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Re: WIP - nextgen Survivor game character
I like it. You've struck a great balance between realistic/stylised. Anatomy is solid. For me, I think the ears could do with some love. Still a bit of 'jujitsu-ear' going on. :) And also, I preferred the lower lids/eyebags in the first post. I think they looked more natural. The updated ones just seem too craggy and don't… -
Re: Landscape : In the Mountain
What he's trying to say is that, ideally, your textures and lighting would be highly distinguishable even if your art was in black and white, and as you can see The middle, the tree in front of the large rock, kind of blend into each other. Still its pretty good overall. Also, while yes those would be some really bright… -
Re: [ Texturing ] Techniques for adding general and specific dirt to a texture
Mr. Bean: I never knew that about hold "Alt" during blend if to get smooth results. It appears it splits the arrow in half and you have extra control there. This is a HUGE trick that I didn't know about. Thanks for posting that tutorial man! Racer445: Really solid advice as always, Thanks! Using the AO as a base to get… -
Re: Clipping polygons vs. one mesh
Ah, good points that I didn't think of. You can see why there is no real correct answer, it all depends on your prop, your project, and your tech. Even if you aren't using vertex lighting, lots of engines (cough udk) uses vertices for texture blending for stuff like grime, so even for more realistic games that wouldn't use… -
Re: holy crap my cat has aids
yeah my other cat died at 18 after a house fire( smoke got her)she was a pure white cat and was queen of the other cats in our house:) owning pets is a blessing and a curse sometimes. Sorry to hear about your cat, hopefully he didn't suffer at all:( Basically, if my cat can get over this current breathing problem, he… -
Re: Favorite Scary Movie(s)
Oh yes Dukie, I recall those segments too. I still recall with vivad horror when a crooked real estate broker cut off this 66 yr old ladies hand in hopes she'd bleed to death and he could buy up her estate, prob was she did die, but not before she buried her hand and grew herself back with roots and dirt on her. Wow! -
Re: Head (for animation)
Bumpage. This is an animation showing the effect I was going for (blending displacement maps). There are some errors such as the inflating and deflation which I'm still working on. It's not as 'flash' as the previous head as I'm focusing on the actual effect than extra work such as texturing. There is a wierd spot on the… -
Re: Painting a "flow" normalmap?
Cool ideas. Also one of the coders on TCE posted a link to some work he did recently. Very interesting demo, could be an interesting way to create a flow map. Fun to play with too. For expediency though I hand-painted a quickie test map this afternoon, just picking colors from a world-space-lit hemisphere, painting swaths… -
Re: probably the best HDR on flickr
The last one is pushed the furthest, and even then, it's still pretty wussy by comparison to most of the stuff I see. I found that both the HDR process and especially the tonemapping was really accentuating any grain & noise in the dark areas, to the point where, even if the rest of the photo looked decent, the grain in… -
Re: fritz' ? of the day: painting out normal map seams
Yeah, it's down in the Texture rollout of the Tool section. I don't know if it actually *entirely* fixes seams, I think it's more like the "padding" option in Max's render to texture - basically it just blends the pixels over the border of the UV segments on your flat texture, so that mip-mapping won't make the seams show…
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