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Re: WIP - Sci Fi Server Room
I think it's time to head into some kind of concept stage where you mess around with colors and lighting to get a mood feel for it. I like the overall composition, it's very nice. It could be a really kick-ass scene. Take the first screenshot and try some stuff in photoshop. For the walls you need AirConditioning/Cooling,… -
Re: Video Games ruining my productivity.
yeah they largely are a waste of time towards your productivity, you can learn a few things if you actively study the right games (like modular design in something like skyrim) but largely its a leisure activity and what annoys me about game companies in interviews is the inevitable bad line of questioning "Have you… -
Re: [UDK] Island Beach Environment
Thanks for the links but i've checked the wiki several times and google too, there are some nice tutorials out there but not a lot regarding Mudbox. What i would really like to know is how to Sculpt a Normal map for a 1024x1024 Diffuse so that the cracks and bumps in the sculpt will match the ones in the diffuse, (i'm not… -
Re: Plea to Environment Modellers
start small. find some cool little concepts for a modular wall panel or prop or something and start with that. also, dont fixate on coming up with ideas yourself, there are people who are constantly doing up wicked object/environment concepts and most will be more than happy to let you use them. its all about getting in… -
Re: DFAO Specular Occlusion - Alireza's Art Blog
Tip 10 - Mask Modifier. It's been a while I've been building a whole library of modular functions that I can plug and play in every material. My initial goal was to save a bunch of time every time I move to work on a new project and I feel like I've achieved it. Once starting a new project, all I'd need to do is to copy my… -
Re: Terrain density and vertex colouring
Thanks Guys. I hear ya Eric! I'm reasonably familiar with the modularity in those tuts, I just don't know much about decals. I feel like its a hole in my knowledge, and I wasn't sure what I was missing with them, what they can do and how they are used. So its not like I think they are this all amazing thing, I just want to… -
Re: Texture Atlas Tools for production?
One reason these are not being developed further is artists have an easy workflow for creating atlased models from the start. It's a pretty simple process, create an atlas, UV your model parts to it, then duplicate those parts to make larger models. It's called modularity, look it up, we have some good links on the wiki.… -
Re: Shipwreck
You can use modularity, but only for some of the smaller pieces - portholes, railings, cleats. You could conserve texture space by modeling individual planks, but this could easily use up your polygon budget. Railings of that sort would be extremely unlikely on a wooden ship. Most would have a solid, waist-high rail. The… -
Re: Skewed Specular Highlight?
Thanks Eric, I've been wondering about this issue myself. If you look close enough you will even spot this issue in UDK. When using modular meshes that use unique normal maps (and use a single smoothing group as a result) I've had issues where specular highlights would not align, even once the normal map was applied. To… -
Re: Backyard Style Environment
I think I will model out some stone slab variations and place them in the scene, as I think it will produce a much less noisy version (rather then just using a flat plane with a normal map) For my next project I was thinking of doing some modular building designs, so I think I will Incorporate a couple into the background…
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