Posts by -HP-

  • [2D] Texture work

    Yeap, that one isn't too bad. I guess the main problem here is that you don't know what kind of situation your end customer will use your textures; you dont know what kind of lighting it will be on, you dont know the shader tech and you dont know the engine it will render it either, so you need to make sure you find that sweet spot.

    That's why Kedhrin mentioned the luminance standards, I think this standards should maybe be a mean around 128 just to make sure you're using as much color space as possible. Although a mean of 80 is still acceptable for many situations I reckon. Just make sure you dont to bellow 50 or more than 200.

  • [2D] Texture work

    Amazing!

    And yes, the luminance concern is a very valid one, do you guys also sell your .PSDs? If not, I recommend you set standards for the mean in PS (Prolly should be 128+ at the very least).

    Looking at your textures, they do indeed look pretty dark, specially the diffuse maps.

    If I were to buy a texture for you, if I were to make it darker, it wouldn't be a problem, but if I needed to make it brighter it would suck cos TGA, TIFFs or whatever dont store exposure information.

  • 'Paradise'

    Yeah, that link is awesome. Prometheus is a clusterfuck of bad storytelling, unless it all makes sense in the sequel, which would be pretty faggotish of them.

    I've seen the movie twice already, and while some things made better sense the second time you see it, I still have no idea what some other things were all about, and I think I can call myself an Aliens nerd. Shit just doesn't add up.

    I mean, they do answer a few things, and I actually really love how some plot elements are told to you by very indirect means, it makes you feel smart. But some stuff is just impossible to figure out.

    And don't get me started on the characters. The Crew has no idea what their in for until they actually get there? Srsly? Also, the guy with all the nice maps and flying drones is the one who gets lost in the maze? He of all people?

    Vickis death was so stupid I can't get my head around it.

    Oh well... If you manage to ignore all the little stupid plot holes and just plain stupid writing, it IS one hell of a badass movie, or I think it is cos I really wanna like this movie

  • 'Paradise'

    It was never a secret a sequel was in the works. I can't say Im too pleased with the whole idea of involving a god in the movie, our "makers". But I guess the Aliens universe had to evolve somewhere, I just hope it's not one of those religion vs science shit movies again.

    I'm more than ok with the Aliens being just a really nasty space parasite.

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from knj

    Alien Trilogy in Blue Ray - just finished Alien 3

    still don't know why most of Alien fans don't consider this one as a good movie, i love it

    It's a great movie, It's just not as good as the others! And some of the CG is pretty fucking bad, I would prefer if they just cut the scenes where the whole body of the Alien appears on screen.

    You'll enjoy the forth movie, the HD remaster looks really good.

  • Dishonored

    This game was awesome! Beat it on the PS3, althought I kept thinking how awesome would it be if I just got it for PC, it really felt it would be best experienced with a mouse, specially since the FoV on console is pretty narrow. (I assume you can change that on PC)

    Other than that, it was an absolutely astonishing game! Read somewhere the game was actually pretty easy, so I played it on hard, and still found it not hard enough, but it was great fun. It has a lot of elements from games that are dear to me, Thief, DeusEx and other RPG elements that really make this an awesome game.

    Also, one thing that really got my eye was the awesome textures. It felt like a grungier version of TF2, really beautiful texture work here, got me stare at a few for a while thinking how they nailed this style, some texture felt very "paintery" but not in a normal way, they probably used photoshop actions to turn photobased textures into the look they wanted, and worked on them from there.

    Another thing that annoyed me, I played sleath (like I do with most games that allow me to do it) and I hated that see through walls mode, it almost ruined the game for me, it makes everything look dark yellow and horrible, it has a horrible low bass sound playing while it was active but it was too useful not to use it so I spent 60% of the game with it on. (I had this EXACT same critic to both batman games, there's always that fucking annoying sealth mode that makes everything too easy and tint everything not allowing you to look at the nice art of the game)

  • What are you playing now?

    I can't get into the Halo universe at all. I tried to force my way through Halo4 to check out the art but I can't stand that game, there, I said it. (Dead gorgeous art tho)

    Btw, for those who haven't yet, check out Retro City Rampage!

    Oh and I finished Dishonored! Damn fine game! I am so glad quality games like this are still being made and having good sucess sales wise.

  • What are you playing now?

    Exactly, I need a (vertical) FoV of at least 80/85 to enjoy any game. This one you can increase to 110, so awesome!

    Playing dishonored on my ps3 atm, I am absolutely loving it, what's ruining it is exactly that, the fucking fov. Feels like I'm playing the game through a tube.