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General question about textures
Hi everyone, I recently started dabbling with Unreal 4 and Substance Painter and came across something that I don't know much about, so I came here for an answer. Basically, I'm working on a mesh with multiple objects and therefore requires multiple materials. In Maya I have separated my mesh by assigning different… -
Questions about the game industry
Hello, I am 23 years old and live in Canada near Toronto. I have been thinking of pursing a career as an Environment Artist for games (through self teaching) and as well as working on 3D art for film/television shows. While I do want to pursue this field I do feel quite a bit of hesitance on my part due to the nature of… -
Re: The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge: Judgement!
1st iam717 https://polycount.com/discussion/237071/brawl2-character-r-m-iam717#latest Its a hilarious mashup, love it! A lot of thought process went into it as shown by wips. I particularly loved the small details like portal animation, dice with punching gloves and 'pain' written on Kuato. It also shows nice UV layout and… -
video card recommendations
so was planning on getting an RTX 4070, costs about £517 brand new. saw one on ebay for about £400. do you reckon this is ok for a general work , bit of rendering , running unreal, blender etcMy current 2070 is ok, but getting a bit dated. Will the 4070 have the same connectors/slots? -
so what is substance live about anyway?
I asked the support a while ago only got some vague answer, now I'm about to upgrade from 4 to 5 and it brings me down to this again, from what I understand is upgrade to live is cheaper and better than upgrade to a single app in the normal way? am I correct or not, and what's the catch of live? so let me refine the… -
Question about creating a character modeling reel
Hello, I am wondering something about creating a character modeling demo reel. Do companies like it better when you create models based on concepts done by other artists since that will be the same process in a large studio, or is it better to make your own concepts for your models, since that shows your own creativity and… -
May I ask some questions about game outsourcing?
Hello everyone, I am a Chinese game artist, may I ask a question about game outsourcing. Nowadays, China has too many game outsourcing studios and companies, is Europe same as Chinese game outsourcing market? If you like please add my Skype, maybe we can share something too :) Many thanks for your help my Skype… -
Re: Various questions about UV mapping (Splits, overlapping, flattening cylinders...)
Greetings, I thought of answering some of your questions. 1. Do you mean bake normal map? For normal texturing overlapping faces is a great way to increase texture for a surface, so if you are able to overlap faces and think that it would work, then sure. Go for it! For a normal map, sure you can overlap faces, but it is a… -
Confused About the tools i should use.
Hi guys! I have a doubt that is struggling me in this period, and it's about what software should i use. The question is when it comes to build the portfolio it's easy because i just use the software i'm more comfortable with, but it comes to work inside a studio they have their licenses and their specific software! So the… -
Should I be worried about this warning message?
Hey guys, had a quick question: I have to manually apply a material to an already placed static mesh that was imported with multiple materials applied to it. I figured out that I can go to the static mesh properties(f4) and update the mesh there and it seems to work fine. But I see the following warning message when I…
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