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Re: Tiling baked meshes with arbitrary toplogy?
I've been meaning to ask this question as well. I believe what we're looking for here is a way to tile a piece of seamless square geometry along a mesh in a similar sense to how you would tile a texture. I know this can somewhat be achieved with vector displacement, but that creates drastically more polys than needed and… -
Re: Procedural material library creation starting from real world
One of the major advantages of designer is it's place as a pipeline management tool - this is overlooked by most small operations as its just not that important to them but if you're proposing to build a massive library it may well be a consideration. Where designer's weaknesses lie are that you cannot develop your own… -
Re: Wanting to be Great, struggling when you realise you're not
Managing the scope of a project and guarding against scope creep is one of the hardest lessons to learn. It burned one of my final projects in school, and even now I just seem to be dreaming bigger than what I'm able to put out. I'm starting to work more with modular environments and I think that process alone is helping… -
Re: CryENGINE3 SDK Free-of-Charge is OUT!
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Submaterials should be minimized as much as possible on production, but it's all a matter of balance. Having different sub-materials can also help if used well, like if you have a submaterial that doesn't need shadow casting, just turn off shadow casting in that submaterial, you'll save drawcalls that way; You can also… -
Re: Rural Britan Industrial Age Scene
Hi guys, thanks or your input. Cheers @Design Runner / DietCoke and thanks for your support reference SgtNasty. I intend to put some more love and care into creating some modular wall sets e.g broken, complete and end pieces. I am unsure as to what would be breaking the general poly count budget as I thought about… -
Re: {UDK}- Crash Site Mayday -{WIP}
Rock Sculpts For the Environment there are two main unique rocks, in the sense that they are modular for reuse in the environment, however they have two key placements this is the forefront cliff face and the right side slope rock. Slope Rock This piece was the main piece for the style of the rocks, when used with a vector… -
Re: [UDK] Industrial street
Hey @MGE_PM It's looking really good so far. It looks as though you have used modular assets which is good but it looks very similar all round. Add things to break up the similarities like trash cans, fire hydrants, mail boxes, street signs, construction, cars, road markings(no loading) etc. Maybe even add some props to… -
Re: When to know when your project is complete?
Diminishing returns. When the amount of effort to create something visually impressive is no longer proportional to the amount of time it takes. I've ran into this issue when I'm creating houses for a city. For all the houses I want people to look up close, I spent time making them all look unique. But for houses that were… -
Re: Texel Density
While many things you mentioned are absolutely reasonable it's not canceling the fact that smaller or otherwise bigger texel size has been used in games for years as a mean to save texture space for key areas. Characters faces and hands. Bottom sides of certain objects, cars for example. Backsides of static objects or any… -
Re: Need an advice how to solve distortions on a TS normal map
You have a good point @pior. I tend to make as little UV seams as possible, which I treat like hard edges, so I suppose my order is wrong, although I have the same hard edge intention in mind when unwrapping. Visually, it is easier to set your hard edges first, then set edges. As I think on it, I still prefer setting my UV…
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