• Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 days ago

    Years of game development education and not once did anyone show me this grid texture template.

    I feel actually stupid for not realising i could do this.

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        16 days ago

        Yeah they only tought us 3dsmax for some (corporate) reason.

        Don’t recall seeing a single line or even mention of open source code. But a big scary 2 hour propaganda class on how awful the life of independent indie devs that didn’t get a tripple A slave contract was. That was really important.

        I still think learned a lot but damn was that an awfully good example of what i did not want to get trapped in.

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          16 days ago

          I’m more and less self taught. I went to school for computer science.

          I took 3D art classes in high school but we used Bryce3d and poser 3d.

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    15 days ago

    Just fyi you can add a cylinder mesh to start off with instead of a cube, you can even change how many sides the cylinder has in the little menu that pops up when you do it. I believe the add mesh hotkey is shift + a