wair, so you're saying that games are using GI, radiosity and/or final gathering nowadays??? Is it ALL pre-baked in to the textures and vertices? Is the character later lit real-time with a different, simpler set of lights? (I am also an aspiring game artist, and I have thought about going the environment route, but it…
The repeating textures are pretty good. But you should really tile more the 4 times or more to really see if it'll work. Environment texture are often tiled many times, like up 7 or 8 on the PS2. That bigger line in the middle of the texture on the right will stand out when it's tiled more. The biggest problem with the…