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Re: Gas Pump
There is a pretty common misconception that if you can save a few tris by using alpha, its worth it. This however, is quite misguided. 1. If you're keeping the alpha'd bits on the same UV layout, you're going to DOUBLE the texture memory on a compressed diffuse texture. A 24 bit .dds is 1/2 the size of a 32 bit .dds 2. The… -
Re: Normal Map Errors in Max
Due to my impatient nature I did a quick mockup of your model. Hope you don't mind and it's of course a very reduced testcase so it's most likely not valid for all situations. I simply put some chamfered boxes and cylinders together for the "High"-poly.Please ignore the lazy uv-layout also Though the highpoly is lacking… -
Re: Zdepth - maya - why have you forsaken me?
Toast, not sure, I've got everything I needed to working in Maya's mental ray without any troubles? I mainly used to use the Light Tracer in Max so I don't really have much point of comparison. Maya 2011's implementation of Mental Ray seems a lot more solid than Maya 2008 (which is what I've been using for the past 2… -
Re: Autodesk smarts
yeah, they hide all sorts of tools, and make broken tools very visible. that old mirror tool is completely broken, and yet its STILL at the main UI bar, which is completely ridicolous. its messed up the rotation axis of countless objects i've made, along with destroying the Xform. nowadays i only use the mirror modifier,… -
Re: [portfolio] Laurens Corijn
This stuff is very good for someone who just finished school. Your foundation is definitely solid, even though you make some mistakes that we all made when laying out our first portfolio. The main issue is that you continue to use way too much texture space. Custom specular maps are also not noticeable, and you could… -
Re: AT-ST W.I.P
So with this kind of big (compared to the player) in-game asset it is pointless to create a high poly version of the model to generate detail for the normal and texture maps ? .... or did I made mistakes when creating the UV's for it. Here is the Low poly UV layout Few words about it.... basicly I followed a guideline that… -
Re: Who's the original artist on this piece? (Possible plagiarism?)
I have talked about this with Sean for a few days now and told him to post it up and let it be known. I know about the discussions between Sean and Sam and can say that the Sam doesn't seem to be very reasonable or even care about the issues presented. It's pretty easy to see that the models on Seans are a bit higher in… -
Re: [Portfolio] Daniel van Leeuwen, Environment artist
Hi elementrix, nice and simple portfolio website, good job. I agree with the others, change the title font, it's too hard to read. Like REKLAS said it should be "A handpainted dungeon". I would make your contact button change color on hover, I didn't realize it was clickable until I accidentally clicked on it. You should… -
Re: Boss Character project for Unreal engine, WIP
Hey, got back on this, started some modelling, I'll begin picking up pace now the designing part is pretty much done and some uni deadlines and such have cleared off. At the moment I'm trying to get the right anatomical layout for the creature, the scaling of individual bones and the skull etc I haven't quite made a… -
Re: [WIP] Sewer
You should look more into polishing the materials. So far it looks solid but it doesn't feel next gen like Unreal 3 or GoW. A lot of it comes down to how you use your spec and a combination of subtle normals with hardcore grunge. Unreal material editor is very powerful and you can make the simplest of textures look…
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