Quick-Crit 2008-2009

[rossmum]

witchcraft

[DaneO'Roo]

Ross ur doing it the old wrong way. Chunk by chunk, you don't need to. Fill everything on your texture map with the same metal material if it's using it, and flood other areas with other materials if they use them, and skin EVERYTHING at once. you
ll get better blending in the end and it'll be much quicker. Also, if you learn a bit more, you can just bake a shadow map and an ambient occlusion map rendered from max onto your texture to cut out alot of time, so virtually in the end all your doing is details, rather than wasting time on all the big flat areas.

[rossmum]

I like doing things the old-fashioned way. vOv

I generally find I work better if I do things in segments. If I do the whole thing at once, I end up getting overloaded, or forgetting things, or rushing them, or just generally fucking up. This way, a section has to be complete and up to scratch before I even consider doing anything else.

As for AOs... I don't know how they work yet, and in any case, it'd be both pointless and detrimental on such a low-poly model when there's no high-poly handy (and I'm not making one). I wouldn't have shadows where I need them, and I would have shadows where I wouldn't need them.

Maybe once I progress onto larger maps and more detailed models I'll start learning some of the fancy baking stuff people do, but until then, I'm happy with doing everything by hand.

[Rob Oplawar]

Ross, isn't that model a little... terrible? I'm used to seeing really good gun models from you.

[NuggetWarmer]

Third person model, I'm guessing?

[rossmum]

Model is Fallschirmjaeger's, skin is mine on a 1024x512 (needs to go down to 512x256 but I fail at downsizing it without making it look like shit). It's for GR, hence the oldness

[PenGuin1362]

lol @ GR trend

[Reaper Man]

Model is Fallschirmjaeger's, skin is mine on a 1024x512 (needs to go down to 512x256 but I fail at downsizing it without making it look like shit). It's for GR, hence the oldness

Downsize using bicubic sharper interpolation

[Rob Oplawar]

isn't it weird how you learn a new phrase and then immediately hear someone use it?

I just discovered that as one of the methods for downsizing an image in ImageReady not two hours ago.

[Reaper Man]

isn't it weird how you learn a new phrase and then immediately hear someone use it?

I just discovered that as one of the methods for downsizing an image in ImageReady not two hours ago.

Lol, yeah I know what you mean, I find myself constantly ending up using new words almost immediately after I learn them, and then it makes it appear to others as if I know what I'm talking about.

E:
Also, I drew a baby. White pencils and white sketch sticks.