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Re: Opinion/Help on Geometry.
Objects can be made up of multiple elements, Perhaps the terminology is different in Maya, I don't know. The buttons as floating geometry would be a good example, they'd be a part of your character mesh, but still separate, thus not welded into place. The problem with you joining everything together is that your edge loops… -
Re: Constructive Criticsm, The Right Way
I would suggest cutting out alot of the 'fluff' in the article too, I loved the example you gave of "Tag" criticism which looks like something that belongs on the back of a box, vs. one which is more engaging and describes the specific issue, the two paragraph's in between could have very easily be compressed to "Here's… -
Re: Custom Gloss Maps
actually it's better to lerp than multiply. if you do a linear interpolate, with a low value of 8 (in channel a) and a high value of 256 (in channel b) and use your gloss map as the alpha, it'll give you a much cleaner result. the reason for this is that your gloss map has values of 0-1 with 0 being black and 1 being… -
Re: Dropped Babies - Game Developing
Find someone who can design games and come up with good ideas. I'm sure you've heard of programmer art? Well this is Artist game design. I'm looking to BE a game designer, so I will post an example, banking on the fact that I have many more ideas that I feel are good, and I am confident there's someway I could prove this… -
Re: Wills and Wonders screenshots; likes and dislikes
I think its mainly lacking in general typographic consistency. For example, on that last screenshot of the 'resume game' screen why is there such a big space between the banner/heraldry and the game stats? And then having the "Saved Game 2" crammed up in the top and corner of the box. Spacing is big issue on all the… -
Re: How do you make a road normal map?
Standard conversion through CrazyBump and then using output as a normal map could gives nothing more than a visual noise. Method should depend on: -game type -camera type -output resolution of the screen- for mobile devices it's even not worth to bake so tiny details. More, that will look bad. example of bad normal map,… -
Re: Hand painted textures progress
Looking good so far. My suggestion would be to put a fake sun in your texture with an arrow of direction so you can use that as a guide. Also look at the concept and try to understand what they are conveying in the forms, for example the lava shapes look like they are pushed into the handle so they have a dark shadow… -
Re: Hand-Painted Goblin and Dragon WIP
The models are both looking nice, I like your designs. The textures need more love though. At the moment the saturation and brightness of the skin for example equally bright all over. What you could do is to create a focal point, the face for example and have the rest a bit darker. See this; As you can see the hands and… -
Re: Crysis vegetation and speedtree
In the end you get the same thing essentially. However speedtree lacks the artistic hand that a hand made tree would. Many engines though, unreal for example, make use of speedtree as a integrated solution that in ways that go beyond simply "making" a tree. For example speedtree can randomly create a tree with given… -
Re: max 7's default lighting.. why...
[ QUOTE ] How do i disable the default lighting? [/ QUOTE ] Adding any light into a scene turns off the default lighting. But for a professional presentation you don't really need any fancy GI lighting, take a look at Bobo's site. It's mostly just viewport screen grabs, and I think it looks very professional. But for a…
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