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Re: [WIP] Teapot spirit - Character Art

Looking good! Fun concept.

As an idea for no wanting to see the bald scalp, honestly i'd just have a vertical gradient, where the top is mostly opaque and the bottom is more transparent on the entire hair. and also just have some dark texture on the scalp in case you see it at any glancing angles.

Muzzoid

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[Closed] [PAID] Low Poly Character Artist

CLOSED

Gabonza

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Re: Gina (critique welcome)

I think you got the right approach. Triangulate where necessary.

Noren

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Re: How long have you been unemployed? + Rant

@VinceOrcis I completely agree with the fulfillment part. I got into CGI years ago because of videogames but if I had to make the same choice nowadays I would never try to work in this industry, it's just setting oneself up for suffering and I feel nothing but discontent for everything that has surrounded it for the last 8 years at least. I could never have expected to want most AAA releases to flop while I wait for some big reset to happen in the industry, as cruel as that may sound. I hope we get to see some light at the end of the tunnel.

Ruflse

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Re: Kevin Johnstone has passed

I haven't logged into Polycount in a very long time. Just saw this. very sad news.

His work was and always will be amazing.

Muzzoid

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | January - February (94)

Hymil said:

@loon27 Nice retopology work so far. I have a couple suggestions some of which are a bit nit-picky. Looking at the shine from the lighting in your model, your normal map has a light bit of banding in it. Could be worth exporting the normal map at 16bit. This will also make Substance Painter happy since substance prefers 16bit bake maps. That and if you're planning to texture it, do you have a specific reason for the logo to be a floating plane and not just baked into the geometry? One more thing would be that you might be able to get more texel density out of your UVs by using a non-square UV to allow the longer lengths to fit more comfortably.

I started with 16-bit normal maps in PNG format, but noticed the same issue while texturing. Later, I baked the normal map in PSD format, which solved the problem.
For the logo, I felt using a floating plane helps achieve better texel density and makes customization easier (though it’s not strictly necessary).
The UV layout was definitely an oversight on my part! But since I’m already working on the textures, adjusting it now would be a bit of a hassle. I’ll make sure to pay more attention to this in future projects.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
Your texture is really nice! I love the rich details and the realistic feel of the material!

loon27

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Re: Sketchbook: Gannon

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/1w/4wbmyi5i26rv.jpg

Gannon

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Re: UV-Remap: A New Tool for Rearranging the UVs of Textured Models

Thanks to everyone for the detailed feedback.
In the meantime, I have implemented a configurable checkerboard for the background:

Regarding your comments, I have the following answers:

armagon said:
This is pretty cool!
Any plans of a Linux version? Can it repack automatically, so I feed it multiple models and it merges all of the textures into a single map?

A Linux version is in progress!

pior said:
- I think some users might want to arrange the final combined layout beforehand, using their preferred UV authoring tool. Therefore it would be great to be able to import the final desired mesh (or meshes). But perhaps in practice it is actually just fine the way it is - I suppose this all depends on how extensively one wants to rework the UVs.

A very interesting idea, but UV-Remap only transforms uv islands and can not perform individual vertex manipulations. At the moment, I can't say how it would have to be handled when another software provides non-affine transformations.

pior said:
- Having the option to export the result either as two objects or as one combined object could be useful. Definitely not necessary though since one can always do such edits manually. But perhaps there could be an option to dictate wether the FBX exporter should fully combine the meshes, or keep them as two separate model entities.

This is already possible, exactly as you describe it.

Noren said:
It would be interesting to see how notably the new textures change from the remap. The examples shown get a bit more blurry, but they also seem to have been scaled down as a result of the combination. A pure rearrangement would help to identify changes (if any) better.

I have done a lot of tests and of course you can notice differences if you observe closely, but the results are always good. You can freely determine the output resolution, which can also counteract scaling problems.

Noren said:
A lossless / pixel perfect mode might be interesting for smaller resolutions. Restrict movement to pixel increments and 90 degree rotations and translate the pixels without any filtering (or at least what I as a layman would consider filtering).

Very good ideas that I have already considered. Rotating in 90 degree increments is already possible.

Thanks again everyone, I will definitely include your feedback in the next updates.
I'm currently working on automatic packing because that's what has been requested the most so far.
I will also record a no-save demo.

SillyJoe

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UV-Remap: A New Tool for Rearranging the UVs of Textured Models

Hey Polycount Community!

I’d like to introduce UV-Remap – a tool that allows you to edit the UVs of already textured 3D models. This is perfect for merging models with different UV maps and texture sets, or for freeing up space on UV maps to add geometry. Check out this 20-second video for a quick overview of UV-Remap.

Screenshot of multiple textures and UV maps merged into a single square in UV-Remap:

Price: The Beta of UV-Remap is available for just $19.99!

Features:

✅ Edit UVs without retexturing
✅ Merge multiple texture sets
✅ Free up space on UV maps
✅ Tangent-space normal map support
✅ Simple and intuitive interface

Here are some detailed tutorials on how to use UV-Remap:

For more information, check out the FAQ section.

I’d love to hear your feedback! If you encounter any bugs, feel free to report them here or via the contact page. I will address any issues as quickly as possible!

SillyJoe

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Re: Udim? Texture sets? Texel Density? What is it and why is it? Analysis from A to Z.

Noren

Thank you for your detailed comment, at the moment, as you said, we need someone who will do the correct translation, I have found such a person and now we would like to discuss how to do it better. I am the author of this article and I agree that it is overloaded, but it's good that you didn't see it initially)

To be honest, having experience in learning, it is very difficult to put everything together into one whole, because of the huge number of branches that somehow intersect with each other, it is very difficult to group like this. Thank you again, your words have been heard and will definitely not be ignored.

Lipa_l1

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