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By: Lisek

Lisek — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:17:06 +0000

Theres a difference between guessing and knowing if your gonna get fired 😛

By: curious

curious — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:25:50 +0000

Well I’d guess they don’t know his intentions because they are not there to know it but to receive orders and execute them.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:46:08 +0000

A human CAN guess your intentions.
ask any CEO or someone in charge of a group of people if his employees can guess his intentions.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:45:13 +0000

Hey MM, you should check this guy out : http://flyingdebris.deviantart.com/
Funny cause we did work with him. He made a poster and title screen for Link-Dead. I didn’t show it anywhere yet.

By: curious

curious — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:27:00 +0000

A human CAN guess your intentions.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:23:50 +0000

There is no way a computer can know how to generate proper normal maps on complex things such as armor. You can tell a computer to generate anything procedurally, but it cannot guess your intentions (just as a human cannot).

By: TLD

TLD — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:57:30 +0000

Hey MM, you should check this guy out : http://flyingdebris.deviantart.com/

its a mecha/sci fi artist whom i accidentaly found on deviant, he has some nice concepts, maybe as him for some new inspiration for your mechs and soldiers?

By: robolee

robolee — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:14:11 +0000

what I suggest is getting the greyscale image, smooth out areas of equal depth (leave a bit of noise, don’t smooth too much) then run a tool that generates a normal map on it and then fix the normal map by hand.

By: Makron666

Makron666 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:26:21 +0000

I didn’t mention anything about the texture. I’m saying the normal can’t be done. If CG is done a modified grayscale is a must, or baked of a 3D model. The results crazy and all those other programs give are bad, unless they are created off a modified grayscale.

By: Snow

Snow — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:41:13 +0000

Agreed with Chutem. There are also other industries that compute similar data either from 2d images or from 3d surfaces into 2d (such as one of the processes in sheareography – a type of deep surface inspection, common at NASA). I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of that data and resources transferred over into the tools used in 3d tools. And.. there is a hell of a lot of data and research.