Posts by hessi

  • The random model thread!

    stolve: the windows are reverse extruded and round -> lots of polies and as you can see those roofstruts are modeled too. and there are quite a few in the scene. those pillars are 3d too. i think its okay. you shouldnt judge polycounts by such a screenshot. the thing that matters is what you will notice ingame and as far as i know you might make some zooms/closeups to this building and warby has surely som LODs with less polygons while not that close to it.

    i like it warby. i notice you added a trim at the roof to hide the uv cuts. :thumbup:

  • totally random texture thread

    i dont like the color of the door. rest looks good to me. where are those references from? they are really pain in the ass! all this blue color because someone was using a artifical light filter

    and i wouldnt sharp the texture that much. its pretty close to dönerkingfilter

    anyway: good job. keep on it.

  • I want to buy this texture book!

    Quote from Sindwiller

    When youre right i'd be something like, yeah, at the level of a epic employee :roll:

    its not time that makes you good. what makes you good is what you make. so they only way to become "pro" is too MAKE stuff. of course some theory doesnt hurt anyone but a book wont turn you into a professional textureartist.

    maybe you will hate me while reading this but a thing i noticed myself (watching me and others) is that the age of some people also gives certain limits of "skill". working in this whole graphics buisness requires a lot of physical understanding and a very good skill in remarking and noticing nature.

    while starting you might think sunlight is white and something light ambient light is just a stupid thing that hammer has. actually its based on physical facts. sunlight is yellow and ambient light or shadows are more blueish. i had to tell my sister too a few months ago and she is 24 by now. so its not that close to age maybe but it is a thing you people just dont notice.

    noticing your environment is a thing you have to learn. we all lost it at the age of 4-7 maybe. you care less on how things work because there are too many of them.

    where i wanted to get to: dont look at the clock while learning. learning requires unlimited time because you will never learn out. especially you sindwiller with a decent age of 13 are pretty you to hang your goals that high you seem to do.

    and please dont call me a professional or pro or someone born with skill / talent or what ever you want to call it. i remember the times i was sucking at all graphics stuff. its a long time ago and you all might learn even more if you have motivation and time.

  • Remake HL textures

    Quote from RMJ1984

    Hey ive downloaded a program called VTFedit. Im trying to replace the medkit chargers. But why no luck ? anyone can help ?.. Using the charger images from this thread.

    with such detailed information noone will help :roll:

  • I want to buy this texture book!

    i dont see a need for a texturing book. most of the internet tutorials give you a good introduction to texturing. best way to start is texturing weapons and/or other metallic stuff. you can learn highlighting and placing shadows.

    the rest comes up with the time by hearing of others and exploring 3d packages (baking textures like occlusion pass, lightmap etc.)

    and 20£ for such a book is pretty much expensive in my eyes. learning texturing is like: get an introduction somewhere to kick you off and then go on by looking at other peoples textures and remarking and copying details they used.

  • 1up.com HL2 Ep.2 stuff

    those ep2 outdoor scenes are amazing. i want to know how they did implement such wide range outdoor areas. i did try once and failed harldy all this alphatesting slowed down the speeds.

    valve got some cute developer chicks too rock/punk/emo ftw \,,/, X.X ,\,,/

  • de_hogsatra_2007 project

    Quote from Minotauro

    * TheDoenerKing Filter Detected

    bwahaha. best one ever!

    i agree with mino.

    and i sadly have to notice that you didnt change the windows yet. give them a proper specmap and remove those reflections that are in your colormap.

  • Upgrading thoughts

    dx 10 isnt even released and as far as i know there are no dx 10 cards avaible right now.

    hardware requirements should be read after tests of game testing magazines and hardware benchmarks.

    getting more than 2GB of RAM now doesnt make sense under a 32bit system. windows can access 3GB actually. (technically it could be 4GB but it isnt possible somehow)

    64bit cpus allow your applications bigger "words". 64bit cpus run pretty fast even while in a 32bit mode.

    my recommendation: wait until your games have shipped and check out their needs and buy a highendmachine next year!

  • HESSI SPOTTED (no, really)

    hahaha was a fun night we had there.

    sadly all of the cool photos hanno made of me are showing me as a fat guy (or lets say: more fat than i actually am )stupid sunlight and stupid wind pushing my chemise around (( so those will rest on my HDD.

    but we made some nice shots too:

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    left: carny

    right: hessi

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    view on the Dresdner Bank building in Frankfurt

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    the one we were on to take a look at Frankfurt from upside

    it was a really great weekend. we will meet again. that's for sure

    edit:

    Quote from Pericolos0

    howmuch weed did hessi smoke this time

    if never consumed any illegal drugs. a few hours before we left there was a vein in my eyes that bursted! (due to all those hours in front of monitors i guess )