I haven't used it since the November build, but here are some of my notes from back then. Be aware this might be wrong now, as the Landscape system was under heavy development at the time. * The height map creates the terrain shape. * The alpha map creates a mask for the layer. There is a different alpha map for each…
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110622 https://www.facebook.com/groups/384300828319114/ https://www.facebook.com/events/501891803176515/ The meetup is happening Wednesday the 27th at 6:00pm at Lefty O'Doul's in San Francisco. It's walking distance from the conference and the location is a restaurant/bar.…
Life if Pi took 120 million to create. It made over 500 million worldwide. So please tell me. How are profit margins low? Meanwhile R&H goes out of business. Lets not pretend that there isn't any money. People need to start asking where all the money is going.
hmm, my Knowledge about Maya is Zero. :P here you have an example, you can straighten the normals with PS or any good image editing tool. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50516
Doing some more work on this. I've made it so that if you drag a light that's pure white into the scene and tweak the color temperature slider, the intensity stays the same (as is reflected in the luminosity of the image.) The intensity of the light will not change no matter what the color temperature is, unless you go…
That barrel is waaaaaaay to highpoly. Even the LOD1 is. You have so many loops doing nothing for the silhouette at all, you got bevels on pretty much everything. You can, no doubt get this down to 500 tris without any big difference. Just remember what you normalmap is for. [Edit] Just looked through your thread and…
These brass binoculars are often painted up http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/world-war-two-german-army-officer-s-binoculars-vintage-brass-leather-32962342.jpg its more unusual to see the hinge made from brass since brass is a very delicate material they are usually made from steel or iron.…
@hptware: I wanted to give the program a try, but as soon as I click on "new", I get this error message: Runtime Error 501 - Image number illegal at line 452. I'm using windows 8.1 (64 bits). I runned the program in administrator mode. I also tried to run it in windows 7 compatibility mode, but it gave me the same result.…