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Re: Direction & Advise Request
Environment artists as a specialty are more rare than character artists. Just take a look at the number character entries into BRAWL there are, compared to the number of stage entries. You are more likely to find work as an environment artist, and speaking to recruiters, they say that environment artists are under… -
Re: Upgrading or building a new PC? This is the thread for you!
I am looking at getting a workstation for Maya 2018, After Effects and the Adobe design packages. This is what I am looking at getting for Professional animation work and rendering. Model Identifier: iMac16,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2,8 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache… -
Re: CryENGINE3 SDK Free-of-Charge is OUT!
hey thx for answering HP. I got another sorta general question. I know from UDK that it was always a goal to minimize the number of materials per mesh. I checked through the crysis 2 assets and have seen that they use a vast number of materials per asset. Like a house facade is using like 10 materials, a lamp stand 4… -
Re: Hand Painted Assets. Critique/Help Plz!
Number one has a toon shader on it and number two still is kind of flat in my opinion. You can push the colors a little more in yours from your lightest lights to your darkest darks. Even a three color hi, mid low would be a good start then you can start overlaying some other colors. You can use your smudge tool to get… -
Re: (Texturing) - How to keep a 'straight' texture on a curved mesh (see pictures)
Even with a cylindrical re-projection, you'll still encounter distortion where the surface slopes down towards the bottom, because the radius gets smaller. And you're trying to cram the same number of divots on it. For an accurate projection, you'll want to model the divots instead of attempting to map it. Then bake the… -
Re: Objects moving from positions when they shouldn't be
To solve the rounding problem, you can set the Spinner Precision here in Preferences. This changes the number of decimal places shown in the number fields (spinners). http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/index.html?url=files/GUID-33D130C4-9A18-485D-B80B-49BADE86354-3117.htm,topicNumber=d28e576871 Absolute vs.… -
Re: Zbrush - Unwrap UV's with Multiple Subtools Onto One UV Tile?
If your subtools didn't posses the same number of subdivision levels as each other, you probably lost the lower levels. Use tool: geometry: Reconstruct Subdiv as far as you can before unwrapping. For an easier time, make sure every mesh shares the same number of subd levels before subdividing, if possible. If you still… -
Re: Maxscript/Code question: Find all potential swaps within an array
Why not use permutations here? You would get all the unique point configurations (of course with growing number of points it won't be as useful as the number of arrangements here is N factorial): fn permutations elems =( if elems.count == 1 then #(elems) else ( local result = #() for elem in elems do ( local rest = for e… -
Re: How valid are statistics and reviews from GlassDoor? A pixar animator makes over 90k yearly???
Pixar was (and maybe still is) wage-fixing, search for «Animation Workers Antitrust Litigation.» Also be aware that salary is not the only way to get something valuable («thanks» to tax brackets). People in big companies may get 90K + many benefits (401K, insurance, medical, etc). Also, for real numbers you can search for… -
Re: [3ds Max] Is there a limit to how many times you can offset UV-islands?
1. There is probably no limit, but why not just leave them stacked? If you need to adjust them later they'll be easier to select. UV data tend to get optimized, compressed, or the numbers get rounded, so the further it's offset the more inaccurate it can appear. 2. No, but the appearance may suffer if compressed. If you…
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