Hello Polycounters. I need your advices and on opinions on something me and my friend have been talking about for some time now. We are currently progressing through our Bachelor in 3D computer animation (Though he studies in the game branch and I am studying in Cinema and VFX as I am learning game engines at home). Before…
Autodesk continues it's check writing habit with it's latest one for the purchase of Illuminate Labs. Not sure who they are? They provide a lighting solution for video games as a middle ware solution. Basically you buy this, and drop it in your engine and you got some rocking lights. A few games you might have heard of…
Andrew 'dr1ver' Maximov has a great thread going about how to do more with procedural materials In his thread "The Desert" he covers some interesting ideas on how to blend materials together procedurally. These aren't your fathers procedural materials that stand out as a hallmark of the early days of 3D. Andrew is floating…
The hedge mesh: - Create a box with a few segments in it, 3x2x2, relax it so it softens up and drop a noise modifier on it to twist it around a little. Don't collapse the stack just yet, you can change the noise parameters to alter the hedges slightly. You can do the odd shaping by hand, I'm just lazy and like automation.…
If you are a community member of the Wildfire games' forum, you might already had noticed that a new modding team is being formed, which consist of a few old modding teams. The merge process being almost finished, we discovered that we could use a few additional hands to help us in modding several aspects of game, with the…
We are seeking additional 3D and texture artists: Formats Static meshes: .lwo or .ase Animated meshes: .md5mesh/.md5anim (natively converts .mb files) Textures: .tga and optionally .dds, local/height/specular/diffuse Budgets We are developing with 2007 hardware in mind, and a possible migration to ET:QW for the megatexture…
ALL POSITIONS FILLED! It's been a long arduous journey, but we're finally at a point where we have all our bases covered and all our effort is now focused on Kickstarter preparations. We are still always interested in connecting with talented people, but we unfortunately just don't have the time right now to consider…
Hello everyone! My goal this year was to challenge as much as possible my character creation skills. Here is the groom of the Merchant character. Rendered in Unreal Engine 5You can see more on my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/therese_la_patate
This post is about some of the Modo specific tricks and the hero mesh workflow, using this 80's home supercomputer as an example: It was inspired by Minitel and teleprinters. Its function in game is to describe and start the next mission. It is part of my effort to only use narrative UIs: No menu, no HUD, all the…
It seems like the general consensus is to either just stick with the current programs or spend time re-purposing them to fit our needs. This is a little disheartening. @PolyHertz I completely agree with you there. I have yet to see an app that can fully let you drag and drop and build out your own custom UI like modular…