I want to learn how to model for empires.

Last time I checked NURBS worked really well.

It's also funny to watch people saying that games = triangles after they see subdivision surfaces and tesselation.

 

Pizza is triangles, I maed u one:

 

Well I mean...like this.

@Dizzy;

My triangles are bettar

 

oh hey, whats this

 

A terrible view model.

 

Close, but wrong.

 

None of which is remotely useful for source.

Also they're still triangles, they may be simplified into squares for the hard-of-thinking but it doesn't stop it from still being triangles, and ability to manipulate triangles is still important.

 

For instance I need someone good with Zbrush/Mudbox (or stubborn) to make a good heightmap to demo parallax occlusion mapping on brushes. Doesn't have much to do with triangles.

 

What about aircraft?

 

Trye these:
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9946/heightmap.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5487/diffuse.jpg

 

You don't need mudbox to make a heightmap, you can do it in photoshop using the base texture.

 

zbrush is the easier way to make heightmaps cause it does everything for you.

 

You can't make heightmaps with photoshop from the base texture, unless you want to doodle the height by hand, which is le suck.

In theory you could make a decent one from the normal map, but it's always ever so slightly imperfect...

Look at the flake with the shadow in the lower left and tell me how a dark shadow translates to height.

 

What is this, Nitpicking United?
Give it a break already, its some texture with a shooped height map, christ.

here's another, for the people that just like to complain:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9946/heightmap.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5487/diffuse.jpg