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Re: My First Video Game Character!
Geo is for the purpose of having your model deform correctly. That, and for getting the silhouette of your model down. As such, usually a ton of the geo should be in the face, to capture the minor facial movements and deformation. Take geo out of the legs that doesn't contribute to the silhouette. Take geo out of the… -
Re: 3ds Max "Make Planar" tool.
Sounds unable to do perfectly/automatically in default Max, IMO. Usually, when want make amount of given vertices planar, there's 2 way to go. * Simply use Make Planar in editpoly command panel. (Only for world axis - x, y, z) * Use scale to 0% by object axis (usually is) Z.* This's more useful than the Make Planar… -
Re: Creature Tutorial
Cheez- yeah awesome dude...and very talented, I've learned a lot from him! he has tons of stories about off the wall stuff! @Shiniku- sure thing man, i'm a lurker so I rarely contribute and figured this would be a good way to share... and who doesn't love Carlo's work! been kinda busy today and slow to reply... i spoke… -
Re: How many days does it take to model a weapon in triple A game company?
this kind of thing is difficult to quantify... someone with 2 yrs of just doing this sort of things will usually have all the relevant techniques nailed down all the required assets at hand (stuff like recreating knurling on grips and knobs can tricky to get right even with experience), is going to need less time than a… -
Re: Portfolio advice for getting into the Games Industry - Character Artist
One advice I'd like to share is that once you have a 3D character that demonstrates process and technical details such as high -> low, UV mapping, texturing and presentation, for future models I would focus on making detailed high res sculpts that show anatomy and also include creatures and hard surface characters. The… -
Re: Quick question, the cost of alpha blend.
Ask GPT about "alpha test" , "screen door alpha" , "alpha to coverage" speed tree uses and "Hash alpha blending" Blender uses . Might be useful for your topic too. Games hardly use classical alpha blending at all . It creates z sorting issues and calculative expensive. Some games also do alpha channels with gradients and… -
Re: Sketchbook: dii
Guess I should update this with the colored image @Naugat: Thank you! I do have a blog but theres less in it than this thread 'cause I delete stuff often. xk0be: There's pretty much no ref hunting for stuff like this. If I were going to make something more realistic or if it needed to be in a specific theme (like "Warcraft… -
Re: Maya LT 2017, extract/separate messes up mat IDs?
I have an old thread that relates to this, but I never really went back to update my findings. Short answer is that per-face material assignments in maya are fucked and have been for a long time, there's lots of operations that can sneak in and cause the issue. Short solution is to use this script instead of separate, you… -
Re: Need feedback design power abilities - Student
Welcome to Polycount! Yours is more of a game designer question, but this whole forum is mostly for and about game artists. Usually for game artists, the visual quality of the asset is what matters most. The backstory/abilities are not required for this, but they can help if you're looking for inspiration for creating your… -
Re: Zero Gravity - PBR IBL Environment
Thanks! It took me a little time to really get into this whole shading system. I studied a lot and watched some real materials. I think I got it but I could be wrong :) So basic idea is that you don´t bake stuff into texture maps like before you did. Right values are the key for realistic results. The main concept is that…
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