Hello guys. My question is software independent, technique based. So, If i were to have make an open world game and i make hundreds of people in my modelling software, and when things would come to make a face solution that can be compatible with sharing 1 animation across hundreds of models, and lets say i wanted to make…
Man, thanks for pointing out, this is a super helpful discovery! In turn, I can add that Maya also has a hidden remeshing mode, which turns any mesh into a uniformly tessellated triangular mesh - kinda like Sculptris Pro in ZBrush. Just select a mesh and execute this python code: import maya.cmds as mc
It's not that I don't want to do anything with math at all. Imo old Max plugin just had a nicer balance. After all I don't want to code all those modern physical shaders with energy conservation etc on my own. I just want to make some specific layers blending , Z depth combine and texture animation and show it HLSL…
Material mode only allows you to plug outputs in coresponding outputs. Most nodes don't have a specific usage attached tot them, so it's not an issue, but the AO node has an AO usage to it, so it will only plug itself in an AO input or output node. On the bright side, that allows you to right-click drag and drop the node…
It really depends on what you do. With apps that are multi-thread well, many cores (as long as the sum performance of the cores is better) tend to be faster. Apps like xnormal or offline renderers like Modo and some others that can properly thread will tend to work better with more cores (assuming similar efficacy).…
Kind of a modern day Voynich Manuscript, the Codex Seraphinianus is getting a reprint on Oct. 29th. I only found out about this book in the last few months but I love weird stuff, maybe it's a mutation from too much Escher & Dali exposure as a child. The price isn't too shabby either:…
I was wondering if anyone here who uses Blender has ever come across a custom material node probably made by someone that allows you to blend up to 10 materials and mix them using masks. Like Vray Blend materials? Because currently Blender mix shader only allows you to mix 2. This is very useful for very complex shaders…
MRV is an open-source multi-platform python development environment to ease rapid development of maintainable, reliable and high-performance code to be used in and around Autodesk Maya. MRV adds a lightweight convenience layer on top of the Maya API exposed to python, correcting inconveniences and sources for common…
Hi Polycount! :) It’s been a while. So a while back I posted about being laid off from my last job as a Lead 3D Artist. I am sure I speak for many people here when I say that I really really dislike the job search. I interviewed at many of my “Dream” jobs/studios. But unfortunately I never had a chance to get past the…
Apple also adds a few mb after you submit the app. Our game Santas Delivery was around 45-50mb before we gave it to apple. It is now a 60mb file from the appstore. This doesn't always work so well. We did this for our first released game and our WIP game Espionage. LOTS of work needed to "port". I can only comment on Unity…