Hi guys i am new here as a user but have been visiting the forums on many occasions to check out the inspiring work you all have and useful links that help each other in accomplishing a project. I am writing a dissertation on modular workflow for university and would like to kindly ask any of you reading some questions…
yeah thanks alot Eric. Hey Ott, i know you from 3DMotive and have seen almost all of your videos, they are really well made and the modular workflow is something that actually got me started into this subject, thanks alot to you guys. I have seen this dissertation and followed the progress of it a while back when the…
Not sure if you are from the same school, but another student named Scott Jones discussed the same topic on a very robust white paper awhile back. We wrote an article about it on 3dmotive :) http://www.3dmotive.com/awesome-white-paper-on-modularity-in-games/
hey Mark Dygert, thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions, this will be a a part of the research and i will make sure to reference you in this :) Thanks again Edit: yeah i had seen your script a while back and was amazed at how it creates city blocks, parks and roads in a matter of seconds, it seems…
Since it looks like you need people to answer these specific questions I'll bite. Saves time. I could waste weeks building unique city blocks and hallways or I could create a few dozen pieces and then mix and match them to create new unique structures. Often when you create one piece it can be turned into a bunch of other…
Your professor probably asked you to question people directly, but we also have a category for this on the wiki. These articles distill a lot of the info you're looking for, from some very talented people. http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryEnvironmentModularity
ahh i see lol silly me, mustve read too fast where you said itll help to know some scripting and i then clicked on the link assuming you had created the ghostown script, i got confused lol but thanks for the link!
I never wrote GhostTown. That was an example of what you can do with maxscript if you get deep into it. The news post I was referencing was about simple ways you can use maxscript to help out your workflow without knowing much scripting at all. You create user grids by going > Create tab (little sun/starburst) > Helpers…