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The way I'd go about it,

Render the scene, normally as you would in any other project
Push the render into a image editor, and limit the colours used
Optionally, try to match the colours to the palette available to a machine of your choice, essentially faking colour limitation

>>518286
Thanks for the response, that sounds like a good idea.

Would simply compressing the image give it the pixelated look or would I have to do something else?

>>518300
its just a painting, not a 3d render

> has shitty computer
> i-its max guise
Max only crashed on me for maybe about 4 times in total in 3 years of my usage, and I use it at work every day.

Sounds like your computer is shit sir

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Its not the best i5-2500k, but like...I do these same tasks all the time. Then randomly it just decides..nope! your not using that tool or object anymore. I'm going to crash if you try doing something you've done a million times.

On the bright side, if I try to make a light using the Vray toolbar. I get an error rather than just a crash. Still doesn't help me though :\

did they fix transformations of layers? Like ctrl+T in photoshop?

>>516494
did they fix the horrible normals workflow
did they fix layer weights not having any effect on any channel except albedo
did they remove the 4k limitation
did they fix textures not updating after you re-import them

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>>516494
Wie sollen wir dich nennen?

>>517426
Its a waste of time

>>517427
ok but why?

OP here

Anyone else pissed they canned paid mods.

>>517030
>I started going to an art school a month ago
your first mistake

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> and solely teach you Low poly
> teach lowpoly
You've been mercilessly ripped of my friend.

>>517031
Yes. I figured already... It's not like a can't self teach myself, I did this before. But due to major life incidents I decided I want to go to college.
I seriously doubt it's going to bring me anywhere. I need to rely on myself.

Also, is knowing how to Low poly and knowing this alone would be enough? Don't I need to know how to work with High poly as well?

>>517092
nice watch, thanks anon

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It was pretty neat, but there's a few obvious fuckups.
It really breaks the immersion.
It wouldn't be bad if it wasn't really noticeable, but the errors and shit happen on things that are actually being focused on.

For example, in pic related.

Any time there's a car in the scene with a photomapped car, there's a huge difference in quality.
You can argue that it's not going to be detailed as an actual photo, but not even the lighting or the materials are remotely similar and there's a huge disparity between the two.

There's a scene with a lady walking, and she seemingly clips into another dimension.

And another with a dude using telekinesis to lift a box.

Some scenes are pretty good, and look great.
But there's a lot of scenes that just look really weird and uncanny. Not in a good way.

The concept was good, but the execution was alright at best.

>inb4 do it better, or show us your work

>>517092
Overall C-, looked like a proof of concept / rough draft, not a final render.

The "aged movie reel" effects (I forget the proper term for this suite of effects) was distracting, while the color balance and so on didn't actually match FILM (it likely matched photographs or lithographs or whatever though, which is a different medium from film).

The figures looked really weird moving around, the lighting on them didn't match the surroundings, the animation was just jerky in general, everything looked really uncanny.

Opening "time machine" effect was good, though it looked a bit like something from 2007

>>516941
How about I do a scene for you free of charge and we call it a day?

I can understand others but what is wrong with blender?

>>517213
>People buy thousands of pounds worth of software
>Blender is free
>Blender is good
>Elitists

>>518217
you're not going to get anywhere

>>518220
+(You)

Obviously if you are coming from a UDK background you should probably just stick with UE4. From what I understand it's mostly the same.

If you are working with Blender you may have some difficulty porting things into either engine. For UE4 for example, you can use FBX but you you have to be careful about how you go about exporting. This is not an issue with the engine, but with the FBX format being shit.

Definitely UE4

Unity's level editing is a joke

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Just crack it for fucks sake You slinky rat pirate.

>>514300

would you trust a crack named

Autodesk2015UniversalcrackXF__5543_il19858?
it says its from LLC "VEST-IT"

pretty shady

>>514303
>>514303
>>514303
XFORCE NIGGA

>>518109
Wait. Wouldn't a struggling artist be unable to pay 6K?

>>518110
Not entirely true. I did it and most of my friends and the best part about this when you look at subscription.

You buy it in 2016 you can use it until the end of time.

You subscribe in 2016, you can use it until your subscription ends.

Notice how one is free and one isn't.

How is subscription better?

Autodesk outsourced internet marketer, pls go
pajeet.

>>517441
Yes, it's gonna be expensive, due to the sheer amount of the project. Making a finish software is already a hard-tasking job.
First - programmers side:
For a 2d non-mmo game a single good programmer should be enough. Move on to 3d and with an available engine a single godtier or two good programmers should be enough to make a game like portal. Moving to a 3d mmo with a large open-world. Of course a single programmer could do it, but not in any reasonable time, you'd need more, you'd need(even if they have an available engine), one for the server, one for the mechanics, one for the ui, one for the player-interaction(chat servers, friend lists, etc), one for the visualization things(even though most engines have a render pipeline, you need to optimize for an mmo, because you're expecting a mass of players with different devices, so you need to optimize for the majority), of course you need a software architect to "block-out" as 3d modellers say the code layout, classes and interactions between objects and such, you also need a project manager, so that the project doesn't become a ball of tangled shit. Depending on how optimized and high-quality of code you want you can hire different tiers of programmers, but you can't cheap out on the architect and server/client guys, software architects are one of the highest paying software development jobs and the server/client guy needs to be a very good programmer depending on how much people you assume are going to play your game, you can cheap out on the others, or hire people that can work with your engine of choice, but are not top-notch programmers.
Programming jobs usually are 3-5 times a country's average job. So if you are in the USA, by a crude estimate you're gonna need:
Software architect - 100k, client/server coder - 80k-100k, manager - 60k-80k, four other code monkeys - 50k-80k. Basically anything between 440k and 660k yearly for at least 6 months to an year, but you gotta prepare for a minimum year.

>>517455
Cont.
Second - graphical side.
This is debatable and very variable, but I'd say an estimated cost for a game like Rose online, you know cartoony, artsy not very realistic and not very high-poly models(you said a mobile game). 3 modellers and 1 ui/concept artist. You know the prices here.

And finally a sound designer and a musician. You can buy the soundtrack from a producer/musician for a price, but you need a sound designer, usually 1.5-3 times the average wave of any country.

For the game you are describing, one or two good programmers could do it, but your description is not very thorough. Is there fighting, what is it, is it an rpg, fps, is it just a social game. Have you thought about servers, you need to rent servers, how many people would play it, your programmer needs to know how many people at any given time would play it, if he needs to build the infrastructure so that it's expandable, how much bytes for a packet, in what timeframe will the server recalculate.

>>517441

What about using things like Atavism MMO Creator or Rpg maker.

If your angles match the render, you could just use a picture of a storefront behind a plane of 'glass'. However, some projection mapping to a very basic mesh will go a long way.

Materials arent magic, how do you expect this to work? Just plaster in some images or billboards. You can put frosted glass in front if you need closer shots, that'll obscure the shitty interior a bit. But at that point you're better off just modelling it.

>>517894
All this.
If there is animation involved you are far better off making basic models for the interior. Otherwise it is going to just look like an image on a window.

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>>517827

>>517827
You look at tumble weed refrences on YouTube babygurl

>>517827
I don't understand the problem here.

The tumbleweed can be a simple irregular sphere, the texure is important and would have be a stick-like affair with alpha channel,

Animation is just moving and rotating the sphere , whilst recording it.

Form Z is free? Since when?
>inb4 torrentz

>>517767
http://www.formz.com/products/formzfree.html

>>517768
Seems to be a very crippled version for trial purposes. No thanks!

Other than that Form Z Pro looks quite like THE killer app for archviz or archCAD. Its apparently much artist oriented with its design tools.

You can build a house with walls, doors and windows or even complex shapes within minutes.

A shame I'm not into architecture that much myself.

>What's everyone's render times?
> I know it depends on the project but fuck

1800 hours
No wait, i mean 10 seconds.

Retard

hmm but what do you render? it matters

>>516114
For a still, I render out a few frames so I can average out the noise.
That takes anywhere from like 6-12 hours depending on the project.

My computer isn't really built for this kind of shit, but it's not really a big deal for me.
Just render that shit overnight, go to class, and have it done when I come back.