Hello I have a few questions regarding AO maps, firstly I seem to be getting a random black dot after baking in Maya, I'm not sure why? Secondly, I tried to bake an AO map out with some UVs going outside the 0-1 area because I want it to tile a bit and not keep it inside the box, however when baking it doesn't add any…
Hello everyone, My name is Milos and I started learning about 3d modeling about one year ago from online tutorials. In last period I'm trying to overcome technique for organic modeling. So I created that knight that you can see on pictures but I have some uncertainties about topology. Namely I plan to try to animate that…
Hello- noob question i guess I have a map that I am working on in UDK and I would like to eventually render a flythrough to show it off. Similar to this.. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhwYaOsOHns[/ame] using this method perhaps http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CapturingCinematicsAndGameplay.html 1. How do I make it…
Hello all. I'm fairly new posting here, but I've been a lurker for sometime. Watching all of your wonderful works pile up. I am requesting some advice, if you feel free to give any it would be appreciated. Interestingly enough I've been placed with a wonderful opportunity for an opportunity, lol I'll explain. I've…
hello polycounters first i would like to thank every 1 in this awesome community . iv been lurking ( im sure u heard this word alot :) ) around here learning from u guys ... to the point then : iv been working on this character that turned out as a pile of crap due to loads of mistakes ... decided that im going to redo the…
Hello Polycount! I'm a university senior in a BFA program which requires me to create work for and curate a show for myself for my thesis. Accompanying this is a paper that talks about the work. Our paper must include an introduction, background, influence, work discussion, evaluation (in relation to the overall art…
The NoAI tag on ArtStation is not for indicating how the art was made, but to try to prevent scraping. https://magazine.artstation.com/2022/12/noli-tag/ The tag is so poorly designed, because at first glance it looks like a "how this was made" tag, since all the other tags are setup that way. Pretty unfortunate. Anyhow, to…
I figured that, if anyone, the guys over at Polycount would be able to help me out with this. I am wanting to finally upgrade my 4-year-old PC and buy a graphics card. It's a Dell DIM2400, with a single PCI slot. I'm leaning towards more of a budget card- I haven't got a whole lot of money to spend, and it's not like I'm…
Hello fellow indie comrades, I am working on a small project that was started during a game jam a few weeks ago. whoS.H.A.K.E is short for who is the Super Hot Asteroid King of Earth and is a turn based multiplayer game (Unity) that is aiming to feel like a friendly poker match between family members at the coffee table.…
Hi! I had a moment to look at the car. Assuming you don't want to do many further edits and are set on baking, I would would mainly optimize UV space to get as much out of the texture as possible. Offset and stack UVs of mirrored and repeated parts (I believe you're already doing this). Reduce size in UVs of areas that are…