Hardsurface Assault Helmet

Cactus on Fire

Hey there.

So I threw in a quick a hardsurface mask, baked to lowpoly and imported it into Unity. The mesh is mirrored from the middle I notice that the seams on the central vertical axis of the mask appear funny. Is there any way to stop the normals to act wierd in Unity ? Apparently the normalmap interpretation of Unity isn't exactly compatible with other 3D applications.

Also feel free to comment & criticize the mask.

672 Tris
2048 Normal & Diffuse & Specular

Cactus on Fire

And the texture passes

sargentcrunch

n/a

PyrZern

Probably because it appears pixelated and the edges don't look smooth. Also, shiny !

luge

i see a lot of muddyness in the sculpting. and i can see where it looks like you used the pinch tool in zbrush to pull your edges tighter together. it just needs some cleaning up and making your flat edges look flat and hard instead of mushy.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Also it looks like you used UV master and didn't retopo it properly. I would work on making the sculpt a bit less muddy as well. For a 2k map you could make this 7k tris. It doesn't make a lot of sense to make it 670ish and have a 2k map.

Cactus on Fire

@sargentcrunch :
It's made with Mudbox but I used the same tools to get the same forms. Thx for the tip, I'll check that tutorial asap.

@ PryZern :
Indeed. I also turned off mipmaps to catch all the detail. Unfortunately it results in jaggy edges.

@luge :
There's an amplify tool which kinda works like pinch in Zbrush, I used it just on a few edges. But I think it's because Mudbox flattens the surfaces in a different way than Zbrush and ends up with overlapped edges. I'll work on mushy but maybe it's best if I jump over to Zbrush first.

@AlexCatMastetSupreme
Topogun'd it Just pelted the mirrored side of the face in Max

About the Unity normalmaps, am I doing something wrong or is it normal for Unity to show slightly bloated normals ?

And here's the highpoly.

Cactus on Fire

Sharpened some of the mushy edges.