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Re: Affinity Photo - Someone using it?
I was on the beta and got a mail saying that right now it's 20% off. I really want to like it, but the one thing I couldn't get past was the way you change the brush size/hardness. In PS you can hold ALT while moving the wacom pen above the wacom surface, but in Affinity Photo it's a lot more complicated. I think it was… -
Re: Weekly Substance Challenge
All: Due to lack of participation we are going to move towards having subjects every 2 Weeks. If interest picks up I will think about going back to a weekly format. @griffiti : Nice work, can't wait to see more! @IsraelRodrigues: Work on fleshing out the form of the material before working on details. It's very easy to get… -
Re: Derringer 9mm Pistol
@Macebo Thanks for the critique and feedback, updated my post and ! After post inside marmoset, the harsher contrast made the wood grip look over saturated as you noted. It definitely looks nicer now to complement the black surface of the frame. Also in regards to the screws I had it more akin to stainless steel based on a… -
Re: UE3 Material Issues
Right click in the Generic Browser and select "Create new Decal" or whatever it is...(Don't have the editor open atm) Then, select a surface in the editor and press the "D" button to place a decal. Use the Decal system as a projector (this is essentially the new projector system)...works much better than using alpha cards… -
Re: ZBrush 3.1 is out!
the maclink macro works quite well for now as a zapplink replacement. sweet now, some issues - on some models, when i drop down to low subdiv levels, change the sculpt (move tool especially) and go back up, i get artifacts on the surface, the former smooth surface then shows the lowres edge structure quite clearly as "hard… -
Re: Warhammer 40k- Landraider
To me floating geo is the word you use when you modeled something that should have strickly been part of a surface but you modeled it separately to save time. Generally a good model is made of lots of logical islands of geometry. there is not reason to model parts of a model as 1 huge chunk of geometry if they are not… -
Re: Do low poly quads have to be equal?
When modeling for games everything will be converted to tris when you send it to the engine (or you may even triangulate it yourself for baking), so there is no reason to keep all quads. For characters I don't really know how it works but I guess you'll need proper topology in places that can deform. For hard surface… -
Re: Why Ambient Occlusion vs Baking Into Diffuse?
Here's a set of examples * (upper left) basic raster (game engine-like) lighting with an ambient sky and some direct lights, no AO effect. The reflections are clearly incorrect here which prevents the surface from reading as metal * (upper right) AO multiplied on the specular reflections - this is equivalent to multiplying… -
Re: The State of Parallax Mapping in 2023
I assume we're talking about POM rather than the wider idea of a parallax material (ie. a UV offset based on view angle which is basically free) POM is texture read and pixel cost heavy (cos you're basically raymarching), but it is scalable, you're saving memory by not loading a dense mesh and (importantly) you can apply… -
Re: Why are we conforming to a non-dislike button scenario?
imagine how much money polycount could make if 1 like = 1$ We could call it gold tooth, it'd be like reddit gold but for all the people over in https://polycount.com/discussion/235912/star-wars-outlaws-character-design-was-the-least-of-this-games-problems#latest or what about giftable loot boxes containing senior artist…
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