Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:42:16 UTC No. 876674

Because it's literally easier to achieve realism with modern renderers than getting decent stylization out of PBR oriented pipeline.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:13:32 UTC No. 876677

>>876674
realism is tougher and time consuming than stylized stuff

you can cheese it but it would look like you cheesed it

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:32:48 UTC No. 876680

>>876677
its not about harder or whatever, why even go for realism

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:52:19 UTC No. 876686

>>876680
because they feel that it's appropriate for the product that they are making

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:59:34 UTC No. 876688

>>876686
Because for realism you just need to photogrammetry some assets, retopo them, and then press "make plastic/make metal" button in substance painter/designer. For stylized, you need to come up with good stylization first, then you need to get into the maze of building your own shaders, because if you just PBR stylized assets they will look like plastic toys, which they essentially are.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:07:21 UTC No. 876692

>>876688
You don’t know anything about photorealistic asset creation and it shows.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:07:56 UTC No. 876693

>>876688
That's a surface level knowledge of "realism" that will result in your models looking like pristine toys with large filesizes. There are a lot of subtle things that you have to keep in mind in order to nail the realistic look.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:33:14 UTC No. 876698

To achieve realism you just need PBR shaders and cross polarized scanned textures.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:10:51 UTC No. 876707

>>876698
Yes, and great chunk of these shaders and materials are free downloads or can be easily procedurally generated. That's why typical walking sim on unity made for $10k has higher graphics fidelity these days than 2008 Crysis made for many millions. Stylization is the mark of mostly high-end passion projects now.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:34:31 UTC No. 876710

>>876698
>>876707
You're purposely ignoring unique props that form a majority of content, and you can't just scan the textures for them, they are created uniquely. Also, not everybody uses photogrammetry, and just because it is realistic, doesn't mean there's no a certain amount of artistic freedom involved.

You keep showing you know nothing about the topic. Fuck this hobbyist board.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:35:15 UTC No. 876816

>>876710
>You're purposely ignoring unique props that form a majority of content, and you can't just scan the textures for them, they are created uniquely.
Thats not how texturing works. You for example sculpt something unique then project a cross polarized texture onto that unique shape. You haven't been at this long and it shows.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:00:47 UTC No. 876844

>>876662
speaking of which, does anyone have a copy of that book from bnpr?

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:12:51 UTC No. 876852

>>876816
That’s not how most of the content is done, props are usually still created and painted manually, and there’s always some stylization and creative freedom involved there. It just isn’t a click if a button like you’re saying.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:44:20 UTC No. 876861

>>876692
He's completely right though
Look up reference values in some material chart
Adjust your textures to match them, or scan something with a color chart next to it
done

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:56:21 UTC No. 876865

>>876861
Have you even worked in a professional production as an environment or prop artist or are you baiting? This is such an oversimplification of the texturing workflow it just has to be a bait.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:27:53 UTC No. 876906

>>876865
>This is such an oversimplification of the texturing workflow
It's how smart people think, they can pick a seemingly complex process, then identify and separate few critical steps, and omit the trivialities on autopilot. Meanwhile when you are a brainlet you don't see the the forest behind the trees, and all these "move the slider two steps left" tasks that monkey can do make you feel like you are doing something extremely complex.
You know, making a stone spear is actually very complicated process with a lot of steps, except when you are not a neanderthal you can reduce these steps to "pick a stone, sharpen it, and attach to the stick"

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:31:19 UTC No. 876907

>>876906
So the answer is no, as expected...