Thanks for the comments. I changed my shader for the glass, pushed out the spec a bit more, turned off the mips, and added another little light on the glass to push out that area. I might add a few more polys in a couple of areas that are driving me crazy. The original image (on my website) is a good bit larger and you can…
This looks nice, get a higher texture size and push those main details. Where's the sharpened axe edge? Where's the worn leather from the many times it's own has used it? Where's the scuffs on metal edges from clashing against a shield? There's no build up of dirt and grease in crevices. I like the material work you have…
Awesome post! And a great lecturer, I like his style a lot. Your description of the issue sounds good to me, I will correct the wiki on this. As an aside, I wonder if the >1 result of pushing beyond 255 has anything to do with HDR rendering, like Valve showcased in their Half-Life 2 Lost Coast level? Bright values can be…
Is floating geometry acceptable on low-poly models these days? I've heard it does happen in games these days, the only problem might be with how the engine does the lighting; I heard that can produce weird artifacts? By floating geometry I mean if you stick join two meshes together, but instead of cutting one into the…
Hello gents Well, looks like we have a new handheld gaming device to exploit. (anyone can release games/applications through their new developer network starting July 11th) I was wondering if theres anyone on here considering developing for it? The processor is running at twice the clockspeed of the Sony PSP...…
Hi there all, This is my first time posting on polycount. Currently i am sculpting a character called Ip Man from the movie Ip Man. Skill level wise i've used zbrush for a short time, so my sculpting skills are still at an amateur level. But through this sculpt i am hoping to push my skills up a bit, at the end of this…
I think you may be lacking a clear vision on what you want these rocks to look like. Part of that might be due to mood board (or mood... spreadsheet?). I followed the links to everything with 'cliff' in the title, and they are all totally different types of cliffs, created in very different ways, with drastically different…
Don't forget about people going onto reservations so they can rape women and get away with it thanks to the local authority having no power over anyone but Native Americans. Even caught in the act, anyone who is not from the tribe is released and the case is "passed on" to the Department of Indian Affairs where the case…
You've kinda failed to distinguish these two concepts. How do males assert power in games if not through violence? Maybe i'm giving people too much credit, but i'm not thinking about sex when i play games. Maybe i don't play the kind of games you're talking about. But yeah, like your point says below, i think they're…