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Re: Polyviewer Ideas
Some interesting ideas and suggestions. Visualizing splits in the uv and such would be possible as well as exploding out the mesh into it's uv coordinates. I have issues seeing the purpost/point of supporting smoothing groups as it's only really supported with 3dsmax. I know there are lots of max users, but when it comes… -
Re: Jack Sparrow
Only thing thats wrong is a good lighting setup. ATM its looking more "Kreed" than next gen, i.e. normals are looking black instead of lit, which really destroys the model. Other than that, crits: #I'll go with the hands being a bit strange, although again this may be because of the odd lighting setup. #The jacket in… -
Re: Scifi portfolio level, UDK
Hey, responding from your DA note. First things first. Post a shot of your uv's and the wireframe model so we can see what we're working with. Also, even with today's next gen systems, 2048xanything is pretttty huuuge for a door like that. If I understand your question correctly, you want to use the same uv space, but have… -
Re: Red Octane and Underground Development shut down
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With as many medium-to-large studios shutting down or cutting back as there are, it looks like there's actually a boom of tiny studios opening up who don't touch AAA current-gen projects at all and specialize in either iPhone development, shovelware, or online games based on social networking sites like Facebook. I don't… -
Re: 80 Games
So with next gen games costing 60 bucks a piece and dev costs going up who is making all the money? I know the developers aren't getting paid. From what I understand, based on the hours developers work to put these games together, you could probably work at KFC at the same hourly rate that most developers are getting paid.… -
Re: First time poster
Personally I don't think it is a bad exercise. It really shows you how hard it is to model that whole bastard and get it all to fit within the texture space. Fit all 2 stories top to bottom..the ground and sidewalk..all the little pieces into a 1024 texture. Do a great job on and then tell me it was easy. Normal mapping… -
Re: caltech environment model
Cheers Daz, spinning on the floor, hehe. I do like Lores suggestion, but I won't get to it till tomorrow, got a gig today. I took a ton of reference pics since I walked around the quad for days. It does need trash cans, and litter and a few more chairs. This is "next gen" cause each chair is 800 tris. Ha. I had alpha… -
Re: help with poly-reduction strategy - Japanese castle
Also if we talk about the building being mostly visible from the ground, you could also weld the end vertices of Snader's example so you have the modeled detail on the edge of the roof that kinda blends into the normal mapped version on the inner parts, if you know what I mean. Maybe have a look at Assassin's Creed how… -
Re: Tutorial - Normal maps from photos. Version 2!
_Shimmer: Exactly. rawkstar: crazy bump is ok. I still find if you mix its maps with photoshop maps you're going to get much better result. Nothing is ever going to generate you a good normal map just by sliding a slider or clicking some buttons. Jarrod: The results are up there in the form of a max render. I'm at work… -
Re: Sean's daily zbrushing.
Work is looking great. And contrary to the very true advise that oKKun gave you about it being easier to break in as an environmental artist than a character artist, I believe if your heart is set on character art you should definatley pursue it. Plenty of these guys told me the same thing about my chances of breaking in…
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