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Re: Beginnings - Fantasy Environment Vignette
@tristamus Sure! I created the base heightmap for the ivy leaves in substance designer and then loaded it into Zbrush as an alpha. In the alpha palette there's an option called Make 3D which I used to quickly get my my base shape for the leaf. Then I sculpted a few more details using Dynamesh and then exported a couple… -
Re: [UE4] Stowaway - Survival Horror Game
Max works best for me, high poly, low poly, unwrap, bake maps, texture, into engine. unless I'm sculpting in ZBrush then I tend to make a quick base mesh in Max to ensure I get the proportions and dimensions correct. I then take it to ZBrush, do my sculpt then export to XNormal and bake the normals, as super high poly… -
Making an Octopus Bracelet - 3D Print
It's not game art specifically, but it's relevant and I thought this would be of interest to some people here. As a Christmas present, I wanted to make a bracelet to 3d print based on one I saw in a shop. I chose to this through Shapeways.com and their ever-expanding metal printing options. The original was silver, but… -
The Monthly HANDPAINT ArtJam | May 2015
Welcome to the Monthly Handpaint Art Jam ! Noobs and Character Artists can have their challenge, so do we! However we've decide on keeping it simple and friendly, and instead of making it a challenge, we're making it an Art Jam. A place where Handpainter can exchange technique, critique and tricks. We welcome any cartoon… -
Re: Smoothing groups+normal maps?
I usually just make sure my low poly model looks good with 1 smoothing group... or more if i can cleanly separate them. Polygons are cheap nowadays, textures are what really kills performance. If you need a row of polygons more to make an egde work with the desired smoothing angle, go for it. Next-gen also means more… -
Re: Can you vertex paint nanite meshes?
As mentioned you can vert paint nanite meshes, but you have to "apply" the vert paint which will make every instance of the mesh in the scene take that exact vert paint (any different vertex data breaks nanite instancing between meshes, ie be careful with spline meshes as each segment is not instanced and so on), so if… -
Re: More goodies for subscription users!
I look forward to trying these out. Substance Procedural Textures: This looks to be the most promising of the featured updates. I already work this way with standard procedural materials and bake them out as a base to start painting on. Having a more fully featured material that focuses on the things I normally duct tape… -
Tutorial- Zbrush- making tiling meshes for environments
heres a tutorial showing a workflow i developed for creating perfectly tiling meshes in zbrush for things like cliffs that are baked down onto low poly meshes that follow the normal maps mesh http://osart3d.wordpress.com/tutorial-creating-perfectly-tiling-meshes-in-zbrush-for-use-in-videogame-environments/ -
Re: How do you make a road normal map?
Sure, baked lighting doesn't use normals often. But static lights still take the normals and spec into account. -
Re: A nod to the London based counters....:)
add a second, unique, unmirrored UV channel and bake ambient occlusion, that will help making the whole thing feel more consistent and solid. stronger shadows will help too you have distortion on the middle part of the floor, it's way too clean too, add stains and stuff like that.
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