this article made me want to download the trial. so i did. I then went thru the whole tutorial thing. thought it was cool. then i did my first agent mission outside of the tutorial. it was called "unathorized military pressence" where I had to find a transport ship and take the dudes on it. I warped to the location, it…
Hi Polycount! I recently tried getting into a game graphics school but did not get in, so I hope to improve my portfolio for next year to attempt getting in again. Here's the portfolio https://meltymask.lurk.me/portfolio (Thesre were the two projects turned in as pdfs to the school, which is why I'm choosing to use lurk…
Cheers thx for that, explains position of those tracks so assume legs deploy in a kinda storage position to enable travel over uneven soft ground. "Unfortunately I don't think the texturing is working very well to communicate that as I was very rushed doing it(even the pistons are completely rusted)." These 80lvl articles…
Hi friends! I wrote a small script in the past which could copy/paste the position of a spline-knot. Nothing special. BUT i want to improve the script that makes it possible to copy paste a position of any object/subobject in 3Ds Max. The question i have: Is it possible to grab/set transformation values independet from the…
Hey everyone, I'm new to Polycount but I heard this is a great community to be involved in and I hope to be involved here more. To preface, I'm beginning to learn Zbrush and I've encountered an issue where my mesh has what looks like masked off streaks on the surface. When I sculpt over them they seem to just get bigger. I…
Just wondering if anyone heard anything back from ArenaNet yet about their internship program? I only know one person of getting an email and he is an animator.
Hello Polycounters, I've been playing through the Assassin's Creed games for the first time the last few weeks; making my way through them chronologically (Playing Unity currently) and something that's been bothering me, is just how exactly do Ubisoft artists gather reference material for their Environments? I understand a…
Continuing from my previous post ... GenAI has also resulted in a lot of layoffs, for 2 reasons. One is companies got rid of employees in favor of using AI because they thought it would be cheaper. The other is AI ended up being more expensive than companies expected (I am not surprised) so then they got rid of more…
This is looking great so far. It'll be important to get the metal joints looking smooth, sub-d would be the best bet for this. Fortunately you have a ton of good reference (reverse-image searching on your ref board pointed to some ebay listings)