seams after resizing

solar · Jun 2007

I've been using zbrush with zapplink to get around pesky seams when doing models with lots of skin showing. I've been working at fairly high res when doing this and the results are great. When I resize the textures later to be used ingame the seams become apparent again. Is there a way of resizing the textures without losing the seam blend?

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2007

Increase the padding, before resizing. If you have Photoshop, here's an Action I made for it.
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=214408&an=0&page=0&vc=1
After running it once, you can run it again and again for an ever-thicker pad, as long as you start each time with a selection of the new empty areas.

Zbrush has a padding tool too IIRC.

Blaizer · Jun 2007

If you use Max, a nice trick is to bake the texture with the resolution desired. It's fast, easy and so simple, you will have your seams perfect.

MoP · Jun 2007

If you're in ZBrush anyway, use what Eric mentioned, ZBrush's own "FixSeam" button. Just set the FSBorder value as high as it'll go, and hit FixSeam, that should eliminate all blank space and fill it with appropriate colour on your texture. Do that to your high-res source texture and it should scale down fine.
If you're already doing this, try increasing the FS Border value, the default is quite low IIRC.

solar · Jun 2007

Thanks guys, just what i was after.

seams after resizing

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