shading

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Inflating high poly before baking normal map Hi everybody, I wanted to discuss and ask advice regarding a part of the high to low poly pipeline. My mentor told me that, as a last step before baking the normal map from my high poly to low poly, …	19 Last	Raphael_Bouch Jun 29 2024
Blender to 3Ds Max Smoothing Groups Problem Hello! In Blender, I have a mesh with properly hard edges set up and ready to export. My client asked me about the availability of smoothing groups in 3D Max. I export with Geometry>…	20 Last	Manro Feb 2023
Weird shading issue [PLS HELP] [{"insert":"Hi, I'm a beginner 3ds max user going into intermediate level by making a character. I would appreciate for some help on this shading issue at the mouth area and how to solve it? any best…	4 Last	Zixisnotavailable Feb 2023
3D Artist needed \POSITION FILLED / [{"insert":"Hello,\nAs the title states, I need a 3D Artist for modeling, texturing and animating characters, the work can vary from realistic quality to cartoonish. You should be familiar with XGEN …	0 Last	blvclee Jan 2023
Bad shading problem in substance painter [{"insert":"Hi everyone, \nI'm having a bad shading error in Iray render that i cant explain.\nIs visible only in Iray, in paint mode i do not have any problem.\nThe mesh has benn exported from Blend…	0 Last	matibuc Jan 2023
Weird Shading [{"insert":"Hi\nI swear I already started a thread about this, but I can't seem to find it in my post history. Not sure if I used a different account...\nBasically, after mirroring a symmetrical char…	9 Last	DustyShinigami Sep 2022
Shading problem with Maya/Blender [{"insert":"Hey, I just swapped Modo to Maya and while I was doing UV's and assigning edges I got this shading problem. I'm not great with Maya so I imported the model to Blender but I can't figure o…	2 Last	MoistMittens May 2022
Sharp corner edges on a square detail over cylinder without distortion [{"insert":"Hii everyone,\nAs you can see, I would like to keep those corners sharp without any distortion over the mesh of the cylinder.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.…	20 Last	Neox Feb 2022
Zbrush > Maya. Polygon artifacts showing when soften edges [{"insert":"\nSee the pictures above.\nThe following artifacts show up after exporting from Zbrush (Decimation master), exported as FBX. Even after baked normals applied. Any idea what might cause th…	5 Last	JulezKaidy Feb 2022
shading issue [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/E14KG0Q3D04E\/01.jpg","name":"01.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg","size":241060,"width":1280,"height":720,"displaySize"…	3 Last	SnowInChina Jan 2022
Unity jagged lines shading artifacts Hey guys! I'm having an issue with unity's shadows.As you can see, those lines are appearing on my model and whenever I turn my camera around with the fps controller the lines change position s…	0 Last	vaspo Jul 2021
Why Edit Poly Modifiers Breaks Smoothing Groups? I imported this model into 3ds max. applying edit poly modifiers breaks the smoothing groups in it. How do I preserve smoothing group while applying the modifiers.	5 Last	Swordslayer Jul 2021
VRay Maya - Is there a way to export the RGB Color Channel as an animation sequence output? The render I want to composite is as seen in the VFB window:But the effectsResult file has a much stronger glare, and isn't at all what I'm wanting the image to look like:The glare effect file is gig…	3 Last	oglu Jun 2021
How can I make accurate LED lights in Maya/VRay? Hello, I’m trying to figure out by what means to properly simulate a 5mm LED bulb.here’s my model as yet:So far I’ve just kind of faked it by using colored sphere lights:but I’m trying to go for a re…	0 Last	ninthtale Jan 2021
Lassiter/Cadillac V16 lightning/shading question Hi, I did this car and tried to setup shading in marmoset but something is bothering me and I don't know what. I feel like I'm missing something in terms of lighting/shading to make these renders mor…	5 Last	Tosyk Nov 2020
Blender - Shading - Creating Puddles X_X Hi again,Still doing Jama's tutorial. My puddles are matte black, when they should be glossy brown, I triple checked my node graph but I still seem to be missing something. Any Ideas? Mine …	2 Last	Method14253 Aug 2020
Blender - Texture Coordinate Node - sample Object Not working Hi guys in the Texture Coordinate Node the option to sample an object for tiling is not working. I sampled a sphere to scale the tiling of a sand texture on another plane. Any ideas?	2 Last	Method14253 Aug 2020
Shading/Normal problem I am making a shipping container and on the doors there is a shading or normal problem, I checked the number of edges for each face and they're all 4 edges, any suggestion?	4 Last	Fantasma Jul 2020
Do low poly game assets that are using normal maps have to use smooth shading as well ? Just wondering, because as far as I saw when baking normal map, marked sharp edges are evil, they will just mess things up. So I guess, if I don't want to put on my mesh seams everywhere where there …	1 Last	Obscura Jul 2020
Normal Map Always Bakes Wrong And Gives Bad Shading - HELP Hi, it's me again.I tried to bake my normal map again, after someone here wrote that I should triangulate the mesh and all the problems will be solved. Well it did help with some areas, the majority …	7 Last	Alander787 Jul 2020
Need help recreating effect Hey guys, I am working on a character and I wanted to create a similar effect to the one in ahri skin KDA but in marmoset, an effect in wich reflecting light makes the model change color, any i…	0 Last	Kyuby Jun 2020
I don't understand how to face weight normals. Can someone help? So I've tried this in different software and I end up getting the same results more or less, so it has to be that I'm doing something wrong and I don't understand how face weighting works.This is my …	14 Last	CodeferBlue May 2020
How to replicate this photo? Hello, I recently dived into photorealistic renders. I have a reference photo which I'm trying to replicate, but I'm sort of stuck now. Here's my reference photohttps://imgur.com/xM84yvRand here…	1 Last	Obscura Feb 2020
Marmoset - FBX Import Model Shading Incorrectly Hi All, I've stayed behind at work to see if I can get to the bottom of this issue that has put this project on hold but had no luck! In summary, I have an animated character that has a ser…	2 Last	EarthQuake Jan 2020
Is there any difference at all between R, G and B channels? Context: I want to create a shader in Unity with the metallic workflow to keep the AO, Metallic and Roughness map in one single RGB .jpg mapHowever, I have trouble to decide which texture should be i…	6 Last	Farfarer Nov 2019
How To Fix Shading Of A Booleaned Object? For the sake of smoothness, my sphere is kind of high in subdivisions. I would usually go in and merge each vertex together but in this case, the sphere is huge. Is there any scripts out there t…	2 Last	J0Y Jun 2019
[Maya] missing shading in several display layers Here is the original post on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/3vwswh/help_missing_shading_materials_on_several_layers/I have a bug on maya, that makes objects under some of my disp…	6 Last	-Em'- Dec 2015