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