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A new texture site has popped up, texturepilot.com if you've ever found CGTextures.com useful, you'll probably want to check this out http://www.texturepilot.com/ It comes in 3 flavors: * Student - Free downloads up to 20 mb per day. Pages will display with ads. * Pro - Download up to 250 mb per day, for EUR 149 per year.…
Torchlight 2 now has a Workshop on Steam! http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=200710&browsesort=trend They've released their GUTS editor, which lets you create custom mods, items, animations, level layouts, item skills and so on. Check out the GUTS wiki for more information:…
Hi Folk, I made this Character few weeks ago for an Arttest in School. I hope you have some feedback and ideas for me so i can improve myself. It's my first Post here on Polycount so even if the feedbacks refers to the post and presentation itself. Tris: - 8.780 (Character) - 4.742 (Monster) - 992 (Base) More Pictures…
+1 for Dj Krush! :) [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ONa6IYgLE"]Visit Venus - Brooklyn Sky Port - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31f_DnNRRDI"]Visit Venus - Zoom - YouTube[/ame] [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82qB1raCkU"]The Herbaliser- Put it on Tape - YouTube[/ame]…
What about Modo's Reduction tool? Keeps form while reducing mesh resolution, preserves UVs. Probably not nearly as "magical" as Simply polygon but at the very least its a lot cheaper and doesnt rely on a cloud. $10 a month (or perpetual $299) if you go with Modo Indie on steam, Indie limitation is 100k poly export but that…
[ QUOTE ] Last PC game I bought was HL2, before that Q3. There is yet to be a PC game that has impressed me beyond these. [/ QUOTE ] You didn't fancy any of the hundreds of PC games that were relased between those 2? Are you looking right? If you're only into PC shooters than there were at least a handfull of games which…
+1 If you can, try to get pretty much all edges beveled through normal maps or geometry. They will help catch specularity and as sprunghunt mentions, help the readability. The exceptions would be edges which would really portray sharp edges such as the edge of a knife or something similar. I bet that 99.9% of all edges in…
LOL You were thinking that someone was doing an art dump for a game that was released in 1999? I mean I love Rare too, but that just seems funny. Especially since they got absorbed by MS in 2002! And in Lee's defense, I did tell him I wanted the textures to be single colors as I was originally planning to go with a much…
You can add a MeshSelect modifier on top of the LinkedXform modifier, select new verts and add another LinkedXform. You can even use soft selections in the MeshSelect. LinkedXform is a legacy tool that was created before the Skin modifier existed. The process above is how I used to "Skin" characters back in 1999.…