MacKenzie Shirk
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Environmental Artist @JangaFX - Prev. @RockstarGames Opinions are my own.
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I am officially a Blender boy, Ive permanently switched from 3ds Max to Blender and will never look back.
Canceled my 3ds Max sub, that will save me $400 a year.
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This has over 1.5 million trees, each tree being over 3.5 million vertices. Thats over 5.25 TRILLION verts being handled here (not rendered obviously) and its running at around 50fps @ 1440p on a 3090. Nanite is insane
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my biggest impact on the industry
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This is my goal with env art
Half-Life Alyx is great because you can just look at a random corner and there's nothing there but it's still kinda pretty??
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Metro Exodus uses invisible rats to make a character look from point A to point B
What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
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Something Ive been playing around with is making better looking foliage that feels more grounded. One of those things involves blending tree branches onto the trunk more naturally. Here Im just blending the UVs to remove the seam
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Im disgusted with myself here, but its such an interesting way to work. No baking, no "low poly", just Nanite and some basic world aligned materials.
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If you’re making an environment, and you needed a sculpture. Would you get a character artist to sculpt it, or would you do it yourself?
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If youre curious about how Im doing the splinters on the end of my wood, Im just using a wood displacement, increasing the intensity and extruding then slapping dynamesh back on to fix up the broken geo. Works great
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Europeans just see a wall like this and go on with their day like it’s nothing
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Can you imagine the traversal stutter on this thing?
Rivian's re-designed software experience is built with Unreal Engine⚙️
Let's take a look at what’s new 🧵
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I actually hate Lumen as a lighting solution. The amount of screen space is just revolting. Seems no matter what I do ( aside from maxing out settings) it will always just fail. Castrate my art to use modular geo and I still suffer.
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Still cant get over how much better looking, performing and easier to use Blender is for vertex blending and shader work than 3ds Max
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I have finally reached 3ds Max vertex painting supremacy. Whipped up this shader in the Max viewport today to mimic my Unreal blending shaders
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Havent taken part of one of these in a while, Im an environmental artist at
@JangaFX
and love atmospheric stuff
#PortfolioDay
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January 16th will officially be my last day at Rockstar, and I am excited for the new opportunities given to me. 2023 is going to be an exciting and productive year for myself!
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Its crazy that each one of these trees is 3.5m verts, and has the leaves modeled out. All opaque materials as well.
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One day 3D environments like natural forests, caves, beaches, islands, etc are all going to look the same, and look boring. That’s going to be a sad day
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Today is officially my first day at
@JangaFX
, super excited to be here and cant wait to help push visuals forward!
Here is a sneak peak at what Im working on, more to come
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It bugs me to no end how limiting Lumen is for geometry, I cant have a modular room like this because Lumen falls apart. So much light leaking, so much screen space lighting. I have chamfers on the corners here, but now have to split the mesh even further, making it less modular
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Seeing that video of my environment blow up, but not see any credit, disappointing
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It really rings true, that you can be amazing at what you do, but not be someone worth working with. Skill does not demand respect.
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Starting to learn Houdini again, going to make an HDA to generate peeling paint to use with Nanite
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@Tyler_McV
What about it isn’t great? It’s a great achievement, technically speaking. The visuals look great. The only thing that could possibly not be great is the performance, but that is completely expected with a fully RT/pathtraced game, especially if you aren’t turning down settings
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Probably the last photo of this scene until I wrap it up, wish me luck
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Started working on the new sky material for
@deadmattergame
with
@JohnnyGuitarDev
. The sky supports blending between times of day and different cloud types. With only 117 instructions its super cheap.
#UnrealEngine
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Anyone else worried that Lumen in UE5 just wont be production ready, ever? Especially if it relies so much on screenspace lighting
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Nanite just eats this stuff up like its nothing. Why bother baking out normals?
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Come dine at Dicks Diner and get yourself a mouthful of meat.
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We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the GTA Online community for playing with us across 2021.
As we enter our third console generation and with much more to come in 2022 and beyond, here is a look at just some of what’s on the way.
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I love INDUSTRIA 2s art direction. Theyre nailing it
trying to do this in our game too 👀
it's mostly about getting a handle on readability, contrast, characterfull diffuse textures and rather dim lighting so specular highlights are not overblown.
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Today marks 2 years at Rockstar. May the 4th be with y’all.
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Decided to go for a different atmosphere for my scene, I like it.
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Vertex painting is so bad and limiting in Unreal, please Epic, please improve the functionality to let me select verts, faces, do soft selection, use colour palettes, literally anything other than a radial brush that applies to everything under it.
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Kinematic(?) vs Physics. I dont recall this being an issue for a designer in 2004 with Havok and Source Engine
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More progress on the sky, and a little demo of some of the atmosphere you can expect from
@deadmattergame
. The sky is fully dynamic and fully performant!
#gamedev
#UnrealEngine
@UnrealEngine
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Nothing quite like an Alberta morning in
@deadmattergame
, made with
@UnrealEngine
and
@SpeedTreeInc
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Red Dead Redemption 2, man this is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played in my life. Absolutely crazy that I get to work along side everyone who made this art.
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@MostUnfurrowed
@thompsonneil15
@CllrChasBooth
Yeah they’re jealous because they can’t even do a sick kick flip, let alone a quarter pipe
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Some of that damage and rebar on a wall, all tiling textures (except for the rebar)
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I just found the second half to the GTAV launch day pictures
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Blender vs Unreal. Its so nice to have somewhat of viewport parity between the two as it makes knowing what to expect in Unreal a lot easier.
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Getting a hang of this sculpting nonsense, 1 brick down, 63 more to go.
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Excited to say that I’m going to be joining Rockstar Toronto as a Technical Content Artist! Excited to start this new chapter of my life. A surreal feeling to know I’ll actually feel like a proper game developer and not a basement dweller.
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