I'm looking for some general advice, and you seem like the people best-able to help. I'm fairly new to the UDK, but I do have experience with several other 3D engines, with Flash/Actionscript, and with OOP. One of the most difficult things about teaching myself the UDK toolset is that I don't really have a sense of the…
Greetings, I have been doing some 3D sci-fi character concepting work
using the subdivide/turbosmooth modifier with smoothing group separation. It has been pretty handy at getting quick
mock-ups done. I like having the ability
to unwrap the lowpoly and sketch out some surface details for a quick and
non-destructive…
Hi everyone! I'm finally trying to take a step back, and get a professional / complete mindset on my entire workflow to be a little bit more profesisonal in my work. I've always had some holes in my knowledge for 3d, so I'm trying to clear those up. Retopologizing: How do you do more hard surface retopology? There's a few…
Bitcasters Inc. in Toronto is seeking a talented young web designer to produce an interactive website for a game that is to be distributed free to kids. The website will be used by thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of youth across the country. This is a non-profit project in partnership with the Canadian…
Hey there! I'm kinda new to SD (and to this cool forum!) and I'm trying to create color variation for a simple tile texture. the logic is that I want the user to pick how many color he want to have, and add weight sliders per every color. here is an example for hard coded one with some histogram select: The issue here is…
I know there is grab brush that saves depth as alpha and rgb separately but you have to do save two times instead of just once. It's extremely annoying and also when you try to record this save in a macro action it often does less than the whole document for some uncertain reason. My guess probably by exactly same frame…
Sub D doesn't matter. Animated sub D matters. Low poly doesn't matter. Animated low poly matters. If it smooths properly, who cares? Your example above shows three edges converging to one so normally you would merge the other two, but maybe there is a reason for the three. There is a guy here who does a low poly of his…
Hi! It looks like you may have made your model in zbrush, and the model itself is pretty messy, which is not helping you out here Things like this draw attention away from your textures and give the impression that you didn't want to spend the time to clean up the model. Did you do any research or find any references to…
So following on from my AMA post a while back a lot of Polycounters have contacted me and asked for folio critiques. Most of those asking for help were students or graduates and there were a lot of similar problems with their current folio. So, I thought I’d take some time to share some insights here. The purpose of a…
Hello everyone! I cannot figure out the issue with polygon edges being seen on the low poly after baking. Here's the high poly and low poly models (Blender). These are the seams and sharp edges that I have now: Once the baking is done (Substance Painter) and a simple layer (just a color or a variation with roughness…