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Re: Crit my Textures: To hell and back!
I agree with Zac. Unless this is going in the extreme background of a scene, it would be worth modeling out the window. The texture itself is pretty good. One thing I'm worried about is the repetition of the elements. There are a lot of unique elements that tip the viewer off that it is tiled. The cracks in the top, the… -
Re: TF2 CTF Decker Custom Map
he yea Zac TF2 for the PC is great. So much bonus content for free. Yep compiled using mostly standard compile, I didn't know the other methods handled lighting better, thats good to know. I Also have some lighting issues on the hull of the ship also, its been crazy trying to sort them out. It compiles in under 5min now so… -
Pre-Portfolio Review
Hello everyone, Long time no updates. Greetings and salutations from Canada, and that's about it. I'm wrapping up my year here at Vancouver Film School (August 15th, scary stuff!!!) and am about to finish my first piece of my reel. So I want to kick start things and get the gears rolling. I been listening to the… -
Re: Building a new computer, need some tips.
Yeah, my recommendations would be very similar to Zac's, even with a significantly better GPU he managed to shave off like $300 without much difference in cpu speed etc. Though I would go with a 500GB or 1TB Samsung EVO 850 SSD too =P Monitors... Too many choices for monitors, just make sure its a decent IPS panel! Also, I… -
Re: Are high resolution textures performance hogs?
High res texture by itself won't change performance, until you run out of memory, as Zac said. Applying complex math on highres textures in a material in the other hand, definitely changes performance. Using parallax with high res textures is just horribly slow for example. The "problem" with 4k textures is that you always… -
Re: the future of 3d modeling/modelers
What will go away in AAA, because it's not sustainable, is the hardcore do-it-all-from-scratch approach. Future artists will need to be able to use smart tools which save time, but which also take away some of the "art" involved. E.g. procedural textures, photogrammetry, simulated cloth, etc. You will still be expected to… -
Re: Triton Weapons Facility XR1 - Workshop Demo
Completely valid arguments there Anthony, as I said it could easily run off into a UDK Mats Lecture (You guys should do one by the way :thumbup:). Either way I'm sure the guys will learn a hell of a lot, it's a great demo scene. As far as what Zac said, diffuseBoost is only half of the story. You also need to bump up your… -
Re: Hardware Questions, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ask The Community.
Hey Zac, Thanks for the quick reply! I have found a case I like, I picked up the CoolerMaster 120 today, mainly because of its support of full sized GPUs, and on that note I'll definite stick to Nvidia, as I hear that is pretty much standard at this point, and I had a gtx480 which I liked alot. As far as budget, I couldn't… -
Re: Cornfield Environment WIP
Thanks for the crit, guys. I completely agree with you, Zac; the corn stalks would really shine with some good translucency. I'm not completely sure I know the proper way to do that though. I attempted doing it through sub surface scattering and I think it did a lot to help the corn, but it's not really reading as… -
Re: Incoming dynamic booleans Modo 701 plug-in
I do all of my modeling (high, low, uvs) in Modo, but my baking in Max, Maya, or Xnormal (usually depending on what the client wants). Sure you can "bake" and "export" to unreal with any normal map baker, that doesn't mean it is synced though, and not being synced means uncessary extra hard edges/uvs splits, or bevels to…
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