Polycount http://www.polycount.com Thu, 23 May 2013 19:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SciFi Pattern Generator http://www.polycount.com/2013/05/23/scifi-pattern-generator/ http://www.polycount.com/2013/05/23/scifi-pattern-generator/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 19:27:33 +0000 Mark Dygert http://www.polycount.com/?p=12724

SciFi Pattern Generator Script v.1.1 for 3ds max 2008+

“Greeble-like” custom pattern generation! Make your geometry more interesting with a single click!

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could solve all your problems with one single click ? Pattern generator will help you with that!
This 3ds max script lets you generate the most astonishing structures with one single click. It is very reliable, stable and extremely easy to use!
Instant Results! Simply select some meshes and pick a target object and that’s it! You can basically texture your meshes with real geometry and even 
use UV Mapping to control the process!”

http://www.code-artists.de/pattern.html

http://www.code-artists.de/pattern.html

 

]]> http://www.polycount.com/2013/05/23/scifi-pattern-generator/feed/ 11 The Escape Voting, Recap http://www.polycount.com/2013/05/20/the-escape-voting-recap/ http://www.polycount.com/2013/05/20/the-escape-voting-recap/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:04 +0000 Sean VanGorder http://www.polycount.com/?p=12559 The contest has ended, the submissions are gathered and the time has come to vote for your TOP 3 FAVOURITE entries to the Escape: A Polycount Challenge!

To vote for the Escape, you must:

  1. Be a member of the Polycount Community. We’ll need your user name when completing the poll so if you’re not a member now, please sign up before voting!
  2. CLICK HERE to load up the voting page for the Escape: A Polycount Challenge
  3. Choose your TOP 3 favourite entries. No more or no less.

To make the voting as easy as possible, we’ve done a recap of the entire contest and all of its entries. Use this recap as reference for picking your favourites or use the final submissions page. Clicking on the images in the recap will take you to the corresponding WIP thread.

The vote will end on Sunday, May 26th 2013 @ 23:59 EST. The winners will be announced shortly after the polls have closed.

Congratulations and good luck to everyone who has entered!

Toseben | Forest Chase

 

Team Old School | The Wild Hunt

 

JeezeJess | Asian Tower

 

Team Brain Jelly | Cyberpunk Heist

 

Futuristic TEAM | Vent Chase

 

Team Tempura | Sushi Run

 

heinous | TF2 M8 Greyhound

 

jsargent | Fallen

 

Team Caravan | One-Way

 

fei-rukawa | Ghouls Desert Cyborg

 

Team Donkeyballs | 2085

 

Team CosmoBear | The Beryllium Gang

 

Team Penyx | Public Enemies

 

Team Burgerstorm | On The Edge

 

Safemilk(Daniel) | Corporate Assassin

 

snowed12 | Elevator Escape

 

Team Plausibly Aught | Island Escape

 

johnguydude | Steam Wing

 

Team MAETi | Yo Ho Ho!

 

Colgruv | Dodge and Crumble

 

Zelfit | Retreat!

 

Azbic | Pirate Ship

 

powellfx | Frozen

 

EmAr | Eject!

 

Team Piranha Bytes | Nam

 

Peverall | The Falls

 

Alex.R.Hogue | The Jungle River

 

artofkee | VK’s Secret Place

 

m4dcow | Hermit’s Perch

 

Conpatshe | Norse Temple

 

Xiaokira | Desert Temple

 

Tiger300 | Lost Cavern

 

radurock | Quantum

 

V1ocity | Abandoned

 

Darren Beattie | Heading Home

 

cholden | Love

 

Sashank | The Tunnel Escape

 

Team 4 | Cave Escape

 

Eñaut | Spartan Military Camp

 

Team Warmack | The Alley

 

karl.fitzgerald | Mountain Climb

 

MatthewKaufmann | The Titan Awakens

 

Team FromOuterSpace | No Trace

 

Korax, GiangoMM, Bra | A Bad Evening

 

yannage | Wayward

 

ChosenOne | The Laboratory

 

kimmokauneia | The C17Y

 

JessCooper | Asylum Escape

 

shabba | The Park

 

ScudzAlmighty | something something PG13

 

uk-stryder, yodude87 | The Dark Light

 

lonelysquare | Tower of Moria

 

TheRod | The Wreckage

 

JakeLeeCooper | Cell Block B

 

Team NOiDEA | Hairy Houdini

 

Jordan | Ancient Temple

 

Jade | Camp Pyongyang

 

Saman | Escape From The Zoo

 

AimBiz | Cosmic Horror

 

fars084 | The Island

 

ExplosioN | A Ball Boy Needed

 

bobidigi | Wild, Wild West

 

Team Specter | Police State

 

Dilley | From Society

 

Ferny | Firefly

 

FredSkin | Dead End

 

vAp | Apocalypse

 

Airfreshene | Derelict Escape

 

Deciduo | World of Books

 

Team Odie | Someone on the Wing!

 

Kabresinn | SCRAM

 

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Of course, this will require registering an account on Sketchfab and uploading your models. Sketchfab currently offers the following features to members…

  • Free registration
  • Unlimited uploads
  • Accepts all regular materials and shaders: textures, normal maps, specular, diffuse, bump, transparency…
  • 27 native 3D formats supported
  • Plugins available to publish directly from the major 3D packages (Max, Maya, Blender…)
  • Big models supported (Currently models above 5 million polys)
  • HDR environments for image-based lighting and reflection
  • And a lot more to come!

 

 

A big thanks to the Sketchfab team and to Seth (cheeseplus) for getting this up and running!

 

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Judd Simantov goes over some of the rigs for “The Last of Us”

 

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Brian Tindall released a book about articulating the face, its full of great insight from a Pixar veteran

You might remember Brian from his amazingly helpful site http://hippydrome.com which goes into great detail about topology, joint placement and articulation. If not you might recognize some of his work.

Hippydrome’s Character and Articulation Demo Reel 2012. This video is ©Disney/Pixar from HippyDrome on Vimeo.

If his book on the face is half as informative as the information that is freely available on his site, it will be well worth the price of admission.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/ebook-review-the-art-of-moving-points

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-art-of-moving-points/id639498241?mt=11

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A huge update for Quixel’s latest tool

Our friends at Quixel have just put out what they have appropriately dubbed a “Mega Release” for dDo. V5.0 of dDo includes features such as integration with Marmoset Skyshop, drastic performance boosts, 1-click texture presentation and over a hundred other upgrades and fixes. Click the image below to read more details on their official page.

You can also leave the Quixel team feedback in our own dDo Thread.

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chriszuko posted a great script for making pipes in Maya

If you’re a Maya user and you make pipes you probably want to check this out.

We are talking about it HERE which also has links to the download.

 

And for the 3dsmax guys suffering from pipe envy, you can check out PipeGen

 

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CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 2), announced that the REDkit development tool is out of closed beta and open to the public

http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/

 

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