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AK-47
Here is my first entry into the world of modeling guns. I went for an AK-47 because, well, it's a classic and it did not seem overly complex to start with. True to the name it is an actual late model AK-47 as opposed to an AKM, made after reference images of the type 3 AK (mid 1950s) which used a milled receiver. Some… -
Sea of Thieves - Character Art
Way back at the Start of Sea of Thieves development, we were tasked with the Design brief that the characters should allow you to "Be the pirate you want to be"...no small feat, when every player will want something different when they hear that! To give us this ability, as Lead Character Artist, I spearheaded the… -
3Ds Max/ Zbrush: Industry vs personal workflow
Hi all, After reading, watching and searching on Zbrush workflow I am facing the point of decision making on the subject of workflow when using Zbrush and Max together. I am going to prefer making low poly with enough details than importing to Zbrush for more stuff to get Normals and other maps. I dont want to end up… -
Re: Max/zbrush smoothing topology
You need much more resolution - look at what your total points (vertices) are after you dynamesh. It's better to dynamesh piece by piece, rather than the entire thing. This would give, say, 2million points on a piece of the gun, which gives you much more dense geo all around, rather than spreading out those same 2million… -
Re: PYTHON Highlevel intro to Python in Maya (cmds, Pymel, Openmaya 1.0 & 2.0)
No trash talk, I was just stating that the performance does not suit my needs for production and I no longer use pymel for that reason. I don't see readability as an issue, if the implementation is difficult to read, you can always wrap up stuff yourself by writing your own functions or classes and comment on what you are… -
Re: I want to consult about the 3d modeling software for low poly which I'm making.
Hi. What lets people make humanoid models so quickly isn't the software they're using, but their knowledge of human anatomy. So by just moving a few vertices around they can make what is a lowpoly cylinder look like a forearm, or a subdivided cube look like a head. Unless you want to learn how to create a 3D software, in… -
Re: Curious about face weighted normals
At it's most basic, when the smoothed normals for a mesh are calculated, each vertex simply grabs the flat/geometric normal of all of the polygons that it belongs to and averages them together to get it's smoothed normal. But you can weight the contribution of each polygon to that final average to try and get different -… -
Re: Trim sheets. How to use them?
First of all we have a cube with a simple tileable trim sheet. Lets assume it was detailed. So you can see that at the sides it is looking "okay" but at the top and at the bottom there is no detail like at the left and right edges. That is what I meant. If you have 4 sides you can just cover 2 sides with a regular trim… -
Re: (Maya) Curves to polygon not working?
The first step that you did ( converting to nurbs ) is useless, but it's not a big deal because it didn't do anything. To convert to a polygonal surface you must create a NURBS surface and then convert it. At the moment you only have curves. You can create a surface using the curves as boundaries ( they will be the edges… -
Re: [UDK] Natural Selection 2 lab environment
Looking good Bard :) Couple things from the original concept that I liked and don't see in your build at the moment. 1 - Split in the overhead rail. I like how in the concept the rail veers right but there's still enough straight track for a few globes to be separated off from the line. If this is an inspection room, what…
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