marque_pierre

How come there are no good texturing books?

Or do you know of any I haven't bumped into?

This one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735709181/qid=1113774873/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-4476745-3271123 gives a good overview I think, but I still feel like something was missing, and it is certainly not very games specific.

This one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584503009/qid=1113774873/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-4476745-3271123 was more about mapping coordinates and projection math than anything else...

According to the author, this one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556222858/qid=1113774873/sr=2-7/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_7/104-4476745-3271123 will not benefit you outside Lightwave 3D...

This could have been good http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592003508/qid=1113774873/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/104-4476745-3271123 but as it happens, it is a total ripoff of amateur work (in my humble opinion).

This one deserves more praise http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970753039/ref=cm_bg_f_3/104-4476745-3271123?v=glance but as it also serves as an intro to Photoshop, then it is limited what the advanced Photoshop user gets out of it.

Even though this one has only 2 texturing specific chapters, I still feel it is the one I have learned the most from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735714096/ref=cm_bg_f_2/104-4476745-3271123?v=glance

Any takers?

Not pulling your leg here. This is university work, so everything needs to be documented, written up and so on. Sadly there doesn't seem to be an awfully big market for cartoony games textures at the moment, and I am not an expert yet by a long shot, but everybody I have shown these docs to, go like, 'Man, I wish this kind of stuff was available on the net...' You know what they say, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!

Yeah some nice stuff you've done here marque, but I find it very hard to

give critics on something with cartoon looks, suddenly every rule

gets tossed out the window, well almost...

All I can say is it looks nice and cartoony!

Anyways GJ!

Actually that is not true. I used to think so. And so I dived into it head first, and my first forays looked horrible. So I had to go back to the drawing table and carefully analyze cartoony games art. Then I discovered that cartoony art is not just cartoony art, there are several different categories which don't necessarily use the same methods and effects artistically speaking. So I analysed it, drew up the laws governing them, and with that at the forefront of my mind, the job became as easy as I thought it would be at first!

So I wrote two documents on cartoony art as well as structuring your layers in Photoshop for optimum effect, which I have gotten decent feedback on. Maybe a book on cartoony games texturing, somewhere down the lines...?

That was odd, was just flicking through this months Develop and noticed a face that looked familiar - Marque Pierre's avatar photo in the footnote of an article about some Teeside event Good job getting a mention, though if you helped organise such an event then it was well deserved!

Thanks. I invited 3 speakers and did some other stuff. This was my second time in Develop http://www.marquepierre.com/articles.html and of course it is always good to get some press, but let's just say. this was not exactly my finest hour, writing wise...

Yes i demand screenshots of the level.

NEVER! I say NEVER! Mwuahahahaha! I am keeping them all to myself! I will NEVER show any of the final stuff!

Thanks... If you knew how quickly and simply these were made you wouldn't be so impressed. But at least, everything is handpainted. :roll:

Here is a... wooden bucket! And a variation.

C&C will be appreciated, as always.

A land based hut. Very simple shape. Yes the modelling is quick, but this type of hut is meant to be duplicated, so too many unique features will not do.

C&C, pleae.

What is loosing 200 millions? Well, because of this, their shareprice will drop, which means their credit rating will drop, which means it will be more expensive for them to finance daily operations or take overs. Their creditability towards outside partners such as the NFL will drop. Furthermore their own shares are one of the key things they use payment to take over other studios, which means that they will be in a worse position to do so.

Boxes that were made but never sold, well they still have to be paid for, even more so than if so, since I can imagine EA have to suck up costs incurred for shipping them back from the retail points.

So, yes this is money they were expecting on getting, but believe me, they lost this money, and they felt it.

I have to agree with frie on this one, Bono recently refused to be the boss at the IMF, clearly showing that he had other plans in mind!!!

What the f#ck does a musician know about economy?

... and I feel fine.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=7562

Congratulations Kami + much respect!

So simple, so true Klein. Crawl before you can walk, walk before you can run.

I would. I have.

But for every attempt, my faith in the mod scene goes down a notch or two. Would be nice to be part of something, which would be released some day.

Hi there,

Grass... For an outdoor games environment. A wild one. I am working in Max. So I need to plant a lot of grass, you know a single polygon with an alpha mapped texture on. Man, it sure takes A LOT OF planes to get something that remotely looks like grass.

I have worked a bit with the scatter tool to do the distribution for me, but I am not too pleased with the limitations of that. Do anybody here experience with that?

Sure feels good to be back. None of those other whimpishly relevant forums quite cut the mustard...

Okay, another update. This is a hut, which stands on a stalk or a pillar in a river. It is not so much as hut as it is an organic growing thing. But it still serves as accommodation. This is still WIP, but I am sure you get the point. There are some anomalies with the uvw mapping and the alpha channels that I need to sort out, so please don't comment on that. Other than that, C&C is very welcome!

Minor update. The log looked like crap, so I have improved it a bit.

Reminds me of the stuff Blizzard makes, very nice

Thank you. Those are very kind words. :-o

Yummy. Nice work!

Come on Spoon. Maya and XSI are not dedicated modelling tools! They full scale kitchen sink packages.

Yeah that delete .ini file thing resets EVERYTHING completely, and max will then generate a new standard .ini file. Also a good way to transport your settings around with you...

Wow! I have never heard that before! You reset the gui, did you delete that .ini file manually, which will reset ALL your settings?

What you want me to make it available for download? Hmmm. Never thought of that. But if anybody cares, why not?

Next up. A fallen log in the forest:

Before you say it, I think the bump map settings are a bit high, causing the white glares...