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Re: Question regarding welding two planes together
3dsmax doesn't let you create non-manifold meshes - aka that edge will be shared by three polygons. You can delete one of the polygons on the top plane, adjacent to the edge, and the weld will work (if normals face the right way); or depending on what you want to do, if you want to create a ceiling and wall, add a shell… -
Re: New Game concept/startup
Lucky enough, I found an image of a minecraft mod with the final style that I'm going for. The high quality lighting and shading works well with that low quality texture/polygon look, which is a combination I was worried about. @Lamoot: those are two very helpful tips! One of the points bought up in the link that James… -
Re: ive tried everything and my normal map just isnt working XD help pleaseee!!! :(
The amount of seams is fine. You did it correctly by splitting the UVs where there are hard edges on your model. I just realized something else, inbetween about 0.55 and 0.6 in the V axis are those polygons edges hard as well? You said everything was hard edges, so if that was the case you'd have to split those UVs too to… -
Re: Environment piece for portfolio [WIP]
It's too early to give much feedback. The poly layout looks very messy, and Maya's booleans typically make problems later on, they're not a good way to model unless you're in a rush, and just making a concept model, you can always find a way to make the shape without them. You have a lot of extray polygons in the model,… -
Re: DX 11, Hair? Questions...
http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/GDC2011/Epic.pdf This outlines the method Martin Mittring and myself came up with for creating the hair in Samaritan. It doesn't cover the shading but I used custom lighting with my own lighting model similar to kajiya-kay. Just realized you posted this in the first post. The jist was… -
Re: terrain method for UE4
You can set landscape in unreal to stream in and out in chunks. If you use displacement you can also set it to tesselate based on distance. This will stop it from using up your polygon count. If you're concerned about polygon count using static meshes would be more difficult.… -
Re: The Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge (Challenge 3 & 4)
@alexholmesl93 Cool stuff :) very nice ornate pattern to look at. All I can say is I see some polygonal lines on the edges of your circles. Did you achieve the shapes with a Polygon instead of a Shape node? I found myself a cool ref pic online that sort of got me started. I might change my mind later on about the pattern… -
Re: [WIP] Freelance Art Test Bus
Just a heads up, but in game art there's not considered to be any difference between polygons and tris as such. Since polygons can be any number of tris, and tris are the only thing displayed by 3d engines, it should be assumed tris are what are being referred to. Given that a mostly quaded model can be up to twice the… -
Re: proper mesh geometry for animation?
Evaluations aside, your deformation is not that bad. Before you make further alterations, try a test UV map to see the "real" result. Don't readily evaluate the deformation behavior by its underlying appearance, as the general user will not know the difference. If it looks good in skin, leave it be. Otherwise, if it still… -
Re: Blizzard Review
Blizzards are masters of extremely low polygon art. If you want to impress them you're going to have to reduce your polycounts significantly and let your textures do the work. If you're looking at WoW that'll be diffuse only. Heres a good example A sword not dissimilar to yours. I would suspect the polygon count is around…
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