Science & Industry 2 is the sequel to the once popular HL mod (which can be found here). This time we're bringing it to the Source engine. The code base is comming along nicely, but alas we lack all kinds of artistic talent. Taken from the homepage here : [ QUOTE ] Mappers: Prior experience with HL/HL2 mapping is…
Emissive Mapping to express that the character has some high energy in him,This technique that adds a glow effect to specific parts of a texture. This is particularly useful for creating elements that appear to emit light, such as glowing eyes and cracks in the body. For example, in our character Fiddler, emissive maps…
Hey, it looks pretty good man to be honest. Sometimes when you have been working on an object, since you have worked on every little detail on it, you naturally see every tiny flaw in it. The perception from a fresh pair of eyes will always differ. With that said, I see you are using marmoset for rendering. Unless you are…
OK so here's a basic breakdown of how I built one of the structures for the game. As a preface, none of this is terribly earth shattering. Many artists work in a similar fashion, this just shows how I go about it. The first thing I made before building any of the structures in the game was to establish a texture set that…
Two Listen I appreciate the feedback. You raise a very good point about the "wow" factor somewhat stagnating the visual side of things this day and age and in this case semantics is definitely not my friend. However I do believe that we are to blame for that at large, because most of the beauty elements apart from scale…
I ended up contacting Marmoset support to figure this out. This ended up being an issue with Marmosets current inability (as of at least Nov 2022 when we had this discussion) to pass SSS through meshes whose sides consist of multiple materials. These dragons have multiple udims assigned to them. For example there's one…
Roundtable finished?! Oof, even though I could probably continue on this scene forever, I feel like I have to give it rest for now and do something fresh. Finally created an Artstation project, which I think needs more breakdown images. Also updated web build. Changes I did: * Introduced some normal maps and baked lighting…
questions like this are best asked on the official unreal forums i wont look into the details on this but here is some general information given an input of some float value like an input axis value, that is going from positive to negative you can use a map range clamped node to normalize the value for example, turn a…
@Elytreus Is there a specific technical limitation that requires the mesh be all quads? As Nominous mentioned: Support loops will hold the shape transitions along the edges and flat surfaces are generally uneffected by non-quad topology. Subdivision modeling tends to be more approximate than exact so more efficient…
I would like to learn how you clean and make tileable texture with as many channels as possible. For example something simple like a tree trunk. It is easy to capture. After it is exported from agis photoscan I Import it to maya and make a simple cylinder close to the trunk. Now it gets interesting... I can use maya…