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Re: Advice for Beginner Artist
Sorry, but I don't agree that as a measure of success - unless you are specifically applying to a studio using that package (which you can't guarantee right now as you are just starting out and need time to learn and build a folio). You need to have good fundamental knowledge of core techniques and a strong, carefully… -
Re: What's happening with the AO?
Mark, arent they more like general baking issues than AO issues? Baking any ray traced shaders is much faster in mental ray. If you want a light tracer style render you use Final Gather and put a low distance high spread AO map on top of it. its faster to render and just as smooth. *If you're trying to bake in a particular… -
Re: Outliner 2.0 - Scene management tool for 3ds Max
More thoughts ! In the case playing with instances is feasible, can we imagine a way to indentify objects that share the same mesh ? For example, here, when you select an instance, all the same instanced objects get their name colored or in italic. Other instanced objects remain just in bold. don't mind the fucked up font,… -
Re: Texturing + shader help needed !!
Aside from the obvious issues with the underlying character sculpt which many have commented on and before you even start really playing with the shader and getting a good SSS result you need to further work on your character's texture.. It's lacking detail as it seems you've just used a soft brush in Photoshop and blocked… -
Re: Using a normal map for beveled edges along with tiling textures for bigger assets?
Poly count isn't really an issue nowadays, they are fairly cheap on modern hardware. Lots of games use this technique, more or less extensively. You don't necessarily need to have all edges soft though. Or you can do a combination of baking pieces that would otherwise be too highpoly, and apply bevels on corners of… -
Re: [UDK ] Sci-Fi Facility WIP [first post]
Alright I'm done some classes for the week and and I'm going to be updating some stuff over the next couple days. Thanks for the replys so far, very motivating. Oniram: I added a few more lights in this update trying to blend the colors more snake85027: Yes i totally agree, I had jsut finished Melancholia and it had rubbed… -
Re: Displacement Map Seams (zbrush, scan)
Photoshop does something to EXRs. I don't think that it fully supports 32bit floating point EXRs. Just flip them during Bake or in Max set Bitmap U or V value to -1.0. Akin Bilgic created an awesome tutorial on Accurate Displacement map workflow = http://www.cggallery.com/tutorials/displacement/ However i've gotten near… -
Re: Question about browser viewer
If something is unclear then surely you should ask them for more details on what to do? What are your responsibilities, exactly? When you say "they asked me to do something like that", do you mean make only the models or do the whole 3D widget? If it's the latter then that would involve web development and if you've never… -
Re: Some general technical questions...
Thanks for the replies. Definitely clears some things up. One more question regarding the Substance texture linked above...I think I wasn't clear. I have been doing game art for a while now. I have built modular kits before, and have made textures in Substance Designer to apply to these modular pieces. Sometimes multiple… -
Re: Paul-Improvement Thread Doing some VFX! Critiques welcome
Thanks @pmiller001 these screens helped get a better idea. Nice work so far, your ref sheet is good, but also has a pitfall that there isn't a central piece being followed from what I gather. -1) Edges on armor are sharp, maybe you are keeping it like that for the editing phase, final should be rounded off and apply some…
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