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Re: 3DS max UV packing
When it comes to assets of an sort of complexity, I do all the UV packing manually. Firstly I unwrap each element and move related elements near it into little mini-groups, and then I pack all the groups into the full layout. Auto packing generally sucks, so you gotta do this by hand if you want an efficient layout. Also… -
Re: next gen woes?
we'll definetely see some fake realtime GI so, and I wouldnt use the word never the dynamic ambient occlusion demo by nvidia and the stuff about spherical harmonics was already quite nice to see. as for the topic, I am currently more on the "tech side" and its fascinating what you can do with the shader stuff, indeed most… -
Re: Witch Hunter
the intention is great, but i think the problem lies in the fact you tried to put too much personality by pushing his facial features too far without a solid base skeleton. you can only push the (super)facial features if you pushe the skeleton first. and you can not push the skeleton if your base skeleton is bad. the… -
Re: Unreal3 TOON Shader Network Creation?
i'm in lack of time to recreate the whole tutorial and gather the source files, i don't have them anymore. If its the math thats too hard to understand try http://www.khanacademy.org/ he is awesome and can teach math way better than any teacher i ever had, he can show you why you do things as opposed to brainbless repeat… -
Re: Looking to buy an entry level DSLR, tips?
Ha, Poop, I didn't think this would happen, but it seems that I might actually end up getting a 20D. There's a used one at B&H, and I am going to be in NY for about 10 hours so I might pop-in and if the condition is good enough I'll get it. I went to the store today, to hold stuff, and I almost bought a D90 with some… -
Re: New article - females and the industry
Funny thing is I work for Her Interactive. 50-60% of our staff is female so my slant on this rant is a bit skewed. I'm kind of tired of this male vs female games rant everyone gets stuck on. I look at it more of a "drunken frat brat game" Vs "a game with a good story or compelling game play". I guess I have to lump myself… -
Death Star Sensor -- Photoshop-ing Booleans Tutorial
BOOLEANS SUCK. model When you use boolean operations on your mesh in 3dsMax, verts are invented out of thin air, topology gets jacked up. Or you could try modeling the entire thing Zbrush with Dynamesh, topology be damned, but here’s a more flexible, less destructive workflow. Using Photoshop, heightmaps can rapidly… -
Re: Male Character Base
Thanks for the feedback so far guys :) much appreciated here is an update of my restart what do you guys think? Also polaroid29 I know I jumped up sculpting levels to fast I just did it to get enough pixles to put a basic face structure down as it was built from a Z sphere and I couldnt get the landmarks for the eyes/mouth… -
Re: Next generation to arrive in 2012
The biggest problem with going onto the new generation compared to the last one is there is honestly no HUGE visual difference between what we have this generation and next. Going from PS2 you gained pixle shaders and had the ability have things like specular/normal maps. It DRAMATICALLY changed the way games looked. What… -
Re: Shader trouble.
ok so I pinched code from here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96874 Shader "Custom/test" { Properties { _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {} _roughness ("roughness", Float) = 15 } SubShader { Tags { "RenderType" = "Opaque" } CGPROGRAM #pragma surface surf GIR_SPEC #pragma target 3.0 float…
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