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Substance Designer / Painter - Heightmap best practices
What are the best practices for working with height maps in Substance Designer and Painter? For instance if I'm making a clutter substance that adds bullet casings onto a base floor material, what should the height range on the casings be? What about the floor? Should black be considered "neutral", and grey/white are "up",… -
Small props PBR + normal baking practice
Having neglected PBR for some time, i finally want to have some practice with it. And the same time I want to get more experienced with highpoly/lowpoly modelling + normal map baking so I thought making some small props could help me with this. For now, i'm fond of making retro/vintage kitchen apparal but maybe i will also… -
Practicing texturing
hey all, here's a little project Im doing to practice texturing/material definition. It's a "realistic" version of the Nerf Reflex gun (even though it would be physically impossible to load this thing with ammunition, let alone a magazine :poly124:) Im texturing it to look similar to a glock pistol (polymer grip with steel… -
Skies in games - best practice
Hello all, So one thing that I don't really understand to much is how to make skies for games. I understand some of the techniques, but was wondering if anyone else has some good techniques to make them. I have followed the 3dmotive free tutorial on sky domes and they do look good. I have also looked at the one here on the… -
WD-40 Spray Can (PBR practice)
The other day I decided to model and object in my room and thought a WD-40 can could be and interesting PBR practice, with a bit of metal, plastic, oxide, metal paint, etc. So far I've only modeled the Hihh Poly. Low poly bake will came next. But meanwhile I though I could throw it into TB2 and see if I can get some solid… -
Re: Does having five edges meet here work for this product? What’s a better alternative?
I'd highly recommend that you read those linked resources I had posted then likewise test iterations of your particular object, therefore putting into practice the 'How and Why' behind the fundamental reasoning described by @FrankPolygon Now for the highlighted areas above, they're intersecting control or support loops and… -
Shotgun model and texture practice
Well, I decided to make a thread for this because i'll like more critique and comments on my current progress in texturing. I made this shotgun (KC-23-1) kinda just to practice more H-modelling and decided to further refine my texturing techniques and abilities, managed to texture wood for the first time here...personally… -
Anatomy Practice (CRITS AHOY!)
Hello everybody! I love zbrush and want to use it way more then I currently am, but I have been very busy recently and have hardly been able to touch the program. So, I've made it a goal to make at least one anatomy practice every Thursday, and more then that if I can. The point of this is to master the tool and to learn… -
SmilingMountain's Character Art Practice Thread
Hello Polycount, Thought I'd finally post some of my character work here. The goal of this thread is to improve my character art, and work towards creating a decent entry level portfolio. Since I was a little rusty, I started out with some lower poly stuff, I also wanted to improve my hand painted textures. I looked at the… -
FROGZARD! Or, Practice before DomWar, WIP
Many of you may be unfamiliar with the online flash-based fantasy game "Adventure Quest". If you are unfamiliar, go here: http://www.battleon.com If you are familiar, then you've likely encountered dozens of varieties of the infamous Frogzards - part frog, part lizard, all freaky. Again, if you've never played, this is a…
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