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Re: Old IBM Datacenter Environment Piece
@gameweb478 Because I added support loops, I can have one single smoothing group and not have any smoothing errors and not actually chamfer the edges (good for snapping geometry). I basically did a fake bevel where instead of actually chamfering the edges to make a smooth corner, I added support loops and had one single… -
Re: Skew you buddy! Making sense of skewed normal map details.
It really depends on how your smoothing groups/hard edges are set up. If you have a cube with hard edges along the borders, or a smoothing group applied to each side, you can remove the extra geometry without any issues. If your cube is on 1 smoothing group/has no hard edges, you'll cause problems removing the geometry… -
Re: Normal map baking - problem
It's just a common misconception that all meshes have to be in only one smoothing-group when you bake normals. Now, you could either use one smoothing group and throw in supporting edges if needed, or split it up into different smoothing-groups. Both can give good results, depends a bit on the mesh I think. Not sure which… -
Smart Viewer Pro - Preview assets and mesh stats without scene clutter
Hi everyone! My name is Marwan, I’m an Environment Artist and Co-founder of Remesh Games. As an Environment Artist, I’ve always found it annoying to "pollute" my scene just to check an asset. Dragging a mesh into the hierarchy just to see its stats or animations—and then having to clean it up—is a waste of time. To fix… -
Re: Bell Tower
The overall shape is good but your getting some really bad smoothing errors on your UDK renders, they seem to be around where you have modelled items coming out of the wall. With those beam type rocks coming out why not try making them as a separate object? Try and sort out some smoothing groups on the sides of building to… -
Re: My First Max
This might help to understand smoothing groups. You pick some polys and put them in a smoothing group. If polys are in different smoothing groups you get a hard edge. Here is a handy little script that treats smoothing like maya does hard/soft edges. Even long time max users who have never used Maya, tend to favor this… -
Re: Maya 2014 - Crease Set Editor vs Quick Selection Sets
I use Quick Selection sets to create smoothing groups that work like those in Max. Everything inside a set has an average smoothing or smoothing value determined manually. The soft/hard edge feature alone isn't always as handy to me. It's cool on border edges, but it is easier for me to manipulate polygon groups together.… -
Stegosaurus
Hi :] Here's something i'm making for a university assignment. At this stage it's still quite early and a bit rushed, but I'd really like to make up for that and really make something of it, so I'd rather appreciate whatever constructive criticism you can give me :] I'm not very confident in my organic modelling skills, so… -
Re: ZBrush hard surface help
I also had trouble with this when doing hard surfaces. I found the 'smt off' method can work in some spots, but when trying to smooth the edges of a hard cylindrical object, it sucks. It's bad because it won't smooth the cylinder evenly and creates hard edges. The only way I found that worked was to UV map the model, with… -
Re: [P&P] - What Are You Working On? 2009 Edition!
What the heck do you mean messy? Seriously I can't see it anywhere except on the high poly where the scope holders need more polies so they don't become so plate-like and smoothed way the heck out. It's not sub-d'ed. The first is unsmoothed, the second is maya smoothed [2 key] and the third is smoothed with the…
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