LPC #01 - FZero Racer -- Smirnoffka

Smirnoffka

Some quick thumbs I did today whilst in lectures. God Aviation Safety is boring.



Leaning towards number 3, going to try and flesh that one out a bit more,

Smirnoffka

Final concept. Not very good at this whole drawing thingy.

Will most probably remove the flag

Smirnoffka

Some progress. This is fun

Joshua Stubbles

Good start, can't wait to see MOAR

HonkyPunch

It's beautiful, I really like the color scheme. The nose is a tad bit pointy, but other than that it's perfect

Smirnoffka

Finished lowpoly and unwrapped. When normal map rendered had weird artifacts, eg, nose wing. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I tried using xNormal but couldnt get the hang of it.



If I can get that fixed up will start on the diffuse. Will add all the small details on the normal map in photoshop.

Smirnoffka

Does anyone have ANY idea of why this is happening, or had a similar problem. This has happened on a few of my past models, I just tend not to care, because I stop working on them pretty quickly. I hope to finish this one and have no idea why it is displaying like that...


Here is the rendered normal map

aesir

You can always just paint out the problems you are having, although that certainly isnt the best option...

Sam Hatami

You artifacts are coming from the other parts that you have attached, apperently as one mesh. try to divide the mesh's parts and normal map them single handed and then join them together, in that way you lessen your artifacts(or remove them totally) The artifacts come from the rays that get's cast when two parts that don't have a shared surface cross each other... and also, you might want to look over your smoothing groups...

jogshy

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When normal map rendered had weird artifacts, eg, nose wing. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?


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Don't use the max2obj exporter that comes with 3dsmax.. It makes very strange things with the vertex normals, specially for cubic surfaces... The LWO format does not export custom vertex normals. The 3DS automatically averages the vertex normal ( which will destroy your smoothing groups ).
I would export it as .ASE or SBM.

Jesse Moody

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Don't use the max2obj exporter that comes with 3dsmax.. It makes very strange things with the vertex normals, specially for cubic surfaces... The LWO format does not export custom vertex normals. The 3DS automatically averages the vertex normal ( which will destroy your smoothing groups ).
I would export it as .ASE or SBM.


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not trying to sound rude but what are you talking about? I am pretty sure he hasn't exported anything and he is just having issues with the normal map projection / cage issues.

jogshy

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Don't use the max2obj exporter that comes with 3dsmax.. It makes very strange things with the vertex normals, specially for cubic surfaces... The LWO format does not export custom vertex normals. The 3DS automatically averages the vertex normal ( which will destroy your smoothing groups ).
I would export it as .ASE or SBM.


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not trying to sound rude but what are you talking about? I am pretty sure he hasn't exported anything and he is just having issues with the normal map projection / cage issues.

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Well, the post said:

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tried using xNormal but couldnt get the hang of it.


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I was just giving some advices to get rid of those problems in case the normal map posted was created in xnormal from an exported .OBJ file ( or if was playing with more than one modelling program and "crosswalked" the object through them as an .OBJ ) so that could explain the smoothing errors

Smirnoffka

Hey hey guys, dont fight

Don't have alot of time at the moment, will try again in the next couple of days..

/edit thanks for the tips as well, that makes alot of sense. Will have another go at xNormal..

Jesse Moody

Ahh my bad I missed the xnormal part.... Let's see some updates... Speaking of which I need to tidy mine up tonight as well.

Smirnoffka

I still cannot figure out what is going on. Even with the more in depth look at xnormal, the same errors occur in the same spots. I have changed the exporting. I have detached everything. It just doesn't seem to want to play. I will probably have to paint out the errors by hand, something I am hoping I will not have to do. I just don't know why stuff like this happens... And I can't believe no one else has had this problem. Maybe it is a problem with 3DSMax 7. I will continue plugging away.

Smirnoffka

Yeah, fixed it. Just poor ass smoothing groups on my part.

Will get started on the texture and spec soon, as well as adding smaller details via nVidia.