Tileable sculpted texture practices
polycounter lvl 12
hello, Recently I decided to dive into the process of making tileable textures in Zbrush. Coming along slowly but hoping to speed up my process within following practices. Didn't polypaint them but looks like it has some benefits. Comment and critiques are more than welcomed, thanks.
This is the first one that didn't end up too ugly to show the public :poly122:
And another one, more like a proper stone wall.
Hi-poly sculpt
And baked texture, taken from modo viewport.
Final material, UE4 obviously.
I intend to go more complex and different surface types within my following practices. Comment and critiques are more than welcomed, thanks.
This is the first one that didn't end up too ugly to show the public :poly122:
And another one, more like a proper stone wall.
Hi-poly sculpt
And baked texture, taken from modo viewport.
Final material, UE4 obviously.
I intend to go more complex and different surface types within my following practices. Comment and critiques are more than welcomed, thanks.
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What are your thoughts on the process so far?
What is your take on the new MODO 801 to UE4 pipeline? Have you encountered any problems with it (FBX export etc)?
With Modo 801 now we're able to edit vertex normals individually. And they included a built-in edge normal hardness edit tool. All of these features require a vertex normal map, as Farfarer's vertex normal toolkit creates one automatically. Modo's built-in vertex edit tools and Farfarer's toolkit can work together without a problem as far as I experienced. About default smoothing groups, no they won't import well to UE4. And Farfarer's normal toolkit is damn too convenient so it's better to stick with it since you'll be needed a vertex normal map in order to use modo801 extra vertex normal edit features too. Modo now can cagebake as well, it works pretty well(haven't tested for synced results, usual split uv islands along hardedges approach so far). Good for hardsurface stuff where you likely to not go outside the modo during whole process. UE4 import requires checking 'import normals' option since all surface shading data being stored in vertex normal map. And yes it works with skeletal meshes too! Importing vertex normals instead of calculating them apparently becoming a norm, since I've seen many epic example assets using the same way. With fbx.2013 export the vertex counts staying with some very reasonable numbers compared to previous experiences. In my perspective I no more see any reason to avoid using modo for game-art.
this baked in modo and then exported to ue4
About the tileable process, it's a bit pain. Need to find a way to cut off tedious placement thingy, offsetting and duplicating the subtools takes lots of time. And I realized I should leave less gaps in-between the stones, kind of feels like plunged into the grout, they looks like ground pavements instead of walls. Next update soon(hopefully)!
Lets go on skype instead!