You're running into the limits of the voxel GI resolution unfortunately. For GI to work, the scene is voxelized (turned into a bunch of little cubes, you can see what this looks like if you turn on show voxelization), and the resolution is limited to an area that fits to your entire scene. I think at max quality this is…
Here's my feedback about the topology : On the organic parts it's gonna be easy, just remove loops and add some where needed, don't be affraid to create triangles, it's totally fine if this part of the mesh doesn't bend in the opposite way of the triangle. On the hardsurface parts there are a lot of completely useless…
Use 16-bit images. 8-bit images can have only 256 different values per channel, and because heightmaps are in grayscale that leaves you with only 256 different possible height values.
You know of Hannes... obviously, you lurk over on conceptart so its hard not to. Now, compare the volume of your work to his, relatively speaking your updates are lacking ... right? I don't know where you're getting; "I don't see when you established that my updates are lacking. Most people seem to disagree." Why set the…
Thanks guys for all the responses, I appreciate it. As for the over detailing in some areas, I do see how it is/can be a problem. Earlier I did scrap a few objects and redid the floor because I it was drawing too much attention to itself. I tried to add as much detail to any object to bring it to life and made itself…
I've had a couple semesters worth of study at my local community college (3D Modeling, UI design) and I thrived in that environment even though the curriculum and instructors were both pretty underwhelming. 3D Art has blown my mind wide open. Unfortunately that school didn't work out for me but I've amassed an unhealthy…
Well, on some days things like the new Outlook/Word/wordpad "improved" UIs can really make me sad - especially when I have no other alternative to use. Of course, their article "makes sense" - but it also filled with what I like to call "bad good ideas". Yeah, right ? That seems to make sense, and whoever wrote that down…