[non-Blender] Dota 2 Art Guide
The Valve team has released some interesting reading material on character creation.
Jude Jackson writes:This isn’t exactly news, and I’m sure many Blender artists are already involved in the Dota 2 workshop community, but Valve has released some very thoughtful and comprehensive guides to their character design standards. If you read the resources, especially “Dota 2 Character Art Guide”, “Dota 2 Character Texture Guide”, and “Shader Masks Guide”, you can read some helpful notes from the Valve art directors not only on how different real-time shader features work, but you can also get some insight into what sort of thought goes into creating interesting and recognizable characters. None of this is Blender-specific or even references Blender, but any 3D artist should find some value here.
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Shame I don’t really like the game, it would be nice to try my hand at modding a game.
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Hi,
yes indeed. It’s great and makes a lot of fun with blender.
With the valve smd Exporter it is easy to join the workshop.
I did a few quick items here
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198067296980/myworkshopfiles/?l=german
It has been odd for me playing this game that I really don’t see the in-game items. They’re all very small on-screen, my computer can only handle low settings, and, as these guides dictate, there’s very picky rules for how much you can change the look of a hero before it isn’t instantly recognizable. All in all the only benefit to having cool items is to be able to see them on your in-game profile and deck them out for people to enjoy.