Your diffuse is very smokey/cloudy. Which in the end blurs your entire texture and just makes it look a bit blobby. Bibendum is very right about your AO+shadowing. It's incredibly powerful and can be toned down a lot. (think about the lighting thats going on in game, if the direction of the light source moves you'd have…
After a quick search in GD, I came up with a bunch of threads with the same topic. We seem to get this going once every few months :P Sorted by age (recent at the top), some threads are for novels some graphic novels. http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=51716 http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=45589…
Here's a tut I posted in another thread recently. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=46&t=373024 It's a pretty good overview of some of the steps for painting on and embellishing photo textures. A lot of it though just comes down to an artist developing a good eye for what works well. A good way to start to…
Per, most commercial airplanes you fly in were manufactured decades ago, or reprinted from designs made decades ago. That is what the other poster was speaking about. The fact is that planes don't really have amazing tech, flight is just a very very simple mechanic. You don't need Autopilot and gauges and garbage to stay…
Also another problem I am having is how I can make a decent bump/normal in order to give the right feel of up and down little dunes of sand? So far this is the best effect I coul dget but It fees flat :( ..... http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5102/37772783.jpg
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=377083 There's lots of things that would make awesome persistant online games. Not neccessarily massive, but open-world online... Things like.. Jet Set Radio. Imagine a game like Skate, an open city and seamlessly integrated multiplayer, but it's not Skate, it's Jet Set Radio!…
I've left this on the back burner for way too long. I figured it was about time I got around to finishing this off. I've now blocked in the diffuse and specular maps. Still needs some wear and tear and some more attention around the place. My main problem is the right revolver cover around the rifle bolt. There is a weird…