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Re: Normal mapping polycounts and texture res
[ QUOTE ] For example, could I make a bunch of big square template shapes in high res, like a brick wall or gravel, then render then onto a long thin low poly object? In this case its sqaure to rectangle, but it could be sqaure to round circular or whatever. [/ QUOTE ] The normal map extracting tools all work basically the… -
Happy Canada Day!
Its July 1st here in Canada, its time to celebrate our Confederation day! Skip work! Skip School! Drop everything and hang out with your Canadian brothers and sisters, and have a great Canadian day! For 126 years ago, this more than awsome Country was formed formed. -
Sculpt a day!
Yup, another one of these "X a day" threads, i know i know :( Need to keep myself sculpting in order to improve, so along side bigger projects i've decided to do a sculpt every day. I'l mainly be doing busts or random sections of human anatomy in order to bolster my character art. Aiming to spend 15-60mins on each study.… -
Baking Artifacts (90 degrees on curved edges) - Help me understand proper high-low modelling
This is an issue that has plagued me ever since I first started modelling, and after seeing it rear its ugly head again, I've decided to finally tackle it seriously and hopefully put this issue to rest once and for all. A long time ago I thought Substance Painter was just bad at baking high/low normals and would manually… -
Re: Western Digital External Hard Drives SUCK
Just because it is such an old thread of us: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/materials/long-term-data-storage-in-glass/ https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-8-11-1365&id=462661 But so far I can update my info from back then I do not do DVD anymore but I have my important stuff now on two-drives raids… -
Re: Happy Turkey Day!
President Lincoln declared a number of thanksgivings, for example in April 1862, and July 1863 after Gettysburg. Two months later Lady's Book magazine editor Sarah Hale wrote a letter to Lincoln urging him to proclaim a national day of Thanksgiving reflecting the traditional holiday. Lincoln soon issued a declaration… -
Re: Animation - Camera path indoor to outdoor Lighting with Arnold in 3DS Max - Physical Sky Environment
Animate the camera exposure as the camera leaves the cabin. Low light usually takes a lot longer to render, since there ends up being a lot of bounces needed with fewer rays, and thus a lot of noise. So you may also need to animate the lighting amounts, to boost them really strong while inside, then animate them down to… -
Re: Some Normal Map Baking issues
Yeah my first guess would have been mental ray. Why is your preview a yellowish color? That leads me to believe that you have a strange material on one of the pieces you are baking. Should be a standard gray material with nothing in it to make sure you are getting a clean cast. I have seen instances where a material can… -
Re: How to set best occlusion in xnormal?
The best thing to do is to just set things to low quality baking, and test different numbers... What works for me: Increase model size (hi and low) to 3-5 (unless your model is very large/you want it to bake in the size it was made) 256 rays, rarely more Distribution - uniform Bias 0.08 Angle can be anywhere between 160 to… -
Antinun - Back & Forth Challenge
Link to the work in Artstation >> ArtStation - Antinun - Back & Forth Challenge (Marmoset Viewer in the artstation link) This is for the April to May Artstation Back and Forth Challenge 2023 (3D Realtime Character Entry). Concept base on Julie Lafeuille 2D Concept Character for that Challenge (…
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