whenever I see studios talking about art direction or see the inspirational art used at the beginning of a project - it's typically made up of real photographs and fine art. When we were starting a new zone at Mythic the inspiration was 17th century Dutch landscapes, the whole art team took a day trip down to the…
Wow really? In the live materials? How does that work, does it stream them in as they are needed and then freeze the final result? is that how you do the unlimited resolution feature? Out of curiosity what are some things that you can't do in stock UDK? Do you get a more advanced instruction set or higher max instruction…
Brome - I'm that same way. I can't draw at all. I can COPY (look at another pic and paint something identical). But I can't just whip out some amazing landscape painting or anything. But I can sure as hell build a good looking environment! Education comes in many forms. I've been doing this a long time, so mine has come…
Whoa, that a lot to take in. And by that I mean the programming... It frightens me. I guess I cant be stubborn about it though, seeing as all of those of you who do possess some prog skills have an edge over folks like me:). But its good I can use it outside of the realm of FPS. Whilst thumbing through landscape editors…
I'm with Neox, never use project save, always save the tool. My laptop wont open a zb file over 5 gig and projects hit that size very quickly. Also I have a file set up in the start folder which has a simple ball, the right screen size and backdrop in portret and landscape formats to start models from. Keep an eye on your…
HI everyone. Over the next couple of months I'm going to be doing some studies of the master landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. My goal is to capture the mood and lighting that he was able to achieve and not to match every small detail in the environment 100%. Thanks for looking B) Here are the two environments I'm going to…
Hi guys I'm a little new here and i thought i would make this new thread and post my progress on creating the Norse city Hedeby. I am not sure weather it will be in UDK or the Skyrim creation kit. I have been heavily inspired by my ancestors the viking/Norse and have seen several inspiring images of them and a lack of the…
Hello, I'm working on a little thingy here currently with tessellation: But for performance reasons I'm switching to POM instead. My material consists of 4 layers and without tessellation or POM it's about 200 instructions which is perfectly fine. My issue is a single POM node linked to 1 Diffuse and 1 Normal map simply…
Hey all, So I've been trying to use Mudbox to do a basic sculpt for a landscape for UDK. I've gone through the process previously without issue, but this time for some reason mudbox is rendering the heightmap incorrectly... If you look at my sculpt on the right, the ground is completely flat and then these mountains…
I've been meaning to set one of these up for a while as I've been jumping between different projects a lot recently, at least here I can post work intermittently without looking like a dick ;P I'll probably add any work I do at all here, so any little game projects, concepts, environment/ level work. Oh and feel free to…