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I'm really loving your channel man, keep up the great work!

Dude, this was good. Thank you.

Great talk! I learned so much.

Dude this is one of the greatest youtube pages for game-artists, you defo need more attention

What a dude!

I don't know that I'm familiar with layered shading. I'll have to look into that.

Brilliant live stream, and tons of invaluable information. Learned a lot, especially about the Gen 4/Gen 5 topology differences. Though might be difficult to convince some of my Tutors about that Gen 5 density count 🤣

Man what a interview awesome. .. I'll love to see a more detailed video on texel density if possible 🔥🔥🔥

I learned a lot about topology. I always try to go really low in poly count after sculpting because people say to keep it low. However, now I know having a decent poly count is okay. Thanks to this video.

Yeah... we want a series. Absolutly no one is talking about topology on youtube

Dang, this is Gold.

That was a great talk! I think you did an amazing job relating your questions to Nate back to what a student's or junior artists' questions and concerns might be!

Peak Thx a lot

Thanks for your feedback, it’s very helpfull for me ❤

Thanks for this! One question though, it seems like environmental artists can easily transition to Lighting artist since in a lot of smaller studios they do both (I think), so is animation/cinematic animation a way to transition to cinematic lighting artists?

I love the videos! Very helpful tips for artists.

13:40 they're probably using vertex painting to bring out the grime texture in the glass material, not a separate material. This way you get smooth blending towards those edges. And since they have windows split in the middle, center vertex can be used to continue the gradient. Something like 0.6 opacity on the outer verts > 0.2 on inner verts > smooth falloff to 0.1 in the middle. Compared to something like a texture mask, it allows using the same material instance regardless of window shape/size. That said, Ready At Dawn always impressed me with how efficiently they use available hardware. Order 1886 is the visual masterpiece, but even their God of War on PSP looks so good considering the system's GPU.

The extra loops are added to use vertex colors.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

I think evenly distribution of loops are for displacement maps

Hello, thank you for the great tutorials! In one of the previous videos, you mentioned that baked lighting is still an option for some projects. We use it a lot for our VR game, and I would like to ask if you could record a tutorial on how to achieve the best quality when working with a baked lighting pipeline?

thank you : )

Been really enjoying your content! That stone dude from the first portfolio gave me a good giggle haha

The window geometry was most likely used to facilitate vertex color masking for the dirt on the glass shader, making it easy to have glass windows of any size. Then It is only necessary to adjust the texture tiling per material instance.

I hate float planes b.c. z-fighting

the extra topology is either for baking lighting to it or vertex painting. OR it is an old engine that does lighting per vertex, therefore you need extra quads. 2010 seems kinda odd to do this, I'm pretty sure we had per pixel lighting at that point but im not sure

Hi there, I'm new to this channel and so glad I found it, I would love to see more breakdowns of video game level design, because It's holding me back from creating my game. I would also love if you gave a link to your discord.

She wasn't meant to be a teacher. Horrible mentality.

its crazy how similar your uk college exp was to mine 🤣 I wanted to do a level 3 in IT as it "covered game design" but due to my eng/math GCSE's being below C I got forced in to a level 2 where I had to build a pc and do the most generic IT crap (which was pointless as I built my own pcs a bunch of times up till this point). that experience + my time with GCSEs really tainted the idea of education for me and led me to become self taught and seeking mentorships instead

As a teacher, how your students model is how you teached them...

I really don't get what's up with these power tripping lecturers, really. Their job is also to provide actionable, valuable feedback. Sounds funny in retrospect, but that's just weird.

I am lucky to find this channel.

where is our discord channel sir

Thanks for advice Elliott 🙏 apologies for some of it not being something amazing but nonetheless im thankful ^^

The links I was mentioning for MainBrain's Review: th-cam.com/video/EuzYMLAkSo4/w-d-xo.html docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eBzBT83TcVQLUTjytOzJvKI7LZ00OdAriTeZjYYUP-E/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Hi. Is there any way to export meshes from the game so that I can analyze them in terms of topology? I would love to do this with Kingdom Come Delieverence :D I'm currently creating a medieval enviro and I wonder how they solved some things.

Very excessive in its density imo. I assume you only need evenly distributed quad topology for trims and vertex color. Any details like displaced bricks can be done separately without sewing into topology. Texel density is... yeah, just like in case with trim sheets. Greater architecture needs to be divided into quads to keep up to the size, that is if you are not planning to use single tiled texture of course. Barely understood the soft shading and dotted stuff questioning why even doing that being Blender user. I can guess you need to resort to managing sharp / soft shading since you can't bake bevels and surface info via normals due to the fact environment art is not about making unique assets.. Idk, maybe try using 8 x 16 gradient bevel trims to fake that on the edges.

That introduction with that camera angle was amazing 👏🏻

amazing channel amazing content. subbed

16:38 I wonder what's with the shading of the otherwise flat inset of the column on the right, can you explain that?

19:55 Sorry Cameron, I can't count, it was 25,000 not 250,000 🤣.

Trinagle don't cause issues, but the engine has to spend longer computer the maths for the model. You don't really want any triangles.

Insightful video! Another theme artists tend to do are post apocalyptic scenes with overgrown foliage similar to The Last of Us

Very informative, thanks for sharing !

Honestly, as an environment concept artist, the role sometimes almost stretches to a rougher corner cut version of environment art. Some of these methods I think carry over super easily. Often I got told by the environment team I was working with why I didn’t just move into doing environment art. Then again I like that my topology and UVs can look shit up close but sell those “beauty shots”. Super informative breakdowns! Thank you!

Love ur reviews, they help me so much! Do you have an tutorial on when to use world aligned textures? Im working on buildings and it seems that this is excellent way for european buildings who are 3-3.5m from floor to floor

This Review was awesome! Thank you so much, I learned a lot. Using a texture on the floor to mask the transition on the vegetation is such a great idea, never thought of that, and will absolutely do it in my next project. Also, I have a issue with too much noise in every old project, I will absolutely have them in mind in my next texture and sculpts. The value were also not that great, I will look into that and try to fix it soon. Have a nice week Elliott

these triangles on walls are used for midpoly models or they bake walls for better shading?

Half of the modeling is thinking