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Re: More Desert characters
00Zero: hmm, nah, he just burned his skin. Badly. ^^ He wears the headgear for protection. And better accuracy :D Jocose: thanks, yeah, that is definately an inspiration. wizo: cheers man :) AimBiz: Cool :] Yeah, none of it is actually operated into him, but the thingys around his eye are really hard pressed against the… -
Re: Volumetric clouds in games
I was once trying to do the same thing and came up with a quite nice solution. I used spheres in 3dmax to define a cloud shape and made a blobmesh of it.Then it was optimized by hand where needed and vertex painted on the bottom and in the places where the cloud would be occluded.Then in engine i rendered a sprite at each… -
Re: PSP Vehicle.
Haha it's real. Never seen one before. The window wiper motors must get really hot in these cars, to need ventilation on the bonnet :P Even though by the looks, it has no wipers. Also in this pic it is clear what I was saying about the wheels. Lastly yeah I only added that info about the alpha techiniques FYI. If you ever… -
Re: shoulders from japan.
I find bendy straw is a good method, but I would add that modelling it at 45 degrees rather than 90 'leonardo pose' helps define the shoulder muscles better for 90 percent of game motions. My unreal characters had the pectorial model style and they crimped terribly at the range that was needed. The anatomical forms and… -
Re: UDK Material Question
Thanks for the quick responses. What you see in the first picture on the post is actually after softening everything before exporting. To be honest, I baked this by softening the entire model before using maya's transfer maps. The resulting normal map looks like what is attached here. My guess is that Maya takes the… -
Re: Brand Spankin New Artist: (Some Assembly Required)
Hi all, yes, as of now it's just a flat image thwap'd onto a 6-sider. i drummed up the texture during my down time away from maya, so i didnt layout the UVs prior. this is ass-backward i know. good points though, there will definately be much tweaking to do. later i'll grab a capture so you can see it in 3D and we can go… -
Re: Tutorials for Animating in Games?
It depends on the engine how animations are handled. Some can use skinning some morphing some both. Normally you can define in the exporter which keyframes belong to which animation, like 0-30 = Idle,31-61 = Walk etc. And you have to look for things like how many bones can influence one vert. I think in most engines it is… -
Re: head hunters?
No, you definately don't need a Recruiter. You can do what Paul said and do it yourself or go with an Agency to represent you like CAA, Fog Studios, or Flashman Studios. These companies will get contracts for you for a nominal fee, but at least it will get your name out there and give you consistant work. So what is the… -
Re: Artweaver paint app
hmm, i tried mypaint (if its the one I'm thinking of) and the brush engine was baffling. Looked like you could get some decent results if you really wanted to put the effort in, trouble is I don't.. just want somethign thats easy and flexible. definately designed by a robot programmer (no offence programmer types!) edit:… -
Re: Book purchase help
I have the version of that book for maya5. Its good. Its very broad, not targeted toward game res modeling, but it definately gets the job done of introducing you to the program. Personally I'd recomend working through the online tutorials in the maya helpfile first. They cover all the basic tool usage, and if you've used…
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