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Re: How do they do the creases movement on games like Fifa?
One way to do it, is to have two sets of normal maps, one wrinkled all over, one unwrinkled all over. Then you can store masks in the vertex color channels (or use an actual RGB map) to define where the wrinkles should appear, and use the bone rotations to drive the fade in and out. It's not something you can readily plug… -
Re: (UE4) Sci-fi Colony Bunk Room
Awesome work man! Really appreciate you putting up the scene for us to dissect and learn from. Just wondering if you had any tips on getting such smooth looking normals on your meshes? By default max does a terrible job with the normal weighting and you get gradients all over the place, and even using an area weighting… -
Re: EVE-style Exhaust in UDK
There's a LensFlare object that's basically a billboard yeah. It looks to be based on the same code a particle system is but just one plane (uses a lot of similar naming conventions/etc. in the script) You might want multiple lens flares/emitters layered up, some blocked by line of sight, some not, so you get that nice… -
Re: Level Designer, Game Designer and Technical Artist - Portfolio Critique
All of the foliage and ground textures in my levels were sourced from the marketplace, so I don't have anything to show in that respect. I've been focusing solely on the functionality of my current game project, so mainly visual scripting/blueprints. Thank you for the feedback. I'll need to figure out how to make the… -
Re: Maya - Focus on Vertex/Edge/Face with symmetry on
For me, it doenst work at all but I think I did it wrong, because in the video it works. Anyway, I binded the script to a hotkey and after using the combination he jumps into nowhere and the rotation axis is completely off. Hard times switching to maya :D Maybe it doesnt work with Maya 2017? EDIT: Okay, sometimes it works.… -
Re: Specializing or not ?
I'd agree with that list, if it's film I would put Nuke in there as well as Mari, picking up a little bit of scripting will help you out too, something broad like Python. It's important to focus on the texturing side while knowing and continuing to learn the basics of the other programs. Things like UV'ing, SubD and file… -
Re: What treatment does Crazybump apply to displacement map ?
Wait, are you talking about using basic tools/filters in photoshop to get the same result, or writing custom plugins for photoshop to do the same algorithms? Obviously, if you're talking plugins, you can sell those too. My point was that the OP is unlikely to set up a script or action using basic tools/features in… -
Re: Splash Damage art test, too
Small update. Adjusted the levels of the AO I think it looks much better. Fixed the normals. (I had to learn some how..usually the hard way) I may have a dew small tweaks left but I plan to move to base color and textures next. As always crits welcome :) (Yeah the sizes of the screen grabs are huge...playing with the… -
Re: Need some advice on a new work laptop
http://www.msimobile.com/level2_productlist.aspx?id=6 I've got one of the MSI GS70 laptops. I use it for teaching game art and animation. I recommend MSI pretty highly. There are only a couple of issues for me. There is no Windows key on the left side. (Which I use a lot.) The Home and End keys are FN buttons. (But I just… -
Re: Robert Rodriguez's Predators
Oh, I wouldn't go THAT far. This movie wasn't great, but it wasn't the same kind of train-wreck that the Transformers movies were. (especially the 2nd one) Probably the biggest problem I saw was that it lacked structure. The script almost seemed like a lot of it was being improvised by the actors. Action movies live or die…
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