Wohoo!Finished the ecotube yesterday. Learned lots of things I´m going to apply on the next models I make, mainly things about workflow. Here is a screen of it: Tooday I started remaking a Sunsword from the game Dark Cloud on the PS2. Not much ref mat to find, shame I didnt keep the game, but this one'll do the trick I…
Not sure what problems you are talking about? The bake looks very good but the display of the normal map isn't so good because it's a render with standard lighting. Try using a viewport shader to show it off properly, Xoliul has a great one here :) For render pump up the normal map to around 1.6-1.8, leave the bump value…
ok somehow this whole thing was composed out of two totally independent things. The problem in the first image is now fixed (image taken from the ogre engine) as I had calculated the cubemap from tangent vectors what was quite super stupid. (correct would be to use would space vectors) but the error in the 2nd and 3rd…
Hey man, thanks. I got 48.6k tris. I based my polycount in a sledge hammer artist's work here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zDJwZ He had 35.6k tris which I achieved. I couldn't resist the bipod and laser additions though ;) That took another 13k from my pocket... I have some renders of a second prop included in my…
You can remap your "My Documents" to another drive. SSD bang for buck isn't there just yet. Buy some Velociraptor SATA's and run it in raid. You can get 1.5TB HDD's for about $100~$130. SSD don't get fragmented. Get rid of those tiny (small capacity) drives, save some space and reduce heat. Also, SSD apparently have…
as far as i know there will be Armed assault due out sometime this year .. which will be a visual makeover combines with some improvements additions and some new campaign material .. http://ofp.gamepark.cz/news/pics3/armans3.jpg Operation Flashpoint sequel will be a complete next generation title ... from the looks of it…
Thanks a bunch Spark and $inz For the door, if I have a chance to go back to this project sometime in the future it is definitely something I'll take a look at, since a few people have mentioned it now. Anyway, I'm not sure if it's considered a sin to link to a rival message board here... but... I posted a full-size…
Does anyone know of any alternatives to Marmoset Toolbag that is more affordable for a solo/indie user? I know about Keyshot, but that's waaay out of my budget at $400 or so, and I think i remember reading somewhere that Marmoset is tied to your computer by Hardware ID (or that might have been keyshot, can't remember) I…
From a time when gasoline was less than $1. My project for the past couple nights. It has been on my todo list for months. I'm trying for strong portfolio pieces as I send out resumes looking for work. 1436 Triangles each. The image below is rendered in real-time. High and Low poly modeled using XSI 4.2. [Image Updated]…
Due to the modo thread, I quickly added a texture painter to luxinia's resource viewer. You can paint into any texture loaded (very basic painting). The main benefit is that you can work with real-time shaders texture matrices in teh materials and so on. Saving to files is supported for TGA and JPG. painting into the…