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Re: When should you know that a mod idea is too big to be done?
Absolutely yes. If it involves next-gen tech and total conversion the chances you'll finish or even get close becomes near zero. And if you do finish the quality will most likely be atrocious, even compared to the dated original. Why? Good modelers and programmers don't bum around on moddb looking for ways to not get paid.… -
Re: [Riot Art Contest] - anglorum
Reply by anglorum · · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Riot Art Contest› Riot Art Contest - Environment ArtThanks man, I love your work as well! So far as the reflections and stuff in the metal, it was just down to out-n-out hand painted-ness. I did some very basic AO bakes for the bigger Inhibitor (nexus maybe I dunno) but for the smaller one, I did an extensive amount of baking and had a high poly and urrytang. But the funny… -
Re: Able to draw, born talent or hard work
but justin if I practiced for a thousand years I wouldn't have the concept skills of bobo or nick carver so why pretend otherwise. I hate giving people false hope saying yeah you can practise and you will be a top notch artist. you do need a certain amount of natural aptitiude to get somewhere in art. it's like some folks… -
Re: Going to College for Game Art
Yeah, do not go into a "game focused" degree track. Just don't. I did, I figured it would be like a comp-sci program with specific attention paid to the needs of realtime simulation, but it was really just a bunch of courses built around commercially available books and very very low depth. Save yourself the money, or… -
Re: Hard surface modelling and prototyping at the same time
I do concepting and prototyping a fair amount in 3D. I would say the way to do it is to work simply - just focus on simple geometry and your proportions, shapes, relationships, and structure of the parts. Details and beveled edges aren't necessary in this stage. As the design evolves, I may add some smaller elements like… -
Re: StarWars Dark Forces Inspired Game Art
Mask_Salesman: Thanks! -Memex-: Thanks, sir. I actually agree with you completely. I've toned the leather down, both in brightness and amount. I've also scaled the background of the joysticks down as well, and tried to minimize the amount of the view they obscure. I'm also making an effort to make the ui cover the space… -
Re: lowpoly from highpoly zbrush
Your base mesh is not ideal, you don't need random edges and details on it, a simple box with evenly spaced geo would have sufficed. Let the sculpting app do the sculpting, worry about topology later. In doing simple box base mesh, you're saving time, making it easier to work with and most of all, your mesh won't need to… -
Re: Performance issue : Bake those chains!
Well if you use Unity you can do some tricks with it. Also if the chains are static you could easily go with number 2, the trick is to merge all chain parts together so you have just 1 mesh for the entire chain. This will cause unity to just have 1 drawcall for it (+ the ones for material, etc) the meshes are not that hard… -
Re: [FOLIAGE] ~ My fourth attempt at making trees, I'd use some critique and advice...
@Shyralon The tutorial you linked me was awesome, truly helpful, it gave me a wagon of useful information, you nailed it!! THANK YOU!! ^0^ Time for some more review, please, I truly need feedback.... @BIGTIMEMASTER @Joopson @MizuhaMD @Flight @Ashervisalis ; It took me a few days of awkward approaches, to devise a workflow… -
Re: uwrapping tapered object help
tbh this mesh isn't even all that tapered - i reckon i'd probably lay it out perfectly straight, you will probably get a little distortion but you'll be able to paint in straight lines on it which might even come out looking better, and be easier to texture in PS. I don't think Japhir is right when he says straightening it…
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