alrighty. I decided to break out the "insane graph editing stuff" after all since nothing else was working. I created a control mesh which was basically a flattened cylinder but with the normals preserved (so a flat plane with a round normal surface) I baked normals on to this control mesh from a flat plane, so in max the…
Even at $180 dollars its too much for me right now(sunk too much money into my desktop). This is all in comparison to what autodesk offers students. I still think adobe fails. But that is so true about photoshop never crashing. but I am so use to max crashing, I just save all the time. SO I did mess around in Gimp. I have…
Update: Ok got it baking the highpoly vertex colours ok in xnormals with out having to explode the mesh but, i came across this post that might help other people out in the future, will try it myself at some point. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1850064&postcount=8
This is a well written article as well. http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/09/10/14579 A True Hero Gets an Apology Timothy Kincaid September 10th, 2009 Turing There are not many people who have changed the course of political history or impacted the day to day lives of nearly every person on the planet. Alan Mathison…
It must be for you, because i only saw spots, and fat brush strokes i fail to identify as real forms. It's worse than to have blindness, or seeing everything blurry. That brown/dark shape under her arm, is supossed to be a hand? and where are the folds of the clothes? what is she carrying? I think it could be a matter of…
From what I've seen so far it is hard to find good resources for realtime vfx as it is basically a mixture of a lot of different disciplines such as lighting, shading, texturing etc. However, here are some tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwKQyDZ4ark And his blog is pure awesomeness:…
Work in progress of my beauty shot for my folio.... not done yet, but its 2:30am and im tired. for my final beauty shot im just going to paint her hair heh. The gun and sword models are not Replicas from the game I know lol - Thanks to Haikai for letting me borrow his Desert Eagles!! I forgot to mention, shes ranges from…
Hey guys, I'm currently working on a tool in Unreal Engine to achieve this effect. Its still a WIP but I'm pretty pleased with the results. I made a post about it here : http://polycount.com/discussion/181140/unreal-4-terrain-blending-tool-inspired-by-star-wars-battlefront