Ace

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I fucking love my timeline today

“The Hidden King? Seems pretty visible to me.”

@ANGELICFANGZ Awww hell naawh, leave ma bois alone

im serious we need to kill all mo&krill players

@Samisaccnt @vladimirdesigns @JoeWilsonEQ1 Cheers homie, glad u do ❤️

@perfect_ace97 @vladimirdesigns @JoeWilsonEQ1 Thanks anyways Ace 🫶Love what u do

Baking normals used to be impressive. With modern polycount budgets you are just softening corners.

Explaining the difference between face-weighted normals and simple bevels with no custom normals:

@Samisaccnt @vladimirdesigns @JoeWilsonEQ1 Noice, i didn’t see it, that’s why i tagged joe xD

@perfect_ace97 @vladimirdesigns @JoeWilsonEQ1 Of course he can haha, Vladimir made a nice demonstration though definitely helped me grasp it better

@Samisaccnt @vladimirdesigns I think @JoeWilsonEQ1 can give the best answer anywhere

@vladimirdesigns @perfect_ace97 Might be a dumb question but what'd be the difference between just beveling / filleting everything & doing the same but adding face-weighted normals? I find hard to understand what'd it change

@ArtOfPilgrim I wish 3ds max had adaliction and UV edility just like blender @autodesk wake up and catch up

Ain't nobody Squiding in blender. Calling this fake.

@munsplit @vladimirdesigns You know what, i actually can’t wait to see that

@perfect_ace97 @vladimirdesigns wait until you see my sheet intersect midpoly shell with half korean bevel split normal aligned edges.

@vladimirdesigns Just nanite it brother

@perfect_ace97 Face-weighted normal workflows will be the next weapon art meta. Calling it now.

@gabefollower Holy fuck this is so well done

After a few months of work, Grelgn finished his full hero replacement mod for Deadlock. G-Man enters The Cursed Apple to finish the ritual with Garry's Mod toolgun, explosive barrels, and a bathtub. You can support the future work on author's Patreon!

We are rdy for @Official_GDC with our game @Aftrlife_game

@EinMeister5 apparently so hahahaha

@perfect_ace97 The US is after you

Why am i getting threats lmao The guns i make are not real i swear 😂😂

@Roberts_Gui 🫡🫡🫡

@perfect_ace97 I have quite a few friends that worked on them, I’ll let them know haha

I am enjoying this gun art blast from BF6 way too much Amazing work by all artists involved

@PrinzDeadlock Yeh wait till you meet them in phantom+

how these people are above ritualist boggles my mind

deadlock needs this so bad

@vladimirdesigns I guess we were talking about different things 😄 Great work btw, love what you been posting!

I think we are talking about slightly different things. I agree that all hidden surfaces have to be optimized to smithereens. That's non-negotiable. My point is that the player never sees UVs or the wireframe of the game mesh. But their quality is directly upstream from how the game looks and performs, especially on lower specs. Things like edge flow, edge density distribution, edge reduction patterns, UV padding, UV shell placement, UV straightening, etc. Think about how much they affect texel density and LOD mesh quality.

I'm a strong believer in Steve Jobs' design principle to make the unseen as beautiful as the seen. Lowpoly (game mesh) topology is a prime example of this principle in game 3D. It's never seen by players, but it affects: - Quality of LODs, UVs, bakes and textures (directly affects performance). - Production speed down the line. Three years from now, another dev will have to edit your files. The quality of your work will make a difference between just editing and redoing from scratch. Future proofing saves you a ton of money. Some WIPs of a model I'm working on:

That’s actually very interesting! In my experience(which is mainly freelance and outsourcing) it’s all about what the players see, if it’s hidden, gut it If i would spend time for example tinkering the inside of a handguard, that would be counterproductive, it will be occluded and shadowed. I meant by no means to disregard your experience in this case, but it just feels odd to me haha, from my perspective, game art is all about hiding your mistakes.

I think the difference in our perspectives is coming from what we were exposed to over the course of our careers. During my time in outsourcing I worked for a number of big-name developers. There was one client that had ridiculously strict quality requirements. Off the charts mesh quality, feedback for barely perceptible bake/texture flaws. They are also running a 15-year old live service game with beautiful graphics that runs well on a calculator. There were also cases where I had to clean up surprisingly sloppy work. Eyebrow-raising stuff. And there was everything in between. The correlation between production discipline and the appeal/quality/market performance of the final product was pretty strong. Maybe I'm falling prey to some fallacy, idk. Genuinely curious what your experience looks like.