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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
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Blender - Exporting Correctly Smoothed Low-Poly/Cage The Easy Way!
polycounter lvl 13
Hi guys,
I quickly created this video as it explains a way of working around the smoothing group limitations of Blender.
This method should ensure perfect bake exports!
Video ends at 9:30
Hope it helps
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Kx_Jc35zc&feature=player_embedded"]Blender 2.68 - Exporting Correctly Smoothed Low-Poly/Cage The Easy Way! - YouTube[/ame]
I quickly created this video as it explains a way of working around the smoothing group limitations of Blender.
This method should ensure perfect bake exports!
Video ends at 9:30
Hope it helps
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Kx_Jc35zc&feature=player_embedded"]Blender 2.68 - Exporting Correctly Smoothed Low-Poly/Cage The Easy Way! - YouTube[/ame]
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http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1637437&postcount=6
I can confirm personally that the smooth/hard edge code in the new .fbx exporter works right, but we're still waiting on the .obj exporter.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?291881-Exporting-OBJ-and-FBX-physically-break-edges-no-love-for-the-game-making-community
is where that is happening.
https://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php?view=rev&root=bf-extensions&revision=4753
(This is for split vertex normals, smoothing groups was already in before)
However I did find one case of misinformation in your video. You mark all of the seams as sharp when it really should just be the other way around (all hard edges should be seams, but not all seams need to be hard). If you were to do this on a cylinder you would get a hard edge along the UV-split which would be sub-optimal as then the normalmap would need to compensate for that and you'd get an unnecessary gradient there.
So fair enough if people "should" know it - I didn't :P
As far as the technique is concerned though, it's far easier to use this method and THEN tweak the sharp edges by adding or removing hardened normals, so either way it's a win-win scenario.
Just thought I'd make a video on it as there hasn't been one that explains it well.
P.s. Video wasn't scripted so if there were errors then mybad
Thx for the .OBJ exporter link BTW! Will give that a go
'Seams From Islands' doesn't work well with stacked UV islands where the islands touch each other on the model either, which might also be good to keep in mind.