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Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
@EQ, Right, but vertex cost trumps triangle cost anyway. Ofc, triangle count is going to differ between hard edge and bevelled meshes but any actual increase in render cost (if any) would be negligible because of the amount if cache on modern GPUs makes it possible to store the result of each vertex so it can be… -
Re: New Starcraft II Cinematic Movie
That does sound like a substantial amount of content for a single-player game. But price is still going to be an issue. No matter how much I might have enjoyed the original Starcraft, I am not shelling out $60 a pop for all three entries. If the second and third entries are released with much more reasonable prices, I… -
Re: 90 days to model and rig a character...is this standard?
6 weeks for one character, i wish i ever would get that amount of time :D usually the longest amount of time i spend for an ingame ready "currentgen" asset is around 3 weeks, usually lower, most stuff is done in around 60-80 hours, though i usually am not doing the rigging, only when it comes down to using biped i from… -
Re: The Walking Dead - Shane
MGM: Whoa dude, use that edit button O.o Hayden Zammit: Haha, yeah totally, some hands would help sell it. That dude has some excited hands, saw an interview and he was on hands overdrive mode. WarrenMarshall: Thanks man. MrNinjutsu, Boyso and yodude87: Sorry guys. Didn't mean to plant the seed for spoilers to grow from.… -
Re: Minecraft meets Zelda meets Fable
When we launched our Kickstarter campaign, we also launched our company website and our public forums. I'm completely blown away by the amount of traffic we're receiving and the insane amount of threads that have been created in only two weeks: Guild charter preparation, speculation on easter eggs hidden in our concept… -
Re: Baking Hair & Fur for Games MiniTutorial
Converting the hair into a mesh sounds nice but practically it is unusable. To get a really nice result you really need a very high amount of hair (say 30000 for a whole hairstyle). Max is not able to do that. The highest amount for me was like 5k. Take him as an example: See close hair. If the hair was lose than it could… -
Re: Need a new monitor
I recommend getting two screens or more. You can have concept art in one screen and your model in the other, or texture flats in one and modeling package in the other. The total amount of pixels in front of you for the amount of money you will spend will be much better if you get two slightly smaller screens rather than… -
Re: perfect normal for sand beach
For sand, I found that getting a 50% grey layer and adding some very slight noise to it then overlaying it on a larger detail normal map gave a nice sand grain effect. The benefit is that each pixel represents a different facet (rather than baking or converting from a height map, as that anti-alises the pixels together).… -
Making different scales work together
Hey all. I'm trying to think through how to achieve something and could use your feedback. I'm trying to create what amount to oil rigs in my game. They aren't actually oil rigs, but that's beside the point. I'm trying to achieve a look like the following image: Notice how there is a fair amount of fine detail, but some… -
Guild Wars is gravy, polycounters unite!
I'll leave it to the copious amount of good reviews out there to convince you to pick this one up, but personally I'm having a great deal of fun with this one. It's not so much a mog as it is a monster killing field with a virtual lobby, and it all works quite nicely. The art is mazing and it's very low commitment, unlike…
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