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Looking for a mentor/ career advise for a beginner 3d props/environment artist
Hello! My name is Diana. I have been developing in 3d for the last two years with ups and downs. It started with a 3d generalist course then a lot of youtube self-help videos, then tiago klafke's environment course on gumroad, some non-profit projects, some attempts to sell models on sketchfab. So it all lead to portfolio… -
Datasmith for games
Does anyone here used datasmith files for games? What about optimisation and workflow? I have a huge model exported to datasmith (pretty similar to Hillside Sample), and I'm figuring out what is the best pipeline optimizing it for game -
Baked-Bevel-Trim Workflow__How to unwrapp complex models?
Hi everybody. I am working on an environment and I wanted to try to learn this method I saw on a post by Matthew Trevelyan. You can see his post here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qQGK6y I understand the basics of a trim sheet. I have used it for basic walls or decals or simple shapes like cylindrical pillars and… -
Re: UE5 workflow ideas - texturing high poly meshes
I know that blender definitely lets you paint vertex color directly, and it also supports multiple vertex color channels, here's a quick sanity check to make sure I'm not spreading BS on the forums. Just subdivided a cube to get sove verts real quick, I guess it qualifies as programer art at this point. Basically, if you… -
Re: Best Texel Density for AAA MMO?
This is a common question that pops up a lot, especially from beginner environment artist, and it always confuses me because it seems to suggest there is a big workflow problem that, as far as I am aware, doesn't actually exist? For instance, lets say I make all of my environment pieces, and I just want them to look good… -
Re: Texture atlas texture creation confusion need some info (examples in post)
Atlases are made from packing a series of smaller textures into a larger one. Their main purpose is to make dealing with many small textures easier for the artist, and to improve performance (loading one larger texture can be faster then loading many small ones). Textures that are packed together in an atlas should have a… -
Re: Here or CGHero?
Hello ! "I can't use blendshapes\shapekeys for it due to some of the engines I want to work with not them. I need the facial rig to be driven by bones." If I may say : this too is a bit of a backwards way to look at it ressources-wise. Let's say that you get that model done, with all kinds of bones for facial control :… -
Re: How to Choose the Best 3D Software for You
The Mad Artist: Have you read the article? I changed it to reflect the criticism I received here; I think this represents Max more fairly, as an industry standard package, but also reflects my view that if you're going to learn 3d software, there's other, better options out there, and the main reason you want to learn Max… -
Re: HELP U.V
Both yes and no, but in this case, I think no. In my experience, there's rarely a single correct way of doing something. A decision either nets you A or B, or somewhere in-between, but rarely both. Poopipe's viewpoint is correct in that the further away you view this from, keeping the all the UV edges as straight as… -
Re: RichMakeGame Devlog
cheers! here's some progress shots of new environment generation method I'm working on: ( I'm mostly cobbling together example scripts at the moment, but it will all come together as something interesting hopefully! ) here's me getting a landscape generated via heightmap: now I'm using a smooth algorithm because the…
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