Steve you legend, thanks for sharing all of this, will defiantly bookmark it! I too share a love in making foliage and I will use this for inspiration. Keep it up!
This thread is so inspiring, you learned a lot since your first post, it is motivating ! Also thanks a lot to post yours tricks and techniques to achieve this, I learned a lot ! Thanks
Damian!!!! Thank you for your comment! Without you good sir, my love of foliage would of never become a reality. Your 3d motive tutorials ROCK (which I really respect) and your portfolio work is my biggest inspiration as an environment artist. :D Thank you everyone for the continual motivation :D!! I love polycount.
My first attempt at sculpting/baking a rock. I need to add rocks/cliff rocks to my foliage level, and I was inspired to start making some by my good buddy I Fought A Bear’s rock thread!! Rock on! hahahaha …... :p Only AO and normal maps at the moment. Oh and… TRIM SMOOTH BORDER BRUSH RULES!!!!
Thanks for all of the tutorials and pointers. Your work is very inspirational. I'm prepping to make a scene similar to Moraine lake in Alberta,Canada. Lots and lots of Subalpine Firs to be found there. This thread will be very useful! Also, I just received a great book about trees called "Seeing Trees". Really…
I love your foliage, it's very inspiring. I have a question; would you always tile the bark texture or would you every map it out uniquely? Obviously a unique/thirded etc texture would be much more expensive, but you could work some really nice variation in to it. I guess with a tiled bark you could always still overlay in…
Thanks ZacD :D! I will test it out with more polygons and compare it to my original polycount. On a seperate note.. I realized google wasn't getting me the photo results I wanted, and I needed a break from the computer. So I recently went on a hike with my good buddy, I Fought A Bear!! Super great time, and gathered a…
ParoXum...THANK YOU! Your feedback really really helped. I already have a gameplan for taking my environment to the next level. I am going to get started on introducing a more diverse ground plain with roots and pebbles, rocks, etc. What I have done so far though... I redid my grass and I am starting to add more realistic…