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Re: Are Environment Artists Qualified To Work as Level Designers?
Man, this has been so helpful! I really appreciate it... I'm glad I asked, as I'm seeing there is often a big divide. I have several months until I apply for school, which should give me time to decide whether to apply to the art track or the design track. Sorry for so many questions, but just to make sure I'm clear, is it… -
Re: Using face weighted normals for normal map baking
Those long thin triangles are no real issue in my experience, at least on pc\ console. I think I pointed this out either in the fwvn thread, or in some related, user made thread. Its like a scary tale for kids. There is little truth in that on modern hardware. Not sure about how is this on hand held devices, but I would… -
Re: Creating seamless and unique environments - My final university project
SnowInChina, breakneck, brandoom: Thanks guys :) samcole: Glad to hear you found that useful :) Now, be aware that this will only help you lay out the major shapes; there is still quite a lot of sculpting involved in getting a decent sculpt out of it. Oniram: Thanks! My focus is on making things easily reusuable. So while… -
Re: 3rd Year University Student Portfolio Advice
Regards to the Sci-fi scene in your showreel, I know you don't want to be an FX artist, but you might want to edit that hologram effect in the center, its quite a well know tutorial and kinda looks a bit odd that it explodes into the room. Might be worth just having the sphere bit rotating and drop the Explodey bit. The… -
Re: Portfolio Critique Please.
I think your issue is the job role, prop artists are very competitive, you know how many guns recruiters get to see on a daily, people like to know you can create any kind of weapon an artist might present to you, so you either need to be really creative, or be absolutely meticulous with following a blueprint for a real… -
Re: Capture grass
https://medium.com/@EightyLevel/preparing-realistic-grass-in-ue4-8bf54b1fa01c https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nx0Yo You go outside and pick good grass specimens. Then you throw them into your photogrammetry setup, create the scans. Pack the scans into an atlas. Then use the atlas as modular assets to build your grass… -
Re: How do I go about texturing small environmental assets?
It is good to do a test first to figure out how you want to batch things together. THere is a lot of variables involved so it's impossible to find the right combination from the onset. Get stand-in textures to represent the main elements you'll be working with. e.g. a tiling brick texture, concrete, metal, glass, etc.… -
Re: (UE4) Palace of the mountain king
Came back determined to finish this. When i started it i didn't have the knowledge on how to efficiently do it,I thought i had to unwrap and bake HP/LP for every individual piece, but now i'm gonna try this with tiling materials and trim sheets. After that comes the environment stuff which i have no idea, but i'll get the… -
Re: Da Dawg Bowl - New Generator Library Release for Substance Designer
Back to the scene now, I've got a modular building layout done and am working on finishing the first four pieces. It broken up into: facade, 1st story, 2nd, and the roof. This is using all realtime lighting due to my great frustrations with how limited baked lighting is. I'm considering making a breakdown of best practices… -
Re: Character Artist switching to Environment Artist?
This is a bit off topic, but you bring up an interesting point. I'm an environment artist, been one my whole career and really have no interest in switching. I find creating generic male A or Female B a tedious and boring part of character art and oddly enough find the tedious parts of environment art still fun. But my…
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