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Re: Tangent space map errors / UV question
Not sure what to tell you, there's pretty much only two answers. 1. You can split the uvs everywhere you have a hard edge, and put hard edges everywhere you have an angle that is greater than 70-90 degrees, and you will get a clean bake in pretty much any engine, the only downside is it will be slightly harder to texture,… -
Re: draw cells vs more polys
Well let's do the math here. Assuming DXT1 as a basic texture format, normal map specific formats might be smaller as they're optimised for unit vectors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression#DXT1 16 pixels per 64 bits of data. 512x512 / 16 * 64 / 8 = 131072 bytes. Let's add mipmaps. Total comes to about… -
Welding vertices, faces, complete meshes best practice?
Hey all. I'm just looking for some general advice on modelling technique and best practice. I'm relatively new to this, but not a complete beginner. I model mainly for games (using Unity), but this is more general advice I'm looking for. I was just wondering what the best practice is for having complete meshes, with every… -
Art Director
Arc Productions, a Canadian based CG animation and visual effects facility located in downtown Toronto is looking for an Art Director to join our team. With over 250 artists and technical directors and the most up to date resources available, we bring the vision to both major Hollywood studios and independent producers to… -
Java: Programming a Quest System
Hey Polycount I know this forumn isn't primarily geared towards these kinds of questions but here it goes anyways. Me and a programming buddy of mine are developing an android game along the lines of mafia wars. We have a pretty decent UI implemented thus far but we are now diving into the actual game play mechanics of it… -
Different texture on newly cut polys
Greetings and salutations on these wonderful forums. :) I'm working on a project that requires cutting an existing mesh into smaller cubes and then exporting the newly created cut objects into separate files. I'm using 3DS Max 2012. Currently, I'm creating a custom "3d grid" made of arrayed planes, then applying the… -
Re: Sketchbook: Martin "VertexBee" Punchev
Here are few quick sketches of weird looking creatures that are supposed to be non-typical dragon designs. I started them from the thumbnails that I've posted not so long ago. This guy came from thumbnail number 9. Except the wings it doesn't feel very dragonish, but anyway, I had lots of fun sketching it out: OMG, what is… -
Re: Substance - Bug Reports and Feature Requests
My request to Allegorithmic : Please make just another, layer based "Photoshop" or "Illustrator" with all those cool Designer features/ tools as filters over "smart" objects . The one where I could just select an object of screen , move, rotate, scale it precisely from a specified center of transforms without messing with… -
Re: n/a
Surface types are usually assigned to mat IDs that are physicalized. Most meshes assigned that matID will be physics proxy meshes or render meshes that are going to be their own physics proxy and don't have a separate one, ie again physicalized. So you may end up with 3 proxy sub mats. Be aware that while you can… -
Re: Student texture artist learning thread
If you have a year to work with and that is your go at a diffuse then I'd be worried and sleepless trying to get good. I'm not one to sugar coat anything so I play Simon Cowell a lot but basically I'd be worried that 3 years of work and this is your post. I hope you can at least model well or you need to seriously evaluate…
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