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Re: Battle-Demon
it's very bland... the entire thing just looks brown, and that's not good. you need to get some kind of contrasting colours in there just to break it up and make it visually interesting. also, the quality difference in the organic vs hard surface textures is noticeable. it's almost as if you used a certain plugin for the… -
Re: Nate's Hand painted cottage
Does Maya LT have the ability to snap to a surface? Placing objects by duplicating them should be very fast with surface snapping, you should be able to set the gizmo orientation to local to do fast rotations too. It won't be as fast as painting it, but it shouldn't take unreasonably long. Edit: And I'm happy to help,… -
Re: [CE3] Bioshock Environment Homage
All the surfaces look pretty diffuse. Are you going to keep it in the pre-flood stage? I think you could make a much more interesting scene if you add some puddles and dripping water and raise the glossiness on your surfaces, get some SSR going, use some more of the awesome shader goodness that only Cryengine offers. Do… -
Re: UDK Directx 11 Tesselation
in your case it looks like you're using tessellation on something thats hard surface, dare i say sci-fi or industrial. in general thats a no no. you'll ruin your mesh's "hard surfaces" with the triangulation. best to use parallax (bump offset in udk).. or just model it in. i made a video a while back that explains how to… -
Re: Monthly Environment Art Challenge - July & August 2017 (49)
I'm taking a stab at the little robot too. I don't do a lot of hard surface modeling and I've been wanting to try out the new modeling tools in Houdini. I've got some pieces to model and some to revisit, I've learned a ton about hard surface modeling getting the model to this point. In case your curios, it is for the most… -
Re: [UE4] A.Vlaskin's Pirate Lair
Well, there is a difference, but to put it simply... With PBR, everything has a reflection, even the most rough and diffuse of surfaces. Because of this, the reflection spheres are applying a cubemap to your materials. In many ways, this is replicating an ambient cubemap because you're essentially telling the surface to… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge October 2013 (12)
Well from what I know, there's two types of reflection- in simpler terms- one is Specular reflection ( smooth surface ) and the other Diffused reflection- ( rough surface ) If you are asking about the set up I got, I'm trying out stuff in UDK - my first time seriously using Unreal- so there might be a couple of hick-up… -
Re: Crazy normals!
I do wish 3D suites wouldn't talk about surface normals as if they defined the side you can see triangles from (the face winding, CW or CCW) rather than the reality which is surface normals being generated from the face winding via a cross product. Making buttons like flip normals actually flip the face winding obscures… -
Re: Tutorial - Normal maps from photos. Version 2!
Agreeing with tinman here. Actually if you spend more time on the bumpmap you later convert to a normalmap the results are pretty much as good as yours. Or i find it easier to work on a 2D schematic instead of a 3 dimensional surface on a 2d canvas... However, pretty nifty, but at the end you just edit a colorful bumpmap.… -
Re: Maya shader question
Glib> Hmm... you sure you had it working in the Viewport? Cause I figured how to do it with the Software Renderer. I had a second look in the Hypershade stock nodes and I cannot figure out any method besides comparing the normals of the sampled surface and the rendered camera in order to determine if the surface is facing…
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