I'm not talking about specular...it just feels extremely dull and soft. I think maybe the UVs needed to be split with a hard edge in the lowpoly to bake a bit sharper on the axe.
Welcome to the party :D . About the set ,maybe a bit to mechanical for my taste ,knowing that Axe is a brute. The texture on the head item and the shoulder i think could've been a bit more detailed, because compared with the weapon they looks flat.
I agree barri. I tried to make the ends like in the picture below look like they had been axed. Might have to go back in zbrush and rough them up a bit more. Logs in UDK: Zack Dembinski
Alright I think I'm pretty much done with his axe. All I have to do now is a bit more work on sion himself. I'm trying to get this all wrapped up before blizzcon on the 7th. Cheers!
Are you baking with Max? You need to be careful with the cage to prevent distortions like that. Instead of just pushing, select the cage verts and scale them so the cage barely moves along the axis it's distorting on but has plenty of space on the axes it's not.
Hey guys, sorry for the stupid question i'm a noob with uvs in blender. With maya there is an option to space/relax a selection of uvs horizontaly or verticaly or even both in once. Can we do it with textool ? Iron face relax both axes right ?
Yeah, I think a lot of the problem is alleviated when you realise your wrist itself can only rotate on two axes, and that for the third one (the one that appears to be causing your twist) your entire forearm/radius rotates.
i've done a lot of non-biped rig animation, and i've found that even if the axes dont lock perfectly, sometimes the rotation path may be compromised and the object does a weird flip where it shouldnt during a simple rotating animation.
Axe looks good aside form the hard edges, which RAfferty already pointed out. If those are intentional, maybe add some wear/lighter edge highlights to that part? I'm looking forward to seeing the other two textured!
Awesome. though adam, i expecting burly lumberjacks with wild chest hair, wielding great axes in one arm and large breasted red-headed women in their right, while riding magical unicorns across a sea of endless flowers.