uv — polycount

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UV Mapping - From Maya to Zbrush to Substance Painter Hello,a month ago I started discovering 3D and its many software: Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter/Designer, UE4... If a lot of things are complex, they always (even Zbrush...) feel pretty logical to …	5 Last	zachagreg Feb 2020
Maya - UV Mapping more efficiently Hey there, I'm a beginner and after modeling a "pretty complex" house that I want to refine in Zbrush, I took a fairly long time UV Mapping it. Here's some questions that came to my mind:1 - Is …	2 Last	Benja_3d Jan 2020
Maya - UVs - Working with mirrored shells and the layout tool Hi All! I'm looking for solutions to speed up my UVing workflow. One method in particular that I am looking for is a way to keep my mirrored stacked shells together while using the layout tool in may…	1 Last	oglu Jan 2020
Texel density Hi guys i am working on my showreel. In the first part i will show a desk with some objects on the top of it. I thinking on use two different texel density. One for the objects (close up) and the oth…	7 Last	gnoop Jan 2020
UV with weird pixels? I'm kinda new to this Modelling stuff and started learning about textures and bakes. From here to now I had some progress but got stucked on this:My normal map is very pixelated and I have no clue of…	4 Last	TheGabmeister Jan 2020
UV, image size and polygons count for correct sculpting and baking Hello, I have a doubt about uv and the right polygons count for sculpting/baking correctly.I want to share with you what I think and see if it's correct or not.if we have an image of 1024x1024 pixel,…	2 Last	thinkinmonkey Dec 2019
For those with a chequered past - or future. RizomUV Megathread Hi, and welcome to the RizomUV thread. Who, and what are we? RizomUV is a fast, standalone UV mapper created for speed and ease. The currently two and a half person team is working…	5 Last	Justo Nov 2019
UV mapping for "industry standard" Noob question. I'm wandering what UV mapping is expected by game industry.No distortion in map. Is it good enough left example, or it should be more like right example ?	8 Last	Ghogiel Oct 2019
Seams only in Substance Painter it's 8 hours i am trying to fix this.The mesh is perfectly smoothed (edges)if i import the Xnormal-baked map in Marmoset, it works completely fine (first image. it get seams on 3DS MAX tangent space.…	2 Last	LaurentiuN Oct 2019
Maya texel density/ increasing UV resolution ? Hello, uv noob here.I have a pipe that I unfolded with Maya. However, when I bring the fbx to Substance Painter the resolution is very low (smart mask). I tried looking around, and I read that the p…	4 Last	efwfew16 Sep 2019
Maya/Arnold displacement maps in both positive and negative values hi,im quite happy using UV displacement maps to eventually bake on geometry, mainly embossing on objects or engraving. What I really want to know is if it’s possible to create both in the same d…	6 Last	BobbysWineGums Sep 2019
Can't see UV's in Mari Hey everyoneWhen I export my UV'ed model from Maya and open in it Mari - I can't see the UV maps in the UV tab. I get no error when exporting nor importing into Mari. It's a fresh Mari installation w…	1 Last	onionhead_o Aug 2019
Any book recommendations for understanding UV Unwrapping in Maya? I've watched a lot of Gnomon tutorials on different topics (modeling, texturing etc.) but the understanding you get from books is simply irreplaceable. I read this book not long ago "The Pushing Poin…	4 Last	Alex_J Aug 2019
What Are Industry Standard Plug-ins for UV Unwraping? I personally find unwrapping in 3DS Max to be finicky, and I have seen people who've been doing this for longer than me share similar sentiments, some describing it as "outdated."I think I remember h…	16 Last	PastyPict Aug 2019
Advice. Modular workflow. One UV or separate. I need a help. I working on project where i create modular corridor. And here is a tricky part for me. This corridor, when i match all pieces together is very huge (11 pieces, H: 6m, W: 3m and lenght…	4 Last	corthus Aug 2019
How do I tell Maya to ignore stacking some faces together when using Layout? I ran into this problem when trying to layout my UVs, Maya tries to stack two different faces together that are not the same. They are tough really similar in shapes which is why Maya thinks they sho…	3 Last	Benjammin Aug 2019
How should I UV map complex object? Hi this is a motorcycle i've been working on for my portfolio and I'm making a low poly out of it. I'm new in game modeling and it'll be really thankful if you give me some tips. I learned that …	3 Last	anHourlater Jul 2019
[Texture Atlas] ~ How can I UV a cylinder with a vertically tiled texture into an atlas? [Premises]I'm planning a small scene for Sketchfab that will include some vegetation, some objects and possibly one or two human characters.For all I can remember Sketchfab has a limitation in terms …	21 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2019
Overlapping UVs poll I was having an argument with my co-worker other day about overlapping UVs. We both work in game industry.We talked about AAA fps and his opition is that overlapping UVs on props are still relevant.&…	13 Last	musashidan Jul 2019
How do you rig multiple objects and have their UVs in one combined UV? Hi, I have a character that has a separate mesh for the "eye glass coating", iris part of the eye, upper/lower gums and teeth, and tongue.I am about to rig everything for UE4, but I don't know w…	8 Last	Mark Dygert Jun 2019
[ZBrush & Maya] Exported OBJs from ZBrush Doesn't Have UVs in Maya Hi everyone,I just finished my sculpt and I exported it. When I imported it in Maya and looked at the UVs to check if they were there, they weren't. I tried the morph UV functionnality in ZBrush and …	3 Last	anthonybp Jun 2019
Normalizing UV Hello,i used UVLayout v2 Pro from Headus for the first time for my UV unwrap.I modeled a temple entry in 3dsMax and used a bridge script from Miauu to send it to UVLayout.There i unwrapped my model, …	5 Last	ViKa Jun 2019
My model loses a lot of detail from zbrush to real time. Normal problem (uv, baking or mesh?) Hi guys! I've read the normal map thread but i can't really get what is wrong with my model...I've got quite a lot of detail on zbrush, but after exporting the normal maps with xnormal, my mesh gets …	8 Last	Kyle_butler Dec 2015
Problem - Wireframe projected in the normal map Hey folks,So I've been working in this game character and I wanted to have a quick look how thins are going so I decided to generate the normal map.I started with zbrush to build the high poly, then …	8 Last	Davidsousa Nov 2015
Zbrush... Total asset creation workflow Hi guys...I just wondered if anyone knows if its possible to create all the steps needed to make	0 Last	mawilbolou Nov 2015
TexTools 4: Update Time! Our very own renderhjs has plunked down another inspiring update to TexTools, his grand opus set of UV and texturing tools for 3ds Max. More after the jump! Hendrik-Jan 'renderhjs' Schoenmaker has…	5 Last	Mcejn Jul 2010