another vampire guy

cyi

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I'm trying to bake an occlusion map to use as a base for the texture on this (relatively) low poly model. The only problem is that I'm getting all these weird artifacts. Also, there are like 2 strands of hair that the occlusion map turns out all dark....weird. Normals are all soft, so I don't know what the deal is. Using Maya 8 Any ideas?




and how about a wire...
http://mburbank.com/vampwire1.jpg

Ghostscape

IF this was Max I'd say you have overlapping UVs in the baker for the black hair, and no smoothing groups, because MentalRay outputs that sort of map when you have those two problems - however, since you say the edges are all soft, I have no idea because I'm not familiar with Maya.

ElysiumGX

If there is no good reason to bake the hair, don't. It won't improve that aspect of your texture. Hide it, get a good bake of the head, and paint the hair yourself.

fogmann

Maybe try to smooth the model and add 2 or 3 subdivisions, while keeping border edges. The UVs should stay the same so at least you will get rid of dark lines where your edges are. I don't see anything wrong with your settings.

cyi

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone...I'm taking them into account and trying to start the texture while working around the occlusion issue. Here's an early look at the head.

http://mburbank.com/vamp7.jpg

Brice Vandemoortele

I've used this tutorial before, hope it helps
http://www.williamkladis.com/tutorial01/tutorial01.html

cyi

thanks, brice. That's cool you posted that link, because I actually went to school with and am friends with bill. He rules!

a little bit of progress has been made with the texture, but still a long ways to go with it.

HonkyPunch

Not bad
I like the shape of his head

low odor

Looking cool...I would add some color to the eyeball..maybe add a pink/red rim

Matabus

I like apple pie

Matabus

turns out, wheat thins give me gas

cyi

I have no idea what's going on in this thread anymore Carry on!

zenarion

The vampire looks great.
How about adding some texture variation to his face?
I am very impressed

Wells

wow. big big improvement from your last vampire dude.

need to go in and sharpen up where separate objects meet in the diffuse; the belt/shirt, jacket/shirt, etc.

I like the shape of his head. the lines denoting the pouches of skin beneath the corners of his mouth shouldn't go all the way up to the lips in a straight line like that. eyes definitely need color, they get lost in the face. skin in general needs some color variations. he looks like he just stepped off a black and white movie screen.

fix the back of the collar where the uv is mirrored, should be a smooth line, not a W

HonkyPunch

AS far as I can tell, Per is drunk again, and matabus is just..
Who knows

soulstice

That looks awesome, I like how clean the textures look and the head shape as mentioned by others looks funky(in a good way)

cyi

Here's a small texture update. As you can see, I still have a ways to go until I can call this one finished.
zenarion: Thanks alot! Trying to make the texture more interesting as you suggested.

sectaurs: Thank you for the in depth crit. I agree with all your points and have implemented or will take them all into account before this thing's finished.

jimmies: lol

soulstice: Thanks!

Master_v12

It think you are going in the right direction so far man. As far as your texture goes i think you need to start hitting some really dark darks and some really light lights, you dig? especially if you paint them right next to each other to make something stand out. You aren't going to know the limit untill you overshoot it so go crazy and let loose. Also, from the wear and tear I see at the extremities of your clothing the rest should be pretty messed up also, add some tears/stitches/patches to the rest of the clothing. keep it up!