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Re: Help me choose my career path
you've got to do the work before you'll really know if you like to do it all day everyday. consider doing a big project that would require you to do all of these different disciplines. This is also a good way to challenge yourself to overcome personal issues and see a project through to the finish. there is point where… -
Re: Perplexed still on low/high poly manipulation
Perna, have you tried doing any hard surface in the latest z-brush? The video OP linked seems like it does a good job for boolean-heavy machined pieces, it could be faster than worrying about topo in 3ds max, assuming the end result will be part of a typical res normal map. Also the mask-painting/booleaning part of the… -
Re: Interstellar
My spoilerfree opinion: I didn't mind the science aspects...none of that bugged me and I loved the conflict of time/speed relativity... But it felt like the film was 1 part Signs, 1 part 2001, and 1 part gravity....and fell face first into a well of self-important storytelling. It was like Chris Nolan had a few too many… -
Re: Question Abouts Freelancing from Student.
First and foremost a good portfolio is necessary, having the degree is bonus candy against other's. Ever thought of part-time work while at uni? I work part time at a small studio managing graphic's & development while i'm at my uni course. Long hours, shit pay, lots of stress but i now have my foot in the door. Networked… -
Re: Sonny's Animation Flip Book
It's about damn time I posted some new work, especially since I'm fairly stuck on a part of my animation. :( The second part of the animation where the character goes offscreen and tumbles back into the frame is still very rough. I've been having quite a bit of difficulty getting this tumble right. So I turn to you great… -
Re: Zbrush UV Master
For anyone running into the same issue that runs into this thread. The main problem was trying to export my object in polygroups to make UVing easier (turning off individual groups). As cryrid said, the model should be one polygroup before export. 1. Model with multiple parts that need to be combined to one part for UV… -
Re: Lighting problem with mesh
So i looked these I still dont understand, in maya i use automatic mapping for the lightmap, I learnt to do it this way from tutorials and and it had worked well for everything else I have done so thats why I dont understand why its got the problem, ive tried taking the normal map off and it makes zero difference and same… -
Re: Low Poly Rocket Base
what minotaur said plus... add a main light to the scene using maxes RT lights casting a shadow... now use this to trace a cut round the main shapes splitting the mesh into two parts a directly lit part and a non directly lit part add a paint modifier and add a blueish m tone to multiply wherever the sun doesnt shine...… -
Re: Normal map seam for games
[ QUOTE ] ...take a bunch of uvs and detach em and put em some place i had left on the map.(got that?) [/ QUOTE ] Nope. Can you be more specific? from those two pics, it looks like part of the arm has normal baked on and part of the arm doesn't. Assuming that is the forearm in the picture. from your description, it sounds… -
Re: Advice for solving various normal map/edge bake artifacts?
Huh, you know you're right. Those parts do need more normal differences. It most certainly would look a lot better with more normal detail on that part anyhow. So I'll see what I can do on that end. At the moment I believe those parts are just basically rounded polys I extruded inwards. So I'm not too sure what I could do…
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