@Firebert, thank you :) @pxgeek, well, it's "stock" in a sense that it's built with Blender's Geometry Nodes modifiers (a node-based system for procedural geometry). I have a set of simple modifiers for generating hair from splines for baking texture (there are some hair modifier assets that come with Blender, but I can…
EDIT: I think I may have figured out the answer. So, if UV shells are overlapping, they get the same texture. So what people are doing is having some or most of their hair cards getting the same textures, so just a few UV shells take up that entire UV space. In my case, I think I will make just a few cards cover the…
So this currently what i am working on, the interior design is set in a pub (childhood one which has been closed down and boarded up), and i'm purely doing this on memory because the internet lacks photographs of what it was like. Which puts my references in 'non-existent' mode. Anyway!! So this is basically my first…
Despite getting murdered by Superman at the end of Man of Steel, Michael Shannon will be back as General Zod in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. You can see his dead corpse briefly in the Comic-Con trailer, but it sounds like he may have an even bigger role than we think. While speaking to Vulture, Shannon told a pretty…
Why don't you use the Ribbins random select of the faces, clone them to object and shell them? And manually clone bigger parts, and overlay the smaller parts over the bigger ones to save time? I mean lets be frank, not even in real-life vehicles and planes have a preset guide on how to exactly create a set of panels…
Performance isn't the only issue some apps like Maya have stability problems on many consumer cards. However, I have never had the wallet or the stomach to dish out the cash for a workstation card so I have always used consumer cards and just messed with the settings in the control panel until I was able to get things…
I'm sure 6 would be good, i've got 8 in my system now and its plenty for of 99% of tasks, but the next time i buy a new pc, i'll get 12. I dont know how thoroughly you tested there, but try leaving those apps open for a few hours and actually working in them, i bet you'll notice some memory issues then! =D The ideal…
I agree, ditch the blog and create a focused portfolio site. I know i don't speak for HR people obviously but personally i hate to scrollllllllll and would rather have a focused gallery with concise thumbnails to look at. if you do stick with the blog, get rid of the white and find an interesting theme that compliments the…
Yeah we have a tool that lets you combine a tangent space normal on top of an object space one, you generally need to export a mesh with split up smoothing, or else the results get sort of "bent" around the mesh's normals tho so its a little buggy... Xnormal has a tang->obj converter, i think you could probably do this as…
Hi Alex, I would start by asking what role it is you would ideally be looking to go into. from what i can tell you are interested in 3d game art and 3d modelling for 3d printing? these two are very different, so i would recommend tailoring your portfolio for one of those whilst you are looking for your first job in the…