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Re: Polygon hair modeling techniques?
well, you could create a small selection of hairstrips for the strands that cover the skull and ones to cover the ponytail. at least two different texture-snippets for each for the sake of variety. geometry should be pretty wide - you don't want to add tons of really thin strips to cover the skull. then lay out splines… -
Re: How to look like The Wolf Among Us ? cartoon light / shadow
It's a clever trick. I believe they're using a cubemap. The benefit of using this technique is that it's quite fast since there's no dynamic lighting involved, and you can easily get that toon-shaded, dramatic visual. First, they must generate a "lighting cubemap." You can build a self-illuminated mesh volume with flat… -
Re: Transparencies, sorting and intersecting
One disclaimer I will give, for my post and ALL others (except maybe if crazy butcher or Ryan Clark post), is that we are not graphics programmers. It does NOT mean graphics programmers are always right (they're not), but it does mean we can very possibly be wrong, since we cannot work or discover at as a nuts-and-bolts… -
Re: Selling my workstation
Finally, some nerd talk, haha. A few things I should mention is the computer has been used by me alone for around 2 years (its the 2008 model). So its using the Quad core xeons that dont support hyperthreading or anything. I usually try and get a new system every 2 years if it will be fast enough to justify the price. Also… -
Re: UDK - Weathertop (LotR) Inspired Scene
Hi Tim! The scene is looking cool, I like the elegant straightforwardness of it. Going by the older scene shots, I would say your diffuse is too bright. Even though you are going for a very white-colored rock surface, consider damping the brightness on your diffuse texture so that more subtlety in the lighting can show… -
Re: [UE4][WIP] Chinese Courtyard
@Sebvhe Thanks for the feedback! I agree with he comment on the 16:9. For now this isn't really working well since the extra space isn't used at all. Even in vertical format it wouldn't work fully as I still miss a lot of things which make the concept more interesting (puddles, rain, moss, papers on ground, ...). For now I… -
Re: texturing in the early 2000's - how did you do it?
Very little was photo-slapped. In the late 90's and early aughts a photosourced texture often looked way worse than a handcrafted one. Realize that the resolutions available were really tiny by today's standards. The "high res" pack for unreal tournament characters were 256^2 and often sampled to a 256 color per image… -
Re: Assassins Creed 2
great game actually. ALOT of things that bother me though. RANT TIME. The guards in Romagna look like Luigi. It's too easy. I suck at games, but I didn't even get killed once throughout. The only reason I died was because of the free running. Some of the dialogue (the vagina line, the HILARIOUS mario line :/ )] The… -
Re: Need Recent Grad Advice
I would have to go into the game engine to get the areas to what I did. The problem is that I didn't model anything during my time with them. I basically just set scenes, some vertex painting and sculpted some terrain work with their in house editors. It would be like me just putting up some random shot of the game. I also… -
Re: Zbrush - Why does this happen?
Neox nailed it; you simply don't have the same amount of geometry that the video does (43k verts on your head vs 285k verts in the video). Zbrush doesn't do any smoothing between its vertex normals. Other 3d programs tend to average these out based on a tolerance angle or manually defined user normals (hard edges,…
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