How to combine 32-bit displace maps + Not Enough Memory OVERRIDE Displace Map Generation - 4K 32-bit EXR with highest settings - from one apparently too large subtool = ~22 million polys gives the error Not Enough Memory with Multi Map Exporter, despite my PC having a lot more than 4GB RAM. (I don't want to retopo into…
Hello Polycount. I am back with another update. After recovering from burning out, I have been hard at work again but think I might have to delay this for another month to actually finish it. I just want to get it done and move on to greener pastures at this point. Feels like I've been working on this forever. I have made…
for rendering... looking at cinebench benchmarks will probably be most revelant. Every machine I have owned put together in a renderfarm does not equal the power of my personal machine. ( 12 heavily overclocked water cooled i7-980x threads ) which still renders 20% better at stock speeds than a 2600k and is only 10% slower…
wow! Thanks for all the kind words! Let me see if I have this forum syntax correct. @warby - I agree. I was really surprised not to see more higher quality alien art. It seems like a really good midlevel modeling challenge, and it's such a cool IP, you would think it would have more of a presence. There is one really…
My latest approach to baking better and cleaner maps (especially normal maps). Credits go to both Prophet9 and Nannou for sharing their knowledge with me. Note: This is based on 3DS Max. Sorry maya/Blender/Modo users. Though I guess someone can pick up something useful from this. Previously, I used to make cages from base…
Welcome! It's looking good, I really like the concept nicely done! a.) I see a lot of welded mesh, which chunks up the tri count. Make sure to count tris because polys can have many triangles and at the end of the day most engines are counting tris. It depends on what engine and workflow you are doing but quite a few…
Technology At the beginning of the project we looked into existing engines for Flash, including a technology developed at Soap for an unreleased game called Ninja-X, and the Citrus Engine, which is built on top of Starling and two physics engines. Neither engine turned out to be suitable for the games need. Citrus was…
Welcome to the 'Retro 3D FAQ', a thread dedicated to sharing information about the creation of 3D art for game consoles made before the age of programmable pixel shaders. If you enjoy the look of 3D games from the 90's and early 2000's, and would like to learn how to make such art yourself, this is the thread for you! :)…
2D and 3D guru's. Not sure if this is exactly the right place on Polycount, but I would like to show my horror game project; Tower 22, hopefully to find some help from creative talent here. I've seen the Beat 'm up! entries (ow good old memories), so I know this is the right website to look. Seeing is believing, so let's…
Rock "Crawler" :) Loooong time lurker, first time project post, trying to get over that hump of being terrified and intimidated- I gotta post this if I'm going to get feedback and get better. If gearhead talk bores you, scroll right past this text and look at the pictures :) Here's a huge writeup fueled by coffee- if you…