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Re: New site, NO CONTENT, Unfinished
my feeling on the wallpaper is that the designs and colors are, while pretty, very soft and passive and easy to ignore, bordering on uninteresting. That said, I think they are beautiful patterns with a lot of potential to kick ass. I just dont see them being used in a situation which subverts or challenges their passive… -
Re: Paint my wood!
Have you tried using a combination of overlay, multiply, soft light and play with the opacity settings plus layer masks? Usually a combination of those makes it look more realistic and you may need to add an adjustment layer with a mask that lowers the saturation in case the overlay mode makes it look too cartoony. Can you… -
Re: Models vs meshes
I think materials are referred to as shaders in maya - Max's Material Editor is analogous to Maya's "HyperShade". Smoothing Groups in Max are analogous to Maya's soft/hard edges. Not sure about Material ID's ... never used those in Maya. I would call a sub-object of a model an "element" ... however only if it was… -
Re: ok , what the hell is this ?
Mop....put that red and blue thing back where you got it, I think it's important. Therm, I think he's trying to swat flies away from that used elephant condom he's picked up. TechSmith, I think we need to see a pic of Davey in said shirt with said toy. Daz - you big soft wazzack! (go Daz) -
Re: Anubis and magicians W.I.P.
The idea is quite nice imo if you embrace your inner child and don't being so narrow minded. They are not acrobats they are being pulled by the portal (duh). Is the magicans poses final? You should make the middle magician hold on to something, or else there is no reason for the others to grab him. The pillars look soft.… -
Re: Dodge Challenger WIP
Nice car! A bit to see from the wire and grey render not overlayed, but could it be that the edges on the bottom of the door is a hard edge whle the bottom of the sides is a soft edge? The quite agressive shading you have on the side of the car seems to disappear around the wheel housings. Try making it into a hard edge or… -
Re: [Portfolio] Sebastian Schade - Environment Artist
very very dark images - its as if they were rendered with just a flashlight :P More colorful(daylight, friendly, soft, natural,...) renderings or textures would be nice to see - it's all GOW style which is greyish muddy, warm/cold crazy high contrast. The high poly models are nice. how long are you already on the GA in… -
Re: Questions for the pros
4 triangles no more no less. I think Rick tackled this one best with his article, "How Many Polys in a Piece of String". http://www.rsart.co.uk/2006/11/20/how-many-polygons-in-a-piece-of-string/ Your typical answer to "how many polys" will be it depends on a lot of factors, narrow those factors down and we can begin to… -
Re: specular maps and normal maps
If you're using Max, I'd say use a colormap in the Specular Color slot for color and intensity both, and use a different grayscale map in the Glossiness slot for the width of the specular (white = tiny & tight, black = wide & super-soft). Specular Level slot only does intensity. Specular Color slot works the same if you… -
Re: Ambient occlusion question
AO maps, curvature maps, etc. are very helpful to give models volume, not only dirt. Without a smooth AO applied on the diffuse, a normal map model is like flat when lights kills the fake effect. Realtime AO is still very expensive to compute for graphics cards, and a good prerendered/fixed AO map is very soft like to…
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