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Re: Answered: How to increase UV padding for newly created smart materials?
Another solution is to ALT+LMB the mask for the layer group in Photoshop so the mask is visible. CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+N, ENTER, CTRL+V, then use the Magic Wand to select the white areas of your mask. Select -> Modify -> Expand -> X number of pixels -> Fill with white. Try to avoid filling over other areas of your model's… -
Re: [HELP] Learner struggling to fill my knowledge gap - Substance Designer
Depends on the shader technique. If you're using tessellation then more geometry is being created on the graphics card at render time in a tessellation shader. Tessellation allows you to move points away from the surface or into the surface, it also tessellates based on how close the camera is to the surface. If you're… -
Re: Character workflow question (number of meshes/UVs)
Oh I just found the answer to my problem! By Eric Chadwick "Hair usually uses a separate bitmap, for two reasons: 1. alpha blend renders more slowly so you limit it to just the parts that need it 2. when you add an alpha channel to a large texture it greatly increases the file size in memory, so it's better to add an alpha… -
Re: Work and gaming notebook
Let's say it like this, I am traveling a lot and I need to have a mobile device which can handle my work as well as my passion. As 3D Work (for Games) and gaming requires kinda the same hardware I thought I'd just buy a decent gaming laptop with more RAM and a decent cpu to be fine. I got my eye on this one: Schenker XMG… -
Re: modern day model polycount
Define your target plattform. We are still stuck in the XBox360/PS3 world. Modern video cards are 10x more powerful than Xbox360/PS3, still all modern games target first the XBox/PS market, then the PC market. Addtionally we had a shift in rendering technology in the last decade. From forward rendering to deferred… -
Re: WIP Bracer (16 year old newbie artist)
My first rendition (not quite complete) of Link's bracer. The stencil for the top detail was apparently pretty pixelated, so I'm going to go into GIMP and add some blur to it to see if I can get a smooth look to it. Once I turned off smooth positions in mudbox the geometry stayed the same when I added the new subdivision… -
Re: LPC vol2 #4 - TRON
Neat challenge! I'm thinking of participating. I've got a few questions about the rules/specifications: 1. Is the use of vertex color allowed for lighting/shadows? 2. Is a per pixel gloss map allowed to complement the spec map? or is that too high tech shader wise? 3. Can we breakup or combine the two 512s worth of… -
Re: Character Art - Homeless Traveller
Some people are soooo picky sometimes. That's when an environment artist like me gets to come in and just say, I love it! I like the facial expression, and I really like the white eyebrows (he doesn't have to be old, he could be an albino homeless dude for all we know). Even though some may be picky about every pixel you… -
Re: Does Substance make sense for props within low end game projects?
People generally dont use substance live in engine because it's incredibly slow. There are cases where it's used as a preprocessor to generate content at install or whatever though. You're sort of on the right lines with your thinking. if you have a fully layered material system you can output hundreds of basic materials… -
Re: Gran Turismo 5
I've put a good 4 hours into it so far. Personally, the difference between the premium and standard models isn't that big of a deal, and barely noticeable - expect you lose the cockpit view which is a bummer. but you really expect 1000+ cockpits? hell no. Some weird graphic bugs I'm surprised they left in (i.e. bad…
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