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Re: Environment Art Portfolio Critique
@Ashervisalis Thank you for sharing that tutorial and offering to help if I get stuck. I look forward to working through it, my sub-d modeling skills could definitely be improved. Is there a space here on Polycount where I can join a chat community for art tests or would I find one elsewhere? The “Art_Test_Doc” file in the… -
Re: 3D character art - "where" to study
Honestly I don't think 3-4 years of schools is of any help in this field if you ain't doing it just to get a degree for visa purposes. Its too long and not on point enough. Personally I'm all for a 1 year course to get the basics of all fields involved (concepts, modelling, texturing, sculpting, rigging, animating,...) and… -
Re: Zbrush Scale - Scene setup/Habits/Professionalism
the scale issue sounds like some GoZ problem. after suffering a few of those in the early incarnations, i've simply never looked at it again. i guess you can play with the scale setting under tool->export to see if that makes any difference. else what we did on past projects was to figure out the scale in max manually and… -
Re: Baking normals in Modo: what could be the cause of those artifacts?
Maybe I'm missing some obvious step that you'll see if I list my actions. - File -> Reset - File -> Import, choose an FBX file with existing UVs and normals (validated them as properly imported with Game vertex tool and UV view in Modo) - Drag the Mesh entity (thing with a cube icon) out of Items "folder" Modo creates for… -
Re: Efficient UV for Modular Pieces
There are tonnes of variables so you're going to have to decide whether you want to maximise modularity (lower cost) or maximise unique detail. In reality you're going to be doing a bit of both, because some parts will work better with one method over another. For example, if you were to uniquely map the large flat faces… -
Re: Portfolio/Website Review (It's that time of year)
Some quick crits on the portfolio in it's entirety: 1. The portfolio page should be the first page you see, not some superfluous splash page. 2. The thumbnails are too small. 3. If you're going to write about games you've worked on you should at least show an image or preferably a video in my opinion. 4. Make more renders… -
Re: 3D Man Low Poly Game Model
Nice work so far. Since you mention "low poly", you should include a polygon count. Normal, specular, and diffuse texture maps are also a good idea. The texture is too shiny, especially on the clothing. His skin also seems to have an unhealthy blue-grey tinge, although some of that might be an overly blue light - posting… -
Re: First real attempt at environment modelling. Looking for feedback.
This structure is a highly modular structure. You should ALWAYS if possible, "modularize" your environments. If done properly, it can be around 8-10K polies, which is OK or this hero structure. This is how I would execute it: 1. The many rings that make up the outer shell will be modeled with a modular approach ( model one… -
Re: Barrel and Simple Pistol
Your pistol highpolyy model is not really a high poly model. Where are the control loops? Your hard edges are literally sharp instead of a having a little rounding to help it catch the light. It just looks like a low poly model. You're not Smooth Mesh Previewing and converting any of the mesh. (Please read this. It'll… -
Re: [MAXScript] Hiding faces on many objects under an Epoly mod
If you're talking about: modFullName.ButtonOp #HideVertex iirc I put that there to fix some sort of bug in an older version of Max I was using at the time. Probably no reason to have it there in modern versions of Max, but no real reason to remove it either. I don't ever really hide just verts. Here's my full hide/unhide…
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