Hi Joe, thanks for the response. I did see if I could work some solution using the refraction mask, however because my jewel material relies on the Dota specular setup I couldn't find a way to incorporate it along with my gold and red metals. Maybe if I can rework my textures to feed into the dota specular setup and still…
Been said before but: Find an artist you really, really, like and mimic perhaps even clone a piece they've made, this will help you understand what you need to do as far as quality is concerned. I took a look at your liked images and there you'll find what you like and possibly what range of details and quality you want to…
anyone happen to have data on how various engines handle certain items such as spec? Couple ideas i've had since are plans to add a toolbar and have the render technique selectable through there. Thinking also of realtime ambient occlusion as well (sorta curious about it and want to learn) I'm trying to think of a new way…
@Gauss - lol I hear ya. For a bit I was starting to wonder if I bit off more than I could chew. All the details are definitely the hardest part, just deciding what to model in the low poly version, and what to represent with just normals etc. @TitusS - thanks! Hopefully I'll have more to post tonight or tomorrow. When I…
haha wow been a long time since I updated I've been alot more busy than I would like with moving to a new place and new city anyways I have an increasing amount of props being put in everyday and I keep watching the movie over and over again trying to come up with new props to put in however alot of the item are very…
"Form over function" is such a cop out though. Why does working right automatically = boring? There are so many real guns that look incredibly cool that all function properly. Function dictates form and function can make very compelling forms. In a game or not, that is a terrible excuse. I'm sorry my critiques upset you, I…
I have a set of uv alignment scripts you can assign to hotkeys here: http://jhaywood.com/maxScripts.htm Chuggnut's Turbo Unwrap plugin was made for Max 6 and so won't work with 9 or above. If anyone here can contact him, maybe try and get him to do a recompile for the newer Max versions. And the older script version of his…
thanks miles, I dont think I got the problem thats going around, but im just locked out of mcafee for some reason. I got a prompt saying update mcafee now due to this issue blah blah blah and so did and it required a reboot, now im locked out of mcafee and in the task manager it is running but the memory usage is far lower…
Hey every one sorry for the long delay had RL issues that came up. So after everyones crit and reading and viewing a few post and some of the advice on poopinmymouth. I redid the base once again and believe it has a better topology. I'm showing both that I have done due to one has beveled edges (advised for normal mapping)…
Thanks for the comments adam. I agree completely with the hotkeys and have added it in here: http://al.chemy.org/forum/planned-ideas/topic12.html There are currently some hotkeys you can use if you hold your mouse over each item in the toolbar, it shows in the tooltip. I think when the toolbar is attached it could be…