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I'm on my phone right now but you can find distance field AO on their site. There is also Voxel GI (but that requires a ton of GPU power). I never saw the need for AO maps after that provided you want to build a game with those specs. For games built with Xbox one or mobile phones in mind then it's out of the question.
At a glance they are certainly identifiable as the appropriate material type, however I think you could push the normals and specularity/gloss more. For me all the materials look clay-like. Your yellow metal plates texture might be too noisy when tiled across a large surface. How do you make your spec maps?
Looks really good. The only thing that bugs me is that the plant looks very incomplete. It needs good normal maps for the leaf veins and specular. Also I am guessing you are using emissive node for the cube maps which can be lowered a little. Or maybe breakup the floor spec values. Other than that, the lighting is just…
Got some more tweaks from a few mates and calling it finished. Final touches include roughed up the the closer concrete and tweaked the spec for some of the pipes. Thanks to you all for the advice! You've all been very helpful. Look for the ode to the community on the far back water tower. :) last minute edit to the…
I think the biggest problem you're having is that you composite together a diffuse, throw it into crazybump, and then call it a day. Your spec, gloss, and normal maps are all just as important as your diffuse. Just because you have textures on your model doesn't mean they look good. Quick and dirty texturing can actually…
and no motherboard on the planet supports more than 1333MHz without overclocking. any time you buy RAM that's rated past 1333MHz, what you're actually paying for is RAM that the manufacturer has tested at an overclocked spec and it hasn't died, so they're "certifying" it at the higher speed. also, you won't ever notice the…
No Tyson please don't! Vert lighting? UDK? What's the specs with this Fletcher? Love the reuse of the textures. That can go a long way. Looking forward to when you think this looks like crap like your awesome zeppelin tower. You killed this man! Really love the color scheme and overall love you poured into the textures and…
Here she is ! I did some modifications, added a spec map ( but I don't like overpowered specular so it's soft ), feathers... I need to duplicate the hair and test the physic in the engine ( Fresh Engine ). The Puppet will have physic too. And now... setup and animation in Maya... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ! I will do real…
eric your model looks really nice, good job. I think you could add another pass on the Diff and maybe enough spec just to make it all pop a bit more. Also play with the proportions because i think with some tweaks she could have more interesting shapes. good look with your entry :)