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Re: Baking curvature map: xnormal VS Painter
Usually it's enough to work with SP default one. Use Global balance and global contrast of smart masks to adjust curvature based masking. Still I am pretty sure you can export curvature map to photoshop and do some curve editing closer to Xnormal since the difference looks just like gamma one. You can export it as 32 bit… -
Re: Is the way game artists texture bad?
Not sure I can agree there. Global Illumination is getting more and more common in the newer engines. Take Beast(the lighting engine Mirror's Edge used) and UDK(the light engine name escapes me at the moment), they both do a baked GI pass that ups the realism on every static object in the level, and before that level… -
Re: great presentation on the present and future of gaming
He reminded me of George from Greys anatomy. :P The speech was very interesting though and it does give alot of food for thought. The points system in schools, I remember reading that somewhere and it sounded so awesome. There should be global points, If X country give X amount of aid to a developing country, then 100… -
Re: Stuck with specific lighting - Help! I need some body. Help! just any....
ZacD has the right idea. Look at some lighting setups for product photography and you'll see that they are all usually variations of the same theme of a white backdrop and a couple of large area lights. I did this up in modo real quick. The idea is the same in MAX/MR. A couple of large area lights to cast soft shadow,… -
Re: New CryEngine with Physically Based Shading
Question. How do you suppose physically based shading will be implemented? What I mean is, is physically based shading typically a set of parameters similar to HDR and other lighting tools that can be ticked on/off and adjusted PER object? Or, is it a global world effect where as its an automatic feature that every object… -
Re: [UE4] Victorian Hall WIP
I personally think you could introduce a lot more color to the scene. The scene is a little drab for a Victorian piece. I think you could also use a little more AO in the scene. There's quite a bit of darkness in the crevices in the reference that's absent in your version. There's also a strange lack of shadowing… -
Re: [MAXScript] Custom Transform Type-in
here's a custom status bar i use, has a scripted version of the tti that works with subobject selections. Currently needs work, has some bugs and i'm sure there's a lot of redundant code,but the functionality is there. Haven't spent much time on rotate or scale. Careful with selecting large amounts of edges or faces in a… -
Unity LOD's - a few questions.
So I created a mesh, made the appropriate LOD levels: fire_hydrant_LOD0 fire_hydrant_LOD1 fire_hydrant_LOD2 fire_hydrant_LOD3 I've loaded the FBX back into Unity and i behaves as I expect. Yet the distances are not preferred. Adjusting the distance sliders does indeed work great on the asset. Yet I want to change the… -
Re: AXON RUNNERS is out, Give it a look!
I'm interested in this - I'm working on the Windows Phone platform at the minute and to achieve this I've resorted to dropping the global light multiplier until it no longer clips on the upper limiter and then applying an ambient level to the material used on the world to 1.0f/global light multiplier to unpack the values… -
Re: XoliulShader 2
Thanks for fixing the links to the features page and maya download. One problem I am having is making the shader work like glass, where the global opacity is 0, but the specular still shows up. I am working in maya, and I was able to get this working well in max, maybe it is not possible, but was hoping I overlooked a tick…
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