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Re: Hand and feet UV seams?
Er, which seams? On the bottom of the foot? The side? At the ankle? At the wrist? A little more explanation wouldn't hurt... It really depends on what sort of hands and feet you're doing (although in your case I can safely assume you mean low-to-mid poly gargoyle hands and feet...). Sorry to be brief, but just put the seam… -
Re: Modeling from an angled concept...
I haven't worked from orthos for a long while, and usually work from one 3/4 view. My work envolves a lot of hardsurface technical constructs. (vehicles, weapons, etc), what I usually do is start with some sort of concept model (made from primitives and simple geometry) to make up the missing information from the concept… -
Re: Modeling cables without going overboard.
Well that depends on who you ask and the project, but usually I do build them around the same time. I cant build a totally low poly version and build off a high poly basically since I optimize so much trying to sub-d a low poly to high fails miserably. I usually a have a "middle" quad model that I can take in either… -
Re: Attitudes of Gamers
My cousin used to be pretty serious about CS and was into tournaments and stuff. He would often erupt into a fit of rage, but it was usually a strange sort of fake/sarcastic rage. Sometimes (rarely) it would turn into genuine anger, but usually it was just to get a rise out of whomever he was screaming at. It was actually… -
Bookshop Sim Dev blog
Some friends and I were part of this year's studio layoffs so while we search for new jobs we decided to work on a game together! It's basically a simulator game where you run a book store, similar to TCG and Grocery Store Simulator but we've got some plans to push the genre farther. I've been mostly working on the… -
Re: Specialize or Generalize?
Imho, a specialist has usually more value in big studios, they usually do the job faster and better. A Character TD might be an example, and they are pretty needed. I've been working as generalist for years, but i needed to specialize in a few disciplines. The more disciplines you cover, the better, but it's good to be… -
Re: question for face sculpt, retopo, and rigging
As an animator who usually does the rigging and skinning I'm fine if artists want to sculpt it closed. I do prefer it to be slightly open when we get to the retop, rigging and skinning phase, but that isn't all that important and just personal preference. Just as long as the lips aren't welded together you can pretty much… -
Re: Game Prop Workflow - Lightmaps & LODs
Simplygon handles it really well. You feed it a mesh, it crunches it and does all of the heavy tedious tasks. In some cases you can have it generate new UVs and it bakes some textures for you, usually not normal maps, those usually turn off as soon as the object starts to LOD. At a certain distance, most object pretty much… -
Re: A Guide to weapon modeling for FPP games
It's up to weapon and photos... But If I only want to create something from „real life” it's usually download something around 40 photos? When I have to design or redesign something ‒ much more. After analyzing I start modeling with few pictures. The main „blueptint photo” looks like this one:… -
Re: Gothic Sword
I personally would look into making the wrap more natural in the High Poly. Authentic sword design in LOTR lore and in medieval era's, would use heavy leather strips that would be wrapped and riveted onto the handle usually. Right now you just have ridges. I think with the hilt usually being the most decorative part of…
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