Posts by Lee3dee

von*ferret: cool thx. Say thankyou to your "Awesome Friend" I'll try it when I get home

so....i broke up the model, top and bottom. Figured im compressing so much data into the normal map 2 textures are better than one. Not sure if thats the correct way. LOL

anyways, now my normal map is brown....anyone have any thoughts?

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the discreet guy made it look so easy at GDC.

Graphics look good. But i think the MMORPG arena is getting crowded. LOL

for us 3D folks, the early tools

Alias Power Animator 7 - Aliaswavefront

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Ray Dream Studio -

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Extreme 3D - Macromedia

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Strata Pro

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3dsmax 3.1

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texturing is awesome! those are some really nice screenshots, should have no problems finding additional team members

got an email from a friend asking for my demo reel. LOL....So since im in transition making new stuff, I finished up the dragon tonight. I pretty happy with the final version. He is rigged, should I ever want to go back and do some animation

Wireframe

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I think at one point I had problems when UVs overlapped.

ahh, then i think I know, because the UV's for the other side of the tank are mirrored. I guess u cannot do that with normal maps

kleinluka :here's a high rez image, rendered from Render to texture

http://www.lee3dee.com/redux/panzer/NormalsMap2.dds

von*ferret: yeah i got that link, and a ton of others

So this weekend, I took a break from the dragon, and started doing some Normal map experiments. I have this panzer tank i made a while back which was 126,321 polys and I made a low poly version which is 7218, so i model around the tank, so the polys are close to each other. Then render to texture and bam! the normal map is pixelated to hell!. Even when rendering at 2048x2048. The normal map doesn't look like anything i've seen online. Am i doing something horribly wrong , so now its Monday and I'm back to the dragon but I wanted to post my problem for some feedback.

2 models

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Normal Map with pixelation and craziness

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low poly with crazy normal map

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having played alot of quake2 back in the day, online and off, The screen shot does nothing for me. If I wanted to play a quake 2 using the Doom3 engine, I'd start a mod and give it away for free. Ravensoft have made some great games, but this doesn't seem like anything new. If they had modified the engine somewhat or maybe make the graphics look not like Doom3 then maybe id be more interested.

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hahah i've been stuck in RE4 for a while. If you know how to beat the guy on the 2 towers on the 2nd CD, pls PM me. cause i cannot beat him at all

u gotta love speedtree looks amazing!

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too cartoony for me but nice anyways

hahaha its a render using GI, i changed it back to hardware render.

I'm pretty much happy with the colors and layout. still have some UV problems to address and I haven't welded the 2 sides together yet. Also, made the butt come in a little more. Texturing the tail at the moment.

current progress:

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i already got beyond good and evil, I was hooked on it for a while, until i got stuck in the bar, no idea what to do

At the lecture "creating art for next gen Unreal 3" the lead artists showed alot of new vehicles that they had created and the process of modeling for the new engine. They were asking people not to take pics, sucks! because the images were amazing.

At the epic booth at GDC, this year i was lucky to get the final showing of their new WIP game that uses the U3 engine. It was like watching a movie, except the lead designer was playing it. The pics on the unrealtechnology are oudated compared to what they were showing at GDC. The game was squad based, except the camera was interactive, kinda like the opening of Saving private Ryan, shaky cam but not too much. They showed a firefight in a destoryed city. My jaw just dropped when I saw it! as did the developers next to me.

I'm hopeing that Epic Games will be demonstrating the new engine again at the gaming expo here in Raleigh, in June

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Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil*whistles*

I still haven't beaten doom3 yet, i got bored of the dark room, oooo monster jump out

what games do you all recommend to buy. I was thinking of picking up Chaos Theory, but then Jade Empire came out, and I have yet to buy Tekken 5 or GT4

I previously bought: Dawn of war, God of war and Ridge Racer psp. I need to make a want list, but its going to be so BIG. lol Do you have a priority list for buying games or are they just sudden impulses

i think its a great opportunity, especially the line

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Mod guys welcome. You just have to be talented and passionate. You don't need 4 years experience.

Not everyone has years of game industry experience, but they are talented enough to know how to do game developement work I hope they get alot of applicants.

at first i was like, hey! i didn't see that in the private tech demo at gdc! Epic's new game didn't look at all like that, and then i read down further. lol

Though, the epic demo i saw behind close doors was kinda like the screenshot