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Re: Sketchbook: RasielD (aka Paul D.)
Hello:) I think your best stuff is probably the sculpture and the dragon basemesh. You seem to have a good sense of shape and volume, but to me, this doesn't seem to transfer to your 2D work. You work with a lot of bright colors, but you don't use them to describe shapes, you lay them on flat. Notice for instance the… -
Re: 3ds Max / Substance Painter - Problems with Normal Maps
Ahh. You are probably refering to the waveyness to the normal map on the edges of cylinders. That is correct behaviour ^_^. You can minimise it with a load of different tricks. But it's not wrong there is wavey and is expected result from what you are sticking into the baker. Usually I would just hand tweak the cage (as in… -
Re: How goes the sculpting/modeling the characters for animation
It has to be high poly or it'll look shit. They show same trailers in movie houses so the textures and geo have to hold up. I know they show gameplay quality but for hype purposes they usually use the same standards as cg for film. How is that done? You can transfer animation clips from the proxy to the high for testing… -
Re: 2D engines/frameworks
I'd go for Flash. It's multi-platform, works in web browsers, no need for installers etc. Actionscript3 is a nice object-oriented language and there are some cool frameworks and custom classes like Box2D and Flixel. You can use flash authoring tool to design levels/create assets etc :) Learning actionscript is going to… -
Re: Is it possible to get a job as an environment artist without knowing UE4's Material system?
When I started with UE I found that a lot of my Substance Designer knowledge was transferable to the material editor. Lerp nodes are comparable to SD's blend node with an alpha mask, for example. However, regarding your question, I think it depends on the scale of the team. If, like Obscura mentioned, there's a TA on board… -
Re: 3D Environment artst: I could really use some help on a "path"
You need to start experimenting on your own. Pick something you think you know how to do, then try and do it. Question every step you take. If you don't have any idea how to get started on even simple things, then you're going to have to watch more tutorials. Try something really simple like making a crate or a cardboard… -
Re: Normal Map problem
I_R_Hopo, I know with the ring, I just noticed it was a straight flat render on the backsurface, meaning it couldn't be a cage-bake :) Have you tried using mesh-smooth instead of turbosmooth?, I'm not too sureit will make a difference, but there might be some ways that they work different in terms of poly and mesh. Once… -
Re: My first Run Cycles
Hello antonny08! Good start! the basics are there already :) !! I have some notes for you: The first run it feels that the body from the hips to the head is all connected like a lego , it needs to have overlaps between the body parts , look at his chest , arms and head. It all moves at the same time and without movement in… -
Re: Zbrush exporting insufficent memory...
When it comes to retopologizing, you really only need enough polygons on the target to create the shape that you want the new mesh to conform to. There would be no need to export the highest subdivision with a few million polygons when more than half of those wouldn't even be changing the silhouette. As for decimation, it… -
Re: automatic retopo tools: whats the best choice?
there is also antageo balancer http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66268 it does a very nice job crunching down polies, it handles uvs very well and you can use several options to mask detail, also it can transfer the highres normals down to the lowpoly to have the surface normale resemble the highres data…
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