By mesh do you mean the high or low poly mesh? The cage must fully enclose the high poly mesh otherwise you will get ray miss errors. There is a quick video that covers the process here: https://marmoset.co/posts/toolbag-3-texture-baking/ And more extensive tutorial covering all aspects of the baker…
Thank you for the kind feedback! I didn't even think of Destroy All Humans until you mentioned it - I used to love that game on the original Xbox! :) When I first started this project, I wanted the entire city environment to somewhat closely resemble one of those miniature model cities, which hobbyists build. This to some…
I feel like there's a lack of curation when it comes to tutorial content for game art. There's thousands and thousands of hours of content, and they cost thousands and thousands of dollars, but there's no tutorial reviewers or great rating systems. You never really know what you're going to get unless they have an…
I'd like to ask another question: How far back do you go with your folio pieces and to what extent can you show your development overtime? If your last environment is behind the quality of your current environment, do you leave it to show how you've grown, or take it out because it's lesser work? I believe quality is…
Yes of course, cracked scripts are out of the scope of this conversation, I'm on about strictly free to use or legally licensed scripts only. I was just curious because my friend is under the impression that most studios force their artists/creators to only use the base vanilla programs, to some extent I can see it. When I…
You have done something that seems quite common for people in the beginning, which is going into high poly too fast, I mainly mean the body, it seems a bit rushed to get into detailing before the basic proportions have come into place. It's a mistake that I did myself for quite a while and probably to some extent still do,…
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Hi! Now you say it... yes! I used the Save as function to test if I could save the same project with different parameters in the materials and see if that duplicates the .psd files or uses the same ones. I started having issues after I did that. I probably installed it in a different path, as the default path was not where…
as a small computer that you can travel with they beat net books hands down. Also all the apps that are coming out that turn it into an extension of your computer or entertainment center, etc... make it a perfect multifunction device. At the end of the month Time Warner is coming out with an updated version of an app that…
I believe MAX was first out on the scene for game artists. Maya came later. I see a lot of the senior aged artists at my studio and other use Max extensively to model. I was brought up on Maya, which corroborates to me it came out slightly later. I also think Maya inherently doesn't have the modeling tool quality that Max…