I haven't done much actual polypainting in zbrush for the cave sculpts. I do output a cavity mask in both directions (cavity -100 and +100), and a peaks and valleys mask. The other supporting maps I usually use are curvature and AO (which is used to create some dirt masks). My texture PSDs usually involve a fairly smooth…
we released a new piece of promotional artwork a little while ago thought you guys might enjoy it and maybe make suggestions for the next pr piece ! 100% in engine but not 100% in game ;) highres version:http://www.exitstrategyentertainment.com/images/wall_paper_04.jpg shameless cross promotion incoming: you can support…
Yes it would, if a pixel returned a 100% black point next to a 100% white point it would alias, if you tried to draw a power line by simply sampling 1 point per pixel you would get a heck of a lot of aliasing. Same goes for textures, there wouldn't be "Textures" on the points but there would be colors and those would need…
If you draw a new tool onto the document with an RGB/Z intensity at anything less than 100, you run into errors like this. At extremely low values its very easy to spot (the tool takes on a transparent quality), but if the value is around 98 or 99 then the tool looks normal (but has the brush behavior you describe). If…
base color -black, metallic -black, roughness -is dark rectangles on white background. It's not that strong as metal halos but still makes noisy/grainy surfaces a bit less crisp comparing with old spec level shaders where highlight intensity was expressed directly by pixel values. btw, picture also shows how much highlight…
I'm not exactly 100% sure what your asking, but 2 is obviously just a cube (without extra edgeloops) with hard edges, which would be something like separate smoothing groups for each face in 3dsmax (never used it though) Also when painting textures like this, it's usually best to just turn off all lighting/make the texture…
Hey Polycount, I got so much great feedback on my last couple characters so I want to continue these posts since I really learned about 100x faster here so seriously thank you to this community of artists for the help. Anyway, Kratos. So as the title suggests it's going to be a stylized version of him which at first…
Professional 3D modeling on tablets and smartphones is viable finally! Major new version of Spacedraw for Android available, further extensive updates to follow frequently Spacedraw* is a full-featured 3D-modeling program for all Android tablets and smartphones * is developed from scratch to make use of multi-touch and…
Joy Ride Turbo has been released to the public! My rave review below. I have finished the entire game and I am still playing it to set times against my friends. I’m a bit biased having worked on the game, but I think it’s a very fun quality product and I am quite proud of it. For those that don’t know Kinect has been…