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WIP - Urban Neighborhood/Modular Asset Practice
Hey everybody, I just started working on this scene. This is partially meant to be a practice in creating and using modular assets. Not sure yet, but may end up putting this in UDK or something. So I started out with this layout: The idea is to have a high level of detail around this immediate area, but fill the rest of… -
UDK Lighting: Theory and Practice question
Hi my name is Brian Choi, and I'm the student Art Director of "Core Overload," an Advanced Final Games project for the Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 year at the University of Southern California. Core Overload is an 8v8 online multiplayer spaceship shootem-up revolving around customized ships with component based destruction. I… -
ZBrush Hard Surface sculpt: Help w/ a small practice piece
So, I decided to once again tackle attempting to do hard surfaces in ZBrush, a work process that is still vexing me. Did a small practice piece, a piece of shoulder armor, just concentrating on making the form, taking notice of what I was doing to get to this point. Am I doing this right? What could I be doing to make this… -
Werid issue with Marmoset to Substance Painter with the normals
Hi everyone, I’m currently working on a 3D model for a class and I’ve run into some confusing normal map issues. I’m baking in Marmoset Toolbag 5 and texturing in Substance Painter, with Unreal Engine 5 as the target engine. The Issue: When I import my Marmoset-baked normal maps into Unreal, they look perfect (DirectX… -
HighPoly Practice, inspired by Kevin Johnstone's thread.
First let me start off by saying i dont even know what this is... it could be a pillar, it could be a computer, it could be like a cooling unit... it can be anything, i just dont know. i was practicing. Anyways it's amazing what a little bit of inspiration can do... i studied those pictures of his for a real long time. I… -
Is adding supporting loops to control shading behaviour/normal map gradients a good practice?
Hello everyone. So i am at the low poly stage and in order to capture well this kind of detail I usually go for a single smothing group, like here: But this results in bad gradients as you can see. From what i've read, when mipmapped, normal maps with too much gradients results in artifacts. So to solve it i added a loop… -
Re: How Do I Model a 3D Apple Braided Strap in Blender?
Hi and welcome to Polycount! Firstly, it's best to add a question mark to your topic title... that way people will know it is a question. Otherwise it sounds like you made a tutorial. Secondly, instead of adding replies, you could edit the first post to include all your questions. There is a "gear" icon at top right, this… -
Stylized textures practice
Hello Polycount, around 5 days ago, I've started to learn to hand paint stylized textures which is a thing I've wanted to learn for a long time now (since I really love the style) but never really got to it. I thought it was time to start so I started watching a lot of tutorials. I've never drawn textures (or anything… -
Re: What's happening here and is this common practise...?
@dimwalker , @DustyShinigami : "Hard UV shells - do you mean assigning different smoothing groups (in max terms) for each shell? Vertices are already separated there GPU-wise so what's the harm in separating smoothing groups too?" Of course I won't blame you for asking a question, but this kind of "what's the harm" stance… -
UE4 - Environment practice | looking for critique
This is me practicing on making environments on a super small scale. This is my 3rd environment ever done in Unreal. This is my first time writing a post on polycount and I'm a little awkward to ask your thoughts, realizing that very little has been done in this scene, but if someone could express their opinion, I will be…
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