Let's do our part to get the word out on the approaching Dominance War 4 contest. Here are some posters that we have put together of 2D and 3D winners. Post these at your school, work, mall, or anywhere you want. Once you do, take a picture of it and show the world your spirit for this years Dominance War. This is an…
Hello Polycount! I will be helping the team developing Our Ghosts of War to model some soldier heads for the game. Here you can find the project thread (http://polycount.com/discussion/154030/ue4-our-ghosts-of-war-world-war-2-adventure-game/p1) I will be responsible for modeling 8 character heads, half american/half german…
Fred from GameArtisans.org just pushed out the new Dominance War V website along with a small article on the event. Launching during the Montreal Internation Games Summit - or MIGS - Dominance War V is teased to start in January of 2011. Along with the website, is an announcement from Fred about the event and how its…
Just in case you're not aware of the current 3D gamedev industry situation: it's not good. Lots of layoffs happened which means you're competing vs. people who have a lot stronger portfolios and most likely more experience. Prop artist role is very rare, Weapons artist role is probably even more rare nowadays and the bar…
If they really wanted to get creative, they could show Kratos as the God Of War, struggling with his experiences as the mythological eras transitioned from the Greek to the Roman pantheon. Zeus begat Jupiter and Ares begat Mars, but there were differences between the pantheons. They weren't the exact same thing with two…
The Brief Another civil war has erupted on the Polycount forums. This time, two novice artists have decided to battle it out. Driven by the desire to improve their portfolios and create some awesome characters they have decided to make a friendly competition of it. Inspired by the epic Polycount civil war battle between…
Daz, it is definitly. Its a very tricky shader effect. You can see the SSS on the UT2006/7 shots too (The ears of melcom for example) However, gears of war looks awesome, really like the style. Though I cant stand this lately more and more upcoming blooming overkill....and purple blooming argh!
Btw, if you have suggestions or questions specific to the running of Dominance War, and if they are in English, they will only be answered in gameartisans.org's general discussions forum. With 9 forums involved, it's the only way...
Fog of war has been a part of strategy games for ever... aaaaaaall the way back to Civilization 1 (not the first, but the first I remember).. almost 20 years ago. It wasn't in the early stuff simply because they were showing off the engine and the cool things they've added rather than gameplay. I do hope the Covenant do…
I saw This War of Mine on my Steam list today. So great to see a game from this perspective. Definitely getting this. http://www.11bitstudios.com/games/16/this-war-of-mine [ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=BALBUyoTxQM[/ame]