Sorry I havent been updating recently, been trying to get as much as I can done! Based on feedback on the textures i further pushed the contrast in the masks, and added a green tone based on the ambient occlusion: Think it makes a huge difference! Further environment development...Ive built more individual buildings that…
Watching the ff7 remake, i just notice part in the environment where theres tons of 'pipes' for scaffolding and railing. But its instead of cylinders, its actually squares, but the way the edges were textured, gives it a rounded appearance from an angle. Kind of like your fallout cement edge optical illusions. I think the…
If you're going for a comic book villain, I'd say you're missing the bar. EVen though you're just modelling him in a generic pose, I think that by default his features, anatomy, and position (to an extent) should all reflect what he's going to be. Right now he's definitely pretty 'average joe' looking. In fact the…
Thanks for the feedback. I don't think I'm actually that far off the traveller concept, he'd need to be armed if he lived in a hostile world and that was the intention - and I pushed it a bit over the top as well. In the concept he does have a satchel that I haven't yet modelled and I was thinking about a bag of some sort,…
I think part of the issue is your 18 and your looking to go to school and you see this awesome game design school whispering sweet nothings in your ear and suddenly the cost is irrelevant because your so pumped/naive. Its not really until the end of the program when you realize holy shit its a lot harder to get a job doing…
The weird folds around the knees are caused by the improper shape of the 2D pattern inside Marvelous Designer. The shape of the pattern should closely follow and wrap around the shape of the 3D avatar, which is especially true for jeans. I suspect that the patterns should have a small depression around the knees to tighten…
You are absolutely right that we have to account for minimum spec PC. And if you look at the diagrams this things were tested on as low specs as 1ghz CPU with GeForce 2 to GeForce FX5800 and Radeon equivalent. And they show a free 10-200 tri gap even there. Are your games even tested for comparability with such hardware…
The City and the City by China Mieville. My first experience with Mieville's writing. It's a strange one - a police procedural which very gradually reveals its science fiction elements. I'm pretty sure Mieville is making some kind of social commentary too, although I haven't quite worked out what the message is yet.…
I'd recommend learning both. They're different things for different purposes and both are useful. Python is relatively flexible, cross-platform, libraries are easy enough to install. However, it has a fairly unique syntactic style that can be at odds with other languages. Garbage collection is all handled for you, too. But…
Update: Added some details to the jacket. Also decided against having two hands in favor of a giant syringe-arm-extension, because why not? Also simplified the mech-foot to not have as much repeating clutter. Gave all of the metal plates a hard edge since the face, hair and folds a very angular. The thing on his shoulder…