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 tony was right looks better with the wood grain

Today I textured the cannon 

concept art by Doug Sexton

and my textured version another asset

today i worked on the redo of the towers bases. 

vertices count. 

level 1 = 35 + 30 + 10 = 75

level 2 = 35 + 30 + 55 = 120

level 3 = 35 + 30 + 35 = 100

35 for the flags

30 for the round base

the third numbers are the number of the towers without other numbers are for the other part of the base

This is what I was given to go off of 

These are the models that I made from the concept.

Re-normalizing Re-normalizing means resetting the length of each normal in the map to 1. A normal mapping shader takes the three color channels of a normal map and combines them to create the direction and length of each pixel's normal. These normals are then used to apply the scene lighting to the mesh. However if you edit normal maps by hand or if you blend multiple normal maps together this can cause those lengths to change. Most shaders expect the length of the normals to always be 1 (normalized), but some are written to re-normalize the normal map dynamically (for example, 3ds Max's Hardware Shaders do re-normalize)."

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- Samantha Bratton left the Main Room. ( 9:45 PM ) - 

2D

Some pictures I worked on in illustrator to get use to the pen tool.

WIP: High-Poly phone Project3

TAD assignment 1: Learning Max

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1st Tad Class Assignment

thanks to the great teaching and bruises by Brett Briley

retopoing body suit for an animation

Heavenly

An interesting failure in a project I am revisiting

UDK shader help

just a way to break the texture up in UDK

advice about udk

"1 Unreal Unit (UU) = 1 Centimeter (CM)

So as a working grid in Maya, you should set your grid accordingly:
Display->Grid->[Options]


Length and Width: 1024.00 units
Grid Lines every: 16.00 units
Subdivisions: 1


This will give you a grid in Maya that represents using a 16uu scale in Unreal.


I'm not sure if you are going for a level on-the-fly and want to see it in game right away or if you want to take the time and do it correctly.


You should split your maya scene into parts that can be easily "snapped" together. The reason for setting the grid appropriately is so that your meshes can vert-snap together and be aligned with the grid in Unreal. In other words, this is what we call "Modular Design".


It’s imperative that each mesh is also at the (0,0) origin while holding to the grid scale of Unreal. This allows it so rotation and scale may be adjusted later in the engine without having to go back to a 3d modeling package. As a level designer, it is extremely beneficial to use a modular design because we can swap out meshes to change the overall look of an area and also help engine performance; as well as reuse the assets in other levels.


Each mesh/part of your scene in Maya must also be unwrapped. Unfortunately, no, your bump/normal maps will not carry from Maya to Unreal automatically. You will have to manually create materials in the UDK material editor using your Diffuse, Specular & Normal maps that you used for Maya to create a material for each static mesh. Do not use black/white bump maps that you used for Maya, but a normal map. You can always convert your bump map into a normal using Nvidia's normal map filter for photoshop as a quick workaround. (yes, you can do actual bump-mapping in Unreal.. aka-> psuedo Parallax-Mapping... but thats more advanced.) You can have multiple maya materials applied to each mesh (called material slots) as long as they are properly unwrapped. Essentially, you can have multiple UV-sets on each object that will carry over. You should look on the UDN (https://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UT3ModHome) and find some basic information on materials.


Do not bother exporting your entire maya scene over as one mesh into Unreal. If its low-poly enough (like a rough-level-shell) that you would like to see in-game for scaling purposes, then thats "ok". But it will probably crash the exporter/engine because of that many verts having to be compressed. Also, the performance will be terrible as the engine has to load the entire level into memory.


Try splitting your entire maya scene into tileable or stand-alone parts with the mesh origin at 0,0."

Perk-a-Cola Fanart

Screen-shots in UDK of my updated Pack a punch machine and Juggernaug