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Re: Monthly Environment Art Challenge - Nov. & Dec. 2016 (45)
@william21984 I'll try to answer some of your questions about the weapon. - I've made the steel plate of the grip with less curve than the grip itself, just make it as flat as possible without breaking the overall shape. - The bolts are regular flat head bolts, the shape you see is the way the artist adds sharpness to the… -
Re: Help - Color management in maya 2016
For the two more general questions: Why are there so many color spaces? - Color spaces are 3d spaces described relatively to a reference space that encompasses all human color vision. These are usually either XYZ or LAB. Because all of the mixing and rendering is maths, each tiny variation in size of a given color space… -
Re: sci-fi control console asset.
So like others have said the green on everything is a bit strange, but that's pretty easy to fix with a few hue and saturation changes here and there. On a base level you've got a good idea going but I know you can push this model further quite a bit. Lets start with the texture. The metal is old and rusty but only in some… -
Re: UDK - Material - Rotate the Pan
Ace... the masking thing is.. bizarre. It makes no sence from a data or code standpoint. HLSL wise the component mask is equivalent to the swizzle operator (.) so a green mask is just variable.g a float value, a scalar, doesn't HAVE a g channel by definition.. so it has to be cast to a float3 or float4 then operated on by… -
Re: Abstract skybox creation
So assuming you want a cubemap instead, then 3d paint on a cube is a good idea. However, I'll give you another option. Open up Photoshop and create a new document 3x as high as you want the resolution for one cube face, and 4x as wide. Be sure your grid is set up to be power of 2 friendly. I recommend the main divisions… -
Re: Material displacement looks jaggy
Like I pointed out above its very inefficient to use tessellation on that surfaces. There is a cool trick though but it would lock you to use this as a modular piece, which I'm not sure if its a problem but it definitely works very well, even though the topology will look rather funny. But it doesn't matter since its a… -
Re: Decal Guns
yea, the LOD issue would be easily fixable if most of the large/medium forms were done with geo with custom edge normals, and then things small/micro details like screws are done with the decals . on almost all the models above, the decals could be dropped on an LOD more than a meter or 2 from the player, those grenades… -
Re: Textures - Specular Level vs Glossiness - What What?
Just some extra info: Blinn, phong, oren-nayar, shlick etc all have diffuse and specular implementations. Most often you'll be seeing a lambertian diffuse model with a blinn or phong specular. Blinn's model is an approximation of phongs, and can be made to look identical with differing exponents. Also that specular… -
Re: Untitled Pirate iPhone Game
Thanks for the kind words and feedback so far guys. I'll address somne points and we can work on others :p I'm curious why you have redundant textures. You've made two walls [with the windows] that are nearly identical. Same for the triangular eve pieces - mirror the uvs, not the texture. I assume this relates to the… -
Re: What sort of shader could win this contest?
My goal was to create a cool looking shader (main judgment criteria is "Aesthetics: Does it look cool?"). You get to a point in a no-man's land writing shaders where you have to do something more complex than the generic shaders out there that cover 99% of all surfaces with minor variations, but aren't mathematical enough…
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