There were older games with 3D menu backgrounds :) for example imperium galactica 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrDJTEl2xU. I guess it was 4 years before hl2. In this game nearly all menus are based in 3d space. Another game (I like space games) was X-Beyond The Frontier. All ingame menus were displayed on ship…
@b_beauchamp Thanks for the tips. You're right about the light. I will try to improve it. Thanks also for the compliments. As for cloth overhangs I created a small video of about 5 minutes (I think a video is better than creating a wall of text and maybe not explaining it well) in which I show you the two methods I used (I…
Guys! Thank you very much for feedback!!!! Really damn helpfull! Answering to qestions: 1) I haven't measured it and in task description ther was nothing about it. 2)Work giver gave me refs with 5 different fantasy houses., but they told not to focus on design and concept because what matter is textures and topology. 3)…
this is such a good point. its important to remember that hardware upgrades and rendering advancements are two different things. budgets may increase slightly - however there are already current gen titles that are hitting diminishing returns on higher budgets. higher texel density and tri counts are generally not…
Here is a little update. I am not absolutely happy with the result and there are still some adjustment needed. But I'd like to know your opinion. Is it getting any better? Fixes: 1. Re-modeled stairs, fixed dimensions, added breakage. 2. Moved 3. Lamp, photo frame and flower pot - fixed the dimensions. 4. Added cracks and…
If you did a Freeze Transform on all your bone objects. 1. Turn on Autokey 2. Go to the frame you want to have the bind pose 3. Do a Transform To Zero operation. (In the Alt + Right Click menu.) If you did not freeze transforms. (This only works on the bones if they are not rigged.) 1. Turn on Autokey 2. Go to the frame…
The way you've unwrapped the circular fountain trims should cause seams where they meet heads and tail since your trims don't start and end at multiples/fractions of one. I guess you are aware of that. Just wanted to point this out so others new to these techniques know what to look for when fixing these last 5% of their…
They're in damage control mode. The recent(illegal) announcement of the stealing of perpetuals and 2.80's popularity rise has forced their hand, but as usual with Adesk they still manage to piss people off with their corporate bullshit. These are full versions of the software limited to 100k per annum and single seat per…
I have never used Blender but here is my ten cents... You can create hotkeys to each axis, planes and for all axis. Create custom runtime command in hotkey editor with one of the following command for each hotkey. Write only the command name and number. Then you can switch the axis or plane with hotkey and move with MMB.…
Update Mon. Aug. 5, 2019: Submitted my entry this morning. It has been a good learning process. There have been some challenges along the way but this is what I've managed to get done in time. For example, this was really the first time I did hair on a character model, and I had to come up with something at the last…