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Re: Which 5 software tools would you have installed on your computer in the event of a worldwide interne
I've shipped hard disks and SSDs before, but it would obviously be a major pita for day-to-day communication. All my apps are perpetual, though, so no change, there. 3ds Max 2022, Zbrush 2022, 3d Coat, PS CS5, I guess the last Allegorithmic Substance Painter over Designer if I had to choose (which I wouldn't have to so… -
Re: Substance Painter, Substance Designer, and Substance B2M now free to all students and teachers
I got really mixed feelings about this. I just recently finished my M.Sc in Computer Science (you can say, what is a computer scientist doing with 3D software anyway? My answer would be: I'm the one coding the software [i.e. the software you are using], so you can use it, so I need to know how others do their stuff) and at… -
Re: Procedural dungeon - Houdini and Substance
Well, it's a TD tool, what you expect? Everybody in Houdini community are doing their own tools. As for selling stuff to other people (non-houdini ones). It would work if company approach was a little different. To put it into perspective, so that you would understand what I think about SESI and their approach this days:… -
Re: Substance VS Quxiel
I bought QS2 back when it was in beta, but never used it because Dev avtivety seemed completely dead: no chatter, no dev updates, no teasers, no info generally. This was disappointing so I ended up getting SP - which I now love - and using that in lieu of the still beta QS. Since then QS2 final was released and I installed… -
Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.
I'd really just like some heads up on what tools have been used to generate feedback. If you ran something through ChatGPT with the prompt "what will make this better?" and posted the results, just say so. If you ran it through an image algorithm, just say so. I do appreciate @d1ver's feedback whether or not the images… -
Re: Advice for career path for artist role
Here's some more tips for you, cheap but good resources. - Hai Phan's cgcircuit character art courses. (sorry, won't link 'em here, you do that work :) ) Even if you don't model characters he included texturing theory and "best practices" in his lessons. - Alec Moody's 3dmotive/udemy courses, particularly hard surface tank… -
Re: Mari +Zbrush
One of the major con's is still that it feels focused on vfx and film. MRNPC, you are not wrong to make that comment. I see the price as being a major signifier of their target market... It was about a year back that jgreasley said that: "Developing for, and supporting, cutting edge vfx work is expensive. The budgets,… -
Re: Nack: Single-Flash 16-bit Surface Scanning. Is Photogrammetry overkill for micro-details?
Great questions! Tiled textures: Yes, seamless tiling is definitely on the roadmap. I'm currently working on an algorithm for automatic edge-blending to ensure textures can be used on large surfaces without visible seams.PBR elements (Roughness/Metalness): The app already extracts high-quality Geometry (Normals/Depth) and… -
Re: Subtance works
Hi Mr Significiant and thanks ! No there is no images here, only procedural noises and patterns which are blended which each others. That marble is still very WIP, I'm trying to figure out how reproduce the mineral feeling you have when you take a look at it, it's next to wood but with more depth in the reflection.… -
Re: How is this kind of cloudy edge noise generated? (texture generated by ChatGPT)
Looks like we need to draw a clear line on the ground. We’ll craft something up. We’ve seen it again and again, these LLMs and GenAI algorithms snip and combine sources, often producing inaccurate results, because they lack the necessary context. Then the results are presented as facts, and most users accept them without…
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