Hey, does anyone know a good way to bake these colors in XNormal like and id map? Painting this out in photoshop seems like an absolute nightmare, right now its just Maya materials assigned to the faces.
Never mind, solved it, just filled the vertex colors and baked that, really obvious but I totally forgot I have done it a million times when baking stuff from zbrush.
Nice modelling. I think the rounded pommel suits a dexterous weapon more than the hexagonal one, unless you're following reference xNormal has a 'bake base texture' option, you should look into that I think, I've never used it though. 3ds Max and Maya both have colour id baking features.
Never mind, solved it, just filled the vertex colors and baked that, really obvious but I totally forgot I have done it a million times when baking stuff from zbrush.
Nice modelling. I think the rounded pommel suits a dexterous weapon more than the hexagonal one, unless you're following reference xNormal has a 'bake base texture' option, you should look into that I think, I've never used it though. 3ds Max and Maya both have colour id baking features.
Never mind, solved it, just filled the vertex colors and baked that, really obvious but I totally forgot I have done it a million times when baking stuff from zbrush.
Oh ok.
I tried that base texture thing, didn't work for me, just gave me a flat color everywhere there was geometry. About the pommel, I don't know, the first one was a placeholder, I might go back and change it if it looks off when its assembled but right now i prefer it hexagonal, has a bit of a more stern look imo.
Never mind, solved it, just filled the vertex colors and baked that, really obvious but I totally forgot I have done it a million times when baking stuff from zbrush.
I would like to know what you mean by that because i've ran into that problem too may a time ^^
Model is looking fine btw but i think it could use some more gloss/spec variation in the metal especially the handle
Never mind, solved it, just filled the vertex colors and baked that, really obvious but I totally forgot I have done it a million times when baking stuff from zbrush.
I would like to know what you mean by that because i've ran into that problem too may a time ^^
Model is looking fine btw but i think it could use some more gloss/spec variation in the metal especially the handle
Well, It's pretty straight forward, you fill vertex colors in the areas you wish to separate and just save the high poly (for some reason maya wouldn't save the vertex colors in .obj format so I had to save it as .fbx and that worked) when you then bake in xNormal, turn on the option "bake high poly vertex colors" where you choose the maps you want to bake. Also, don't forget to uncheck the "ignore per-vertex-color" where you import the HP mesh.
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Hey, does anyone know a good way to bake these colors in XNormal like and id map? Painting this out in photoshop seems like an absolute nightmare, right now its just Maya materials assigned to the faces.
xNormal has a 'bake base texture' option, you should look into that I think, I've never used it though. 3ds Max and Maya both have colour id baking features.
Oh ok.
Just noticed, the blade isn't as short as it appears in this picture, looks so due to fov and the angle.
Model is looking fine btw but i think it could use some more gloss/spec variation in the metal especially the handle