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Re: Learning modeling alone - Hard background path - Need guidance
So I'm a student myself. A knuckle head really.. Terrible artist to be down to earth with myself. but I'll try to give any information I can that I've collected from more experienced artists. Threads a little long and I'm busy with class so not going to take too much time with response. But these threads pop up a lot… -
Re: Where do I start learning Zbrush?
If the tool wasn't saved, as far as I know it's lost. If it was saved, you'd just click the load tool button and select the ztl file. There's a new type of saving which saves the document and the tools, among other settings. I rare use it, but you can read more at http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/ZBrush_Projects As… -
Re: Concerning Normal-Maps
Opps looks like I wasn't quite done with the post. heh. As few and as small maps as possible is normally a good direction. More maps means more draw calls (I think that's the right term?) but it depends on the engine again, some handle a bunch of smaller maps really well, but in general when you're dealing with 1 model, 1… -
Re: 'Elysium' AKM
For offline that makes sense, its not really a mip-mapping thing tho, mip mapping actually often helps by blurring and reducing the aliasing, its rasterization, reducing the small details to only few pixels on screen, adding noise and or aliasing, good example is the fire selector Try push your edge definition, it is kind… -
Re: Mutant Nurse
since the optical nerve still seems to be connected to the Syringe i would like to see how you plan her face, i mean did she have eyes once, are they cutten out -> wound or emty eyehull or is there skin (but then where comes the optical nerve from) and where is the cable connected to her head? and is there a billiard ball… -
Re: Maya plugin or script for manual weighting vertex normals
@TeriyakiStyle Pros and cons. Some geometry layouts or styles trip up Maya's FWN. Personally I usually stick with soft/hard edge workflow, since it's nearly automatic. There are many cases where it won't give you a straight normal, it's always skewed, and in the case of the star citizen example I don't think they're using… -
Re: Why you're not getting any replies
Here's an example: A day ago I posted a thread with a portfolio piece, that's nearing the finish, to get some feedback to compare with my own notes, but it's about to pass away to second page, has some 40 views and 0 replies. I learn better with real example, than with theory. So I wonder, if am I doing something terribly… -
Re: Alt tabbing via code from maya
Looks like the module that you're looking for is something called subprocess. http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/subprocess.html Quick example: Let's say that you want to open up a texture in photoshop. Quick note: Subprocess requires you to have the arguments in a tuple or list. So, something like "spam eggs" would cause… -
Re: Work in next gen?
How hard would a lighting position be? My current experience has been creating point lights and adjusting the position/intensity in a scene. Would a next gen position be no different (except with more complex lighting like global illumination)? Also, is there a place for drawing up scenes with lighting? For example, say a… -
Re: Gamedesign Hollywood
Believe it or not, "what sells" is determined by algorithms that trawl the internet to work out what is currently trending and likely to be popular in future. Bigwig directors use this information to ultimately decide what games get produced and which do not. The hilariously obvious result is more of the same on the…
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