Monday, April 16, 2012

Unreal fun Minecraft style!

Found this video importing the 'creeper' mesh from minecraft to UDK for some physics fun, compliments of Kootra.

see the video here.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

March 2012 UDK release; New work from Tor Frick

A new release to download! and an excellent Interview with environment artist Tor Frick



Frick uses a single 256x512 texture to map his entire scene, and even has the full thing available for download here.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Ctrl+Paint digital painting tutorials

As recently featured on PolycountCtrl+Paint has amassed quite a collection of Excellent digital painting tutorials - many of which are available for the great price of $0.

For anyone trying to break into the digital painting industry, or learn more advanced techniques, these videos are invaluable.

Unreal Engine 4

Epic to preview the Unreal Engine 4 at GDC this week. Wonder how long it'll take for a leak !

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Crysis-style wind vertex shader in UDK

Came across this great tutorial last night breaking down the inner workings of an animated vertex shader, in this case simulating wind for foliage. Thanks to 'minifloppy' for this one (niice portfolio site too!).

Youtube video of the shader in action here. Can't wait to dissect this one for myself.


Monday, February 6, 2012

SSS in UDK tutorial

Came across a great subsurface scattering tutorial this evening, compliments of  Virtuosic on the Polycount forums

He's also posted an incredible video capture of the shader in action here

After a lengthy hiatus, it's time to jump back in to UDK!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

DX11 features in UDK

A little behind on this one but as I am just learning how to implement these, no difference!

summary here


Free bokeh  textures here