First Facial Model, help welcome!

Azranel

Hi everyone!

I'm currently modelling and texturing a face and would love some feedback on it, I've also hit an odd problem in 3DS Max and was wondering if any of you have ever seen it before (pictures attached)







The problem I mentioned:

for some reason applying the opacity map in 3DS max produces this issue in the viewport



Rendering the model out doesn't show the issue but when I take it in to an engine (UDK) the problem comes back, I'm still researching the problem but I thought I'd ask here.

Also have the opacity map:

mr_ace

have you tried flipping the face normals? What i'd do first is reset the xform on the model then collapse it back down to edit poly, (in the tools menu on the far right) and see what happens. that might either fix the problem, or flip the normals, so you might need to flip them back.

Azranel

Tried both but neither have worked unfortunately

MeintevdS

Don't think it's a normal problem. It's the way the viewport handles alpha textures. I know Maya does it too. You can try turning on fancy viewport options. I think it works properly in maya when you turn on "high quality viewport", not sure if max has a similar functie, but might be worth checking it out.

Azranel

I would've thought it would be a problem in Max normally, however this carries through into UDK making me think it's an issue with the opacity map itself but I can't see where any issues would come up

Azranel

Turns out I was importing the texture in UDK and setting it up wrong, was had to set both the material I was creating AND the opcaity map to 'masked'. Thanks for the help anyway guys