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Re: How Do You Maintain Art Direction?
During prototyping we establish a basic visual style through the production of lots of, well, prototype assets and shaders exploring and demonstrating the ideas for the visual style. As the visual style starts to emerge we begin to focus in on it and at some point it gets soft-locked. Then, later when we enter… -
Re: (WIP)Arch Viz Animation Project- Mental Ray
Thanks Dave,I have tried everything...The light is still showing up there. Then I saw this vid on youtube: [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRObjsxrJzs"]Interior scanline render1 by Kyo3D 2010 - YouTube[/ame] So I imported the models into a new scene and then started playing around with the scanline renderer using… -
Re: Request - Normal Map Comparison (Baked Vs Generated)
I think it's really the difference between per-pixel VS. per-vertex lighting. The normal map is there to compensate for the lack of vertex resolution in a typical low poly model. This is really visible in the lack of gradients in a typical 2D generated map. The gradients help compensate for the lack of verts that would be… -
Re: Diffuse tinting for varations: how do YOU do it?
There are quite a number of ways you can approach color variations, with varying degrees of control and results, but a combination of masks and shader math (eg. gsokol's bike, or have a look at Jesse Sosa's Mutant League entry) will generally be the way to go. Once you've got the masks settled, you can go about the actual… -
Re: ZDepth within shader, usages?
The zdepth is 1 value, and 1 value only. Any kind of concept that UE3 throws at you as the end user saying it's different things isn't technically correct under the hood. You can get the depth with either per-vertex or per-pixel precision (like basically everything). You're right kodde, it's just a distance relative to the… -
Re: Nearly 50% of GameStops profits come from pre-owned sales (College Paper)
Ok, I understand that they need to make a profit, just like the next business. The main thing I am writing about in my report, is how gaming companies can eliminate this problem without using GameStop or any other retail store. So far it looks like online shipping and pre orders are the way to go. Does anyone else agree? I… -
Re: Sketchbook: Incomitatum: Andrew Chason
I really am quite disappointed that I didn't get more done today. I started the day retouching the textures on the Newspaper Dispensers as I wasn't happy with a couple of the aspects of them. Then I went on to modeling, unwrapping, and texturing this lamp to use around the building. As well as a "lit" version of the… -
Re: Tutorial: Next Gen Texture Creation
One very important thing that tutorials like this never really seem to cover(well, yours and the q4 ones atleast) is that you can very easily get nice smooth transitions with your floating geometry, theres really no reason to have super hard edges like that if you dont want to. Having a slightly little softened edge imo… -
Re: [Portfolio] Paul Presley
Great stuff. The city flythrough is by far your best piece and as others have stated the camera could use some work. Why not just fraps a runthrough? Ditch the camera and just run around your environment. It doesn't seem like your camera deviated from eye level anyway... I'd ditch all your props but the hammer and the… -
Re: Scorpion Queen
Sorry to hear things went tits up for ya man, but new chances I suppose! Cool to see you back again man :) Alright, the concept, it's cute hehe. Just wondering, will she have a saddle of some kind? Or ride bare back? Digging the highpoly, but the pinchers (specially the inside) seem a bit soft and blobby, define those…
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