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Re: Quick question about ambient occlusion maps
It varies based on the game and company you are working at. There are 3 main ways to get AO that I am aware of. - Baking it into the diffuse - SSAO - Realtime AO that is calculated based on what is visible on the screen - Lightmaps - Either manually or procedurally generated lightmaps for all the static pieces in a level.… -
Re: normal maps, i have never made one right.
I think a solid workflow helped me a lot. It's real headache to work around problems when it takes you a few minutes just to prepare and bake everything. For example xnormal is a good app because you can prepare all the settings once, and then it's just one click to do bakes. (even if you change those models) From modo I… -
Re: Maya Lightbaking vs Unity 3
What do you mean by quality? Beast in Unity has quality controls and you can achieve the same quality as any renderer, lighting control is arguable though. Pros of rendering in unity: Calculated in engine so just a single click to see your lighting changes. No messing with aligning static lights and dynamic lights between… -
Re: Making of Halo 3...
[ QUOTE ] The Killzone thing was done by another company and is nothing more than concept art for the actual dev team. Bungie has a much more achievable goal. [/ QUOTE ] Well, it was arguably created to serve more of a purpose than that. Clearly it created hype for Sony and PS3. But yeah, I know that wasn't the point you… -
Re: High poly airvent asset
hey fuzzio, your modeling looks nice, bake is also very clean. If I were you I would use an alpha-texture for the railings instead of modeling them out, but this is belonging to your given polybudget. Same for the logo, could be done with textures only. If you want to present you asset in a realtime-render, marmorset would… -
Re: k700 tractor model and texture wip
Pic below : shaded with normalmap only , after erasing artifacts , and fixing quite a few smoothing problems (edges that needed to be sharp). I also put togheter normals from hipoly and handpainted scratches. A very bad news is that i couldn't bake this in Blender directly , Seems that the bake tool ignores node materials… -
Re: Architectural Pre-Vis
I didn't see TeeJay's post before I started writing mine. We agree on most things, but I want to say that depending on where and how you work, it doesn't have to be all crap. We have more work than we can handle and people around here seem to want more and more well made images, since the people making the decisions (the… -
Re: M3CH Dev Diary
really nice concepts and moods but i don't think your 3d quite matches the quality shown in the oncepts quite yet... not the textures or models which look great...but the lighting colour schemes and composition are not quite working... the concepts have a lovely solid feel to them, fairly monotone picked out with one or… -
Re: Looking for portfolio crit/ industry advice
"LEVEL DESIGN: FALLOUT 3" is very misleading if you're just skim-reading. You should instead use the name of your mod (if it doesn't have one, give it one) so it reads more like "MYMODNAME: FALLOUT 3 MOD". As mentioned before, as far as actual GAMES are concerned, you've not got much to show. Your offline renders won't do… -
Re: maya08+xNormal. the puzzle within the puzzle
heyyyy. completely different question but keeping it in this thread is cosure. I hopeing anybody might know what exactly the OpenGL or realtime raytraceing graphics driver" is in Xnormal. Apparently my zbrush mesh at subdivision 6 is too big and Iam trying to find a work around to keep my detail and open up the mesh in the…
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