More screens of the final environment: More can be seen in my portfolio at http://www.johnvalentiart.com/projects/4314225 @ShootandRun : Thanks! I'm glad you like it and I'm glad it helps! @Shoy333: Awesome thanks :) I am looking forward to making more stuff!
There's a plugin called QuadQuick that offers this functionality, but I haven't used it personally so i can't offer any opinions about how well it works, or version compatibility. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=4344
Where non-floating mountains... from rain and snow that comes from the sky. Calabi, read this about the science background... http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43440 Also has links to Pandorapedia and the Pandora filed guide book...
Hey crasong, I found a whitepaper http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4385136&tag=1 Dunno if that's available to you or not. I was able to get it through my university id. If you can't message me and Ill try and grab a copy of it. My first guess would be to make a depth map and basically if anything is…
I think the most important thing is that the normals, weather they are sculpted and baked or created with something like nDo, are appropriately simplified / exaggerated to match the visual style you're after. This guide also shows some interesting applications of baked maps to achieve a stylized look:…
There's a lot of things if you look at it at extreme angles its reflective, even things you wouldn't expect like roads and bricks, sadly this is the best example I can find right now http://www.carlespiles.com/artwork/431-2/
Oops. If you want the mesh to match the location of the spline, use the World Space PathDeform modifier, not the Object Space one. OS should put the spline to the mesh location, while WS does the opposite. http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/16/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/files/GUID-47EA2253-C097-434A-82AD-B13E2DE10C6C.htm
Person makes a mod for a game and charges. Game updates, breaking previous mods. Bunch of people wasted their money unless the mod creator updates their mod, or simply resells their mod for the updated game. This person is selling early access for their fishing mod:…