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Re: Max 2010 announced!!
Geez Rob, calm down. Yes, we know Autodesk is the source of all evil and malice in this world, but outside of winning the lottery about 20x in a row and buying the company theirs not much that can be done. Yea, we can bombard them with requests and petitions to fix their junk, but it doesn't seem like they'll ever listen.… -
Re: The Unofficial Polycount Slack Group!
So lately invites have taken foreeeeever. And I'm sorry about that. The reason is that I have been extremely busy with crunch, and immediately following that I got sick. I've sent out all of the pending invites, and hopefully I didn't miss any. But on the plus side, this has prompted us to change the invite system!… -
Re: Retopology for game assets question.
after it is in your game or render if you saw that it is taken up such small screen size that multiple triangles occupy the same pixel then you could reduce it or create lods. There are ways you can measure what performance impact a thing has and making those measurements is faster than redoing your work. So, it makes… -
Re: [WIP] - Historical - Soviet Guards Tank Army
Sometimes it is difficult to find the right balance between historical authenticity and a striking visual appearance. The KV-2 is a case in point - there are no authentic period sources that I could find which show any markings whatsoever on a KV-2. Only a few hundred were ever built, and production ceased in 1941 - before… -
Re: Video Arcade- W.I.P. Environment Art
The reference is from [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK2zui55hSc"]Bing Crosby's "Pennies from Heaven"[/ame] When working high to low, you don't need to do any unwrapping except for your low poly once you have finished it. You don't need UVs for the High Poly, only the Low. And you must be sure that all parts of… -
Re: beach details and details
One possible approach to create scattered debris decal textures with perfect masks normals and ao (even diffuse and specular if you go to that extreme) all in one go, would be to model them out then render to texture using a technique Slum went over in the Best workflow for gravel-roads? thread. It's a lot more work up… -
Mer-Mates
Hey everyone, I'd like to document the progress of Mer-Mates, a collaborative art project that gemmasuen and I have started. The aim of Mer-Mates is to gain xp creating fun stylized designs and ultimately model up a sketchfab or marmoset viewer diorama. So I'll start off by sharing the idea Gemma sketched up for the… -
Wall Worm Turns 5 Years Old Today
I know a lot of attention is moving to other engines, but I've still been actively involved in keeping Wall Worm updated. It's hard to believe it's been developed for five years now. Polycount was the first site I shared news of Wall Worm initially. So I wanted to share the news of today with everyone here. I wrote a… -
Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | September - October (68)
Here is my progress so far: I have many doubts about UV unwrapping. 1- Should I try to keep the number of UV islands as low as possible? 2- Should (almost) every <90º edge be a seam? 3- Should I organize the Uvs by making each part a block or should I prioritize occupying the most empty spaces of the map? Also, what should… -
The challenge continues...
For all you contest and challenge nuts, we have a small update on some of the challenges happening around game-art community. * Polycount's Time Machine! Challenge update * Game Artisans Neverending Story Chellenge finals Polycount We are half way through the Time Machine Challenge and if you haven't been following (and/or…
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