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Re: Mr Gelmir makes a dreadnought
For rigging purposes, you can make a blockout mesh in ten minutes that contains joint locations and rough shapes, and pass that off the the rigger while you run through the high poly. What you are doing won't fly in a production environment, it will just confuse everyone as to what is actually going on with the model, with… -
Re: use combined textures or not?
It is always better to pack these into the channels of a single texture, because you reduce the amount of needed texture samplers in the material, and because its much less video memory. Imagine you have a separated roughness, metallic and occlusion map. Texture still uses 3 channels but it has the same information in all… -
Re: Can't believe I am asking this.. (udk related)
Yes you are right. Lightmass does not like overlapping on the UV channel that will be used for the lightmap. For example, if you have 3 UV sets, the one that you have assigned in UDK to be used by lightmass, must be the one without overlapping, the others can have whatever they like. So generally, people create two UV… -
Re: Can anyone take a look at these scripts?
All the needed files and exactly the same directory structure, though? This script looks like a one-off thing, when anything changes, it breaks - it expects not only exact names of everything, it also has to be placed in the right directory for it to work and all the matlibs (each containing one material; fixed order, if… -
Re: Whats most commenly used and why (maya vs 3ds max)
Well Max is a more contained package than Maya and tends to suit smaller studios better. Most features in Max seem to work better out the box. Maya a lot more clunky imo and needs MEL knowledge to make the best of the package. I'm not saying go can't use Maya on a small team, as I know there are small teams out there using… -
Re: Is this good way to make PBR textures?
The most important things are: - Albedo should contain no lighting information, no AO, no edge highlights, and should be based off real world measure values. For metals this is almost black. gloss/microsurface/roughness - This is typically the most detailed and has the most contrast, put stratches and wear here. This value… -
Re: Looking to improve my techniques...
Not 100% sure what you mean. Do you have troubles making the alpha work, or do you want a way to have transparency without an alpha channel? For the first issue check that you have saved it as a 32 bit TGA, 24 bit doesn't contain the alpha channel. For the second issue you could have the transparent areas be a very unique… -
Re: Failed
I was suppose to display this yesterday, but I managed to mess up one of the cameras during rendering :P So I created 3 versions based on the recent feedback session, and I am still not sure which version is the best direction of this piece, but I hope to pick one soon and then create an absolute final version. The final… -
Re: Member idea for the Polycount Wiki
Is there anyway of hosting the actual content on the wiki, like having the images and break downs hosted in little tutorials on the wiki, instead of just links to threads and external pages. Keep the links to the threads - but also have a self contained, and polycount hosted wiki version - because there's nothing worse,… -
Re: Crysis 3 environments
I was using a lot of already existing stuff for the level art in the riverbed. For the big Cell structure was just a few new textures needed the rest was already in the game and in a very good quality to use. To get a more unique look of the level we had to create some special props like the rusted ship containers. If…
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