Nope. With metalness you can store the metalnes map in the Red channel, the AO in the Blue channel, and then gloss in the green channel. Doesn't really matter what channel you store them. The point is you aren't using any extra textures. You actullay end up with 3 textures that way Albedo, Normals, and Metalness/AO/Gloss…
Justin Meisse I'm not asking about thread titles in particular... When I say "project" I refer to anything from written works to sculpture to (insert whatever a project can be here). I think you've come up with a good idea for naming stuff, though. Having a sounding board to throw things at and riff off of seems to be a…
I’m very grateful to be part of the Props team involved in the development of this project. It’s been an incredible journey of collaboration and creativity. Here’s the teaser—hope you enjoy it and that it gives you a glimpse of the effort and passion we’ve put into this. Thank you for joining us on this adventure! Teaser:…
Hello Members of the Polycount Forum, I am the author of the article and first of all I would just like to apologize for my ignorance. I have been doing a lot of interviews with 2d artists and even a sculptor that I've found on deviantart.com and I wanted to branch out and interview someone who was working with 3D…
books, great part about books is you can create what you read, and its completely your interpretation. Also just seeing and experiancng a lot of things. if you ever get chances to travel do so, and let your self absorb everything possible about the culture your in and the visualises you see. Also just building up a great…
Hey guys, I'm sort of looking for some sort of a benchmark for how long it should take to do certain things. For example, a blockout, I've spent like 2 days on and off working on one for an environment I want to do (I have school to worry about too), and it just dawned on me that I should be way quicker. My goal is to…
I am in the very beginning stages of game development, and I'm currently attempting to assemble a budget for a short demo of the game, since I sadly haven't stumbled across a large sum of money yet to fund the entire thing. I'll need to hire some 3D artists to pull it off, but since I'm not very familiar with the field,…
If you use firefox, just go to organize bookmarks and you can export all your bookmarks to a file :) What I use more lately is Foxmarks, http://www.foxmarks.com/ It saves your bookmarks somewhere on the interwebz so you can grab and sync where-ever you are.
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Make sure your personal project is something you think is cool, and not something you're doing cause you think it'll get you a job or something. Night and day for me. Other than that, contests are huge. Participation in the community that revolves around them is a bunch of fun and can help encourage you. gl.