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Re: PBR Roughness/Metallic vs Specular/Gloss
Thanks guys! Yea that really makes sense. I'm using toolbag right now. Yea this gens terminology has been so crazy. I get so lost converting maps sometimes. I'm a texture artist at Gametextures.com and our goal is to get all the mats to look similar in all the engines, but at the same time get the best look/quality… -
Re: Question about texel resolution/density - small/bigger objects
Next gen does not equal giant textures for everything. In a real-time rendered game, all the same old rules still apply. Use textures no larger than necessary. In a real game situation, you will almost never see a 4096 texture on a single asset. This is a portfolio piece though, so you can be a bit looser with memory… -
Re: Japanese garden
scotthomer: Thanks mate :) Hayden Zammit: yes its true that if this were for an MMO the polys would be high, but for a classic next gen game I think its ok (plus for a portfolio scene its a bit diffrent again :p ). Good luck with your work popngear yeah like stupid amounts of opacity maped objects, thats going to be the… -
Re: The Rydan Workshop
mmm timbits... *setting up a trail with timbits to our website* :D Finally we are able to announce another great 8 week workshop real-time environments with unreal engine with instructor Chiyo Lai. Chiyo Lai has built worlds ranging from lush jungles, gritty military compounds, to fantastic futuristic cities. He studied at… -
Re: Trent's 3D Portfolio
You really need to stop desaturating your normal map and overlaying it over your diffuse. You're negating the purpose of the normal by forcing a faux lighting on your diffuse. All of your specular maps are bad. Again, you just desaturate your normal or diffuse and call it done. It's a horrible practice and is seriously… -
Re: Texture Theory
It sort of depends. If you're using the metalness workflow, there are a couple limitations. You don't get as much control over the reflectivity of non-metals, everything is fixed to 0.04 while in reality non-metals reflect in the 0.02-0.08 range or so. Also with the metalness workflow, you can get some nasty edge artifacts… -
Re: Level Design/Art Survey
Well, what I mean is, if I wanted to create a level in Quake4 or Crysis that looked and played like Q3DM17, the time difference to create that for Crysis and Quake3 is not different at all. Just in Q3 you'd use Radiant, in Crysis you'd use Max. Assuming textures and geometry are the same, the time difference is… -
Re: New Halo Reach Screens....
Scene budgets would dictate what can be drawn, so giving X detail to asset 1 means that you leave less room to work with other things, for example map geometry. Edge work in level editing can relate to many things, from simple chamfering of box like assets (in this case those terrible, almost Quake 2 engine style brush… -
Re: Genres you can't stand.
Reality tv, valley girls, paris hilton, paris hilton impersonators, fake reality tv (redundant, much?) rap, emo music, emo people, fuck-headed jocks/preps with their heads crammed 40 miles up their cavernous asses, politics, people who fight about politics, sports, sports shows, sports movies, sports video games, animal… -
Re: Cadaver-like Alien
Thanks for the critique. I see what you mean, and painting the texture and comparing it with some other pre-next gen game textures i've seen professionally done(my alien was done a long time ago just when zbrush was first coming out), mine does tend to look more washed out. But then again, shouldn't it be the output in the…
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